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Ghostbusters 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. 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 be easier for me to make teams match up a bit more evenly.
For example,
Alaina - 50 books
Andy - 15 books
Aly - 50 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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After Columbia University parapsychology professors Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler experience their first encounter with a ghost at the New York Public Library, the university dean dismisses the credibility of their paranormal-focused research and fires them.
1. MC's first/last name starts with P
2. Author's initials in EGON
3. Letters R, A, Y in series title (in any order)
4. Title ends with a letter in GHOST
5. Fire on cover
6. Read a book from the Halloween Books List
7. MC is at college
8. 'Library' in text (pg/% & quote)
9. Tagged 'Paranormal'
10. Set in New York
**You can get 10 bonus points if you read a book that is tagged paranormal AND is from the Halloween list.**
The trio responds by establishing "Ghostbusters", a paranormal investigation and elimination service operating out of a disused firehouse.
11. Features a trio
12. 'Firehouse' in text (pg/% & quote)
13. Author's first/last name starts with G
14. Title starts and ends with a letter in GHOSTBUSTERS
They develop high-tech nuclear-powered equipment to capture and contain ghosts, although business is initially slow.
15. MC gets captured/or captures someone
16. Ghost on cover
17. Considered a slow book (your interpretation)
18. 'Equipment' in text (pg/% & quote)
After a paranormal encounter in her apartment, cellist Dana Barrett visits the Ghostbusters.
19. MPG Music
20. 'Apartment' in text (pg/% & quote)
21. MC visits someone/gets a visitor
22. MC's name starts with D
23. Author's last name has a double letter in it (Ex: Barrett - has 2 r's and/or 2 t's)
24. Musical instrument on cover
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She recounts witnessing a demonic dog-like creature in her refrigerator utter a single word: "Zuul".
25. Dog on cover
26. 'Demonic' in text (pg/% & quote)
27. Title is one word only
28. MC's first/last name starts with Z
Ray and Egon research Zuul and details of Dana's building while Peter inspects her apartment and unsuccessfully attempts to seduce her.
29. Tagged 'Romance'
30. MC fails at something
31. 'Research' in text (pg/% & quote)
32. Series title ends with a letter in ZUUL
The Ghostbusters are hired to remove a gluttonous ghost, Slimer, from the Sedgewick Hotel.
33. Read a book from the The Seven Deadly Sins list
34. MC gets hired to do a job
35. 'Hotel' in text (pg/% quote)
Having failed to properly test their equipment, Egon warns the group that crossing the energy streams of their proton pack weapons could cause a catastrophic explosion.
36. MC gives or receives a warning
37. 'Energy' in text (pg/% & quote)
38. Features an explosion
39. Weapon on cover
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They capture the ghost and deposit it in an ecto-containment unit under the firehouse.
40. MC has something or someone under control (your interpretation)
41. Title starts and ends with a letter in DEPOSIT
Supernatural activity rapidly increases across the city and the Ghostbusters become famous; they hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore, to cope with the growing demand.
42. Read a book from the Celebrity Books list
43. MC's first/last name starts with W
44. Author's first/last name starts with Z
45. Series has at least 4 books in it
Suspicious of the Ghostbusters, Environmental Protection Agency inspector Walter Peck asks to evaluate their equipment, but Peter rebuffs him.
46. 'Suspicious' in text (pg/% & quote)
47. Features an inspector
48. Series title starts with a letter in WALTER
49. Features a character who acts suspicious (your interpretation)
50. MC rejects something or something
51. Read a book from the Environmental Protection Books list
Egon warns that the containment unit is nearing capacity and supernatural energy is surging across the city.
52. MPG Supernatural
53. Set in a city
54. Letters U, N, I, T in series title (in any order)
55. Author's first/last name starts with E
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Peter meets with Dana and informs her Zuul was a demigod worshipped as a servant to "Gozer the Gozerian", a shapeshifting god of destruction.
56. Read a book from the Demigods Books List
57. Features a servant
58. MC is a shapeshifter
59. Author's initials are in GOZER
60. 'Destruction' in text (pg/% & quote)
Upon returning home, she is possessed by Zuul; a similar entity possesses her neighbor, Louis Tully.
61. Read a book from the Possessed Books list
62. Author last name has a double letter in it (Ex: George Orwell)
63. Tagged 'Neighbors-to-lovers' at least 10 times
Peter arrives and finds the possessed Dana/Zuul claiming to be "the Gatekeeper".
64. Gate on cover
65. 'Gate' and 'Keeper' found in text (pg/% & quote)
66. Features an imposter (your interpretation)
67. MC has an alias
68. Series title starts and ends with a letter in GATEKEEPER
69. Title has a name in it (ex: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret)
Louis is brought to Egon by police officers and claims he is "Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster".
