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They Go in the Basement: Stay Out of the Basement Chapters 1-5
It’s the spookiest time of year again, which means more Goosebumps here at BBGT and me avoiding any situation where I’m required to wear a costume. Now that I’m too old to trick or treat, blogging is...
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The Dad Is A Mad Scientist, In Case You Missed That: Stay Out of the Basement...
Welcome back to our third year of Goosebumps coverage in celebration of Halloween, everybody! Hope everybody is enjoying our first Goosebumps without Greg and his terrible decision-making skills vis a...
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Tris Gets High: Insurgent Chapter 6
Previously, Marcus refused to tell Tris his Super Secret Special Secret of Secrets. Chapter 6 If you thought not finding out what Marcus secret is was bad, wait till you get a load of the problems Tris...
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We Haven’t Had A Mass Killing In About Seven Chapters, So…: Insurgent Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Tris recovers from the happy drugs that the Hufflepuff hippies gave her. [Ariel says: I would have preferred if she had to save the day under the influence of this serum.] “Why couldn’t I...
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People Continue to Go Into the Basement: Stay Out of the Basement Chapters 11-15
Margaret begins to suspect her father is turning into a plant, which is a major turning point for most girls that age. This really isn’t a tale of horror so much as a tale of growing up in an uncertain...
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They Go In The Basement ONE LAST TIME: Stay Out of the Basement Chapters 16-21
Ready to finish this year’s Goosebumps? Depends… ARE YOU IN FOR A SCARE? Chapter 16 Margaret is hanging out with Diane (the only other character in this book) when her father (the mad scientist who is...
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A Character Once Thought Dead IS NOT DEAD: Insurgent Chapter 8
Previously, things happened. Chapter 8 Having just fled the Amity compound, Tris, Four, Caleb and Susan follow train tracks towards “the city.” If there’s one thing that the Dauntless can always rely...
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Other People Who Think The Faction System Is Dumb Finally Show Up: Insurgent...
Happy Actual Halloween! Since we read it on Mondays and Tuesday, we don’t have a Goosebumps for you on the holiday we read it in honor for. So here’s the scariest gif I have. You have no idea how long...
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A Beautiful…Return: BBGT Reads Beautiful Oblivion
I know we’ve all been desperately missing all of the interchangeable Maddox brothers, but fear not, tomorrow we’re diving back into the Disaster series that now seems to have turned into the Beautiful...
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Meet the New Gang that is Actually the Old Gang With New Names: Beautiful...
Because you just know this book is going to be full of them, I’m starting a Crossover Count. Every time there’s a mention of a character from one of the previous books (obvs that isn’t Trent or Cami),...
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All Aboard The Exposition Train! Beautiful Oblivion Chapter 2
I can’t remotely pretend I’m excited about actually reading a Jamie McGuire book again. But I am excited that Ariel and I are both reading the same one this time, so I only have to write up half of it!...
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Beautiful Oblivion Bingo!
While talking about returning to the world of Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster in the series’ first spin-off, Beautiful Oblivion, Ariel and I joked that it would be like reading the same book...
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A Character Once Thought to be Exclusively Abnegation is Not: Insurgent...
I got confused about what post I was working on and accidentally titled this post Introducing Plot!Child: Insurgent Chapter 10. So spoilers for everyone reading our Beautiful Oblivion posts. [Matthew...
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And Now, Other Hufflepuff House: Insurgent Chapter 11
Yesterday in Insurgent, Tris and Four get captured. Again. [Ariel says: Just another wacky adventure for our heroes.] Chapter 11 Arriving at the headquarters of the series’ other totally neglected...
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Introducing Plot!Child: Beautiful Oblivion Chapter 3
Previously, Trent said he was going to take Cami out to dinner. Cami is plotting ways to avoid this because those Maddox bros just don’t take no for an answer. One of their many many charming and...
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TJ Comes Back For Two Minutes, Trenton Already Declares His Intentions To...
That didn’t take long. [Ariel says: Matt, I read the title of this post before I read the actual chapter and immediately ticked off the "things moving too quickly" space on the Bingo Board because I'm...
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Serums are Injected, Secrets are Revealed: Insurgent Chapter 12
Members of Dauntless think Tris and Four were responsible for the Mind Control. Now, to get to the bottom of things, truth serum! Because if the book doesn’t feature serum in 95% of chapters, it’s not...
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Everybody Feels Terrible Again: Insurgent Chapter 13
It’s no secret that my favorite books are generally ones where nobody is happy and everything is depressing, so it’s actually pretty weird that Insurgent isn’t right up my alley by this point. Chapter...
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Cami’s Boobs: Beautiful Oblivion Chapter 5
Full disclosure, I stayed up until 2 am last night finishing this book just to find out what the shitty twist at the end was. And, oh, was it shitty. I have so so many jokes written, I am dying to...
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Matthew Reads The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Part 1
Surprise! In anticipation of the new Hunger Games movie coming out this week, we’re running EXTRA CONTENT on top of our regular schedule! This is possible because I already wrote these posts, like,...
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