Channel
@hg_bookclub
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298subscribers
+18 since we began measuring on 12 October 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002931481415 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @hg_bookclub |
| Created | Between 1 August 2025 and 31 October 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 12 October 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 14 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/hg_bookclub |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2026, 04:58 | 298 | +18 |
| 12 Oct 2026, 10:22 | 280 | no change |
| 12 Oct 2026, 09:47 | 280 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 24 September 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 10 of 20 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (24 September 2026 – 12 October 2026) |
| Views total | 2,304 |
| Reactions total | 42 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Oct 2026, 10:22 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
42 reactions across 7 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 73.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 31 | 73.8% | |
| 🔥 | 4 | 9.52% | |
| 😁 | 4 | 9.52% | |
| 👌 | 1 | 2.38% | |
| 💯 | 1 | 2.38% | |
| 🕊 | 1 | 2.38% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 10 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 42 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 24 September 2026 to 12 October 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
#usefulvocabulary Let's start the week with something positive. Here are some quotes from Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir we read last month: I see a bunch of math and science apps... But the real boon is the library! I open the back and wriggle into the suit. Zero g is a real boon here. I don’t have to fight with the suit nearly as much as I normally would. So, a boon is something useful or helpful, that makes life …
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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker is another retelling of the Iliad, this time from the perspective of Briseis, a queen of Lyrnessus. The novel exposes the brutal, unglamorous realities faced by captive women, including rape, forced labor, loss of family, and total erasure by history. I, Medusa by Ayana Gray is a Greek mythology retelling that reimagines Medusa (or "Meddy") from a monster into a mortal survivor…
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is a retelling of Homer's Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus. It explores the friendship between Achilles and Patroclus from the moment they meet till Patroclus's fall in the Trojan War. Circe by Madeline Miller is a retelling of Greek mythology through the eyes of the goddess Circe — daughter of Helios, the sun god. It's a story of exile, isolation and heartbreak, going …
Today is Myths and Legends Day and high time to choose another book. This month I suggest focusing on modern versions of ancient myths and legends, retold from the perspective of characters who kept in the background and now take centre stage
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Happy Teacher's Day! I'm infinitely grateful to my teachers. They've been great role models for me. Their enthusiasm, dedication and passion have guided me throughout my career. And though teaching is a challenging and extremely demanding profession, I wish for no other. #quoteoftheday #teachersday
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So, to what extent do you agree with Cecelia Ahern? Do you believe in book magic? Would you go so far as to say that books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up? Have you ever grabbed a book unwittingly from a shelf to find a true friend? Can you think of a book that entered your life at just the right moment, providing solace, inspiration, guidance or whatever you needed at the time? #thinking…
#quoteoftheday "I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time." Cecelia Ahern
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#bookreview So, yesterday we resumed our online book club and had a lively discussion of Andy Weir's novel Project Hail Mary. Ryland Grace, a science teacher and former microbiologist, wakes up from an induced coma on board a spaceship. Gradually he remembers that he is on a mission to save the Earth by finding a way to combat Astrophages, tiny creatures that feed on the sun's energy and therefore pose a threat to …
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Here's the link for our meeting tomorrow. At 8 p.m. (Moscow time) we'll be discussing Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. See you there https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/01970206062014
Listen To The Mustn'ts Listen to the Mustn'ts, child, listen to the Don'ts. Listen to the Shouldn'ts, the Impossibles, the Won'ts. Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, Anything can be. Shel Silverstein, American poet, cartoonist and musician would have turned 96 today.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @hg_bookclub. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
Fitzgerald was a poor speller and may have suffered from dyslexia.
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 24 September 2026 to 12 October 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 14 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“"Holy Guacamole!" book club” (@hg_bookclub), 298 subscribers as measured 14 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/hg_bookclub.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.