Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Amanda wrote: "Christina wrote: "is anybody planning on reading a book over 500 pages? just curious as we'd actually get most points with drinks/desserts but can only use 500p+ books for those "meals""

I am goin..."

yeah that's super ambitious! IT is definitely not a book for me.....

enjoy your vacation, Amanda!

I am really sad to do this because it sounded like so much fun and I was really excited for it. Unfortunately due to some recent issues, that I mentioned before, with my family... I just cannot put in the time or tracking necessary for this challenge. I’m remaining in a few other challenges I’m already in that don’t require much effort other than reading. I hope you can find someone new or a replacement player. Again, I am so sorry and feel horrible! Good luck to all of you and hopefully we cross paths another time in another challenge! Best wishes!!

We're sad to see you go Jodi, but we understand. Take care <3

sorry to see you go :-( xxx

should we be starting to get some meals sorted? i have free time today and tonight i can help sort the meals out if you like? just think maybe we need to start thinking about it what do yous think? x

Jodi wrote: "I am really sad to do this because it sounded like so much fun and I was really excited for it. Unfortunately due to some recent issues, that I mentioned before, with my family... I just cannot put..."

Sorry to see you go Jodi! I do hope things improve with your family 💜

kirsty gray wrote: "should we be starting to get some meals sorted? i have free time today and tonight i can help sort the meals out if you like? just think maybe we need to start thinking about it what do yous think? x"

Yes! Either today or tomorrow as we need to have them updated by Friday at the latest. I’m free all day as well :)

So what do you think the best way of doing it is??

dang it, I listened to the audiobook of The Great Gatsby and completely forgot to listen for food words so I only have two 'chicken' now 🤦🏼 will have to use google books to look for some words I guess....

kirsty gray wrote: "So what do you think the best way of doing it is??"

I think we should make sure that the meals we offer are somewhat even for the various customers and what they prefer to eat. I hope that makes sense? otherwise, no idea how else to go about this lol.

but wait, do I remember correctly that none of you have editing privileges on our official ss??

I have now i figured out how to ask im sure so i can help xx

I just wanted to start with the books that only work for FRESH to make sure everything works, and of course it doesn't :( I let the mods know, so hopefully they'll be able to fix it soon *fingers crossed*

Oh no fingers crossed they fix it asap!!! Im going to sleep now as its past midnight but keep.me updated and ill check in morning and i can help out then once the mods hopefully fix the spreadsheet!! Night night x

yeah I'm about to go to bed as well, so feel free to work on it @ everyone once it's fixed and you get a chance to!

It's only 7:44pm here so I'll try to come up with some meals for everyone to look at tomorrow! Then we can edit from there :)

Also I quit keeping track of the word "apple" and "pumpkin" in Heartbeatbecause the number of times each was used was over the top for the number of times we can actually use any words lol

I got really tired, but we have so many options to make just about everything. Making a sandwich, curry, or a quince would be a good option. We have fish and chips (I'm going to read a book with vinegar before this round is over so we will have fish and chips with vinegar). I also did create a pasta dish if we decide to do that with 10 items. I do still need to get access to the regular spreadsheet before I can add any :)

Im sure one pf the books i read had vinegar, cabt remember which one but im sure its on the spreadsheet lol xx

Yeah there is vinegar in diary of an adorable fat girl :-)

kirsty gray wrote: "Yeah there is vinegar in diary of an adorable fat girl :-)"

Awesome! I must have missed it so we have that meal finished :)

i checked the spreadsheet earlier and it still isnt fixed, any idea what will happen if it isnt sorted before tomorrow?

Well we can still work on the spreadsheet, it just would be easier if it was fixed.
Didn't Samantha say she was good with those kinda things? Maybe she'll drop in and fix it somehow :)

Sarah, do you have any books to add?

I checked the main thread and the mods said they got the spreadsheet fixed, does it look good on everyone’s end now?

Hi Everyone! I'm Lexi. Amanda asked me to join the team. I'm excited to get started! What can I do?

Lexi wrote: "Hi Everyone! I'm Lexi. Amanda asked me to join the team. I'm excited to get started! What can I do?"

Probably the best answer is read, read, read lol if you go to about page 2 there is a planning spreadsheet where you can kinda see where we are at. :) we are still putting meals together from the previous books we read.

