MN Lisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2021)

MN Lisa’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

16 Hours until the challenge starts. I'm so excited. Who wants to write our "blurb" about our restaurant ?

RESTAURANT NAME
At the start of the challenge, name your restaurant and give a (max. 5 sentence) blurb “about” the restaurant. This may just give you an advantage for round 2….

We will also need someone to write descriptions of meals as we create them....who is good at creative writing?

Susan A wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "For other challenges in this group it has been the first english Kindle Edition Page Count. And that is used for Audio too. Re-reads ok over 6 months."

The first Kindle edition, as..."

Might want to verify but I think its earliest published...

That looks good. Do I need to have read the others to read this one?

Most books that long don't hold my attention long enough.

I'm trying to find my last Hunt book for Sept and I'm having a hard time. Omega MC. I'm trying to find more than 70 points. Its hard.

For other challenges in this group it has been the first english Kindle Edition Page Count. And that is used for Audio too. Re-reads ok over 6 months.

Vian wrote: "Hi everyone I'm vian.

I'm a professional Stage Manager in Atlanta, Ga. I just closed a show (today! ) so this challenge is coming at the perfect time.

I read a lot of horror, paranormal, true cri..."
Awesome that you have played before. I THINK you might be the only player who has played this one before. Most of us play Hunt for another group so we are used to looking for things in books.

I just gave permission to you for the planning spreadsheet. Let me know if you think we need to make any changes,

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

The Round 1 Books Tab has a place for these items. Columns L thru AD. I can add more or make them bigger if we need to.

Like the official sheet, the green columns are calculated.

I'm so excited to get started and see how this goes.

Clarification:
Let's pretend we max out on the 80 books and each book is over 500 pages. Assuming we only hunt and do not spell anything, that means we have up to 960 items to make the meals with. Right?

Susan A wrote: "I don't understand the min/max so I asked in the QA.

Honestly, I don't understand most of it. In one example they spell out Chips and in another they spell out fish...how do you decide what to s..."

I think the min/Max is related to the items. If we are going to use food items to build a salad, we need 7 items at a minimum and 10 maximum. OR we can spell SALAD. We get points for each item used.

So, if we make a salad with 7 items we get 14 points. If we spell SALAD we get 10 points.

I think someone asked about context and not sure it's been answered yet. I'm assuming it will need to be in context.

April wrote: "Hi I am April. I do in home childcare for the state of Texas. My own children are 18 and 19. I love doing different challenges. I am in a few right now. I am like Lisa I am in it not to be last. Li..."
Ha. I knew it. I knew I recognized your name. Welcome. Susan found a great post from another team. I "borrowed" it and posted in Msg 6.

Hello everyone. I'm Lisa. I love Goodreads challenges as they help me figure out what to read next. I am usually in at least one team challenge at all times it seems like. I am finishing up Hunt in Sept, starting Bingo (both regular and speedy) and now starting this one too. I think I might be crazy.

I've read the material and I think I get it. I'm going to spend more time today reviewing.

I've been on a team with Steph, Susan and Hayley before. I've seen April's name, but not sure which one since I do so many. I've never seen Vian's name before, but looking forward to getting to know everyone.

As I have said in the past, when I'm in team challenges, I don't play to win, I play to have fun and not be last. That is really the only goal. Hope that theory is ok. Playing to win usually adds too much stress in my life.

I'm so excited to get started.

Hello,

I've never played this before so I'm not 100% sure what is needed or not. I'm not purposely trying to take over as "team captain" or whatever, so feel free to tell me to butt out. :) Or tell me that I'm wrong. I can take direction, I promise.

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

I have access to the gDoc and created a copy (listed above) so that we can plan before adding books to the official sheet. You can either request access or send me your email and I can give you edit access to the planning sheet. It is a slightly modified copy of the Official sheet to help up add all of the books we read since I'm pretty sure we will be over the 80-book limit. We can review them before adding them to the official sheet.

Let me know what you think.

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Totally Stole this from another Team: Life of Pie
Thanks Susan for finding it!

HOW THIS WORKS

Read a book.
- Look out for food words.
- If you can reasonably record all of them, that’s great. If not, don’t sweat it. Just note like 5-10 food words with page # and try to include the high point ones (vinegar, chicken, rice, spices, desserts, drinks). See below for limitations.
- Primary Concern is filling out the Books Spreadsheet. We don't need everyone to do make the meals and serve the customers.

Enter the book into the Books Read sheet.
- Rule of thumb for the whole spreadsheet: if the column’s colored green, you don’t need to fill it yourself, the formulas will take care of it.
- Don’t enter duplicate book names. The formulas get angry. If you read a book someone else has read, just add your name to the end of it (like Harry Potter Mahi).
- Col H: A book can be used to get scavenger words OR spell it out letters. We can’t mix and match. If there were not a lot of food words, you can select spell it out or if it was nonfiction with little spell it out potential you can select scavenger. But it’s up to you and we can change it later if needed.
- Col I: potential spell it out letters - first letter of title, author first/last name, character names, audiobook narrator, translator
- Col I: potential scavenger words - Col M tells you which meal categories can be made with this book based on page length (50 pgs < fresh < 160 pgs < fresh or frozen < 500 pgs < any). So don’t bother scavenging food words outside of that (ex: desserts and drinks other than coffee/tea if you’re not reading a 500+ word book)

Make meals in the Kitchen sheet.
- We get a certain number of scavenger words or spelling letters per book based on page length: 50 pgs < 2 < 160 pgs < 4 < 300 pgs < 8 < 500 pgs < 12. You can see how many we have for a book at Col J. More importantly you can see how many we have LEFT in Col L.
- You can combine these words/letters to make a meal. See the Meal Info sheet for what each meal requires.
- Example: Circe contains fish and salt. Six of Crows contains potato and lemon. This can make Fish and Chips!
- Example 2: Six of Crows (S), has a character named Inej (I). Frankenstein (F) has a character named Henry (H). We can spell FISH and make Fish and Chips!
- Put this info in the Kitchen sheet - each word/letter is a row. Add justification for each word (just the page/chapter/% it’s from) or letter (title/character/author, etc). IF you have all ingredients for the meal, put “yes” in Col L next to the meal number.
- We need to make some of every meal because when we get customers later each type only eats some kinds of meals.
- Write meal descriptions in the Shop Front sheet. This seems to be just for fun and doesn’t have points attached, for now.

Team: What The Fork?!

Submission complete. We will definitely have enough with the 5 of us and we can add the 6th if she responds in time and wants to.

What to Fork it is. Looks like we just have 3. Natasha (not sure how I started tagging Vanessa) joined a different team.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...

I asked a few players from other challenges. Got 2 yes and waiting for the other one.