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Thank you Laura and Jessica for being prefects again! And thank you Pony for helping out and posting the quiz and members list!
Welcome back Cynthia! I will put you down for Scarecrow House!
I am looking for 4 volunteers to be Prefects for each house. If you want to volunteer please post below with which house you would like to be prefect of! Please use this thread to talk about the challenge and ask any questions!
You Can sign up in your house thread starting the last week of September, feel free to join in anytime!
I started a list of short stories under 50 pages for recommendations for the easy point getters. Here is that list:Short Stories Under 50 Pages List
Please feel free to add your own recommendations!
- Keep in mind that this list is public to everyone on Goodreads. please make sure to check that these books are actually under 50 pages.
OVERALL COMPETITION:
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ROUND ROBIN SCHEDULE
OCTOBER
Scarecrow vs. Dorothy
Tin Man vs. Lion
NOVEMBER
Dorothy vs. Lion
Tin man vs. Scarecrow
DECEMBER
Tin Man vs. Dorothy
Scarecrow vs. Lion
Welcome to the 10th annual House Cup Challenge! This year's theme is....Wizard of Oz (Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion)HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS
- Everyone who wants to play joins a house and all the houses compete to read the most over the three months. The scores are based on an average and there will be an overall winner as well as 2 winners each month when you will go head-to-head with another team.
- The Challenge will run from October 1 through December 31. All books started & finished during this time will count toward the challenge.
- Post in YOUR HOUSE’S THREAD ran by your house’s prefect. contribute with the BOOK TITLE and DATE FINISHED and NUMBER OF PAGES.
- If you would like you can make one post, or one per month, and update them to keep everything in one place, but I do ask that you make another comment letting your team prefect know that you updated it.
Each house has its own thread:
DOROTHY - Prefect: Laura
SCARECROW - Prefect: Cynthia
TIN MAN - Prefect:
LION - Prefect: Jessica P
RULES AND SCORING
We will use an average score to balance the different house sizes. We will use a tiered scoring system based on the number of pages in a book. Essentially, it's 1 point for every 250 pages read within a book. Here's the breakdown:
1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
and so on...
- If its a graphic novel, heavily pictured book or sparsely worded (i.e. poetry), half points will be awarded, so it will be 0.5 points for every 250 pages. The points will be awarded per book and not per cumulative pages read.
- Easy point-getters are limited to 10 per month per participant. These will be books with less than 50 pages.
- A book cannot be counted more than one time in a month, so a maximum of three times over the course of a challenge.
- If you read one of the group's selected group reads for October, November or December, you get to add a bonus 0.5 point. (This must be read in the month that the book is our BOTM pick)
- For a book to count, it must be started and finished during the challenge timeframe. This means, for example, that you can start a book in October and submit it in December when you finish it.
- Use the page number of the most popular edition when you search on Goodreads for every book read. This includes audiobooks, ebooks, and physical books. This keeps it fair for everyone.
*NEW*- If a book does not have a page count on Goodreads it can not be submitted for points for this challenge.
- Number of participants per house will be counted based on contributions, so if a member signs up and does not contribute, they are not used in average calculations.
- This challenge will feature a ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT with each month featuring a matchup with a different house. To count for a matchup, the book must be read within that month and posted no later than one day after the end of the month. We will not do late term adjustments, but books read in an earlier month (no earlier than October) can still count toward your house’s overall total. The winner of the tournament will be featured in EHRTBM Hall of Fame.
- There will also be an Overall winner featured in the EHRTBM Hall of Fame.
- Participants must log their book in Goodreads as read to count them in the challenge.
Since this competition can get intense, please note that we do expect good sportsmanship from participants and failure to demonstrate good sportsmanship will result in warnings. Multiple warnings or extremely offensive remarks may result in a participants removal from the challenge.
Happy reading everyone!
JustMG wrote: "Hi, I'd love to participate. Is it still possible to jump in? There are some books on the group shelf that are also on my TBR. And would the August BOTM count in as well?"Hi, yes we'd love for you to join us! You can make a post to track your books here on this thread. Our BOTM's for August and September also count for this quarters theme.
The Theme for our third quarter July 1st - September 30th is books from our Group Bookshelf We have read 233 of the most read books and will be adding 6 more throughout this quarter. This is your chance to catch up on some that you have missed or simply keep up with the current Books of the Month!*I chose this because I assume we all have at least 5 of these books on our own TBR's, but if that is not true you may also pick books that have been nominated before.*
Jan wrote: "This is a memoir of grief. A few days after her adult daughter is hospitalized in a coma, Joan's husband dies of a massive heart attack. The writing has fine enough. What I learned was rich people ..."I largely agree with what you are saying. I found myself thinking a couple of times while reading how much more stressful that whole year of her life would have been if she were not wealthy to begin with. I didn't particularly like all the name drops either and really don't think they added anything to the book.
2023 was a really rough year for me, my grandfather who I was very close to passed away in January, one of my best friends died suddenly and very unexpected in April, and we lost our 15 year old dog whom my husband and I had for our entire relationship in September. I was in grief all year long and still am mourning to this day. I found this book very relatable and honest. I like how she really focuses on how lost we feel when we experience grieving. How it is such a personal feeling that often we cut everyone in our lives off to some extent so we are able to process our losses alone. In both those ways experiencing a death is very ironic, this book made me think about that a lot. She did a ton of research into grieving (which I did not do at all) and I found some of the things she brought up very interesting and helpful to my own recovery. I certainly think it was an effective way to process her emotions during that period in her life. I wasn't sure if I was ready for this book going into it, but I am really happy I did. I would definitely not recommend reading this if you recently lost someone, but coming up on the 2 year anniversaries of many deaths in my own life I found this book very helpful and almost comforting in a way.
Oh good! I thought that might have happened, but I couldn't find it on your list.
Miriam wrote: "Hey Marla, for you I chose The Catcher in the Rye. I absolutely loved this book and read it multiple times. It's one of my favorites, and I definitely want to re-read it again this year..."Hi Miriam,
Debora has already picked a book for Marla. Please choose a book for Pony form this list: Pony's Choose From This Shelf
Thank you!
The theme for April 1st - June 30th is: The 5 Oldest books on your TBRPlease feel free to Interpret this prompt however you want!
January 2nd
170 pages
January 4th
358 pages
Group Total: 658 pages
TBR Revival Challenge 2025January 1-March 31
Theme: Read 5 books that start with "The"
Books read 4/5
1. The Art of War - January 12th
2. The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom - March 13th
3. The Distance from Me to You March 16
4. The Fox Wife March 20
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April 1st - June 31st
Theme: Read 5 oldest books on your TBR
Books read 0/5
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I nominate True Grit by Charles Portis 224 pagesI don't believe we have ever read a Western as a group before and thought it might be fun to give one a try!
Thank you everyone who participated! Another House Cup Challenge has sadly come to an end. December's Round Robin Scores:
Ruby: 59.00 vs. Saphire: 30.58
Emerald: 26.23 vs Diamond: 27.79
❤️Congrats to this month's winners Ruby and Diamond!🤍
And the moment we've all been waiting for!
The overall scores are:
Ruby: 149.54
Saphire: 98.87
Emerald: 83.00
Diamond: 81.43
❤️🏆This year's House Cup Winners are House Ruby!🏆❤️
Well done everyone! You've all read so much. I hope you found some great new reads and had lots of fun! I hope to see you again next year!
