Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Vicki wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Are those SWINBOURNE words? I believe I have asked twice in the thread what that means but I haven’t gotten an answer yet that I have seen...."

Sure that's fine. Thanks Vicki

Hey! Okay, so I'm catching up some of my tv shows today and will be working on adding my words. I have a lot of words to add for one book so that's going to take me a hot minute plus the chapters are labeled weird which means I have to do page numbers so that's really going to take awhile. Thanks for making meals for me. Welcome back Jenny! Are you feeling better? I saw you update the spreadsheet. :) We are back under some serious restrictions here in Kentucky so no Thanksgiving plans at all which means more reading time and down time next week.

I made a lot of meals and used ingredients from different people's books. I know that I still have blanks but I figured it would be easy to fill those in. A couple of us found out that Changeless has vinegar in it many, many times so I'm planning on reading that and if we need to just use it for vinegar for our fish and chips that would be good. I have one more books to add with food and then I'll probably have like 3 more books finished before tomorrow night. So with the special words, I don't know how to add the word if it wasn't in the book that I made the meal with so I may need help with that.

FYI
We just need to use our special words one time in our recipes

If anyone wants a random book to read with a lot of ingredients to choose from, I'm working my way through The Saturday Night Supper Club because it had double P's in it for apples to apples challenge. It's pretty good so far and I'm just sad that it's only worth 8 ingredients and not 12. There are some good words in this book!

OMG Anna...After the Night list of words is practically a SS :)

For those who usually celebrate...what's everyone doing for Thanksgiving this year?

My son and daughter MIGHT come over...still up in the air.

We had a major covid outbreak at church...20+ people got it last weekend. Not good. I continue to dodge it...not sure how as I typically catch everything.

I just noticed instructions ask for special words to be noted in 'justification' column...so I moved a few...highlighting in gray

Sorry guys i took a few days off from reading. Couldnt find any desire to read but i started back to it today! And the next week the place i work at is closed due to covid so ill have extra time to catch up

Hey I finished but I listened to audio at high speed, so I'm going to search for ingredients from the story tomorrow. I'm wiped and am going to bed.

Yeah, one of my books had tons of words and I stopped doing multiples of words after awhile and didn't even add in for real desserts or drinks because I knew they wouldn't be counted. I read the second book in the series and will read the third too because there are so many good food words. I will get my tiny book updated today with both food and characters because it could be used for either. I'm working on a 600 page book right now. We can't go anywhere for Thanksgiving. The numbers are too high and Kentucky has some serious gathering restrictions so we can't even go to friends. No more than 2 households together, no more than 8 people unless it's immediate family that you live with. I'll be off Thursday-Sunday so just planning on relaxing, reading, and eating. John's off those days also so we may go look at new SUV's because we had budgeted to get a new one this year but we were waiting until the end of the year sales. I'll get to pull 9-10 hour shifts the next few days but hopefully I can listen to books some.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Hey I finished but I listened to audio at high speed, so I'm going to search for ingredients from the story tomorrow. I'm wiped and am going to bed."

Hi Jenny. I did a few via audio and used google books ‘preview’ to find certain words. Worked well.

I had to do that a few times already also. Only one time did I have trouble finding the book and then I just bought it because it was easier than trying to figure out another way.

Thankful for my Goodreads Friends!

We're at the 1/2 way mark for our final round. For those of us who need to catch us...myself included, let's get our info recorded so we can have a mid-way meal making catch up. If you don't want to make meals, I'm sure some of us can do so for you.

We're in good shape so far with 61/100 books read and 79 meals made. Would like to be at 120 by Monday if we can get caught up as we likely have another 120 to go after that.

Happy reading everyone!

Sounds good, I will have time tomorrow to get everything caught up. It's Alabama/Auburn football day today so we have junk food, drinks, and a Bama team to cheer on.

Have fun Anna!

So sorry about not getting everything updated, yesterday ran away from me. I updated 2 of my books at lunch time and I'll work on getting the rest updated tonight. I think I have some books to add.

