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.

message #11 updated

Message #11 updated

October's final scores are in!

Sapphire 35.28 vs. Diamond 31.78
Emerald 33.87 vs. Ruby 48.89

💙Congratulations to Sapphire and Ruby on the wins this month! ❤️
Well done everyone, these are high averages for this early in the challenge. I am impressed!

November is Diamond vs. Ruby and Emerald vs. Saphire
Good luck everyone, hope you find some amazing new reads!

Just to further clarify the sparsely worded, heavily pictured, etc, rule the books that fall under these categories are worth half points not half pages.

Laura wrote: "Tori wrote: "Updated message #11 with my reads for the second half of the month. Sorry, October gets really busy for me! I stay home and read in between handing out candy to trick or treaters on Ha..."

Thank you! 19.5 is correct. Don't know what happened there.

I've updated message #11 with my reads from yesterday. I think I got the math right this time!

Sorry for the confusion, but books for November do not have to be started on the 1st. If you finish a book in November that you started in October it will count towards your November points. Books only had to be started at the beginning of the challenge, not each round.

Updated message #11 with my reads for the second half of the month. Sorry, October gets really busy for me! I stay home and read in between handing out candy to trick or treaters on Halloween so I will have a few more points tomorrow!

Only 1 more day for the first Round Robin Tournament. Please have all your October points logged by November 2nd. (you can still log your October points after that for the overall competition, it just won't count for the round robin) I will post the official final results of this round on the 4th as long as I have all the final scores from the prefects by then.

@Lindsay - Yes, you would count it for November if you don't finish it until then.

It is ANY book under 50 pages. This includes graphic novels, poetry, etc.

Laura, I can see why your confused the way you phrased, "There is no limit on graphic novels, heavily pictured books..." There is no limit on these as long as they are over 50 pages, but anything under 50 pages is an easy point.

Updated message 11

Yes, Jessie, you can go ahead and count it as an easy read.

@Jasmin List it as "Tom Sawyers Abenteuer" instead of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and you can use the 299 pages.

Happy first/second day of the challenge everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying their first books.

Here is a list of books that are under 50 pages if you need any recommendations for easy point getters:
Short Stories Under 50 Pages List

If you feel like helping out, please add more short stories to our list.
I also added this link in message 4

I nominate Beartown by Fredrik Backman 432 pages

Dipanwita wrote: "Are the teams still in open for more participants? If so, I'd like to join Diamond!"

Anyone can sign up at any time during the challenge, it is never too late!

Thank you Laura!

Our theme for the last quarter is books by authors of a different nationality than you.

Joining Emerald this year because it is my birthstone and my favorite color is green!

🎃 OCTOBER 🎃
Total October Points: 28
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Oct 4 - Mansfield Park - 488 pages - 2.5 points
Oct 4 - The House of Lost Horizons: A Sarah Jewell Mystery - 136 pages - (Graphic Novel) .5 points
Oct 6 - It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth - 196 pages - (Graphic Novel) .5 points
Oct 8 - The Thursday Murder Club - 382 pages - 2 points
Oct 10 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - 243 pages - 1.5 points
Oct 11 - The Amityville Horror - 315 pages - 2 points
Oct 11 - In Perpetuity - 208 pages - (Graphic Novel) 0.5 points
📗 Oct 13 - Heracles' Bow - 10 pages - 1 point
📗 Oct 13 - A Ghost Story - 5 pages - 1 point
Oct 14 - Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories - 184 pages - 1 point
Oct 16 - Nausea - 178 pages - 1 point
📗Oct 16 - The Man in the Black Suit - 25 pages - 1 point
Oct 20 - Nightmare Alley - 275 pages - 2 points
Oct 22 - Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection - 344 pages - (Graphic Novel) 1 point
Oct 30 - Weyward - 392 pages - 2 points
Oct 31 -Cabal - 358 pages - 2 points
Oct 31 - Through the Woods - 208 pages - (Graphic Novel) .5 points
📗Oct 31 - The Monkey's Paw - 32 pages - 1 point
📗Oct 31 - Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse - 17 pages - 1 point
📗Oct 31 - Click-Clack the Rattlebag - 1 page - 1 point
📗Oct 31 - The Paper Menagerie - 32 pages - 1 point
📗Oct 31 - The Imp and the Crust - 9 pages - 1 point
📗Oct 31 - Sunbird - 30 pages - 1 point

9/10 Easy reads 📗
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🍂 NOVEMBER 🍂
(view spoiler)[ Total November Points: 27.5
Nov 4 - Death on the Nile - 352 pages - (BOTM) 2.5 points
📗Nov 4 - The Eyes Have It - 4 pages - 1 point
📗Nov 4 - Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds" - 24 pages - 1 point
📗 Nov 4 -The Disciple - 1 page - 1 point
📗Nov 4 -A Strange Story - 2 pages - 1 point
📗Nov 4 -A Lost Masterpiece - 5 pages - 1 point
📗 Nov 4 -Reginald on Worries - 1 page - point
📗Nov 4 -A Monument to Adam - 5 pages - 1 point
Nov 5 - The Lying Game - 370 pages - 2 points
📗 Nov 5 - The Thanksgiving Visitor - 37 pages - 1 point
📗 Nov 5 - My Evil Mother - 32 pages - 1 point
📗 Nov 5 - The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy - 26 pages - 1 point
Nov 12 - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - 208 pages - 1 point
Nov 12 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - 128 pages (Heavily Pictured) 0.5 point
Nov 15 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - 1006 pages - 5 points
Nov 16 - Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega - 192 pages - (Graphic Novel) 0.5 point

Nov 21 - Memoirs of a Geisha - 503 pages - 3 points
Nov 25 - The First to Die at the End - 560 pages - 3 points

10/10 Easy reads 📗 (hide spoiler)]

❄️ DECEMBER ❄️
Total December Points: 24
Dec 7 - The Goldfinch - 774 pages - 4 points
Dec 16 - Babel - 544 - (monthly read) 3.5 points
📗Dec 16 - A Christmas Memory - 48 pages - 1 point
Dec 16 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 176 pages - (monthly Read) 1.5 points
📗Dec 17 - In Mercy, Rain - 36 pages - 1 point
Dec 17 - A Christmas Carol - 184 pages - (monthly Read) 1.5 points
📗Dec 17 - One Christmas - 41 pages - 1 point
📗 Dec 19 - Noticing - 48 pages - .5 point (Illustrated)
Dec 23 - Geisha, a Life - 297 pages - 2 points
Dec 27 - And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - 97 pages - 1 point

Dec 30 - Lions - 288 pages - 2 points
📗Dec 30 - I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream - 20 pages - 1 point
📗Dec 30 - The Haunted Mind - 24 pages - 1 point
📗Dec 30 - A Country Cottage - 18 pages - 1 point
📗 Dec 30 - Lord Oakhurst's Curse 6 pages - 1 point
📗Dec 30 - The Prisoner of Zembla - 2 pages - 1 point

9/10 Easy reads 📗

Thank you to all of our prefects for helping to run this challenge! I appreciate your help and hard work! I will message you all with instructions on Friday.

House threads will start going up on the 21st!