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Last year we read 1,282,482 pages together! This year I wanted to challenge ourselves a bit more, and our new goal is to read 1,500,000 pages in 2021!This year I'll be keeping an eye on our totals as well to make sure we're still on the right track.
I'd like to give a special shout out to Nell who helped us out so much these past years with this!!! If you, like Nell, notice that our totals are skewed, please don't hesitate to offer a correction.
Happy reading everyone!!
STANDARD POSTIf each one posts in a different way (cover vs. link, same line vs. different lines, bold vs. not bold, et.), it sometimes becomes harder for who is sum checking or managing the challenge to find the information.
This may look simple, but after hundreds of messages, believe me, a standard post helps! :-)
So, if you care to make life easier for your mods, checkers, volunteers, etc., you can use the following template with code for posting in this challenge. :-)
1. Add book COVER as instructed in message 1 above.
2. Copy the text between the lines - but NOT the lines (---------).
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January 31
XXX pages
<*b*>Total Group Pages: SUM HERE<*/b*>
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3. Paste it under the book cover.
4. Change the month, the day and XXX for your correct data.
5. Change "SUM HERE" for your addition result.
6. REMOVE the four asterisks (*)
The result should look like this (without the lines, of course):
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January 1st
835 pages
Group total: 4,900 pages
Welcome to the 2021 Relay Race Reading Challenge!!!HOW IT WORKS
Post a comment (on the LAST COMMENT PAGE) with the following four things:
1) the COVER of a book you recently read (see below for instructions),
2) the date you completed reading that book,
3) the number of pages in the book you read, and
4) last but not least, sum of all pages read by the group.
ANYONE can post AS MANY TIMES as they want! This is a group effort, folks! You can enter books read for the bookclub AND those read outside of the group.
THE RULES / SOME TIPS
1. How to add a book cover
On the top right of the comment box, you will see a hyperlink "add book/author" (in English).
At the bottom of the window that appears, you'll see two radio buttons "link" and "cover" - please select "cover".
Type the name of the book in the search field and once you click "search", select the correct book. The code will look like the following without the *: [*bookcover:The Catcher in the Rye|5107]
2. How to decide your page count
If hardcopy, use the number of pages in the edition of the book that you read.
If electronic (kindle, nook, etc.), use the number of pages from the kindle edition.
If you listened to a book on tape, use the number of pages from the most popular edition on Goodreads (when you search a book, the most popular edition is the default).
No genre or page length restrictions, and can be book club group reads OR books you've read outside of the group.
3. Books per post
In general, books per post should be one book as you would be posting the book you most recently finished, but feel free to add more if you have finished multiple books recently!
This is a running tally, so please don't wait and post 20 books at once... wouldn't be much of a relay!
No need to post backdated books. Just start from the day you entered the relay =)
4. Make sure you are on the LAST comment page
As this is a running tally, make sure you are on the LAST COMMENT PAGE before commenting as you want to add your pages read to the last total.
Above the comment box, you'll see the hyperlinks for every comment page, will look like "<< previous 1 2 3 4 5 next >>" or something like this - make sure you're on the highest number. Goodreads only allows for 50 comments per page.
5. Please double check the math of your post total!!
F.A.Q's:
Do partially read books count?
No, you need to finish the book for it to count. If you DNF (do not finish) a book, it won't count.
LET'S RELAY!!!
January - March Theme: Favorite Genre - Non-FictionBooks read 1/5
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
2. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
3. The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife
📚 4. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick February 26
5. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
April-June Theme: 5 oldest books on my TBR
Books Read: 0/5
1. Nights at the Circus
2. Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
4. Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
5. The Marijuana Chronicles
If you have any suggestions for themes please post them in this thread, or send me a message! Happy reading!
October 1st - December 31st
Theme: Read 5 books by authors you haven't read yet
July 1st - September 30th
Theme: Read 5 books set in a different country than the one you live in
April 1st - June 30th
Theme: Read the five oldest books on your TBR
Welcome to the TBR Revival Challenge 2021! This challenge is for anyone looking for some extra motivation to get some books off their TBR!How to keep score:
Comment on this thread with 5 books from your TBR that fit the current theme. When you've finished a book from your list check it off by adding the date you finished reading next to the title:
Books read: 1/3
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. The Hunger Games January 6
3. The Two Towers
To edit your challenge score/edit your comment:
1. Find your comment in the challenge thread. [Tip: Take note of the message number in the upper left corner when you first post your list]
2. On the bottom right of your comment, there should be four hyperlinks: "reply | edit | delete | flag". Select "edit".
3. Add your book read date per above instructions.
4. Click "edit post" once you are done.
Challenge dates:
This challenge will run all year with a different theme for each quarter.
January 1-March 31
April 1 - June 30
July 1 - September 30
October 1 -December 31
Levels
You don't have to read all 5 books from your TBR to participate! choose to read however many books you want to.
Books read:
0- It’s the thought that counts
1 - One more down!
2 - On a Roll
3 - Page Turner
4 - Avid Reader
5 - Reading Rockstar
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Updated message #48
Tracking through message: 51Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
On the Road (307p) - 8
Gulliver's Travels (306p) - 2
2001: A Space Odyssey (297p) - 2
The Martian Chronicles (241p) - 2
The Call of the Wild (172p) - 12
The Age of Innocence (293p) - 10
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (394p) - 8
A Raisin in the Sun (162p) - 2
A Wizard of Earthsea (183p) - 9
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (267p) - 1
Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for February 2021 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.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 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
Dec 01, 2020 10:20AM
Tracking through message: 60Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Year of Magical Thinking (242p) - 6
Station Eleven (333p) - 14
The Map of Salt and Stars (368p)
White Teeth (448p) - 2
Kiss of the Spider Woman (281p) - 3
Deliverance
The Lovely Bones (372p) - 4
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (291p) - 7
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (465p) - 11
Untamed (352p)
The Humans (282p)
The Book of Lost Names (400p)
Half of a Yellow Sun (433p) - 2
Nation (367p) - 1
The Last Wish (360p)
The Book of Longings
Dec 01, 2020 10:20AM
Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for February 2021 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the MODERN CLASSIC/POPULAR category.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 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.
Tracking through message: 64Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Kite Runner (371p) - 15
The Bell Jar (294p) - 10
Pachinko (502p) - 8
The Night Circus (391p) - 10
The Nightingale (440p) - 7
Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 6
Romeo and Juliet (301p) - 3
Elanore Oliphant is Completely Fine (336p) - 1
Where the Crawdads Sing (384p) - 1
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (384p)
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House
Dune
The Hate U Give
The Fellowship of the Ring*
Farenheit 451*
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Circe
Wuthering Heights
The Alchemist
