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

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Oct Spell- Out:

A - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - Oct 23
N - Never Lie - Oct 22
U -The Unmothers - Oct 31
P -A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Oct 27
A - Atharva Pandit - Hurda - Oct 10
M - Maria, Just Maria - Oct 12
A - Allison Saft - A Dark and Drowning Tide- Oct 21

Sandra wrote: "Richard wrote: "Ooooh I'm up for more fun! Thanks Tr1sha! 🤓"

Richard you're a star (or a machine ?! I am not sure) :)"

Sandra, I agree with you - but I suspect he is both!

My Spell-Out:

🍓T Evidence of the Affair, Taylor Jenkins Reid, 10/23/24
🍓R Shatter, Michael Robotham, 10/28/24
🍓I I Wish..., Amanda Prowse, 10/30/24
🍓S The Possibility of Evil, Shirley Jackson, 10/30/24
🍓H The White Ship, H.P. Lovecraft, 10/25/24
🍓A The Art of Hiding, Amanda Prowse, 10/29/24

Tr1sha wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Richard wrote: "Ooooh I'm up for more fun! Thanks Tr1sha! 🤓"

Richard you're a star (or a machine ?! I am not sure) :)"

Sandra, I agree with you - but I suspect he is both!"

Ha! Love it. Thanks. 😆

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October spell-out


V Vieux objets Guy de Maupassant 28/10/24
A Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 24/10/24
L Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde 23/10/24
E The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 23/10/24
R Fureurs et cris de femmes Angèle Rawiri 21/10/24
I Indian Camp Ernest Hemingway 28/10/24
E La Mort d'Olivier Bécaille Émile Zola 29/10/24

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C - Cinder 10/20
H - Happily Never After 10/22
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T - The Kamogawa Food Detectives 10/23
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Welcome back! Post 11 updated!

I really should be lucky with so few letters for my October Spellout, except that makes me overly picky (like: only the books I've enjoyed, or would recommend, or such).

Taking Richard's advice as far as I can:

Oct Spell-Out:

1. Titles
A - As Yet Unsent 5/10
L - Legends & Lattes 26/10
I - Into the Wild 28/10

2. AFN
A - Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Ananda Lima 2/10
L - The Witches of El Paso, Luis Jaramillo
I - The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andrić 16/10

3. ALN
A - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 30/10
L - Yerba Buena, Nina LaCour 9/10
I - Form 8774-D, Alex Irvine 30/10

Ali wrote: "so few letters"

Or you could do what I'm attempting: spell-out the name by title, AFN & ALN. 🤓

That would give you 9 instead of 3.

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Ali wrote: "My October books..."

Ali, please edit your book list in message #11. I think you made a mistake & posted “Bridge on the Drina” twice so you need to remove your book 14 from your list. Your total score is 20.5

Please check that I’m correct in case I have misunderstood your post.

I'm really, really, really sorry for the confusion. I was sure I've listed it before, but couldn't see it the next time I looked. But of course it was there all along.
At least I can use it as a proof that I shouldn't do anything important until my fever comes down XD

Please don’t worry, Ali. It’s easy for anyone to make a mistake. Hope you feel better very soon.

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I've been at a conference for the weekend, so haven't been able to read much.

In comparison with my other days, I mean.

Richard wrote: "Message 43 updated for Oct 26th
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I've been at a conference for the weekend, so haven't b..."

Don’t worry. I’m glad you’re ok, will update your points tomorrow.

-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points, etc
Post title, date finished, pages)

My October total: 19
1. I miei giorni alla libreria Morisaki , 25.10.24, 160 pages (1 point)
2. Come un libro ritrovato, 26.10.24, 384 pages (2 points)
3. The Refugees , 27.10.24, 209 pages (1 point)
4. Lazarillo de Tormes , 27.10.24, 128 pages (1 point)
5. All Summer in a Day, 27.10.24, 4 pages (1 point)
6. The Hunter's Wife, 27.10.24, 2 pages (1 point)
7. Before the Law, 27.10.24, 4 pages (1 point)
8. Happy Endings, 27.10.24, 3 pages (1 point)
9. Dead Men's Path, 27.10.24, 4 pages (1 point)
10. The White Ship, 27.10.24, 10 pages (1 point)
11. The Egg, 27.10.24, 3 pages (1 point)
12. La parola magica: Il primo libro che ti cambia mentre lo leggi con il potere dell'intelligenza linguistica, 28.10.24, 266 pages (2 points)
13. La bambola di porcellana, 29.10.24, 400 pages (2 points)
14. The Last Question, 29.10.24, 9 pages (1 point)
15. There Will Come Soft Rains, 29.10.24, 30 pages (1 point)
16. Cats in the Park, 30.10.24, 14 pages (1 point)

My November total: 8
1. Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest, 02.11.24, 140 pages (1 point)
2. Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri, 03.11.24, 218 pages (1 point)
3. La canzone di Achille, 05.11.24, 384 pages (2 points)
4. King Kong Theory, 06.11.24, 128 pages (1 points)
5. La solitudine dei numeri primi, 08.11.24, 305 pages (2 points)
6. La testa tra le nuvole, 11.11.24, 150 pages (1 point)