Just added all the books that I'm currently reading and planning on reading in the next week. I may have a few more little books to add depending on how these challenges roll. I will get my meals and the other ingredients added tonight.

Does anyone need help creating meals? Please post here if you do.

You’re free to use my ingredients to make meals if you have time. I won’t get home for another hour or so to add more ingredients but I know that I have books with ingredients that can be used.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Does anyone need help creating meals? Please post here if you do."
Jenny,
I created meals but if there is a better strategy please feel free to change.
Ann

You can also use my ingredients

So, I plan on reading a lot this weekend and I can spend a good time on Sunday working on meals. I'll have a good audio book going so I can read and work on the spreadsheet at the same time. I'm also planning on doing tons of errands tomorrow and wrapping presents so more audiobooks. My goal is 5-6 books finished this weekend if I can. I listen to chipmunk speeds and I have ebooks of the audio books because I read pretty fast so I can go back and forth. This work week went crazy. I ended up reading a couple 200 page books and depending on other people's reading I can add those next Thursday/Friday if we need them. I think that I'll have a few more 300 page books next week so I wasn't going to add them just yet. I read a few I realized that I need to go back and find the bonus words in so I'll get that updated also.

Perfect...yes, let's get those bonus words in as many of our meals as possible :)

I think we'll be fine on books. I've just added my planned books for the duration of the challenge. I'll have a few more but they are shorter, but can add those if needed. We're doing pretty well...we should finish on time and in pretty good shape if we can keep the meals coming :)

I made a lot of meals. I need to get the books again from the library to find the missing special words and I'll work on that tomorrow and Tuesday. I'll also keep reading and adding words. I know I left a spot open for vinegar but I have a book coming up that has tons of vinegar in it. Looks like we are definitely going to need more desserts and non-alcoholic drinks. I left lots of ingredients in one of my 12 point books to add for desserts.

I find a lot of desserts and drinks, but other than coffee and tea don't the books need to be 500+ pages?

A few thoughts

I think continuing a balance approach to meals is good but weighing heavier on fresh because points are higher may be a good idea for this round...other ideas welcome!

Vicki wrote: "I find a lot of desserts and drinks, but other than coffee and tea don't the books need to be 500+ pages?"

For desserts and other drinks...yes. No need to track desserts and drinks unless you are reading a 500+ book

Thanks, Tammie. :)

Tammie wrote: "A few thoughts

I think continuing a balance approach to meals is good but weighing heavier on fresh because points are higher may be a good idea for this round...other ideas welcome!"


That's very smart! I may actually play around with the spreadsheets later if I have downtime at work and see if I can take the pasta dishes that I made last night and turn them into something else for more points. I was going the balanced approach but I actually like the idea of a little heavier towards fresh. I know I still have 2 500 page books to update and I can always take one of the last spots and find another good 500 if needed. My reading this week is all over the place and I'm going to be juggling some books around anyway.

bamaace83 wrote: "Tammie wrote: "A few thoughts

I think continuing a balance approach to meals is good but weighing heavier on fresh because points are higher may be a good idea for this round...other ideas welcome..."

That's up to you...but I think if you want to leave yours that's perfectly fine. Plenty of additional meals to make :)

@ALL We are in our final week...5 days to go and we have probably 180 more meals to make. Everyone please make time for this in the next few days as it will get harried toward then end :)

Cool, I'll leave those alone. I'll have time again to play around tonight to see what I can find also. I may use ingredients that are available just to get some more meals on the list so we aren't scrambling Friday/Saturday. :)

bamaace83 wrote: "Cool, I'll leave those alone. I'll have time again to play around tonight to see what I can find also. I may use ingredients that are available just to get some more meals on the list so we aren't ..."

Please do! Thank you!

I got distracted with real life situations last night but I have some down time this morning so I can work on some meals.

