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.

Updated message #23 with the books I read this past week. Didn't read as much as I wanted to this month, but I beat my points from last month!

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

Jude the Obscure (310p) - 1
⭐Cannery Row (181p) - 9
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (158p) - 5
⭐The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (576p) - 6
⭐Valley of the Dolls (446p) - 6
⭐The Talented Mr. Ripley (288p) - 12
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - 2
The House of Mirth (351p) - 4
⭐Solaris (204p) - 6
The Little Prince (96p) - 4
The Pilgrim's Progress (324p) - 1
Dangerous Liaisons (418p)

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2024 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 PST December 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

Everything is Illuminated (276p) - 4
⭐Song of Solomon (338p) - 5
Washington Black (334p) -1
⭐The Hunger Games (374p) - 7
A Very Large Expanse of Sea (310p) - 2
⭐84, Charing Cross Road (106p) - 7
Cold Sassy Tree (405p) - 4
⭐The Dutch House (337p) - 6
The Shipping News (337p) - 4
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (337p) - 3
My Sister's Keeper (423p) - 3
The Last Letter from Your Lover (432p) - 3
⭐Yellowface (336p) - 5
The Secret Life of Bees (302p) - 2
The God of Small Things (321p) - 2

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2024 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 PST December 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

The Hate U Give (450p) - 7
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 12
The Grapes of Wrath (479p) - 3
Ready Player One (374p) - 7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325p) - 5
⭐Jane Eyre (532p) - 8
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (206p) - 3
⭐Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (336p) - 8
⭐Northanger Abbey (260p) - 8
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Lightning Thief (377p) - 2

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

House on Cerulean Sea
The Song of Achilles
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Haunting of Hill House
Emma
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Man Called Ove
The Sun Also Rises
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wuthering Heights

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2024 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 PST December 16.

I loved Circe, so my expectations are pretty high for this one!

Sunday will be fine!

Everyone has until midnight tonight to log their November books.

Every year I feel there are comments asking for short story recommendations for the Easy Point Getters, so I've made a list on Goodreads specifically for those books under 50 pages. I've added a few, but please add more and vote for some of your favorites if you have the time!

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

It is halfway through the month already! The current Standings are:

Pippin 10.77 vs. Merry 11.10

Frodo 11.27 vs. Sam 6.69

Overall:
Merry 39.66
Frodo 36.50
Pippin 29.94
Sam 22.26

We are only half way through the challenge it is still anyone's game!

Laura and JennH -

Easy point getters are under 50 (not 30) pages. If they are heavily illustrated they are worth .5, if they do not have illustrations they are worth 1 point.

Hope that clears things up!

Tr1sha, like you said either edition is worth the same amount of points so either one is fine to use for this competition, but that is very odd!

Samantha wrote: "This is a totally random thought/suggestion :) I know we just started our House Cup Challenge for this year but when talking about this year's cool theme with some other people, we had a suggestion..."

I like this a lot! Thanks for the suggestion we will use this next year!

The results for October are in! Well done everyone! Frodo and Merry were so close!

Merry: 28.75
vs.
Frodo: 28.57

Pippin: 22.17
vs.
Sam: 15.70

Congratulations Merry and Pippin!

Finished one last short story last night before going to bed, final points for October 14.5!

I'm hoping I'll read more the next 2 months, October was crazy but November and December are looking like perfect months to stay inside and get some reading done!

Rebecca - Your personal timezone.

We started the competition on our personal timezones, so I figure it is fair to have the deadlines follow the same rules.

As we are coming to an end of the first month of the challenge I wanted to remind everyone that points for October must be posted on your house thread by midnight on the 1st of November to count towards October's Round Robin. I will be posting the final scores for the month on the 2nd (or as soon as I have the final counts from all the houses!)

superawesomekt - Yes! and the points from the book will go towards whichever month you finish it in.