My December total: 10
1. August Heat, 02.12.24, 7 pages (1 point)
2. A Rose for Emily, 02.12.24, 36 pages (1 point)
3. The Looking Glass, 02.12.24, 5 pages (1 point)
4. The Killers, 02.12.24, 11 pages (1 point)
5. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, 02.12.24, 36 pages (1 point)
6. The Scarlet Ibis,02.12.24, 36 pages (1 point)
7. The Cask of Amontillado, 02.12.24, 24 pages (1 point)
8. The Fall of the House of Usher, 02.12.24, 36 pages (1 point)
9. Harrison Bergeron, 03.12.24, 9 pages (1 page)
10. The Color Out of Space, 03.12.24, 25 pages (1 point)

how do you guys put the name with the link? I can't figure that out

Giulia wrote: "how do you guys put the name with the link? I can't figure that out"

Giulia, welcome to the team, I hope you enjoy the challenge. If you have any other books that you started & finished during October you can add them to your list to claim the points. Please also read the discussions in this thread so you understand how the challenge works. Message #3 is updated daily with the latest points.

To enter your books correctly, start or edit a comment. Above the comment box it shows “add book/author” in green. Click on this, type the book title then choose the correct book from the list by clicking on it (you may need to scroll through to find it). You will see your book title appear in your comment. (The extra symbols disappear when you post the comment). Please do this with your books. If you can’t, then just type the title yourself - showing only the web links will add a lot of time to my task of updating the spreadsheet. If I’m doing that, I can’t read my books for the team!

When you add more books, please edit your list for the month & remember to post a new comment to say “message #175 updated” which works as a bookmark to tell me to add your books to the team spreadsheet. Thank you.

Tr1sha wrote: "Giulia wrote: "how do you guys put the name with the link? I can't figure that out"

Giulia, welcome to the team, I hope you enjoy the challenge. If you have any other books that you started & fini..."

awesome! thanks for the explanation, I made it. I have other books that I have started, I'll add them as soon as I finish them

Thanks Giulia. I’ve done some updates this morning but will finish them later.

🌹🌹PLEASE everyone - It’s nearly the end of the month. Remember the easiest points are those for short stories with less than 50 pages. Each person is allowed 10. But if you don’t read any, those 10 October points are lost once November starts. Every point counts! If each person read just 4 more of these 10 books it would add over 50 points to our total!🌹🌹

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Thanks, Sandra - you are one of the first to complete your 10 easy point- getters this month! It’s a great help to the team.

Giulia wrote: "I believe that a few days ago I saw a link with a list of books (easy point getters)"

Unless you saw a link in another team, perhaps you mean this one?

https://reactormag.com/fictions/origi...

Giulia wrote: "-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points, etc
Post title, date finished, pages)

My October total: 12
1. I miei giorni alla libreria Morisaki , 25.10.24, 160..."

updated but I have one problem, I could not find the edition that I read of my 4th book (lazarillo de tormes) since there are way too many.. I just put one and then put the number of pages that mine has and on my profile I have the correct one listed as read.. is that good enough?

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Giulia wrote: "… , I could not find the edition that I read..."

Giulia, you should not be looking for the edition you read. The rules say we have to use the most popular edition & claim that number of pages - it is always the first one in the list. The only exception to the rule is if the first book is a large print copy. It means that everyone who reads a book gains the same number of points for their team to make the competition fair. My comment yesterday about scrolling through the list of books referred only to finding the correct story as some titles refer to a long list of books by different authors - for example, I read “The perfect home” & the search found over 10000 matches! Luckily the correct book was near the beginning of the list!

Tr1sha wrote: "Giulia wrote: "… , I could not find the edition that I read..."

Giulia, you should not be looking for the edition you read. The rules say we have to use the most popular edition & claim that numbe..."

okay but like.. this is a classic.. there are a lot of things that change in the beginning of the book where the person who translated it put observations and studies that aren't on my version and on my version there are a lot of things that aren't in the other versions for the same reasons.. it's not a matter of print size..

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Message #17 updated with the last of my easy point getters

🌹Recent updates - problems.

🌹Anupama: your score is correct but I think you counted “Void” as an easy point getter. It has 50 pages so counts as a normal book, the easy ones are less than 50 pages

🌹Richard: your total for 28 October is 16, not 14 - but please check in case I’m wrong!

🌹Giulia: please post your books in a single list, in date order, the same as everyone else. Two lists may lead to mistakes. But thank you for catching up so quickly after joining the group.

Tr1sha wrote: "your total for 28 October is 16, not 14"

You are correct. I was half-asleep when I put the last book there.

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Tr1sha wrote: "🌹Recent updates - problems.

🌹Anupama: your score is correct but I think you counted “Void” as an easy point getter. It has 50 pages so counts as a normal book, the easy ones are less than 50 pages..."

Oh sorry i didnt notice that . Thanks Tr1sha

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October spell-out challenge complete! ✔️ (message #159)

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