Louise’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2015)

Louise’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Laura wrote: "Now if we can convince Jackie to pick Shelly as our author for Amazing Race!"

That would be good 🤣

Laura wrote: "I’ve got In a Badger Way on my Kindle. And I’ve read the first one in that series."

Just downloaded

Finished meal descriptions now to wait for the customers.

Laura wrote: "Does everything stay the same for next month? Same menu items? New Monthly special?

Off to search for Kale! :)"

Monthly special is new for this season. Everything else stays the same with the addition of the special ingredients to entice more adults

Kira wrote: "Hi! Team Nacho problem here.

Our spreadsheet has an error.

In the Kitchen meals created tab, the possible customers column isn't updating by the formula past row 456."

You need to copy the formula down as far as you need it.

Finished creating meals. Just need to finalize the descriptions.

Look at the Crowds Result
We came in 10th so for round 2 we have the following

8-10 Now known as "cheap and cheerful" you attract families which mean messy children. Try some new, more popular, dishes to attract your target group for round 2.
Meals with the word "kale", "bamboo", or "kiwi" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2

Just completed the meals, will look at descriptions a little later.

Just your last book to go Laura

Laura wrote: "I just got a little excited when a bar patron in my book ordered a Sex on the Beach and a Flaming Orgasm. 🤣"

🤣🤣

Laura wrote: "I can stop highlighting food as I read?"

Still space for 1 book

4 books left which I will complete first thing in the morning just over 20 hours to go.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

We have space for one more book.
I’ll have the rest of the books (15) converted into meals today 😀

Day 4
Chapters 24-28 (78%)

16. My heart sank when Loreda got into that strange man's truck in the middle of the night. Anyone else concerned for the young lady at that point? Did you think he was meeting a group of communists in the middle of the woods?

Had this been set in modern times I would have been concerned, but given the era of the book I wasn’t concerned. Didn’t think he was meeting a group of communists but an interesting way to introduce the concept.

17. The hospital and the police department had little time for the migrants. What a picture of America at the time. I struggle to relate with this situation. Do you think there are parts of America that still feel this way? Even toward fellow Americans?
Not being American I couldn’t comment but this situation unfortunately still occurs in parts of the UK and no doubt in other countries too.

"18. The communists swoop in with places to stay, food, clothes, friendly faces and yet, they are the enemy. I thought it was interesting that Elsa said, ""we're proud. We believe in hard work and a fair chance. Not one for all and all for one."" Does it have to be one or the other? Can we all work hard and get a fair chance, and still want our neighbors to succeed and get a hand up when they need it? Why is what Jack doing different than what Elsa and Jean and the other wives who handed down shoes and potatoes (or whatever was needed) were doing?"
People in the most need tend to be the least likely to access organized aid due to a lot of factors that includes loss of independence and control. Accepting help off a neighbor is often seen as lending a hand rather than a state hand out which has an impact on emotional and mental well-being. So although what Jack is doing and what the wives are doing is essentially the same the perception is very different.

19. What about that Welty Farm? Seems too good to be true. And maybe it is. I have thought a village that keeps people employed, housed and fed would be a good thing, but I guess it only takes a few bad (greedy) apples to make it terrible. Will Elsa and her family find a happy ending?
The principle of this is a good thing, however the Company always wins, never the worker.

20. On another note. While reading this book with this group,
am also reading The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. I do this from time to time when reading historical fiction. I happened to have this book on hand and found it really interesting to get a little more information on what happened before the Dust Bowl started and what else was going on. Does anyone else do this? Do you read non-fiction and fiction about the same topic at the same time? Do you have any non-fiction books about the Dust Bowl you can recommend?
I tend not to read non-fiction

Bonus: There was a lot to talk about in this section! I picked out a few things and my own habit. Were there different things that stuck out to you?

Louise wrote: "Asked if we can use a hamburger chopped up in a sandwich 🤞"

If we can make it sound appetising we can use it

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Louise wrote: "Quick question can I use a chopped up hamburger sandwiched on french bread with cheese and mushrooms"

as a vegetarian I'd personally say no thank you, but if you can make it sound a..."

To get round using it as a burger, if it’s chopped it’s technically not a burger 😀

Asked if we can use a hamburger chopped up in a sandwich 🤞

Quick question can I use a chopped up hamburger sandwiched on french bread with cheese and mushrooms

Thank you Stacie, I’ve fixed most of the problems, changed them to red. It really helps having a second set of eyes to go over things. Loving the descriptions, they’re better than anything I could have come up with 😀

Got about 20 books left to pull meals from so should be done tomorrow at the latest.

Stacie wrote: "I'm sorry, I'm so confused. Where are all of the words being used hiding? I need them to make descriptions of the meals, right? I only see a few."

I’d hidden the completed meals, unbidden now

Vicky wrote: "I know we can't change meals once customers are out - will we see them on the 31st? Or the 1st? Trying to get a grasp on what (if any) time we have for stragglers in terms of finishing books/meals."

30 days in September
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Books have to be finished by this point

Laura wrote: "So, don’t post my long books? I’m reading them now. Does a few more items impact our bottom line?"

We have space for 3 books 🙂