Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Shannon wrote: "For the BOM is the rule still the same. That you can read it and count it as long as its within a month of the end date?"

I think so Shannon...I checked the QnA and it doesn't say specifically so we should probably ask.

***Completed book NOT on SS***
The Road to Garrett - 299 pgs :(
Susie O'Donnell
pizza crust pg 3401
pizza pg 3403, 3406
pumpkin pg 3385
noodles pgs 3385,
spaghetti | sauce pgs 3385
spaghetti pg 3387
salad pg 3385
nuts pg 3387
iced tea 3510 x2
Coke pg 3519 x2

Jamie Tanner
Annemarie Garrett
Cody
Gabriel Collins
Matthew
Delilah
Title
A: Susie O'Donnell

Yes, I believe that is still the rule, but you could confirm with the Mods in the Q&A for this challenge.

Jenny, I was going over the rules and I was looking to see if I could add anything to the meals, and I noticed that meal #14, Fish and Chips, needs lemon in place of pepper (or added to it?)


◈ fish and chips (fish, or any types of fish, potato, salt, lemon) Note for scavenger hunt only: Must contain all these items (4), add vinegar for bonus points.

Eek! Okay, let's take out pepper and find lemon. Good catch Vicki!

Ditto...Nice catch Vicki...if anyone sees an opportunity to switch things around because of need, please do feel free to do so. The SS will tell us if something hasn't been used...it's pretty easy.

I asked the question about if it there was an advantage to adding an ingredient beyond the minimum to make a dish tastier...the reply indicated that for this round it wasn't necessary...hinting that next round it may be.

Also, if we get to the end and want to add an ingredient, we just need to indicate the proper menu item...no need to insert.

So for now...let's continue with trying to stick with our minimums and reading as lengthy of books we love to read. I hope everyone is enjoying the challenge!

If you prefer someone complete your menu items, just let us know and someone will work at it for you :)

No problem, ladies. :)

Tammie, I am 100% enjoying this one! It's different and whoever set it up has done an amazing job organizing it and making it "user" (Vicki) friendly. lol

Y'all definitely need to read the City of Bones series. Playing catchup over here. It's one of my all time favorite series. It's been so long since I've read Clockwork Angel but that's another really good series. An Ashley book that I liked was Sweet Dreams. A couple random ones are The Time Traveler's Wife and The Book Thief. Y'all all should read the BOM. The Clare one. It's really good. I'm going to fix my menu items right now with the books I've finished the last couple of days.

I've started updating it but I'll finish it later this afternoon. I plan on spending some quality time updating everything tonight. I have lemon in one of my books. I did get the longest one posted. I read it on kindle so my page numbers are weird but it seemed like all they did was talk about food in that book.

Question on Chain of Gold...not sure if anyone is familiar

I have not read this author...the precis says it's a Shadowhunters novel. Am I going to be stepping in the middle of a story if I read this and potentially not understand? This author looks pretty popular. It's such a long book...I could use some advise/perspective on reading this.

You can read this book without reading the other series. They may mention a couple people from other books but this is a series on its own. The different series are different generations of the same family. I’ve read almost all of them and really enjoy them. I realized I missed a book so I’m going to read that one this week. I need to update goodreads because one of the series I read before I was on goodreads.

Going back to Chain of Gold, I've been listening on audio but not doing a great job of catching any food/drink items. Anyone else reading it and doing a better job than me?

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Going back to Chain of Gold, I've been listening on audio but not doing a great job of catching any food/drink items. Anyone else reading it and doing a better job than me?"

I won't start it until maybe next week. I'm going to do audio as well, but have put a reserve in for the kindle version...I can try and hunt for some based on our grocery list to see...will start a list on the SS...may work on it tomorrow during a boring meeting :)

I don't know how far you are into the story.....I know there are some alcohol references. I have the hardback copy. I'll see if I can find some time to skim a few parts and see if anything triggers. I can see if I can get a kindle version also.

OK...I found lots...just copy it...enjoy the book everyone!
No vinegar, but pretty much everything else :)

I copied it and finished the book today.

Everyone has responded to my request...so I'm going to go ahead and change the access now. I'll be around this morning...so if you have issues, please let me know.

Thanks,

SHOP FRONT Update

We have reached our minimums on several meal preps...
Sandwiches
Salad
All drinks except Tea
Dessert

As we progress through this round, if you have choices, please check to see what meals are needed

Also...the meal item numbers in the KITCHEN and STORE FRONT need to line up. So as your finish any menu item...jump over to the store front and record that item and give it a fun name...using the titles of the books to create the item was hinted at in the example given by our mods :) If someone has time to go and make our menu items more 'cleaverly' named that would be great.

Doing well given we are still at under 2 weeks :)

I took a stab at renaming some of our dishes.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "I took a stab at renaming some of our dishes."

