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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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Overall Competition
Total average points:
1. Diamonds 20.08
2. Hearts 27.33
3. Clubs 22.45
4. Spades 23.14
Welcome to the 7th annual House Cup Challenge! 2022's theme is... DIAMONDS, SPADES, HEARTS, and CLUBS!
HOW 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. Do you want to lead a house? Volunteer in this thread you are reading right now!
♥️ HEARTS - Prefect: Cynthia
♦️ DIAMONDS - Prefect: Saar
♣️ CLUBS - Prefect: Fannie
♠️ SPADES - Prefect: Laura
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.
- 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!
Kaseadillla wrote: "For inspiration...Goodreads is posting about the "Century of Beloved Books" - maybe we tackle some of these as a group?
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2..."
Great List! Lots of ideas for future nominations and quite a few we have already read! Thank you Kasey!
I second:- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The War of the Worlds
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- The Crucible
I second:- House of Leaves
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (244p) - 10
Cannery Row (181p) - 3
⭐The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 9
⭐The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 14
Robinson Crusoe (286p) - 6
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 6
⭐The War of the Worlds (192p) - 8
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (108p) - 3
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146p) - 5
The Crucible (143p) - 7
Fathers and Sons (244p) - 1
The Wind in the Willows (197p) - 2
A Separate Peace (208p)
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 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 August 16.
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Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
City of Girls (470p) - 2
⭐Before We Were Yours (342p) - 5
My Sister, the Serial Killer (226p) - 2
⭐The Love Hypothesis (356p) - 7
⭐The Lincoln Highway (576p) - 7
Sophie's Choice (562p) - 1
Lessons in Chemistry (400p) - 3
House of Leaves (710p) - 1
The Forty Rules of Love (354p) - 2
Speak (224p) - 2
⭐World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (342p) - 5
⭐Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (352p) - 5
⭐Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (274p) - 5
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (111p) - 2
Everything Is Illuminated (276p) - 2
Shatter Me (338p) - 1
Hidden Figures (349p)
Anxious People (336p)
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 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 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 August 16.
Tracking through message: 46⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Shining (659p) - 3
⭐A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 10
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 8
The Princess Bride - (456p) - 5
⭐Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (263p) - 6
Gone Girl (415p) - 5
⭐Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (239p) - 6
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (480p) - 5
The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 4
Coraline (162p) - 2
The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 3
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:A Clockwork Orange
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 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 link: 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 August 16.
Elle - Yes, of course!
The Theme for July 1st - September 30th is One Word Title.
Sorry I missed this somehow! you can make a response to the book you read.
Melissa wrote: "Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoMessage 23
Points: 5"
Thank you, Melissa! A wonderful review!
I second:- Invisible Man
- Rosemary's Baby
- The War of the Worlds
- Dr Zhivago
- Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Mrs. Dalloway
I second:- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Angela's Ashes
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon by Jorge Amado. 448 pages, first published in 1958."All nominations must have at least 50,000 ratings. Sorry but this doesn't qualify.
