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message 1: by Sarah Elizabeth (last edited Dec 12, 2020 05:48AM) (new)

Dec 12, 2020 05:40AM

Sarah Elizabeth (bookworm_sarah) | 91072 comments

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This will be a team reading challenge which will run from January 1st 2021 to January 31st 2021. Results will be announced on February 1st 2021.

To complete this challenge, participants will be split into teams. Each team will read books of their own choice (which fit the challenge guidelines), and points will be awarded based on the length of the book, and whether you have buddy-read your book. You can also earn some bonus points for reading books which allow you to spell out 'Happy New Year'.

You may also choose to take part in this challenge as a solo participant ☺

Team Threads - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

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message 2: by Sarah Elizabeth (new)

Dec 12, 2020 05:40AM

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For this challenge, we are hoping to help you make a good start to your New Years Resolutions! You may read books of your own choice, but if you would like to earn some bonus points, you can use your books to spell out 'Happy New Year' ☺

To spell out 'Happy New Year' you must do the following -
* Read your book, and write your review.
* You may then choose one letter from your book to count towards 'Happy New Year'. (You may choose any letter from your book's title, series name, author name, and you can even use the 'Y' from the word 'by', so basically any book can be used for 'Y').
* You may even choose to use a different edition of a book, with a different title in order to use a different letter. (Alternate titles must be made up of English letters.)

So:
- 1 letter per book.
- You may use any letter from your chosen book's title, series name, author name, 'by', or title of an alternate edition.
- Alternate titles must be made up of English letters, although we will accept titles with accents over words such as á, é, í, ó, ú.
- '&' may be used as 'and'.
- Numbers in titles can be used, but are spelled out, so '1001' would be 'one zero zero one', '20' would be 'two zero'.
- You can only claim letters which appear in 'Happy New Year', so H, A, P, Y, N, E, W, R.
- You can only claim 1 letter per book, so if you use your book to claim the letter P, that will only fill in 1 P on your team's board, not both of them.
- For this challenge you may use words which occur after punctuation in a title, including after a colon ':'
- You may also use author's names, or the names of any editors, translators, narrators or illustrators.
- Bonus points will be awarded each time a letter is claimed.
- Letters can be claimed in any order.
- Bonus points will be awarded each time 'Happy New Year' is completed. - Please note these bonus points are added to team totals only.

* You may read any kind of book for this challenge, but the page counts necessary to claim letters are the following -
- YA, NA, Adult, Non-fiction books (without illustrations) - 200 pages.
- Middle-grade/children's books (without illustrations) - 300 pages.
- Manga, graphic novels, plays, poetry, books written in verse, anything with some illustrations - 600 pages.
- Books which are mainly illustrations cannot be used.

* You may add together page counts to reach these minimums, but you can only add together page counts of books which are under the limits, ie: less than 200, 300, and 600 pages respectively. You cannot add together page counts of books which meet the minimum page count on their own.
* If you do choose to add together the page counts of multiple books to reach the minimum page count, you may only choose one bonus letter, you wouldn't be able to claim more than one letter. So if you read one book with 119 pages, and a second with 113 pages, you could add these together to get to the minimum page count, and then choose one letter to be your bonus letter.
* You may use one edition for page count, and one edition for letters or words.
* Books started before January can be used for page points +/- buddy read points, but you will not be able to claim any bonus points.

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message 3: by Sarah Elizabeth (new)

Dec 12, 2020 05:40AM

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* Books must be read between the 1st of January and the 31st of January inclusive. Books started before January may be used, but you will only earn points for pages read in January, and will not be able to claim any bonus points. Please let us know how many pages you have read in January when posting your review.

* Books must be at least 50 pages long, without illustrations/photographs/diagrams etc.
-- 75 pages minimum for middle-grade and children's books.
-- 150 pages minimum for poetry, books written in verse, manga/graphic novels, books which have some illustrations, and plays.
-- Books which are mainly illustrations, such as some children's books, picture books, and some non-fiction books etc. cannot be used as part of this challenge.
**Please note that these are the minimum page counts for page points, not for the number of books read, or for earning any bonus points.**

* Middle-grade, and children's books without illustrations/photographs will earn 1 point for every 75 pages due to the reduced word count. This applies to all books which are tagged 'middle-grade' or 'children's' more times than they are tagged YA. This includes Goosebumps books, The Wind in the Willows, the Magisterium series, and The Secret Garden to name a few.
**Please note that these are the minimum page counts for page points, not for the number of books read, or for earning any bonus points.**

* Books which are illustrated or have photographs will receive 1 point for every 150 pages. If your book has an illustrator listed or is tagged 'illustrated', then it will fall into this category. This includes books such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Spiderwick Chronicles, A Series of Unfortunate Events, books by Roald Dahl, Doll Bones, Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Series, A Monster Calls, The Little Prince, and Charlotte's Web to name a few.

