#bookoween

[godzilla-reads]

Update: the Halloween shelf is growing 😈

#godzilla reads #halloween reads #Halloween books #Halloween shelf #bookoween #bookshelf #book blog #booklover #bookworm #booklr #bookish

[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!

#studyblr #studyspo #new studyblr #new studyspo #gcsestudyblr #deutsch langblr #bookoween #french langblr #linguistics study #ib m22 #ib exams #exams #exam weeks #exam motivation #exam blog #exam log #study log #ib studyblr #ib #ibdp #ibd problems #english #anthropology #psychology #french #maths #ess #environmental science #environmental systems and societies #mine

[headfulloffantasies]

For the Bookoween prompt: Furry Fiends!

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

#bookoween #furry fiends #squad #graphic novel #werewolves #reading #books

[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.

#bookoween #halloween 2020 #booklr #books #book photography #rebecca #daphne du maurier #books and coffee #books and mugs #*mine #the refuge of books

[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.

#frankenstein #mary shelley #victor frankenstein #frankenstein's creature #frankenstein's monster #mary wollstonecraft shelley #science fiction #sci-fi #gothic literature #gothic fiction #gothic lit #dark academia #witchy academia #women in literature #leslie s. klinger #joyce carol oates #bernie wrightson #stephen king #bookoween #book covers #book cover #spooky reads #classic literature #classic books #classic lit #guillermo del toro #my post

[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.

#booklr #bookblr #photo challenges #reading challenges #book challenges #reviving booklr #bookish #bookworm #reading #bookoween #Halloween

[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

#bookoween #terry pratchett #a hat full of sky #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #tiffany aching

[appleinducedsleep]

This story ends in blood.

#bookoween #books #booklr #grady hendrix #the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires #vampires #bookclub #bookphotography #bookcover #my pictures #my books

[accidentalspaceexplorer]

At the Door: Book Recs for Portal Fantasies

I’ve enjoyed a lot of portal fantasies over the years, and today I thought I would recommend a few that I particularly enjoyed. Some of these are more traditional portal fantasies with an actual door or portal, and some of them take the boundary a little more loosely than that, but they all feature characters crossing from a more familiar world to a world we don’t recognize.

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Every Heart a Doorway is the first novella in the ongoing Wayward Children series. The series follows various people who’ve traveled through a doorway to a different world and are attempting to figure out how to live in our world again. I really appreciate the way the series format allows McGuire to approach the relationship between the portal world and traveler from many different perspectives - some of the characters desperately want to go back through their doors, some of them have chosen to leave, and others are no longer welcome.

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

I read this one really recently, and I quite enjoyed it! The Ten Thousand Doors of January is a traditional portal fantasy in some senses, like the fact that the boundaries between our world and the others are actual doors, but it’s much more about the titular January’s coming of age than it is about the journey through the portals. In fact, the portal worlds are mostly described in in-world stories rather than in the narration. However, I found January’s journey to be very compelling, and I loved the side characters.

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

This is a fairly standard portal fantasy set-up: Elliott crosses a literal wall to get to a fantasy world with elves and mermaids and unicorns and all sorts of other magical creatures, where he ends up joining a peacekeeping group and learning about friendship, diplomacy, and love. So I absolutely love this book. It’s funny, it’s smart, and it has a genre-savvy protagonist so it can really pay attention to the tropes of portal fantasies and play with them! It was a delight to read, and definitely a surprise, and I ended up laughing out loud and reading parts of it to whoever was sitting nearby. One of my favorites.

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

Dark Lord of Derkholm, unlike the rest of these, is about the inhabitants of the portal world, rather than the travelers. Derk just wanted to be left in peace to make fantastical creatures, but when he gets roped in to playing the Dark Lord for this year’s Tour, he decides enough is enough, and sets about trying to stop the Tours and get these interlopers to leave them all alone. This is very similar to In Other Lands as far as its dialogue with existing fantasy tropes - Diana Wynne Jones is well-versed in fantasy tropes, and she plays with them to hilarious effect. But the novel isn’t just hilarity - the characters are all well-developed, the plot has a great ride, and by the end you’re so invested in what’s going on that you forget you first picked it up as a satire.

