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GB: If You've Got It, Haunt It! (continuing)
Completion Post: Subway GhostBook: Gallows Hill
Date Read: Oct 14
Pages: 377
Task: 👻Read a book with a character named Walter
How it Fits: The funeral director’s name is Walter
Completion Post- Subway GhostBook:Skin & Bones
Date Read: 14th October
Pages: 266
Task: 👻Read a book where something explodes in the story.
How it fits: The farmhouse was rigged to explode.
Completion Post: Subway GhostBook: Missing Since Monday
Author: Ann M. Martin
Date Read: 10/14
Task: Read a book that is a frightening tale (your interpretation).
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 176
Qualification: Any excuse to read one of my favorite books ever was perfect for this task. I remember when I read this book for the first time almost 20 years the plot really scared me. The idea of kidnapping and it happening to my younger sister was absolutely nervewracking. I am pretty sure this was the first book that made me cry after I truly got into reading - I even shed a few tears today when I reread it (and I knew what would happen/how all the fear of the characters would end up). I was very similar to Leigh in that the idea of the Lost Game terrified me when it came to my little sister - I just wanted to always protect her but after the book, I realized how important it was that we knew all of the information necessary in case something were to ever happen to us.
Note: I didn't see anything about using middle grade books but if I missed a rule, just let me know.
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To speed things up, how about the last person to post their review for each ghost does the check-in post right away? :)
That sounds good to me. I didnt think to check but i didnt know if i was allowed or if it had to be a specific one of us. Lol
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The zombie taxi driver was another ghost who escaped after the explosion. It entered the taxi through the exhaust pipe from the sewers and then assumed a physical form. When a passenger entered the cab asking to be taken to the Columbia building on 57th st saying "I'm in a hurry, so let's not dawdle" he took it seriously. The ghost drove like a madman to their destination causing accidents along the way. Can your team stop him?
Tasks
👻Read a book with a zombie
👻Read a book with 57 intact in the page count (example 357 pages)
👻Read a book with a madman in the story (your interpretation)
👻Read a book with an accident (any type of accident - you can interpret this any way you like) in the story
Denise wrote: "We're checked in.To speed things up, how about the last person to post their review for each ghost does the check-in post right away? :)"
Sounds good to me.
I would like to take the madman task - I have the perfect book for it.
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I’ll take 👻Read a book with an accident (any type of accident - you can interpret this any way you like) in the story
Completion Post: Zombie Taxi GhostBook: The Beast’s Bed by Eva Devon
Date Read: Oct 16
Pages: 198
Task: 👻Read a book with an accident
How it Fits: The MC fell off his horse during a landslide
Completion Post- Zombie Taxi GhostBook: Defy the Future
Author:Keira Andrews
Date Read: 15th-17th October
Pages: 298
Task: 👻Read a book with a zombie
How it fits: this is the final book in the ‘Kick at the Darkness’ trilogy. It’s set during a zombie apocalypse.
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We're very much still playing!
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Book: Boy Like Me by Simon James Green
Date Read: 17 Oct 2024
Pages: 357
Task: 👻Read a book with 57 intact in the page count
How it Fits: 357 pages
Completion Post: Zombie Taxi GhostBook: One Cursed Rose
Author: Rebecca Zanetti
Date Read: 17 Oct 2024
Pages: 369
Task: Read a book with a madman in the story (your interpretation)
Qualification: Which madman would you like to be talk about? The serial killer reveal at the end where he kills women that look like our main female character or the one who kills for justice and an almost vigilantism?
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Your team has stumbled upon Vinz Clortho the Keymaster & Zuul the Gatekeeper. They are both muttering about someone called Gozer the Destroyer. One of your team sees the Gatekeeper float several feet above her bed. Something strange is happening and it is centered around their apartment building. When other events cause you to lose sight of these two they find their way to each other. Your team heads to the apartment building and up to the top. When you arrive, you see the Gatekeeper and Key master turn into demon hounds. Gozer arrives and your team tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with her. Your team is zapped by Gozer. Can your team take down Gozer and turn her hounds back into humans?
Tasks
👻Read a book with demon/hell hounds
👻Read a book with a key on the cover
👻Read a book with a gate on the cover
👻Read a book with someone who tries to destroy something (your interpretation)
Don't worry, you can't catch 'em all!
I'll take: 👻Read a book with someone who tries to destroy something (your interpretation) Or 👻Read a book with a gate on the cover
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I'll take a book with demon/hell hounds.
I’ll take read a book with a gate on the cover.
Completion Post: Vinz Clortho the Keymaster & Zuul the GatekeeperBook: The Kingpin of Camelot by Cassandra Gannon
Date Read: Oct 19
Pages: 379
Task: 👻Read a book with someone who tries to destroy something.
