Gothtober Readathon Announcement 2024 || October [CC]

[@PageTurnersWithKatja]

Exciting! I'm looking forward to it 🎉 I don't use Twitter, but I'll watch out for anything on here. Oh, I remember your fab game will give it a go when on my PC.

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I’ll make sure to share the schedule on my channel updates when we have it ready as well for those who aren’t on Twitter anymore (I’m not that much either!) 😊

[@shaynemonroeauthor]

Ooh, this'll be my first time. I'm excited. I have my prompts and am 99% done with my TBR.

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Welcome to your first Gothtober! I hope you enjoy it 🖤

[@OnlyIfForAPage]

I hope you have loads of fun with the event again this year! :- )

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Thank you 😋

[@rasaslase]

I’m excited! Will definitely join in. 🌌

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

@@rasaslase yay! I hope you enjoy playing the game 😇

[@ReadingNymph]

This sounds amazing! Will 100% be taking part

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Yay! Happy to have you on board 🖤

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Very exciting. Will try and read at least one Gothtober book 😉❤️

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Hope you enjoy whatever you choose 😇

[@the_creepy_geek]

So excited for this round!!!!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Yayy 🪐🖤

[@dompishere3014]

Spacey-wacey 😂😂 I love these prompts! The way I have my Halloween reads picked out already and most fit 😌😌

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Love that they work!! And that you already have them all selected for you 😃

[@leafsonata]

Smiling so big 😃 at the Doctor Who reference! Theme sounds so fun!!!!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Always gotta reference the best 😉

[@StarsAndEmbers]

Such a fun way to get the prompts!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Hannah’s brother always does such a good job with designing up the game graphics 😍

[@awanderingmind]

Yay!! I’m ready to create a tbr!!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Yay! Happy you’ll be joining us 🪐

[@thefuzzybookdragon]

This sounds fun!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Hope you'll end up joining in! 🪐

[@BrewsandReviews]

Oooo this looks so fun!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

It’s always a good time 🪐🖤

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

💛💛💛

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

🪐🖤

[@KayBethBookish]

I am so excited! I've decided to give horror a try this year as I've never really gone into it much so I am excited to try!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Love that you're going to be giving the genre a go 😍 I hope you'll have fun!

[@sophiecarbone4977]

So excited to see this! Can’t wait to start planning!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Yay! Happy to have you back for another round as well 🪐🖤

[@ConnorStompanato]

the game is such a fun idea! great prompts

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Thank you! 🪐🖤

[@AbiofPellinor]

timey wimey?!?! I'm here!! 💙💙💙

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Yayy 🖤🪐

[@CaughtBetweenPages]

I did do a full double take when I saw this video in my sub box because hello?? 2024 has just started, right?? But in seriousness I’m quite excited about this because I’ve been on Such a sci fi kick and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down one single bit, so I’m super stoked to be reading sci fi along with other folks. Heading to play the TBR prompt game now 🛸👽♥️

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I’m so happy you’re loving the sci-fi life at the moment 🪐 it’s a good phase to be in 😜

[@LisadoesLife]

This sound great I will be joining xx

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Wonderful! Happy to have you on board 🪐

[@EvieM1]

❤️

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

🖤🖤🖤

[@bookcaseofdoom]

I'm speed-running October preparations today, my vlogs will be veeeeery chaotic :D

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Mine too as I am traveling a lot in October! But we will get there 💪🏾

[@KathyTrithardt]

For the claustrophobic prompt, the first thing that came to mind for me was _The Luminous Dead_ by Caitlin Starling. Sci-fi, horror about someone cave diving on a non-Earth planet, with only one person on coms for company.

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

That is a great recommendation! I’ve heard a lot about this one on booktube but haven’t actually read it before… 😯

[@eleanor_georgina]

I'm watching all three announcement videos in very quick succession so trying to come up with a different comment for each one 😅 I am so excited for Gothtober, it's one of my favourite events of the whole year.

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I love that you ended up watching all three videos 🤗 happy to have you back for another round of Gothtober ✨

[@ResistanceBookClub]

Hey Olivia ❤❤❤ it’s been a long while but I couldn’t miss you Gothtober! I’m joining! Can’t wait!!!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Welcome back 🤗 always good to see you around! The sci-fi theme sounds right up your alley ^.^

[@novellenovels]

I plan to read an aveline jones horror and I think I will read a couple of other fantasy books so will loosely join you..

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Aveline Jones is a great way to join in 🪐🖤

[@ChanelChapters]

What a cool game!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Hannah’s brother does such a good job of designing it every year 😋

[@MaryAmongStories]

👻💜💜

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

🖤🖤👻

[@LadetteM]

We love a Dr Who reference!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Gotta slip them in wherever I can 😉

[@LunaciaBooks]

Are we there already? 😅 I might join again this year, but I will be spending a huge portion of October travelling.

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I will also be spending some of October travelling so I understand having to work around it 😅 if you do join, it’d be fun!!

[@LunaciaBooks]

@@OliviasCatastrophe By the way, is there a Storygraph challenge for this?

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

@@LunaciaBooks not this time unfortunately! We haven’t made our way onto storygraph for this. (We don’t set up a goodreads element either)

[@LunaciaBooks]

@@OliviasCatastrophe Ah. I don't know how they do it on Goodreads, I just find the Storygraph where you just add the books to be helpful. 😊It's OK, I will manage. Still working on my TBR.

[@EFergDindrane]

Hi! New subscriber. I just heard about this challenge from Hannah. I just played the online game, and was "sorted" into Wakanda! I am really looking forward to this so much! I'm a former English professor, and I wish I were still teaching so I could force my students to play, too. :p I confess I'm a little confused as to how the Instagram prompts merge with the game prompts. Are they just additional? Should we choose a book and double up on prompts? Am I just dumb? Don't answer that last one...

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Welcome to Wakanda! I love that you’d want students to join in too 😉 Instagram prompts are separate from the game ones! It’s more so photo prompts for sharing on your insta account if you do bookstagram throughout the month. Totally not required from the main prompts but feel free to join in if you use Instagram half as much as I do (not a silly question at all!)

[@EFergDindrane]

@@OliviasCatastrophe Thank you! I've been meaning to use Insta more, if only to force people to admire my gorgeous cat and dog, so that's a great way to encourage me! I despise FB, and most of my friends are already on Insta. Thanks for the answer!!

[@Words_from_the_Void]

some of these prompts are giving me a headache xD my autistic brain doesn't cope well with vague prompts like this xDDD

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Oop 🙈 we usually make them open ended so people can bend them to fit their books without needing to buy new ones as much as possible 😅

[@Words_from_the_Void]

@@OliviasCatastrophe I get that, absolutely. I even think this is the better way to do it! It's just my brain doesn't cooperate xD I'll figure it out eventually ^^

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

@@Words_from_the_Void hope you get there! If you need any help I’m happy to narrow down whatever prompts you get for you 😇 and happy to have you on board with the readathon 🪐