Awesome...thanks much Jenny!

COMPLETION POST
NOT ON SS


Read 9/29, 245 pages

SIO: TM (Title), A (AFN), C (ALN), HQ (Harley Quin), S (Mr. Straithwaite)

I have books to add but I need more time to sit down and copy over all the food words from libby. I still haven't found vinegar in a book yet. I've been hoping it would show up.

bamaace83 wrote: "I have books to add but I need more time to sit down and copy over all the food words from libby. I still haven't found vinegar in a book yet. I've been hoping it would show up."

There's some vinegar in my list for All the Light You Cannot See...if someone hasn't already used it, please feel free :)

Cool, I'll probably snatch that tomorrow when I have time to update this one. I think I have all the other ingredients to make the fancier fish and chips. I was trying to get all the little weekly challenges updated. Work was crazy and I think I'm going to bed early tonight.

I also saved vinegar in a book or two. I think I have 4 unused vinegar words. Let me know if you need a use or two of vinegar.

Cool, I'll update more of my books either tomorrow or Sunday but I've started putting them on the spreadsheets. I'll probably need a vinegar and I'll see what other meals I can make once I get everything added. I have 2 books that are in the 200-300 page range also that I haven't added but can if we need them.

Im still reading i promise. Its just been less this week cuz two people were out due to covid and i had to work a lot more

I totally understand that! I've been doing more audiobooks which is why I have to spend time finding words in the ebook version. I think everyone's work has been crazy. It's been a trend lately.

Hey everyone! How's your reading coming along...any super fabulous reads to share with everyone??

I finished All the Light We Cannot See last week...I'm sure most of you are saying...I read that book years ago! It had been on my tbr forever...anyway I loved it and highly recommend if you haven't read to do so. Looking through my tbr to see what other fabulous longer books I can find...

I just started a couple of challenges that are going to have me reading many shorter books. Will have them in the wings as needed.

We've just hit week 2 and have 23 more books to read. So we're in great shape.
-We want to be sure every single book possible is used in our recipes. If we run out of places to put ingredients, we can just add more ingredients to our existing recipes.
-We also may want to trade out some longer books if we have them...next week we'll see where we are, and if needed we can free up a few spaces...so read on!

After next week we'll discuss how we want to revise our strategy for the next round, so start thinking about what might work better...

I have several "vinegar" words I've been hanging on to, Anna.

Is there a plan for anything right now? Is there a reason you're reading longer books in particular, Jenny? I know we get more words for scavenger of spell-out but would two 250 page books, for example, be as good as a 500 page one? I've mostly been reading shorter due to Turf Wars. LOL Coordinating these challenges is sometimes next to impossible.

I read a few books yesterday and today that I need to add. If I am not mistaken, we have until October 17 before the end of Round 1. Correct?

I really liked The Hate U Give and Ugly Love. Both had been on my TBR and I finally was able to get to them. Totally different books but both had me deeply invested. I've got a couple over 500 books still planning to read to help with the alcohol and dessert. I also have a couple 200 page books hanging out in case we need them but I'll get all my menu items updated tomorrow afternoon. Right now, I'm multi-tasking while watching the Bama game but we are going to friends house tonight to play some board games and snack so my reading time will be limited until tomorrow. I just added that book from the library Tammie so hopefully I can get it read next week too. I'll make it fit somewhere.

I'm not sure why we want/need alcohol if the points if eaten are only 20 points. Am I missing something? (It wouldn't surprise me! lol)

Vicki wrote: "I have several "vinegar" words I've been hanging on to, Anna.

Is there a plan for anything right now? Is there a reason you're reading longer books in particular, Jenny? I know we get more words ..."

Re POINTS:
10 points per book read
2 points per scavenger word / spell-it-out letter used per book (maximum numbers shown below)...so the longer the book, the more scavenger and spellouts we get.
Since we are maxed out at 80 books for every team...the likely best way to do 'best' is to read longer books.

This is a challenge, however we should all read what we love. Like you, most of us are participating in multiple challenges...so we're going to have shorter books. It's just a strategy to make room for the longest books. We'll figure it out either way...

The next round starts on October 17...I'd like to suggest we finish by late on the 15th just to allow for final SS work...especially for this 1st round. We can find the clock and post a countdown when we get closer.

Vicki wrote: "I'm not sure why we want/need alcohol if the points if eaten are only 20 points. Am I missing something? (It wouldn't surprise me! lol)"

hehe...I don't know that any of us will completely understand this game until we get through the 1st set of customers...bottomline on alcohol...is that some of our customers will likely want it...I think it can be carried over to other rounds too. Not sure.

Thanks for the explanation, Jenny.

Vicki wrote: "Thanks for the explanation, Jenny."

sorry Vicki

I made some meals but need suggestions on whether to make sandwhich, quiches, or salads. I'm not sure what I should make with some of my ingredients but it looks like I have some good options left in my ingredients. Also, I went ahead and added the two long books to the spreadsheet that I'm tackling the next couple of days. I'm hoping they have good choices for desserts and drinks.

bamaace83 wrote: "I made some meals but need suggestions on whether to make sandwhich, quiches, or salads. I'm not sure what I should make with some of my ingredients but it looks like I have some good options left ..."

Suggestions:
1. Change your Fish 'n chips w/ Vinegar to just Fish 'n Chips. We have the max for the vinegar option already made with line 166 needing vinegar to finish the last one. I believe there's vinegar somewhere someone can just fill in.
2. I would just make whatever...if you move your finished to the menu, you'll be able to see what's left in the STORE FRONT. We've met all of our minimums except Tea...so if you want to make some tea, that would be great...tea requires water...you could add lemon or sugar if you want to make it tastier :)
3. We can carry over anything frozen to the next round, so if you have choices, make or start a frozen entree. Feel free to use anything I have available to fill it as well.

Thanks! Let me figure out how to move those finished ones over and I'll make that change. I know that I have stuff to make tea. I can make some frozen things.

Having no notifications kinda sucks...

I'm only counting my longer books, but still plan on posting shorter books here if needed. We were reading way too fast to count everyone's books with our 80 book cap which is why I was only posting the longer books in the SS with the scavenger items I found. But like Tammie said, everyone should be reading what they like, and it should be a fun challenge, so if you like shorter books read them and use those books!!

I made a couple frozen meals but I also made a couple meals that could be for kids. I have no idea how many children we will have to serve but wanted to make sure we had a couple more options for them. I made tea also. I still have lots of ingredients left in some of my books to make a few more things. I'll come back again and check things out. I plan on using my big books for drinks and desserts when I finish them so that we have some more of those options. Off to work on something else. I agree no notifications is making this hard!

I'm not sure those min/max numbers on the STORE FRONT relate to the min/max items we can have for each type of item. They are the same min/max numbers we have to follow when creating the item. I don't think they (the Mods) care if we have 20 teas, no milks, and 30 cookies. They just want to make sure we use a good amount of ingredients for each item on the menu.

I think maybe we should ask in Q&A or look in Q&A if that's already been answered.

I think we need more desserts (the kids, teenager and adults all like them). And we can only get desserts, alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic drinks when we have a BIG BOOK and get the ALL category.

Any DDC items we have (non-alcoholic drinks, alcoholic drinks and desserts) are all frozen and can be used in the next month if they aren't eaten.

And I really don't think there's a maximum on the number of meals we can create, just the number of ingredients needed for each item. I've asked in Q&A to make sure.

I'm going to take some time tomorrow while listening to audio books to try and go through our book tab and cross out the items we've used from each of the books we've listed, and also move up books that somehow were placed at the bottom of the SS for Round 1. Right now, looks like we have spots for 12 more books from now until the 19th. Once we finish all our books, and have all our menu items and shop front ready, we'll be good to go.

Depending on the answer to my question regarding min/max menu items on the STORE FRONT, we can decide if we'd like more dessert, more salads, more whatever. The good thing is all the FROZEN and DDC items carry over from month to month, so if we want to "stock" items up that is where we should do it.

We can get lots of desserts and DDC drinks when we have the ALL category, so hopefully we are using our big books for more of those items. We can't get desserts from FRESH or FROZEN books is my understanding.

Do you think we need bread (or toast or sandwich) in our sandwiches, or some sort of green in our salad? I was checking our ingredients and for the most part we do, but for some we don't. Are those sandwiches for our carb conscious guests, so they're served without bread? I think we could sell it that way.

Also, not all "salads" have greens so I think we just need to be ready to sell any non-conventional "recipes" we've made to the judges.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Do you think we need bread (or toast or sandwich) in our sandwiches, or some sort of green in our salad? I was checking our ingredients and for the most part we do, but for some we don't. Are those..."

I think we should try, but the instructions only call for specific recipes on fishinchips and tea. I did ask and they replied that we can add an item to a recipe without inserting it next to the recipe...just need to note the correct menu item number.

Did you notice our SS problems? Something is messed up getting our results to the main SS. I saw the mods comments about a few other SS issues, so I’m hoping they’ll figure out what’s wrong.

I did not notice that. What are you talking about on the SS?

Jammin Jenny wrote: "I did not notice that. What are you talking about on the SS?"

It’s the status sheet-> https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oh! Yes that needs to get fixed. Did you post that we are having problems so they check out our link too?

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Oh! Yes that needs to get fixed. Did you post that we are having problems so they check out our link too?"

I didn't, but I can. I assumed they would work on them all at the same time.