How it Fits: Scarecrow was trying to destroy Camelot.
Completion Post - Vinz Clortho the Keymaster/Zuul the Gatekeeper/Gozer the Destroyer
Book: The Traitors by Carissa Ann Lynch
Pages: 234
Date Read: 18th-19th October
Task: 👻Read a book with a gate on the cover
How it fits: Wrought iron gate on the cover.
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Book: The Thief Taker by C.S. Quinn
Date Read: 19 Oct 2024
Pages: 433
Task: 👻Read a book with a key on the cover
How it Fits: Key on cover
Completion PostBook: A Demon's Horns by Marie Mistry
Date Read: 20 - Oct
Pages: 380
Task: Read a book with demons/hell hounds.
MPG Demons
Rating: 4 stars
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Your team failed to take out Gozer the destructor. The traveler has come. Choose its form. Team members 1,2 & 4 kept their minds blank but team member 3 couldn't. The traveler has taken the form of a hundred-foot Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Remember that sometimes rules are meant to be broken... so cross those streams! Can you take out the marshmallow man?
Tasks
👻Read a book with a white cover (min 50%)
👻Read a book with a character who is a sailor
👻Read a chunky book (min 900 pages)
👻Read a book with a character who travels a lot (can be for fun or work)
Did I fail? Sorry guys! I’ll take the 900 pages.
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Looks like we posted at pretty much the same time! XD Sailor for me then. :D
Is it okay if I have the white cover task?
I’m reading a book that works for 👻Read a book with a character who travels a lot
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Book: The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
Date Read: 22 Oct 2024
Pages: 369
Task: 👻Read a book with a character who is a sailor
How it Fits: Set onboard a ship, pretty much all the characters are sailors
Might take me a couple of days longer than usual to finish my book.
Completion Post: The Traveler (Stay Puft Marshmallow Man)Book: The Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne
Date Read: Oct 25
Pages: 633
Task: 👻Read a book with a character who travels a lot
How it Fits: Orka Skullsplitter and many other characters travel to find her son and other things.
Completion Post: The TravelerBook: Simply Irresistible
Author: Jill Shalvis
Pages: 336
Rating: 4 stars
Task: Read a book with a white cover.
Qualification:
Completion Post- The TravellerBook/Author: The Running Grave/Robert Galbraith
Pages: 945
Task: 👻Read a chunky book (min 900 pages)
How it fits: This book has 945 pages
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The Scoleri Brothers, Nunzio & Tony are a ghostly pair of psychopathic brothers. They are killers who were sentenced in 1948 by Judge Stephen "the Hammer" Wexler for murder and sentenced to death by execution. The execution was performed at Ossining Prison via the electric chair. It's been over 40 years and some negatively charged Psychomagnotheric slime (or mood slime) among some court exhibits has manifested the Scoleri brothers in their ghostly electric chairs. Can you and your team capture them?
Tasks
👻Read a book with a hammer on the cover
👻Read a book with a character who has to go to court or works in a courtroom
👻Read a book with all the letters of JUDGE in the title
👻Read a book with 40 intact in the page count (example 340 pages)
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LOL nobody failed. That is the way the story goes. I tried to keep it true to the storyline as much as I could while putting it in my own words. I did make a few artistic changes to make the challenge work but I tried to keep it true to the story. I hope you are enjoying it!
I honestly thought I had somehow messed up, glad to know I didn’t. I am enjoying it, it’s a lot of fun!
I can read for 👻Read a book with a hammer on the cover
Can I have "👻Read a book with 40 intact in the page count (example 340 pages)"?
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I’ll take 👻Read a book with all the letters of JUDGE in the title
Completion Post- Scoleri Brothers:Book/Author: Tempted by the Jaguar: Transformation and Revelation/Cristina Rayne
Pages: 250
Date Read: 29th October - 30th October
Task: 👻Read a book with all the letters of JUDGE in the title
How it fits: Tempted by the Jaguar
*Edit 2nd November*
Book/Author: Unwrapping Jade/Melanie Shawn
Pages: 205
Date Read: 1st November - 2nd November
Task: 👻Read a book with all the letters of JUDGE in the title
How it fits: Unwrapping Jade
I’m behind on the reading. Will catch up this weekend.
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Book: Hush by Tal Bauer
Date Read: 01 Nov 2024
Pages: 462
Task: 👻Read a book with a character who has to go to court or works in a courtroom
How it Fits: MC is a judge
Same, Namita. I should be done with my book either tonight or tomorrow.
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Book: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Date Read: 14 Oct 2024
Pages: 388
Task: 👻Read a book that has all the letters of the word TENTACLES in the title/series
How it Fits: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea