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Beetlejuice Challenge
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This challenge will only take place during the month of October. That means books will be accepted from October 1st to October 31st. The winners will be announced on November 1st.
If you start a book before October, you will only be able to count the pages that you read in October for this challenge. If the page amount is over 100 pages, you can still count it towards a category.
When signing up, please mention the number of books you plan on reading for the month of October. This number will make it easier for me to make teams match up a bit more evenly.
For example,
Alaina - 20 books
Aly - 25 books
Jamie - 10 books
Jessica - 15 books
Melanie - 10 books
Anshika - 3 books
Saige - 8 books
**You will not be penalized if you go over or under your number.**
The general challenge rules can be found here.
Page Points
1 - 50 pages � 0.25 pts (will only count for page points)
51 - 99 pages � 0.5 pts (will only count for page points)
100 - 149 pages � 1 pt
150�249 pages � 2 pts
250 - 349 pages � 3 pts
350 - 449 pages � 4 pts
450 - 549 pages � 5 pts
550 - 649 pages � 6 pts
650 - 749 pages � 7 pts
750 - 849 pages � 8 pts
850 - 949 pages � 9 pts
950+ pages � 10 pts
Buddy Reads will DOUBLE your points.
BOTM will TRIPLE your points.
If you have any questions about this challenge, please click the link here: Q&A
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In Winter River, Connecticut, married couple Barbara and Adam Maitland decide to spend their vacation decorating their idyllic country home.
1. MC's first name starts with B
2. Author's initials in MAITLAND
3. Letters A, D, A, M in series title (in any order)
4. Set in Connecticut
5. ' Vacation' in text (pg/% & quote)
6. Read a book from the Country Books list
7. MC is/gets married
8. Tagged 'Halloween'
9. Set in Winter
10. House on cover
**You can get 10 bonus points if you read a book that is tagged Halloween AND set in Connecticut.**
As they are driving home from a trip to town, Barbara swerves to avoid a dog, and the car crashes through the side of a covered bridge and plunges into the river.
11. MC drives a car
12. Features an accident
13. Dog on cover
14. 'River' in text (pg/% & quote)
After returning home, she and Adam notice they now lack reflections.
15. Author's first name is 4 letters only
16. 'Reflection' in text (pg/% & quote)
17. Features a character that lacks something
18. MC returns home after so many years
When Adam attempts to leave the house, he ends up in a strange and otherworldly desert-like landscape populated by enormous "sandworms."
19. MC is considered strange
20. Title starts and ends with a letter in OTHERWORDLY
21. 'Sand' and 'Worms' in text (pg/% & quote)
22. Set in the Desert
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The encounter lasts only a few seconds for him, but after Barbara rescues him, she says he was gone for two hours.
23. Features a character that goes missing
24. Authors initials in RESCUE
25. Features a character who loses time (e.g. amnesia)
26. 2 in page count
They then find a Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which leads them to realize they drowned in the river and have become ghosts.
27. Features ghosts
28. 'Drown' in text (pg/% & quote)
29. Water on cover
30. MC reads a book
The house is sold, and the new owners, the Deetz family, arrive from New York City.
31. Character sells something
32. Set in New York
33. Features a road-trip
34. Z in title
Charles Deetz is a former real estate developer; his second wife, Delia, is a sculptor and conceptual artist; and his teenage goth daughter, Lydia, from his first marriage, is an aspiring photographer.
35. Features a sculptor
36. MC's mother is dead
37. Read a book from the Gothy Book Covers List
38. Features a character who is/gets remarried
39. Photograph on cover
40. Letters L, Y, D, I, A in title (in any order)
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Under the guidance of interior designer Otho, the family transforms the house into a new-wave work of postmodern art.
41. 'Modern' in text (pg/% & quote)
42. MC transforms something
43. Letters A, R, T in series title (in any order)
Consulting the Handbook, the Maitlands travel to an otherworldly waiting room populated by other distressed souls.
44. MC has to wait a long time for something
45. 'Soul' in text (pg/% & quote)
46. Features a disturbing/distressing scene
Where they discover the afterlife is structured according to a complex bureaucracy involving vouchers and caseworkers.
47. Author is no longer living
48. Book is slow-paced (your interpretation)
49. Features a character who believes in an afterlife
The Maitlands' caseworker, Juno, tells them they must remain in the house for the next 125 years on pain of a dire fate.
50. Published on the 12th (any month)
51. #5 in series
52. MC faces consequences for something
53. Clock/Timekeeper on cover
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If they want the Deetzes out of the house, it is up to the Maitlands to scare them away.
54. MPG Horror
55. MC is scared of something
56. Features a character who moves somewhere new
57. 'Flee' in text (pg/% & quote)
Adam and Barbara are invisible to Charles and Delia, but Lydia is able to see them.
58. Features a character who can turn invisible
59. Letters S, E, E in title (in any order)
60. 5+ POVs
61. MC's last name starts with D
62. MC ignores someone
She attributes her paranormal intuition to her "strange and unusual" nature.
63. Tagged 'Paranormal' at least 10 times
64. MC has good gut instincts (your interpretation)
65. 'Strange' in text (pg/% & quote)
66. Nature scene on cover
67. Series title starts and ends with a letter in UNUSUAL
Against Juno's advice, the Maitlands contact the miscreant Betelgeuse, Juno's former assistant and a now-freelance "bio-exorcist", to scare the Deetzes away.
68. Features an assistant
69. 'Exorcist' in text (pg/% & quote)
70. X in title
71. 4 letter word in title
72. Author's first name starts with a letter in JUNO
73. MC is considered a miscreant
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Betelgeuse quickly offends the Maitlands with his crude and morbid demeanor.
