EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

Welcome, reading athletes, to the EHRTBM 2022 Reading Olympics!

For the month of February, we will be competing for gold, silver and bronze medals by country. Points will be awarded for pages read plus bonuses. Here’s how to play:

🏒 Choose the country you would like to represent. This can be your current home, your birthplace, your heritage, or your favorite country in the world. All your posts should indicate this country.

🥌 Read books, any genre, any topic. But for this challenge, we will exclude sparsely-worded books like graphic novels, children’s picture books, cookbooks, poetry and art books.

⛸️ When you’ve finished your book, post a message with the following information: Country, Book Title, Date Finished, Pages Read, Bonus Points (if any).

⛷️ Example: “Latvia, Jane Eyre, Feb.12, 560 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf)”

🏂Points will be awarded for pages read. Plus 50 bonus points for books read from the EHRTBM bookshelf. Plus 50 bonus points for books read about the Olympics or Olympic sports.

We will track the points awarded by country until Feb.28th, when medals will be awarded for 2 events: Total Pages Read, and Average Pages Read (total/participants).
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Good luck and good reading!

Score Board to Message 132 ***FINAL RESULTS Message 133***

COUNTRY (# participants) 🡆 PAGES + BONUS = TOTAL POINTS

BRAZIL(1) 🡆 1544 + 50 = 1594
CANADA(2) 🡆 5572 + 350 = 5922 (Avg. 2961)
🥇 🥇 FINLAND(1) 🡆 8347 + 150 = 8497
GERMANY(2) 🡆 1344 (Avg. 672)
🥈 IRELAND(1) 🡆 4090 + 50 = 4140
JAMAICA(2) 🡆 1224 + 50 = 1274 (Avg. 637)
🥉 JAPAN(3) 🡆 5928 + 100 = 6028 (Avg. 2009)
LATVIA(1) 🡆 1741 + 150 = 1891
MEXICO(2) 🡆 3630 + 400 = 4030 (Avg. 2015)
SPAIN(2) 🡆 2512 + 50 = 2562 (Avg. 1281)
🥉 SWITZERLAND(1) 🡆 3501 + 50 = 3551
🥈 USA(3) 🡆 8116 + 100 = 8216 (Avg. 2739)

I'll join. I'm going to choose Switzerland as my country because my favorite February activity is skiing and I would love to ski there someday!

Well, it will be my first time I do something like this. Hopefully, I can do a good job representing Mexico.

I'll be representing Latvia, as a tribute to my family's roots.

This sounds fun! Coming back to edit my comment after I have a moment to think about this a little bit more.

I forgot to come back to this... oops. I'll go with something new and pick Ireland because I've always wanted to go there and part of my ancestry stems from there :)

I think I'll go with USA

I'm in, Team USA

I'm in for Japan, because it's my favorit country. So, if I understand correctly, you need to read books about the chosen country?

Saar The Book owl wrote: "I'm in for Japan, because it's my favorit country. So, if I understand correctly, you need to read books about the chosen country?"

No, you can read any book, any genre, any topic, just not sparsely-worded.

Latvia, Jane Eyre, Feb.12, 560 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf)

USA, Egg Marks the Spot, Feb. 3, 160 pages

USA, Murder in the Neighborhood, Feb. 3, 352 pages

USA, Extraordinary Means, Feb. 4, 336 pages

Team Mexico!

I'll be representing Germany ^^

Germany, The Last Thing He Told Me, Feb 1, 320 pages

Germany, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, Feb 3, 384 pages

Mexico, The Dairy Of A Young Girl, Feb 4, 208 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf).

I'd like to go with Finland, the happiest country in the world.

Finland, Dune Messiah, Feb 3, 331 pages

Finland, These Happy Golden Years, Feb 4, 289 pages

Finland, By Cook or by Crook, Feb 4, 310 pages

USA, Linger, Feb. 5, 362 pages

Switzerland, The Lincoln Highway, Feb 2, 576 pages

Switzerland, The Color Purple, Feb 4, 295 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf)

Finland, Love Your Life, Feb 5, 416 pages

USA, Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America, Feb. 6, 136 pages

Spain, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Feb. 2, 250 pages

Latvia, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Feb.6, 444 pages, plus 50 bonus points (bookshelf)

Mexico, A Wrinkle in Time, Feb. 6, 232 pages, 50 bonus points.

USA, Reminders of Him, Feb. 6, 327 pages

Finland, Faceless Killers, Feb 7, 280 pages

USA, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, Feb 7, 380 pages

Finland, Garden Spells, Feb 8, 306 pages

I will get the party started for Canada!

Canada, Christine, Feb 4, 411 pages

Canada, Rilla of Ingleside, Feb 8, 277 pages

Canada, Fight Club, Feb 9, 218 pages

USA, The Apollo Murders, Feb 8, 480 pages

Brazil, Gone Girl, Feb 03, 448 pages, 50 Bonus Points (bookshelf)
Brazil, Juventud de cristal, Feb 04, 240 pages

USA, Ugly Love, Feb 9, 337 pages

USA, Two Can Keep a Secret, Feb. 9 329 pages

I will join for SPAIN, where I'm from and currently live. :)

Spain, For 91 Days in Iceland, Feb 8, 306 pages

USA, Linked, Feb 10 256 pages

Mexico, American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19, Feb 10, 160 pages.

Mexico, Man's Search for Meaning, Feb 10, 157 pages.

Germany, Die Gefährten, Feb 9, 526 pages
Germany, Das scharlachrote Kampfhuhn: Kommissar Schneiders letzter Fall, Feb 10, 114 pages

Finland, Love at First, Feb 11, 320 pages

Finland, The White Tiger, Feb 11, 276 pages

USA, Never Let Me Go, Feb 11, 288 pages + 50 bonus (bookshelf)

I am going to represent Jamaica because of one of the coolest movies ever made about winter sports, Cool Runnings!

Jamaica, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Feb 8, 184pgs

USA, Cold, Feb 12, 240 pages

Jamaica, When Breath Becomes Air, Feb 12, 225 pgs

Japan, Waarom we geen hondenmelk drinken - de carnistische keuze Feb 12, 152 pages.

Finland, Murder, She Knit, Feb 12, 289 pages

Canada, Chronicles of Avonlea, Feb 10, 183 pages

Canada, Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance, Feb 11, 256 pages + 50 bonus (olympics)

Canada, Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Feb 13, 199 pages

USA, Hide and Seek, 2/14, 192 pages

Mexico, Gambito de dama, Feb 13, 320 pages + 50 bonus points (bookshelf)

Finland, Earthlings, Feb 14, 247 pages

Latvia, State of Terror, Feb.14, 495 pages