* A list of editions of some of these books, which we consider not to be illustrated can be found on our challenge rules thread here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... These are the only editions of these listed books which can be used to earn points as a book rather than an illustrated book.

* A list of books which have a modified page count to account for illustrations, which can then be used as a regular book can also be found here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

* Manga, graphic novels, plays, poetry, and books written in verse will receive 1 point for every 150 pages due to reduced word count. If your book is tagged 'Sequential Art', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Manga', 'Poetry', 'Verse', 'Play', or words to that effect, then it will fall into this category.

* If your poetry book or graphic novel does not meet the minimum page count, we will allow you to add together the page counts of 2 or more books to make it to the minimum page count. Books must be posted at the same time, and must be less than 150 pages each.
(This applies to meeting the page count requirement, not meeting any other requirements.)

* If you are reading novellas which are less than 50 pages long, you may also add together the page counts of one or more novellas of less than 50 pages, to get to the minimum page count of 50 pages. Books must be posted at the same time.
(This applies to meeting the page count requirement, not meeting any other requirements.)

* You are welcome to read physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks for this challenge, and you are also welcome to read in any language as long as you provide us with an English translation of your review/updates either as part of your review, on your team's review thread, or by personal message to myself.

* If for any reason you are unable to publish your review on Goodreads, it can also be sent to myself via personal message. Please continue to post on your team's review thread as normal, stating 'review sent to Sarah by personal message' after 'Review:'.

* Re-reads are allowed in this challenge, as long as it has been at least 8 months since you last read the book. You will need to write a new review or updates though please. We recommend that you post on your review '2021 re-read', or something to that effect so that we can easily see what your new review is.

* If you have started reading a book previously but not finished it, you can read it and have it count as long as you are starting again from the beginning in November/December. Please let us know that this is what you have done when posting your review.

*A review or 4 detailed updates will be required for each book read.

*Buddy reads must have a minimum of 4 comments to count, and comments must be detailed, and about the book. We also expect you to discuss the book with your buddies, not just post updates and leave. Comments must also be different from your review or status updates. If your buddy read comments, and your review or status updates are identical, then you will not receive points for both until they contain different details.

* Buddy reads must take place within this group (YA Buddy Readers' Corner ♥) to gain the extra points. You can see which buddy reads are already planned each month here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

* You should not start a buddy read more than 7 days before the start date, or more than 14 days after the start date, or the last comment on the thread, whichever is later. If you do need to change the date, check with your buddy as they may also be able to start early/late with you.

* Group Buddy Reads can be joined to earn buddy read points, but only GBRs for January 2021 will count.

* Please post the link to your buddy read along with the book you are reading and the start date on the 'Planned Buddy Reads' list for the correct month - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... If you continually schedule buddy reads and fail to post them on the planned buddy reads thread for the correct month, then we won't continue to give buddy read points. It is important that buddy reads are posted on the planned buddy reads list so that everyone is given the opportunity to join.

* There are no set books which need to be read, any book which fits within the rules will count, so books can be chosen by the reader. Please check with us before reading if you are unsure whether your book counts or not.

* Bonus points will be given as detailed in the 'points' section below.

* Please only post one review per comment on your team's review thread, unless you are adding the books together to reach a minimum page count.

* This challenge will begin and end on Goodreads time, which is Pacific Standard Time - https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-zo... The challenge will start at 00:01 on January 1st 2021 PST, and end at 00:01 on February 1st 2021 PST.

* You are welcome to start the challenge on the 1st of the month in your own time zone, but you must also finish the challenge on your own time zone. Please let us know if you are doing this, as Goodreads may time stamp your books as being started on the last day of the previous month.

* Whilst you may start on your own timezone, the challenge will still end on Goodreads time, so even if you start late, you cannot end late.

* Higher page count editions may be used when claiming points for pages, but page counts for iphone/ibook/ipod/itunes editions will not be accepted, and neither will page counts for audiobook editions of any kind, or miniature versions of books such as Flipback, dwarsligger, PenguinMini (you are still welcome to read in these formats, but must use a different page count). We will also not accept a page count which is more than double the next highest for that book. (ie: if there are 4 editions at 200 pages, and 1 edition at 2200 pages, we would not accept the 2200 page edition as it is more than double the next highest at 200 pages.)

* We request that you leave us a link to the edition with the page count that you are using if the book has multiple editions with different page counts.