74. Read a book from the Best Books for Morbid Kids List
75. MC's first and last name contain 5 vowels
76. Title ends with a letter in CRUDE
77. Features an unlikable character
They reconsider hiring him, but they are too late to stop him from wreaking havoc on the Deetzes.
78. 'Havoc' in text (pg/% & quote)
79. Cliffhanger ending
80. Features a prank
81. MC reconsiders something or someone
The small town's charm and the supernatural events inspire Charles to pitch his boss, Maxie Dean, on transforming the town into a tourist hot spot, but Maxie wants proof of the ghosts.
82. Set in a small town
83. MC is considered charming
84. Read a book from the Best Cozy Mystery Series List
85. MPG Supernatural
86. 'Hot' and 'Spot' in text (pg/% & quote)
Using the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, Otho conducts what he thinks is a séance and summons Adam and Barbara, using their wedding clothes, but they begin to age and decay, as Otho unwittingly performed an exorcism instead.
87. Book on cover
88. Features a séance
89. Author's first name starts and ends with a vowel
90. Title has a word ending with '-ing'
91. 'Decay' in text (pg/% & quote)
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Horrified, Lydia summons Betelgeuse for help, but he will only help her if she marries him...
92. 'Summon' in text (pg/% & quote)
93. MC needs help
94. Features an ultimatum
95. Read a book from the Marriage of Convenience Books shelf
96. MC's first name starts with L
...marrying a human would enable Betelgeuse to freely cause chaos in the mortal world.
97. 'Mortal' in text (pg/% & quote)
98. Supernatural and Human relationship
99. MC enables someone
100. Features a chaotic character
Betelgeuse saves the Maitlands, disposes of Maxie, Maxie's wife in a high striker game, and Otho by changing his clothes to a leisure suit outfit, then prepares a wedding before a ghastly minister.
101. 'Minister' in text (pg/% & quote)
102. MC plays a game
103. Read a book from the Forced Marriage Books shelf
104. Suit on cover
105. Features an unpleasant character
The Maitlands intervene before the ceremony is completed, and Barbara rides a sandworm through the house, which devours Betelgeuse.
106. Features an intervention
107. MC rides something (e.g., a bike, a horse, etc.)
108. Final book in a series/trilogy/duology
109. 'Ceremony' in text (pg/% & quote)
110. Features a death
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The Deetzes and Maitlands agree to live in harmony within the house.
111. MPG Music
112. 'Harmony' in text (pg/% & quote)
113. Author's first name ends with Y
Barbara and Adam form a stronger bond with Lydia, and she persuades them to occasionally unleash their ghostly powers, including spirit possession.
114. MC has a strong bond with someone
115. Features a persuasive character
116. MC is considered powerful
117. 'Spirit' in text (pg/% & quote)
Betelgeuse is stuck in the afterlife waiting room.
118. MC gets stuck
119. Read a book from the Afterlife List
He steals a number ticket from a witch doctor, who shrinks his head in return.
120. MC is a witch
121. Features something that shrinks
122. MC steals something
123. Number in title
124. 'Ticket' in text (pg/% & quote)
125. MC is a doctor
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Participants:
❀ Crystal � - PEACE � LOVE � BOOKS - 10 books
🐉 PrinzessBookDragon 👑🌶� - 5 books
Grace Btrs - 14 books
Trisha - 15 books
megs_bookrack - 15 books
hafna � - 25 books
Shan ~A~ - 20-30 books
Allie - 10 books
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ - 10 books
Felicia - 15 books
Jenn - 8-10 books
esther � - 3-4 books
Saige - 10 books
Aneta - 3 books
Kim - 5 books
Sibil - 15 books
Sivany � - 5 books
TheYALibrarian - 5 books
Hayley - 10-15 books
Michelle's Empty Nest - 20-30 books
Jamie - 10 books
SavsLibrary - 15 books
Ashlyn - 5 books
Catsalive - 15 books
Cassie Cruel - 3-4 books
Shannon O'Flynn - 4 books
Isabel Rose - 20-25 books
Anshika - 3 books
Jessica - 15 books
Megan - 4 books
Taffy - 20 books
Emily - 5 books
Jodie - 6 books
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Include me please 🎉💜🍬🦄🦹🏽♀� 5 bpm
I'm in!ummmmm. . .I'll say maybe 15 books per month
I'd like to join for around 25 books, please!
I've been reading a bit more than usual lately, so I'm going to give a range of 20-30 bpm. If it needs to be a number, but no range then I'll say 25
Count me in for at least 10 books!
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ummmmm. . .I'll say maybe 15 books per month"
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i’ll join for about 3-4 books because i’m having exams during this time :(
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love this movie, didn't even look at what the tasks are just sign me up lol
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Yay - how many books?
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Hello it's been a long time I would love joining in these challenges again. Add me for 5 books please.
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I'd like to join with about 20 - 30 books.
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Beetlejuice Challenge
With October around the corner and pumpkin spice already out, we need fall more than ever.
Now we are all kinds of excited to bring you another Halloween movie challenge. First, we had Hocus Pocus, then The Addams Family, then Halloweentown, and last year we had Ghostbusters! This year, we are bringing you Beetlejuice!
Just like those previous challenges, this will be based on the movie and will be split into 7 parts. There's a total of 125 tasks that are spread throughout them as well. Only one book will be counted per task, but the parts themselves do not need to be done in order.
For example, if someone reads the following:
Then they just completed a task for Part 1 and Part 6.
Once a team has completed all the tasks for a part, they will get 5 bonus points. If a team completes all the tasks for this challenge, they will get 10 bonus points. After completing everything, the team can then start the challenge all over again.
It's showtime!