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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 a small Massachusetts town, the Owens family have been regarded with suspicion for over three centuries due to their ancestor Maria Owens, who survived an attempted execution for witchcraft.
1. Set in Massachusetts
2. Features a suspicious character
3. 'Ancestor' in text (pg/% & quote)
4. Author's initials in OWENS
5. 'Witch' and 'Craft' in text (pg/% & quote)
6. Read a book from the Witchcraft Books shelf
7. Tagged 'Halloween'
8. 3 in page count
9. MC's first name starts with M
10. Book was first published over three centuries ago
**You can get 10 bonus points if you read a book that is tagged Halloween AND set in Massachusetts.**
Heartbroken when the father of her unborn child never returned to her, Maria cast a spell to prevent herself from ever falling in love again.
11. 'Spell' in text (pg/% & quote)
12. MC is pregnant
13. No Romance
14. Features a heartbroken character
The spell developed into a curse upon Maria's descendants, dooming any man an Owens woman loves.
15. Man on cover
16. Features a curse
17. 'Doom' in text (pg/% & quote)
18. MPG Family
In the present, Sally and Gillian Owens are taken in by their aunts Frances and Jet after both their parents succumb to the Owens curse.
19. MC is an orphan
20. Features sisters
21. 'Aunt' in text (pg/% & quote)
22. Title starts with a letter in FRANCES
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As children, Sally and Gillian are frequently ridiculed by the town's schoolchildren.
23. Features a bully
24. MC's first name starts with G
25. Author's first name starts with S
26. MPG Middle Grade/Children(s)
After witnessing their aunts cast a love spell for a woman obsessed with her beloved, Sally casts a spell on herself to ensure she will only fall in love with a man, who possesses certain seemingly impossible traits, with the goal that she will never fall in love.
27. 'Impossible' in text (pg/% & quote)
28. Features an obsession
29. Read a book from the Impossible Love Books shelf
30. Letters G, O, A, L in series title (in any order)
Meanwhile Gillian, witnessing the same incident, cannot wait to fall in love.
31. Read a book from the Insta Love Books shelf
32. Heart(s) on cover
33. 'Love' in text (pg/% & quote)
34. Title has a double consonant word in it
When the girls are teens, Gillian elopes with her boyfriend and leaves for Los Angeles. Before she departs, she and Sally make a blood spell to always be faithful to one another.
35. MC is a teenager
36. 'Blood' in text (pg/% & quote)
37. Tagged 'Elope' or 'Elopement'
38. Set in California
39. Features a faithful character
40. MC gets married
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Gillian spends the next decade moving from relationship to relationship across the country, while back in Massachusetts, Sally meets and marries a local, Michael.
41. MPG Travel
42. MC's last name ends with an L
43. Features more than one relationship
They have two daughters, Kylie and Antonia.
44. MC's first name starts with K
45. Author's initials in ANTONIA
46. MC has at least 2 kids
After Michael is fatally hit by a truck, Sally and her girls go to live with the aunts.
47. Features a death
48. Car on cover
49. MC moves from one place to another (i.e., state to state, country to country, or town to town, etc.)
Learning that they secretly cast a love spell on her so that she could marry and be happy, Sally says the aunts will never teach her daughters magic.
50. MC has a secret
51. Tagged 'Magic' at least 10 times
52. Features something forbidden
53. MC gets in a fight
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Gillian unexpectedly tells Sally that she has become involved with a dangerously abusive man, named Jimmy Angelov.
54. Read a book from the Abuse Books shelf
55. MC's first name starts with J
56. V in title
57. MC gets into trouble or danger
When Sally arrives to rescue her sister, he holds them both hostage in his car.
58. Features a rescue
59. Read a book from the Hostage Books shelf
60. 'Hostage' in text (pg/% & quote)
Sally puts belladonna into Jimmy's tequila to sedate him, but inadvertently kills him instead.
61. 'Poison' in text (pg/% quote)
62. Skull on cover
63. Features a toxic character
64. MPG Cozy Mystery
65. MC drinks alcohol
66. Guy on cover
67. Dual POV
The Owens sisters take Jimmy's body back to the aunts' house, where they attempt to resurrect him by using a forbidden spell, which causes him to return and attack Gillian.
68. Features an attack
69. House on cover
70. 'Forbidden' in text (pg/% & quote)
71. Read a book from the Resurrection Books shelf
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Sally kills him again and the sisters bury his remains in the garden.
72. 'Bury' in text (pg/% & quote)
73. Flowers on cover
74. Features a garden
75. Tombstone on cover
76. 'Shovel' in text (pg/% & quote)
77. Letters K, I, L, L, S in title (in any order)
Sally, Gillian and the aunts have a midnight drinking session in which Jimmy's tequila seems to be influencing them to turn against each other; the aunts leave home the following morning, leaving a message to the sisters to "clean up their own mess".