I've started going back and fixing the meals that we have done so we can make sure that the bonus words are included. I've highlighted the ones that I've done. I'm at 102 I think. I've noticed that some of the books the words haven't been searched for and I'm guilty of this as well. I've gone back for a couple of my books and I'll go back again later. If y'all need help finding the special words let me know. I think it would be good to have each meal contain a special word and I can do some rearranging Friday/Saturday to make that happen but I would like to get a head start so it's not as time consuming. I also need help naming all the meals I made with fancy words. I'm not very good at that. Last thing, the green highlighted box is the wrong link for the book. I don't know how picky the mods are but I saw that and wanted to make it known so we don't get dinged later.

bamaace83 wrote: "I've started going back and fixing the meals that we have done so we can make sure that the bonus words are included. I've highlighted the ones that I've done. I'm at 102 I think. I've noticed that..."

I will work on naming some meals in the next few days...thanks for putting the ingredients with the meal number...this does help. I don't really want to do everything, so whatever anyone can do is appreciated...I've just been super busy with work...done almost all my reading via audio for the last couple of weeks :(

At last check we still have some books that need to be finished (mine included) and some that are finished that are missing ingredients. For what is read, if everyone can get those updated.

Please check the SS and verify what you do have listed, will actually be finished by this Friday.

Thanks all!

Cool, I can try to get creative and come up with some names. I rearranged my books that I had listed but I know that I will have mine done by Friday. I just may be coming in screaming hot with that last book Friday night. I'm also hoping for some downtime at work tomorrow to make some more meals.

If anyone has an extra book they can add it to row 12 on the spreadsheet. Im not going to get around to reading one of the books I had planned.

Just 2 more days left plus a few hours on Saturday...coming down to the end.

Vicki...lots of ingredients needed.

A few outstanding books still being read...

Almost done!

I made a good bit of meals this morning. I know that I have to finish two books and I will get those done. I did use a lot of ingredients but now work is getting busy so I probably won't be able to make more meals or work on things until tonight. I will try to make cute names but if anyone has time and wants to help me make cute names that would be great. We are doing so well. :)

bamaace83 wrote: "I made a good bit of meals this morning. I know that I have to finish two books and I will get those done. I did use a lot of ingredients but now work is getting busy so I probably won't be able to..."

Thanks Anna...a big help you are!

I appreciate all who've picked up my slack this round...I've been soooo busy with work.

Last night I worked on getting our key words in as many recipes as possible...some of you will notice a few things are moved around as a result. There's a few books out there that haven't had them...and for the missing I mostly looked up on Google Books or Amazon.

If we can for the balance, be sure to include local, quality and neighborhood in your search for words.

If you aren't going to use the whole book to make your recipes please be sure to cross out what you have used.

Books showing 'not yet finished' on SS

Jenny - Thunderhead - line 13
Vicki - The Things We Cannot Say - line 76
Anna - The Woman in Cabin 10 - line 77
Anna - A Discovery of Witches - line 82
Tammie - American Dirt - line 91 (reporting in, I'll finish tomorrow late)

Oh no! I’ll check it and see what I did wrong this time. 😂 Thanks.

Recipe naming could use some work if someone has creative time :)

Also still need about 75+ meals

Vicki line 268...missing ingredients for this book

I probably won't finish Thunderhead in time. I will finish this book though:

Murder in Mesopotamia - 264 pages

Tammie wrote: "Vicki line 268...missing ingredients for this book"

Yep, I PM'd you. I'm working on it now.

OK, I got that one done but I finished another book so I'll add the foods tomorrow to 275. 2:20 AM so I am off to bed. Goodnight all :)

Tammie, I went ahead and finished the last book for this challenge. I'll work on meals tomorrow. I can't keep up 3:00 AM hours but this is my 3rd night in a row doing that so I have to get to bed by midnight tomorrow night. Or a little after. lol

Vicki how about you put the Catching the Wind book in my spot of 77. Your book has so many more good food words than the book that I'm currently reading and then I don't have to rush to finish it tonight and can work on meals.