Tori’s Comments (group member since Nov 25, 2016)

Tori’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

Numbers are in for November!

Diamonds 25.53 vs. Clubs 22.55
Hearts 28.68 vs. Spades 22.03

♦️ Congrats to Diamonds and Hearts! ♥️

Current standings for the overall competition:
1st - Hearts - 56.00
2nd - Clubs - 42.95
3rd - Spades - 40.00
4th - Diamonds - 21.25

Tracking through message: 33
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐ Robinson Crusoe (320p) - 9
The Godfather (448p) - 4
⭐Uncle Tom's Cabin (438p) - 6
⭐ The Moonstone (528p) - 5
⭐ I, Robot (224p) - 8
The Awakening (195p) - 2
Carmilla (108p)

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2023 in the CLASSICS category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight December 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐ I'm Glad My Mom Died (320p) - 6
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (287p) - 1
⭐ Homegoing (305p) - 6
⭐ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (226p) - 7
The Hours (230p) - 2
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (475p) - 3
Beach Read (361p) - 3
⭐One of Us Is Lying (416p) - 4
An Anonymous Girl (375p) - 1
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (606p) - 3
A Fine Balance (603p) - 1
The Diamond Eye (435p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2023 in the MODERN CLASSIC/POPULAR category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1970 or after. For older books, please make your suggestion on the Classics thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catch-Up thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight December 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐East of Eden (601p) - 7
The Princess Bride (456p) - 5
⭐Murder on the Orient Express (274p) - 8
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 5
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 6
Gone Girl (415p) - 1
⭐Pachinko (496p) - 7
The Secret History (559p) - 1
The Golden Compass (399p) - 4
⭐The Martian (384p) - 7
Love in the Time of Cholera (348p) - 1

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Bell Jar
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Clockwork Orange
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2023 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end Midnight December 16

50 pages should be an easy read. Sorry I will edit my post above.

Exactly 50 pages is a short read.

The Crucible will count as 0.5 + 0.5(bonus). So 1 point total

Updated #15

I also noticed you have one of my books (Carmilla) as 0.5 points on the spreadsheet when it should be 1 point.

I second The Song of Achilles

Neele wrote: "Do you have recommendations for short books for some easy points? I‘ve actually never read any"

Kathy has great links!

https://www.tor.com/category/all-fict...
Also has a lot of short stories. I find they tend to lean more towards a YA audience, but you can search by genre if you want a more specific type of story.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/fi...
There are also short stories here, but be careful because a lot of these ones aren't on Goodreads or don't have page numbers for Goodreads so they won't count.

Updated #15

I've been sick in bed the last 3 days which was not fun, but at least I could start off the month with a lot of points!

Final Results for the first month are in! Way to go everyone we read so many books last month!

Hearts 27.33 vs Clubs 22.45
Diamonds 20.08 vs Spades 23.14

♥️ Congrats to Hearts and Spades! ♠️

November's matchups:
Diamonds vs. Clubs
Hearts vs. Spades

Hope you find some good books this month!

Updated #14 with my final October points!

I didn't get to read as much as I wanted, but I am always super busy in October. The next 2 months I should get more points!

Saar, everyone has until midnight tonight to update their October points. You still could see points coming in today!

updated #14

Points need to be in by midnight on the first to count for the Round Robin. So please enjoy Halloween night and don't worry about updating until the next day! I try to have the final results posted on the 2nd. (as long as all the prefects have updated the last of their October points.)

Happy Halloween!