Hey everyone! I'm Vanessa, and today
I'm here to do a Sbooktober announcement!
I am so excited, Sbooktober is my
favorite time of the year, of course! I am
so ready
for another year of spooky october fun,
and i just cannot wait to get into this.
If you are new here and you don't know
what Sbooktober is, Sbooktober is an
event that i created
and host every year to celebrate october
on booktube. We have an amazing time
every year and i am so ready and so
excited for this year's festivities. This
year for Sbooktober 
we are having a...drumroll please...
Halloween house party! I thought that a
Halloween party would be the perfect
thing for this yea,r because
2020 has been upon us, there have not
been
very many parties many social gatherings,
and i know that a lot of us
are living in places, certain countries,
that shall not be named, well let's be
honest, we're probably not gonna get
halloween parties this year either. So i
thought that, you know what, that's fine
we're gonna have a halloween party
together
on booktube. So this is me extending an
invitation to you
to come to a halloween party, not just
for one night, but for the entire
month of october we're gonna celebrate
all things october and halloween.
We have a really fun event lined up. We
have, like i said, the
halloween party read-a-thon, we have 13
days of photo challenges, and we
of course are going to have spooky movie
night watchalongs on twitter.
It's gonna be a blast, i hope you'll join
us. This year we have
13 hosts, there's a lot of us this year, i
figured
it's a party, the more the merrier right?
So i will leave all of the hosts linked
down below, if you want to go check out
their channels they have all been
helping me put this thing together and
come up with fun challenge ideas and
host the movie nights and everything, so
yes, highly recommend checking them out.
Without further ado, i'm going to go
ahead and get into
the read-a-thon information. So this year
for the Sbooktober readathon, we are all
going to a halloween house party, we are
pulling up to the house party, and we are
gonna be doing
all of the fun halloween party things
through our
reading challenges. So as usual, and just
like as if you were going to an actual
party,
you do NOT have to do all of these
challenges. Completing every single
challenge is not the point of this
readathon at all. The point is to just go
to the party and have fun and do
the things that you think will be fun to
do. We've tried to make it as easy as
possible, we're letting the readathon run
the entire month, so you have the whole
month of october to do whatever it is
you want to do.
You are totally more than welcome to
combine books for challenges.
We tried to make a lot of the challenges
pretty open-ended, so that you can
combine, or if you want to combine them
with other readathons that you might be
doing in october.
So the reading challenges are divided up
into kind of four different
areas of the party, things that you might
be doing at the party.
The first section we have is the costume
party section,
what costume are you going to show up to
this party in?
You don't have to wear a costume, but if
you are going to wear a costume, you can
pick from: A scary costume and read a
horror book,
you can wear a silly costume and read a
book that you think will make you laugh,
you can wear a fantasy costume if you
want to be a fairy or a mermaid or
something, and read a fantasy book.
You can wear a couple's costume and read
a romance,
or if you want to wear a costume with
your best friend you can wear a besties
costume and
buddy read a book together. And like i
said, you're more than welcome to combine
these, so like if you wanted to be a
zombie mermaid you could read a horror
book and a fantasy book,
right? lLike that would be fun. The next
section we have is the refreshments,
the snack table, the best part of any
party as far as i'm concerned, this is
what i'm here for. And on
our food table we are gonna have a punch
bowl, which is read a book with a
character who fights,
we're gonna have some eyeball soup: a
cover you can't stop eyeballing, and
we're also as our main course gonna have
Mrs.
Lovett's meat pies, and this is to read a
book with a character you think will be
unlikable,
so that they can become the filling, in
the pie, you know, sweeney todd...
Then for dessert we are gonna have some
devil's food cake, which is a book with a
black cover, and of course no halloween
party would be complete without a bowl
of candy.
So if you want to just take a small
piece of candy from the candy bowl and
read a novella or a graphic novel that's
the challenge for you.
Across from the snack table of course we
have the dance floor,
for everybody who wants to just get out
and dance the night away.
We have a few songs on our playlist, the
first one will be the monster mash,
which is a book that features a
monster, and this can be literal or
figurative, however
you want to interpret that. Then we're
going to listen to i put a spell on you,
which is a book with magic.
We've got the time warp, a book set in a
different time period.
Superstition, one of my favorite
halloween songs, a book based on
folklore or mythology. And thriller, an
iconic halloween song that we have to
dance to, and of course that is to read
a thriller. Then of course the other
festivities going on at the party all
night are going to be:
carving jack-o'-lanterns, which is a book
with a face on the cover.
We've got bobbing for apples, sink your
teeth in and read a tome.
If you're like me and you want to go
sneak off and just hang out with the
pets in a corner, you can read a book
with an
animal on the cover. And if you want to
trick-or-treat, or answer the door for
trick-or-treaters, this is a fun one,
you're going to choose a book that you
love,
and then choose a book that you hate, and
you're going to flip a coin to see which
one
you read. So those are gonna be our
readathon
challenges, i'm so excited for them and i
cannot wait to have this halloween party
with you.
Again the readathon is gonna be running
all month, so you have the entire month
to complete whatever challenges you want,
in any order you want,
whenever. But we are gonna have for the
first 13
days of the month, we are going to have
13 days of photo challenges on instagram,
or on twitter, wherever you want to post
it. So the photo challenges are going to
be:
on october 1st we have october reads,
then on the second we have a photo you
took on the night of the full moon,
the full moon is actually going to be on
october 1st, so then
the next day you would post a picture
that you took that night. Then on
october 3rd we have an october craft, on
the fourth we have october decor,
on the fifth we have an old favorite
coming back, books and candy,
then we have something that scares you,
we have a blackout poetry photo
challenge,
we have your favorite october treat, and
this can be something that you made or
something you bought it doesn't really
matter.
And then on october 9th we have a fall
aesthetic,for,
you know, it's fall in the northern
hemisphere, but then the next day we have
a spring aesthetic, in honor of all of
our
southern hemisphere friends who are in
springtime right now. Then on october
11th we have
continue a book cover, so i have this
book cover, i'll put a piece of paper
under it and finish drawing
maybe the bottom of her dress, or maybe
i'll do it this way and draw like
whoever she's looking at over here. Then
on october 12th we want you to share a
photo of your reading spot, and finally
on the 13th,
the big shebang, we want you to share a
bookish costume. And this could be like a
full-blown costume, or it can be a more
just like outfit of the day like
inspired by a book or something, or you
could do
makeup inspired by a book, whatever you
want to do, however you want to interpret
these
photo challenges, we want you guys to
have all of the freedom to do them
however you can or however you want to.
If you do want to do some photo
challenges
basically all you have to do is upload
the photo on either twitter or
instagram, and tag us @sbooktober, so
that we can see it and hype you up and
retweet it and everything.
We're not doing contests or prizes or
anything this year, so it's just for fun,
it's just so that we can all get together
and celebrate together. And then the last
thing to announce in this video is
of course sbooky movie nights. Honestly
one of the best parts of Sbooktober in
my opinion.
If you haven't been to a sbooky movie
night yet, basically we just do a movie
watchalong on twitter, where we all push
play on a movie at the same time,
and tweet at each other while we're
watching it. The schedule for those is
still in the works so keep an eye on the
twitter account for updates
regarding that. One other thing about
sbooky movie nights that i've changed
this year, i actually made a whole
separate twitter account
just for watchalongs, so that people who
just want to follow the main account for
like updates and stuff like that don't
have to deal with
live tweeting from movies every day in
october. It gets to be a lot, and i know
it does, and i know it's probably
annoying having those on your feed
24/7. So i made a whole separate twitter
account, it's called @sbookymovies, and
this is the account that you'll want to
follow and interact with when we're
doing spooky movie nights,
but if you just want to keep up to date
with updates and interact with like the
photo challenges and stuff like that the
main Sbooktober account to follow is
just @sbooktober on twitter, and we
also have @sbooktober on instagram
for photo challenges as well. And i will
leave all of the information that you
need
linked in the description down below. I
think that is pretty much everything
that we have to announce
at this point, i wanted to get the
announcement out early so that people
can make their tbrs. I know people get
real hype for their october tbrs, and we
all start putting them together really
early because we get so excited for
october, so i just i wanted this
announcement to be out there
so that you can keep this in mind while
you were building your tbrs.
But as we get further updates i will
definitely keep the twitter up to date,
and you can keep an eye out for them
there.
I really hope that some of you are as
excited for Sbooktober this year as i am.
I absolutely cannot wait to celebrate
the best month of the year with all of
you. I think it's going to be a really
fun,
really chill halloween party, and i hope
that you will rsvp to it...
hey...Anyways, don't mind me. I hope that
you will join us
it's going to be a super fun time as
always, this is our...
i want to say our fifth...
can that be right? is it our fifth year?
16 17 18 19 20...this is our fifth year of
Sbooktober!
I love this event so much, i truly feel
like it is my baby here on booktube, and
i just
i really hope that some of you will
enjoy it. Let me know if you have any
questions whatsoever and i will
absolutely get back to you as soon as
possible on them. And
like i said everything else you need
should be linked down below. I hope you
liked this video, and i hope that i get
to talk to you soon. Bye!
