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

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

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Countdown

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Tracking Sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

🎡Week 1
Duration: 14 Nov to 21 Nov
Spell Out Phrase: RAZOR BLADE TEARS
Colour Cover Bonus: PINK (50%+) - Max 5
Tag Bonus: SPACE OPERA (10+ tags) - Max Unlimited


🎡Week 2
Duration: 21 Nov to 28 Nov
Spell Out Phrase: A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH
Colour Cover Bonus: BROWN(50%+) - Max 5
Tag Bonus: MYTHOLOGY (10+ tags) - Max Unlimited

🎡Week 3
Duration: 28 Nov to 5 Dec
Spell Out Phrase: THE CARTOGRAPHERS
Colour Cover Bonus: BLUE(50%+) - Max 5
Tag Bonus: QUEER (10+ tags) - Max Unlimited

🎡Week 4
Duration: 5 Dec to 12 Dec
Spell Out Phrase: THE BOOK OF COLD CASES
Colour Cover Bonus: BLUE(50%+) - Max 5
Tag Bonus: CONTEMPORARY (10+ tags) - Max Unlimited

🎡Week 5
Duration: 12 Dec to 19 Dec
Spell Out Phrase: SEMIOSIS
Colour Cover Bonus: BLACK(50%+) - Max 5
Tag Bonus: ZOMBIES (10+ tags) - Max Unlimited

Team Shelves
• Louise (Captain) - Wheel 7
• Mary C (Co-Captain) - Wheel 7
• Nanci (Co-Captain) - Wheels 7
• Jhmingos - Wheel 7
• Dale - Reading Shelf
• StaceyC - Wheel 7
• Vikki - Wheel7
• Stacey - Wheel 2022
• Devann - 22 Wheelathon

Rules - The Cliff Notes Version
All About Wheel and Announcement

◈ Starts on 14 November and runs for FIVE weeks (ending 18 December)
◈ The start / end time for each round will be 9pm UK time
◈ Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count

📚 Minimum page Count: 160

📚 Audio books: use default page count, if this is large print use next most popular book. If no printed or ebook, audio must be more than 4 hours and defaults to 160 pages.

📚 Books with MPGs Childrens / Kids / Poetry / Play / Graphic Novel / Illustrated / Photography / Art (or which have "Illustrated" in the title or an "Illustrator" contributor in the metadata) must have a verified word count of at least 40,000.

Verified Word Counts
UK - https://www.arbookfind.co.uk
US - https://www.arbookfind.com
Australia - https://www.arbookfind.com.au

📚 Re-Reads - must have been at least Six months since last read.

📚 Books cannot be banked for future rounds.


Points System
◈ Books less than 160 pages = 0 points
◈ Books between 160 and 1000 pages = 0.1 points/page
◈ Books over 1000 pages = 100 points
(points will be rounded up/down from 0.5 as per standard maths)


Bonus Points

Each week teams can gain 5 bonus points if a book used in the spell out is:
- at least 50% the colour cover associated with the team's word - to a maximum of 25 points
- that has at least 10 shelvings that matches the week's shelf. The same shelf will be used for all teams. There is no maximum points for the shelving

Spell-Out
Spell out using the first letter in:
🔤 Title/ Series (definite/indefinite articles can be ignored)
🔤 Author First/Last Name
🔤 Character First/ Last Name/ Nickname - FICTION ONLY - (must be significant to the plot)
🔤 Narrator First/ Last Name - for audios only
🔤 Translator First/ Last Name - for translated books only.

Laura wrote: "If my book says, "He's been fired from the Shrimp Boat.", does that work for Shrimp? The sentence is referencing the name of a restaurant, and the name of the restaurant is referencing the boat whi..."

I would say so

Laura wrote: "Louise, can you add the monthly special and the bonus words to your post 19, please? That way it’s all in one spot."

Done

We started Round 3 in 6th place so these are our bonus words

4-7 Keep up the great work, but perhaps get a bit more creative in round 3 to increase popularity.
Meals with the word "prawns" (shrimp is acceptable), "cherry", or "gelato" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

Round 3 Special
"◈ Fig and raspberry crostata. (figs, vanilla, sugar, raspberries, creme frache, cream, flour, butter, sugar, eggs, rum, almond meal, icing sugar)
-Must contain figs, raspberries, sugar)"


Bonus
"Use your spell-it-outs and scavenger hunts to find items to ignite passion for couples on a date. Think oysters, roses, crystal.... use your imagination!!
MAXIMUM 20 ITEMS IN TOTAL"

Customers have been fed, 1 pensioner and 39 teenagers were left hungry

Round 3
Let's get romantic


November is known for...
thanksgiving
topaz
almost summer
almost winter
veterans day
all saints day
rain

It all depends on where your restaurant is located. So for MRR, November is all about Romance (hey, why not?)

Your placing at the end of round 2 gives you the option of certain additions to your meals to better attract Adult customers when you open in round 3.




Place Round 3 Additions

Top 3 Congrats! Now is the time to think about what your niche market is looking for to maintain your popularity
Meals with the word "lobster", "pasionfruit", or "brie" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

4-7 Keep up the great work, but perhaps get a bit more creative in round 3 to increase popularity.
Meals with the word "prawns" (shrimp is acceptable), "cherry", or "gelato" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

8-10 Try some new, more popular, dishes to attract your target group for round 3.
Meals with the word "chocolate", "gold", or "scallop" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

11-14 It is time to try something new for round 3.
Meals with the word "salmon", "mango", or "paste" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

All done for round 2; rejigged a few books.
Round 3 starts in just under 3hrs
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LaurLa wrote: "Louise - not sure what happened, but there's a huge gap in the tracking sheet between rows 175 and 980. I'm not going to try and fix it because I don't want to mess things up further, just thought ..."

I think it's where I've filtered the list and not removed the filter once done. All fixed now :)

All books are now on the official sheet. We have space for 5 more books :)

Laura wrote: "Louise, I don't want to mess up anything you're working on, but there are no blank lines on the Tracking sheet, so I can't put in the book I just finished."

I forgot to remove the filter should be ok now

Yes please Laura

No need to look for any more kid activities we’re maxed out

Laura wrote: "I just posted one that I was ridiculously excited about. They started making rogan josh, which I had to look up. It’s a type of curry! And then they talked about the ingredients. And later they mad..."

Sound lush. Love Rogan josh

Laura wrote: "I read Big Bad Beast, but I purchased it as part of a 4 book bundle of Shelly Laurenston's books. It's book #3 in the bundle. So the locations are all screwed up.

Louise, is it okay..."

That’s fine Laura. I’m going to spend some evenings this week to log our books and food and get rid of my “post-it” notes

Vinegar does pop up in the most random of places. Although this month with more kids we won’t need as much vinegar

Laura wrote: "While reading In a Badger Way I happily highlighted every instance of the word Bamboo. It wasn't until I was nearly done that I realized we can only use the book 8 times, so any mor..."

🤣

Kira wrote: "For a meal, do all the ingredients have to be EITHER scavenger or spell it out, can they not be a mix of both?

For eg I have a sandwich with JAM spelled out using a different book and other ingre..."

Has to be one or the other