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Sabriel and its sequels are some of my favorite books of all time - the magic in them is the perfect blend of understandable and alien, plus the necromancy portion is unique and super interesting. I’ve based one costume and one D&D character on them for a reason! The portal portion of Sabriel comes in the distinction between Ancelstierre, the real world stand-in, and the Old Kingdom - there’s just a border, with an actual border crossing, in between them, made physical by The Wall. The Wall actually does something though - magic doesn’t work in Ancelstierre, machines and anything made by them fall apart in the Old Kingdom, and the seasons and even the weather is different on different sides of the Wall. It’s a cool way to do a portal fantasy, where the “portal” isn’t just for one person, but is marked out and used by lots of different people.

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

The City of Brass is the first of a trilogy (which I haven’t finished yet) about Nahri, who starts the book living in Cairo, where she is approached by a djinn and then spirited away to Daevabad, where she learns that her heritage is much more complicated than she expected. In this book, the “portal” isn’t a physical place, but rather a magical barrier sort of thing, that the djinn Dara takes her across. The other thing that makes this not a very typical portal fantasy (and arguably not a portal fantasy at all) is that while Nahri does cross into a separate world, there’s really very little discussion of her existence in the human world, and she doesn’t really cross back and forth. However you end up falling on its portal fantasy status though, I think it’s an excellent book, and I’m really looking forward to finishing the trilogy!

#bookoween #book recs #portal fantasy #every heart a doorway #the ten thousand doors of january #in other lands #dark lord of derkholm #sabriel #the city of brass

[godzilla-reads]

I’m adding four more books to my Halloween shelf until my NEW NEW books arrive. I have a lot of fall-themed graphic novels coming in 🍂

🐀 The Rats by James Herbert

🧛‍♀️ Fangs by Sarah Andersen

🦌 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

🐺 Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

Sept. 29, 2022

#godzilla reads #halloween reads #Halloween books #bookoween #reading #reads #bookshelf #book blog #the rats #James Herbert #fangs #sarah andersen #through the woods #emily carroll #the only good indians #stephen graham jones #booklr #bookworm #booklover

[readingbooksinisrael]

Possessed Books Ask Meme

🤎 A book you own that’s cover is the same colour as your shirt

🎉 A book that you got for your birthday

🎁 A book someone gave you, but not for your birthday

👴 A book you’ve owned for over ten years

🆚 A book you own the translated version of

⚜️ A book you bought in or ordered from a different country

🍏 A book you own that makes you hungry

📠 A book that you bought secondhand

🧠 A non-fiction book you own and have read

😍 Your favorite book you own

#bookoween #asks #ask meme #booklr #books #mine

[headfulloffantasies]

Bookoween prompt-Misfit Magic!

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. Murder mystery in a magical bakery? Yes please

#bookoween #wizards guide to defensive baking #booklr #books #reading

[therefugeofbooks]

Bookoween: Day 27, Decay

"Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring."

— Dracula by Bram Stoker.

#bookoween #halloween 2020 #booklr #books #book photography #dracula #bram stoker #*mine #the refuge of books

[i-breathe-therefore-i-read]

Bookoween 16. Eldritch Horror

#bookoween #book photo challenge #booklr #mexican gothic #silvia moreno-garcia #i-breathe-therefore-i-read #books #book photography #my post #oct bpc #My Books #in tbr pile

[ninja-muse]

hey will we have bookoween again this year?

I'm not planning to be hosting it, sorry. I'm less into booklr than I was and I sort of woke up a couple days ago with the realization it was almost October and if I was going to do up a whole new prompt list and promote it, I'd have to do it right then and, uh, it felt like work so I didn't. 😅

That said, there is absolutely nothing stopping anyone from using the prompts from 2018 or 2020, and I still follow the tag for reblogging purposes.

#reviving booklr #book challenges #photo challenges #bookoween #booklr #answered asks

[bibliophilecats]

Bookoween 31: Trick or treat

Tasty guinness cupcakes and choclate barmbrack are two treats I associated with October and Halloween. And Howl’s Moving Castle is a treat to every reader.

#bookoween #diana wynne jones #howl's moving castle #ophh