* Please do not go back and alter posts once they have been counted, if you need to make a change, please make a new post on your team's review thread, with a link to your original post, and then explain the change, for example; a higher page count edition has been found, or a buddy read needs to be added, and please include links.

* We do reserve the right to not add additional points on when posts have been amended, as it may be unclear how many points were awarded the first time.

* Our regular challenge rules can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

*** If you are not sure if your book counts, please ask before you read it. Questions can be posted on this thread, or sent by personal message to myself.***

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message 4: by Sarah Elizabeth (new)

Dec 12, 2020 05:40AM

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Points :

YA/Adult Books (without illustrations) - *1 point per 50 pages*

*50 - 99 pages = 1 points
*100 - 149 pages = 2 point
*150 - 199 pages = 3 points
*200 - 249 pages = 4 points
*250 - 299 pages = 5 points
*300 - 349 pages = 6 points
*350 - 399 pages = 7 points
*400 - 449 pages = 8 points
*450 - 499 pages = 9 points
*500 - 549 pages = 10 points
*550 - 599 pages = 11 points
*600+ pages = 12 points
(Maximum of 12 points per book)

Middle-grade/children's books (without illustrations) - *1 point per 75 pages*

*75 - 149 pages = 1 points
*150 - 224 pages = 2 point
*225 - 299 pages = 3 points
*300 - 374 pages = 4 points
*375 - 449 pages = 5 points
*450 - 524 pages = 6 points
*525 - 599 pages = 7 points
*600+ pages = 8 points
(maximum of 8 points per book)

Graphic novels/manga/poetry/plays/books written in verse/books which have some illustrations - *1 point per 150 pages*

*150 - 299 pages = 1 points
*300 - 449 pages = 2 point
*450 - 599 pages = 3 points
*600+ pages = 4 points
(maximum of 4 points per book)

* Buddy reads DOUBLE your points score for pages, so a 300-page book (6pts) + buddy read (6pts) = 12 points. 600-page book (12pts) + buddy read (12pts) = 24 points.
(Bonus points for buddy reads will only be given if the buddy read has taken place in our group.)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Please note that while you may add together page counts to get to the minimum necessary for the 'books read' column, books which meet the minimum page counts will still be scored individually. This means that if you submit 2 novellas of 80 pages to reach the 100-page minimum for 1 book read, you will receive 1 point for each of these novellas, as each book is individually long enough to earn bonus points. This applies to all types of points.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

* Bonus points for claiming a letter will be awarded based on page count, the same as page points and buddy read points.

(So if you read a 300-page book and are awarded 6-page points, you will earn an extra 6 points for claiming a letter. The same maximums apply, as apply for page points.)

* Each time enough letters are claimed to spell out 'Happy New Year', your team will receive 50 bonus points.
- These letters can be claimed in any order, there is no need to complete them in order, and letters may be duplicated before all letters are claimed.
- Bonus points for completing 'Happy New Year', are awarded to team totals only, so solo players will not be able to claim these points.

*Mods will keep track of each teams points, using the following system -

Team Name:



__________|_Books_|_Buddy_|__Page____|_Bonus_|__Total
__________|_Read__|_Reads_|__Points__|_Points|

Name______|___0___|___0___|_____0____|___0___|_____0
Name______|___0___|___0___|_____0____|___0___|_____0

'Happy New Year' Bonus________________+000

Team______|___0___|___0___|_____0____|___0___|_____0


+50_______|_H|_A|_P|_P|_Y| |_N|_E|_W| |_Y|_E|_A|_R|
Complete:_|_0|_0|_0|_0|_0| |_0|_0|_0| |_0|_0|_0|_0| 
Number of times completed =

Please note - we will be tracking how many books you have read, but you will not receive points for this column. You will receive a '1' for every YA/NA/Adult/non-fiction book (without illustrations) over 100 pages long, for every middle-grade or children's book (without illustrations) over 150 pages long, or for every 300 pages of graphic novels, poetry, plays, novels written in verse, and books with some illustrations etc, that you have read.

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message 5: by Sarah Elizabeth (new)

Dec 12, 2020 05:41AM

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This challenge will be a team challenge. We will have a small number of teams, with a mixture of readers in each. You can also choose to go solo ☺

Teams will be posted by the end of December. If you sign-up after teams are posted, we will try to add you to a team, but we may not always be able to. You may be asked to join a waiting list. Please sign-up as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Thank you! ☺

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message 6: by Sarah Elizabeth (last edited Dec 28, 2020 02:37AM) (new)

Dec 12, 2020 05:41AM

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