#bookoween

[godzilla-reads]

Update: the Halloween shelf is growing 😈

[headfulloffantasies]

For the Bookoween prompt: Furry Fiends!

Get ready for a girl squad unlike any you’ve ever seen before!

[socstudies]

freshlycutgrass' IB Exams Blog 1/28 (25th April)

I have decided that I am going to be posting everyday of my exam period in order to keep accountability for studying and to have something to look back on. I will be posting study tips, blurts of what I revised that day, reflections on how my exams are going and other related things. Today is going to be an introductory post!

HL English (6) - 12th May

HL English (6) - 12th May

HL Psychology (6) - 17th / 18th May

HL Anthropology (6) - 28th / 29th April

SL French (6) - 19th / 20th May

SL Maths (5) - 6th / 9th May

SL ESS (5) - 5th / 6th May

I'll come back later and add links to the posts talking about these exams once I've done them :)

I think overall I'm going to get around 33-4 points which is slightly lower than I had wanted when I started the IB but because I didn't come to school for most of the last three / four months of school, it's the most realistic grade I can achieve.

I have been studying a little bit over the past few weeks but not as much as I would have wanted to (for reasons mentioned above) so I'm really hoping to make the most of how much space there is between exams.

Tomorrow I'll be talking about how I'm studying for each subject + tips! The other posts will be more interesting than this, I just wanted to make a quick introduction!

[sb-reads]

I love the Penguin Classics

[therefugeofbooks]

The last book I plan to read this month is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. I bought this edition that is almost forty years old and I've been annotating all my first impressions.

[leer-reading-lire]

“Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

―Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

[ninja-muse]

#Bookoween is back!

Given that a certain pandemic is making it really difficult to do traditional Halloween things like parties or trick-or-treating or, well, anything else, I thought this might be a good time to bring back my Halloween-themed booklr challenge from a couple years back. Think of it like trick-or-treating but with 100% more digital content!

I’m switching up a few things about it though, to keep things fresh for anyone who participated the last time. Re-vamp-ing the challenge, if you will. 🧛‍♀️

Essentially, this is going to run like every other monthly challenge—I post prompts, you post content—but I’m going to be scoring you, and then you’re going to “win” stuff based on what score you get. This year, I’m also adding a reading challenge because why not.

I’d like to think that the last Bookoween participants had a lot of fun. (I know I did.) Hopefully this will be at least as fun, if not better!

Rules and the Points System

1. Post something bookish for every prompt that inspires you (between October 1 and 31). This can be a photo, rant, book review, gifset, fancast, video, dramatic reading, etc. Get creative, have fun, and maybe challenge yourself a little. Every five posts, you’ll level up one Spook Factor.

1-4: bat


5-9: ghost


10-14: fairy


15-19: ghoul


20-24: vampire


25-30: swamp monster


31-34: demon

35+: sorcerer

2. You can earn more points by filling the extra challenges below! All points will be counted and then given back to you as candy—so yes, you will be Trick-or-Treating after all! Some challenges are general (like how many books you end up reading), some relate to types of posts, and some are odder. Bolded items can be counted multiple times, so one pet photo is good but three pets are better. Any post with the #bookoween hashtag will be checked against these challenges whether you try for them or not, and you do not have to work them into the prompt posts. Extra posts are allowed and even encouraged!

3. On the evening of October 31, spilling into November 1 as needed, everyone who’s posted for the challenge will receive an ask stating their Spook Factor and the results of their Trick-or-Treating. For every Trick you do, you’ll get either amusingly tragic backstory or trash-tier Halloween loot like toothbrushes. For every Treat, you get an unspecified amount of candy. Example: You are a swamp monster whose only friends were a troupe of singing frogs that made it big on the Muppet Show and never came home. You have one Mars bar, a bag of cotton candy, three bags of M&Ms, five Easter eggs, and two Bounty bars. 4. Post everything using the #bookoween hashtag or it’s not getting counted!

Click through to find the extra challenges … IF YOU DARE!

Reading Challenge

Horror - 2 point

Mystery or thriller - 1 point

Other spooky book - 1 point

Diverse author or subject - 3 points

Classics - 2 points

Short stories or novellas - 1 point

Other genres - half a point

Book over 500 pages - 3 points

Book with orange, yellow, or black cover - 1 point

Was on your posted TBR for the month - 2 points

Books will get counted for each prompt they fill. A classic mystery novel is worth 3 points. A diverse horror novel is 5 points. A door-stopper fantasy novel is 3.5 points. And so on.

Trick

Reuse a prop or backdrop.

Make a post without a single book in it.

Post a selfie.

Add 3 or more books to my TBR

Bake/cook something bookish but don’t share the recipe.

Get no notes on any Bookoween post (self-reblogs don’t count).

Make less than 5 posts referencing fall or Halloween.

Start a tag meme.

Feature Halloween candy before October 15.

Make a pun.

Post a book that’s been dog-eared.

Only post books from the same genre (romance, sci-fi, YA, etc.)

Acknowledge any of: World Pasta Day (Oct. 25), National Vodka Day (Oct 4), International Day of the Nacho (Oct. 21), CAPS LOCK DAY (Oct. 22), Federation Day (Oct. 12), World Space Week (Oct. 4-10), National Fossil Day (Oct. 14), International Wombat Day (Oct. 22) or Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct. 12).

Treat

Make more than one type of post (photos and text, text and audio, photos and moodboards, videos and tag memes).

Read more than 5 books.

Read more than 10 books

Bake/cook something bookish.

Post original Halloween or fall-themed writing.

Post a review or a reaction post.

Start an ask meme.

Post a rec list.

Make some bookish art.

Remove at least 3 books from your physical TBR.

Post a picture with a pet in it (live, toy, painting, etc.)

Rec another booklr.

Acknowledge any of: Global Handwashing Day (Oct. 15), World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10), National Disability Employment Awareness Month, International Pronouns Day (Oct. 31),  UK Black History Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, LGBT History Month, Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Oct. 12), or Dia de los muertos.

FAQs

Do I have to post on the day the prompt is for? Absolutely not! Have everything up by Halloween and you’re golden.


Do I have to fill the Trick and Treat prompts? What happens if I avoid them? You don’t have to do them! You can absolutely craft your #bookoween without them! But then you won’t get candy and where’s the fun in that? The Tricks sound more fun than the Treats! Why are you trying to discourage me from doing them? Who said I was? You get a longer ask! And character depth! What if I Trick-or-Treat without the #bookoween hashtag? Then I will not see it and it will not be counted towards the ask. What if I manage to do all the prompts, all the Tricks, and all the Treats? Then you are amazing and should maybe spend less time online though we’re lucky to have you. Do you get something special? Undecided. Maybe.

[bibliophilecats]

It turned out that when Miss Level had asked Tiffany if she was scared of heights, it had been the wrong question. Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all. She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid. Looking up at huge towering mountains didn’t bother her a bit. What she was afraid of, although she hadn’t realized it up to this point, was depths. She was afraid of dropping such a long way out of the sky that she’d have time to run out of breath screaming before hitting the rocks so hard that she’d turn to a sort of jelly and her bones would break into dust. She was, in fact, afraid of the ground. Miss Level should have thought before asking the question.

A hat full of sky, Terry Pratchett

Bookoween 10: Phobias