70. Key on cover
71. 'Key' and 'Master' in text (pg/% & quote)
72. MC is a police officer
73. MC's first/last name starts with V
74. Author's first/last name starts with C
75. Title contains a 4 letter word
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The Ghostbusters agree to keep the pair separated.
76. Features a breakup
77. Two people on cover
78. Book is in a duology
79. Letters P, A, I, R in title (in any order)
Peck returns with law enforcement and city workers to have the Ghostbusters arrested and their containment unit deactivated, causing an explosion that releases the captured ghosts.
80. Features a failure
81. MC gets arrested
82. 'Explosion' in text (pg/% & quote)
83. Read a book from the Captured Books list
84. Letters P, E, C, K in title (in any order)
85. 'Deactivate' in text (pg/% & quote)
Louis/Vinz escapes in the confusion and makes his way to the apartment building to join Dana/Zuul.
86. 'Escape' in text (pg/% & quote)
87. Features an easily confused character (your interpretation)
88. MC joins something (your interpretation)
89. Read a book from the Confusion Books list
In jail, Ray and Egon reveal that Ivo Shandor, leader of a Gozer-worshipping cult in the early 20th century, designed Dana's building to function as an antenna to attract and concentrate spiritual energy to summon Gozer and bring about the apocalypse.
90. 'Jail' in text (pg/% & quote)
91. MC has a 3-letter name
92. MPG Apocalypse
93. Features a cult
94. 'Summon' in text (pg/% & quote)
95. Read a book from the Early 20th Century Books list
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Faced with supernatural chaos across the city, the Ghostbusters convince the mayor to release them.
96. 'Chaos' in text (pg/% & quote)
97. Tagged 'Chaos' at least 10 times
98. Features a mayor
The Ghostbusters travel to a hidden temple located on top of the building as Dana/Zuul and Louis/Vinz open the gate between dimensions and transform into demonic dogs.
99. MPG Travel
100. 'Temple' in text (pg/% & quote)
101. Features a portal
102. Features a hidden room
103. Read a book from the Hellhound Books list
Gozer appears as a woman and attacks the Ghostbusters then disappears when they attempt to retaliate.
104. Author is a woman
105. MC's are all female
106. Features a character that disappears
107. Author's initials in GOZER
108. MC gets in a fight
Her disembodied voice demands the Ghostbusters "choose the form of the destructor".
109. Features a demand
110. MC chooses something/someone
111. Tagged 'Psychological Thriller'
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Ray inadvertently recalls a beloved corporate mascot from his childhood, and Gozer reappears as a gigantic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man that begins destroying the city.
112. 'Mascot' in text (pg/% & quote)
113. MC has a corporate job
114. Features a childhood memory
115. Food on cover
116. 'Marshmallow' in text (pg/% & quote)
117. Read a book from the Big Fat Books Worth the Effort list
Against his earlier advice, Egon instructs the team to cross their proton energy streams at the dimensional gate.
118. MC is teacher
119. Book is from a spin-off series
The resulting explosion destroys Gozer's avatar, banishing it back to its dimension, and closes the gateway.
120. Features a character that gets banished (your interpretation)
121. Letters A, V, A, T, A, R in series title (in any order)
The Ghostbusters rescue Dana and Louis from the wreckage and are welcomed on the street as heroes.
122. MC gets rescued
123. Read a book from the Best Hero Books list
124. Book ends with an HEA
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Participants:
Kira - 30 books
Christene Paula✨ - 10 books
Emily - 5 books
Jessica - 15 books
Andy Of The Blacks - 4 books
Savannah - 10 books
Trisha - 4 books
Saige - 8 books
PrinzessBookDragon - 5 books
Ivelisse - 25 books
Melanie - 10 books
Celia Buell - 4-5 books
Catsalive - 16 books
Tia Lee - 5 books
Esther - 4 books
Avni - 5 books
Kim - 5 books
Ashley - 20 books
Ashlyn - 8 books
Jennifer - 10 books
Gwen page-turner - 10 books
ada poltergayst, - 10 books
Erica Paré - 10 books
Aneta - 5 books
⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚ - 3 books
Mucia - 4 books
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October is my favorite! I'm in!4 books
🧙🏽♀️🧟♀️🧛🏽♀️ include me please, 5 bpm 🥳🦇🎃
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4 books"
The movie challenges are always fun to make!
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you know what.. i'm in I wanna say i've been averaging 30 books a month but maybe do 20 to be more safe lol
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Ghostbusters Challenge
With October being around the corner, and the pumpkin spice is 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, and last year we had Halloweentown! This year we are bringing you Ghostbusters!
Just like those previous challenges, this will be based off of 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 4.
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.
Who ya gonna call?!