78. 'Midnight' in text (pg/% & quote)
79. Features a messy character
80. Drink on cover
81. Features a messy situation
State investigator Gary Hallett arrives from Tucson, Arizona in search of Jimmy, who is also a serial killer.
82. Read a book from the Investigator Books shelf
83. Set in Arizona
84. Features a serial killer
85. Author's initials in TUCSON
86. MC's first name starts with H
Gillian tries to make him drink a potion that will make him leave them alone, but Sally's daughters realize that he is the man of her childhood spell, so they throw the potion away.
87. 4+ POVs
88. MC wants to be left alone
89. Something is thrown away
90. 'Childhood' in text (pg/% & quote)
91. 3+ people on cover
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After Gillian and Sally fight, Sally breaks down and confesses to Gary, only to realize that he is the impossible man from her childhood love spell.
92. 'Fight' in text (pg/% & quote)
93. Features a confession
94. MC cries
95. Title starts and ends with a letter in IMPOSSIBLE
96. Author's first or last name is 4 letters long
Unable to deny their attraction, they kiss passionately.
97. 'Passionate' in text (pg/% & quote)
98. Features a kiss
99. Tagged 'Attraction'
100. Letters D, E, N, Y in title (in any order)
Returning home, Sally discovers Jimmy's spirit has possessed Gillian's body, and Gary sees the spirit emerge.
101. 'Spirit' in text (pg/% & quote)
102. Read a book from the Possessed Books shelf
103. MPG Supernatural
104. Ghost on cover
105. MPG Paranormal
Jimmy tries possessing him but is turned aside by his silver badge.
106. Something silver on the cover
107. Features a rejection
108. 'Badge' in text (pg/% & quote)
109. MC fails at something
110. Author's last name ends with a letter in SILVER
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Sally tells Gary he is there because of her spell, so the feelings they have for each other are not real.
111. Friends to lovers romance
112. Features something that isn't real
113. Enemies to lovers romance
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She warns that the family curse will kill him if they pursue a relationship. Gary replies that curses only work if one believes in them, before returning to Tucson.
114. 'Curse' in text (pg/% & quote)
115. MC believes in something or someone
Jimmy possesses Gillian again and tries killing Sally before Frances and Jet return. Realizing she must embrace magic to save her sister, Sally asks for aid from the townswomen, who form a coven to exorcise Jimmy's spirit. They break the Owens curse, successfully exorcising Jimmy's spirit and exiling him permanently.
116. Features a coven
117. 'Reunion' in text (pg/% & quote)
118. Set in a small town
119. Features something permanent
In Tucson, Gary clears the Owens sisters of any suspicion in Jimmy's case then returns to Massachusetts to be with Sally. The Owens women are finally welcomed into the community by the townsfolks, who have now accepted them as witches.
120. 'Case' in text (pg/% & quote)
121. Features an innocent character
122. MC feels welcomed by someone
123. Witch on cover
124. Read a book from the Best Second Chance Romance list
125. Umbrella on cover
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Participants:
Emily - 5 books
Kala Dunn - 10 books
Jamie - 25 books
+ Brittni - 10 books
+ Grace Btrs - 9 books
Amanda - 25-30 books
Saige - 8 books
Felicia - 13 books
Bubbles - 10 books
Joud - 20 books
Michelle - 15 books
Carrie Wellenberger - 35 books
BabyLunLun - 5 books
Charlotte - 8 books
Melanie - 10 books
Amanda Edgar - 4 books
Elizabeth - 10 books
Priya - 25 books
Jessie (Saffity) - 3 books
Sammi Bland-Kanes - 3 books
Kim - 6-8 books
Theresa L - 6 books
Jessica - 12 books
Trisha - 35 books
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I'd like to sign up for 10 books please. Would also love to be a team with Jamie and Grace (she'll be signing up soon) if possible. Thanks Alaina!
I'm hereee! I'm signing up for 9 books please 😁
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I'm signing up for 9 books please 😁"
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I'm in!!I'll sign up for 8 books please!
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I'll sign up for 8 books please!"
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heck yes! I can't wait to rewatch this movie next month!
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I'll sign up for 3 books again :)
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Practical Magic 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, then Ghostbusters, and last year we had Beetlejuice! This year, we are bringing you Practical Magic!
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 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.
On top of all the ways you can earn bonus points, I will even give 5 bonus points for anyone who reads a book in the Practical Magic series.
There's a little witch in every woman!