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I like to read horror and mysteries during October so I am going to start with Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories. I also like to listen to audiobooks while I clean the house and I just got Daisy Jones and The Six from Libby today, so i am planning to start listening to that on the first to get that extra 0.5 point as well!
Mike - Audiobooks count too! Just look up the book here on goodreads to find the page numbers.
Hey Tash, no stupid questions! Roald Dahl would count for normal full points. All the books I have read of his don't have a lot of illustrations.
Hi Pony!Laura is correct! You could start a book in October and even if you didn't finish it until December it would still count for Decembers round robin.
Yes, anyone can sign up at anytime during the next 3 months! The teams are very even right now, but they change a lot throughout the course of the competition. Remember that the amount of books read is divided by members who participated, so it shouldn't have a huge impact if the teams are even or not, but it is still nice to see the houses fairly equal!
Hey Lina!Either is fine, go with whatever one motivates you to read the most!
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🍂🍄🍁 November Point Tracker 🍂🍄🍁Books Read:
1. (1 point) Eartheater (224p) 11/2
2. (2 points) Lessons in Chemistry (390p) 11/7
3. (2 points) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (359p) 11/16
⚔️4. (1 point) The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury (10p) 11/19
⚔️5. (1 point) The Egg (3p) 11/20
6. (2 points) To the Elephant Graveyard : A True Story of the Hunt for a Man-Killing Indian Elephant (272p) 11/24
7. (1 point) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (430p) (Graphic Novel) 11/25
8. (.5 point) Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games (160p) (Graphic Novel) 11/25
⚔️9. (1 point) The Altar of the Dead (40p) 11/28
⚔️10. (1 point) A Beautiful Accident (32p) 11/29
🧙♂️11. (2.5 points) The Lightning Thief (377p) 11/29
⚔️ 12. (1 point) The Thanksgiving Visitor (37p) 11/30
🧙♂️13. (2.5 points) Murder at the Vicarage (288p) 11/30
November Points: 18.5
Overall Points: 33
⚔️ Easy Point Getters Used: 5/10 ⚔️
🧙♂️ Books of the Month Read: 2/3 🧙♂️
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October Point Tracker
🎃👁️🦇Books Read:
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October Points: 14.5
Overall Total Points: 14.5
⚔️ Easy Point Getters Used: 4/10 ⚔️
🧙♂️ Books of the Month Read: 3/3 🧙♂️
I am officially joining team Merry! I am 31 years old and live in Colorado. I work at a preschool and bought an old house that needs a lot of renovations, so I am constantly in the middle of a house project or three. It has been a rough year with several people passing away and that has affected my reading so I am really hoping this challenge is going to help me make up for the rest of the year.
Thank you Cynthia for volunteering for Prefect and congratulations!
Cynthia wrote: "Also, on the topic of TBRs I was checking out the October BOTMs. I was curious if 216 pages was a typo for The Hound of the Baskervilles? I couldn't find an edition with that page count...You are correct that was a typo, thank you for bringing that to my attention Cynthia! (Sorry for the late response!)
That means The Hound of Baskervilles is worth 2.5 points and not 1.5 points! I'll message the other prefects and let them know.
Sarah wrote: "Has the final quarter's theme been decided yet? Just planning some library holds and thought I would check haha."The last theme of this year is... 5 oldest books on your TBR
This can be by publishing date or when you added it to your TBR.
This is the hardest time I've had in 8 years trying to decide which house to join. Usually I know right away, but I love Sam and Merry both so much! lol...this might have to come down to a coin toss or whichever house has less members.
Alright, didn't even have this up for 24 hours and we have all of our Prefects! Thank you for volunteering and welcome back! I will be sending the prefects a message with instructions in a week or so.
Please use this thread to talk about the challenge and ask any questions! You Can sign up in your house thread starting the last week of September, feel free to join in anytime!
You get to pick which house you would like to be on. Maybe you have never read the Lord of the Rings books, or maybe you have and are finding it impossible to choose one Hobbit over the others, either way here is a quiz that might help:https://www.allthetests.com/personali...
ROUND ROBIN SCHEDULE
OCTOBER
Merry vs. Frodo
Pippin vs. Sam
NOVEMBER
Frodo vs. Sam
Pippin vs. Merry
DECEMBER
Pippin vs. Frodo
Merry vs. Sam
OVERALL COMPETITION:
Total Average Points:
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Welcome to the 8th annual House Cup Challenge! 2022's theme is... HOBBITS or more specifically FRODO, SAM, MERRY, and PIPPINHOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS
- Everyone who wants to play joins a house and all the houses compete to read the most over the three months. The scores are based on an average and there will be an overall winner as well as 2 winners each month when you will go head-to-head with another team.
- The Challenge will run from October 1 through December 31. All books started & finished during this time will count toward the challenge.
- Post in YOUR HOUSE’S THREAD ran by your house’s prefect. contribute with the BOOK TITLE and DATE FINISHED and NUMBER OF PAGES.
- If you would like you can make one post, or one per month, and update them to keep everything in one place, but I do ask that you make another comment letting your team prefect know that you updated it.
Each house has its own thread:
FRODO - Prefect: Laura
SAM - Prefect: Saar
MERRY - Prefect: Cynthia
PIPPIN - Prefect: Erin
RULES AND SCORING
We will use an average score to balance the different house sizes. We will use a tiered scoring system based on the number of pages in a book. Essentially, it's 1 point for every 250 pages read within a book. Here's the breakdown:
1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
and so on...
- If its a graphic novel, heavily pictured book or sparsely worded (i.e. poetry), half points will be awarded, so it will be 0.5 points for every 250 pages. The points will be awarded per book and not per cumulative pages read.
- Easy point-getters are limited to 10 per month per participant. These will be books with less than 50 pages.
- A book cannot be counted more than one time in a month, so a maximum of three times over the course of a challenge.
- If you read one of the group's selected group reads for October, November or December, you get to add a bonus 0.5 point. (This must be read in the month that the book is our BOTM pick)
- For a book to count, it must be started and finished during the challenge timeframe.
- Use the page number of the most popular edition when you search on Goodreads for every book read. This includes audiobooks, ebooks, and physical books.
- Number of participants per house will be counted based on contributions, so if a member signs up and does not contribute, they are not used in average calculations.
- This challenge will feature a ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT with each month featuring a matchup with a different house. To count for a matchup, the book must be read within that month and posted no later than one day after the end of the month. We will not do late term adjustments, but books read in an earlier month (no earlier than October) can still count toward your house’s overall total. The winner of the tournament will be featured in EHRTBM Hall of Fame.
- There will also be an Overall winner featured in the EHRTBM Hall of Fame.
- Participants must log their book in Goodreads as read to count them in the challenge.
Since this competition can get intense, please note that we do expect good sportsmanship from participants and failure to demonstrate good sportsmanship will result in warnings. Multiple warnings or extremely offensive remarks may result in a participants removal from the challenge.
Happy reading everyone!
