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.

Welcome to the 2024 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!!!

Because it is New Year's day for most of our participants everyone will have an extra day to get your final points in.

Points need to be logged by midnight January 2nd.

Happy New Year!

Pony wrote: "Tori wrote: "Lina, The Secret Life of Bees has not been nominated yet. Would you like to nominate it? or were you seconding..."

Tori, I nominated The Secret Life of Bees ..."

So sorry Pony! I missed your post completely, It is all fixed now.

Lina wrote: "I will second The Secret Life of Bees"

Lina, The Secret Life of Bees has not been nominated yet. Would you like to nominate it? or were you seconding The Beekeeper of Aleppo ?

Oh no I looked at the wrong number, I will change it when I can get on a computer!

Thank you Cynthia!

November Results:

Pippin 20.91
vs.
Merry 31.32

Frodo 22.70
vs.
Sam 16.32

Merry and Frodo won this round! Way to go!

Overall:
Merry 58.28
Frodo 52.77
Pippin 42.03
Sam 33.52

One month left, good luck everyone!

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!