Amanda wrote: "Lexi wrote: "Hi Everyone! I'm Lexi. Amanda asked me to join the team. I'm excited to get started! What can I do?"

Probably the best answer is read, read, read lol if you go to about page 2 there i..."

Can do. Does anyone know if books I started after September 19 count or is it only from today for me?

Lexi wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Lexi wrote: "Hi Everyone! I'm Lexi. Amanda asked me to join the team. I'm excited to get started! What can I do?"

Probably the best answer is read, read, read lol if you go to about..."

I’m not sure 🤔 Let me go ask on the thread and figure it out ☺️

Okay so since our original member didn’t read any books you can use books that you read from the start of the challenge :)

Awesome! I will update the spreadsheet maybe tomorrow morning. I think I have 2 finished to add.
I just started something goofy with witches and motorcyles that has "beignets" in the title.

Hey Lexi, welcome to the team! :) what kind of books do you like to read, and do any of them happen to be tomes? ;)

mostly sci fi and fantasy and yes, the certainly can be!

Lexi wrote: "mostly sci fi and fantasy and yes, the certainly can be!"

oh that's great since none of us really tackle such big books, but they'd bring in the most points hah!

most important thing is to keep track of any food items/ingredients you come across by page number, or if you listen to audiobooks by chapter number/title.

I think we'll only use spell-it-out if we really absolutely have to (and there are good letter options)

we've finished 19 books so far and with that we created 27 meals and have started 5 new ones.

at this point (@whoever creates meals next) I think we should try to create as many frozen meals as possible as we do have a lot of fresh meals already. maybe we can still swap some ingredients if we have books that only work for fresh meals or have little options :)

I can read a tome next. Just more than 500 pages? I will have 2 more read books to add tomorrow but I don't have food items highlighted in them

Lexi wrote: "I can read a tome next. Just more than 500 pages? I will have 2 more read books to add tomorrow but I don't have food items highlighted in them"

then we'll try to work some spell-it-out's out. I do hope you have some vowel characters/titles/authors/whatever in there 🙈

also, you don't /need/ to read a tome, but if you like to read longer books anyway then I'd say go for it ;)

The BOM discussion for Circe starts today! (link on page 1)
You can take part for a whole month in order to get a customer switched for us.

Welcome to the team Lexi! :) I've read Circe already so I'll see if I can jump on some of these DQs.

Christina wrote: "The BOM discussion for Circe starts today! (link on page 1)
You can take part for a whole month in order to get a customer switched for us."

My goal is to participate! I’m heading to my library today to see if they have a copy in or can get one for me in the next few days

Unfortunately you'd have to read the book now/in the next 30 days to make use of this swapping feature, Samantha

I'm finishing my weird witch murder mystery tonight and I will start my tome tomorrow

Hello heyy, how's everybody doing?

Christina wrote: "Hello heyy, how's everybody doing?"

I have 2 small books for fresh stuff I need to add but haven’t got a chance to hop on the computer yet. Gotta start something new tonight but not sure what I’m feeling. Suggestions for Genre? I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to get circe in time but I’m trying, fingers crossed!

Im doing great thanks!! Ive added a couple of vooks ive read the last few days :-)

For some reason I'm not getting notifications on here anymore :(

Amanda, I'm sure you've picked up at least one book since your last post, but I would have suggested a thriller, mystery or horror. It's October after all ;)

Is everybody still with us?

Christina wrote: "Is everybody still with us?"

I’m going with horror!

Amanda wrote: "Christina wrote: "Is everybody still with us?"

I’m going with horror!"

ooh what did you choose? :D (again, no notification sigh)

Christina wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Christina wrote: "Is everybody still with us?"

I’m going with horror!"

ooh what did you choose? :D (again, no notification sigh)"

Besides IT which will help us out later I’m feeling The Mist. Has anyone read it? I also have 2 books for the fresh category I will add tomorrow to the spreadsheet and I’m listening to the audiobook of a cookbook so I just going to make a meal with that instead of listing out all the food items if that’s okay? I don’t think I can track that much 😂

^ it'd be great if you could use your fresh books for already existing fresh meals and swap out books that also work for frozen meals (if they have ingredients that can also be used in pasta, curry or quiche)