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Announcing the 2022 Challenges
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PBT'S WALK DOWN HISTORY LANEAdministered by Booknblues
Each year members say they would like a nonfiction challenge and each year the admins offer some variation of this challenge. It finally happened! This challenge was selected as our members' first choice.
Members will sign up to play this challenge and the admins will randomly put them into groups of equal size (as close to 6 as we can).
The first person on each team will read a book to start off this challenge. The book must either be nonfiction or fiction that is based on a real life person or event. Once that person completes their read and posts their review, then the next person will read a book that links to the previous one. Then, the third reader must link their book to the second, etc.
The links between the books do not all have to be the same and we encourage you to get creative! A link could be any other person or topic referenced in the first book. Or it could be a book by the same author or with the same word in the title or written in the same year or winner of the same prize or narrated by the same person—you get the idea. Groups can be as creative as they want with identifying the links, but they need to specify how each connects to the next.
The ultimate goal for each group is to:
1. Complete two loops of the group.
2. Each group member reads at least one nonfiction and one fiction book.
Prizes will be awarded for linking creativity (as voted by the Admins), completion of the two loops, and total pages read.
WHO'S PBT'S FAVORITE? Administered by Anita
Let's figure out which author is the PBT favorite!! You nominate your faves, and they compete in a head to head challenges every other month until only one author remains.
In addition to helping us determine our most favorite author, you can win by submitting predictions of your final four authors, final two authors, and the winner before the votes begin . . .see how well you know our membership and can predict their selections!
1. Nominate your favorite authors (up to two). Each nominated author must have published at least three books.
2. We will start with 64 authors presented in random pairs. (For you sports enthusiasts, think March Madness brackets!) Each member may cast 1 vote for their favorite in each head to head match up.
3. If you read any books by any of the 64 authors before the winners are revealed (mid March), you will earn 1 point per review that you can then apply to your vote to move your favorite author further in the bracket. Or you may save your votes to use later in the tournament. If your book also fits the monthly tag, then you will earn 2 points for future use!
4. Every other month, we will repeat the process. We announce the 32 winners in mid- March and everyone will again get to cast 1 vote in each head-to-head match up for their favorite. Plus you may cast any extra points you received from reading/reviewing books by the authors previously in the game (if you so choose).
Then, again, you may read any of the 32 to earn points to apply to future votes!
5. We continue, whittling the brackets down every other month to 16, 8, 4, 2, and then 1, until we announce the winner on December 1st.
6. Then, we tally your predictions and announce the winners! Anyone who reads the winning author before year end gets 20 participation points.
Okay! It's always interesting to see what wins :)
These are terrific. I can't wait to hear people's ideas about which books link with others, and which authors are their favorites. For the History Lane, non-fiction linking challenge I'll be looking for conceptual links as much as possible. I hope this isn't considered non-creative, because I love it when I find weird topic connections. (My favorite was Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love and Where the Crawdads Sing.)
Do the fiction books have to be historical? For instance, The Sentence is set in 2020 Minneapolis during the George Floyd demonstrations and the pandemic. This was just last year, but I think both events feel historic.
Does the fiction book have to use the correct name of the real-life person or event? For instance, Euphoria is about an anthropologist character that is known to be based on Margaret Mead, but her name and other details are changed.
I read two books recently with a fictional president that was very clearly based on Donald Trump. He wasn't the main character though. Does that matter? The books both described the great political divide we're currently experiencing.
Love it, and I'm in for both!Can I freely admit I was hoping for High Rollers, even though I did not think it would win? Can we bring that back as an option for 2023 or 2024? Now that you got some feedback on it, maybe it can be refined more so that people will sustain attraction to it?
Amy wrote: "Love it, and I'm in for both!Can I freely admit I was hoping for High Rollers, even though I did not think it would win? Can we bring that back as an option for 2023 or 2024? Now that you got som..."
I voted for only games with no teams, but a team of six where I only have to read two books sounds doable. I am going to greatly limit games and challenges in 2022. None will involve a lot of books that I can't easily choose and read at my normal, non-covid rate.
Sounds like fun. I'd really like to join both, but I'm not going to because my reading has been very erratic with everything going on in my life right now. I don't want to let down a team of 6 by not being able to read my two books. I might be able to participate in the Who's PBT's Favorite, so I submitted my two authors. Let's hope next year is a better/easier year.
How do we submit authors for PBT's favourite? Anita, do we message you? And how/where do we sign up for Walk Down History Lane?
Thanks!
LibraryCin wrote: "How do we submit authors for PBT's favourite? Anita, do we message you? And how/where do we sign up for Walk Down History Lane?
Thanks!"
Anita started a new folder for the 2022 challenges
Booknblues wrote: "Anita started a new folder for the 2022 challenges..."Thank you! I just saw that... :-)
Very exciting! Thanks for the fabulous choices offered and for setting these activities up. I really look forward to playing next year!
PBT's Favorite sounds fun and may get me to read an author I may never have picked up.
AJ wrote: "If I just want to take it chilled, can I ignore the points and voting part of WPF and just read in the brackets for participation points?"That's totally fine . . .
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Books mentioned in this topic
Euphoria (other topics)Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (other topics)
Where the Crawdads Sing (other topics)
The Sentence (other topics)
PBT's Walk Down History Lane
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Who's PBT's Favorite>
The original descriptions are in the posts below, but the challenge set up and additional details (based on your questions) will be found in the 2022 Activities and Challenges folder (located here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group....)
So look for information on signing up and participating in these two challenges over the next week.