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

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

Susan, There is a book of your highlighted in Purple. Is there a reason for that?

You don't have to change what you are doing. I've been updating because when I create meals its easier for my by page rather than by item. Since it's a personal thing for me, I don't expect anyone to make any changes to how they are tracking.

If we could do it by chapter that would be great. Way easier than by page.

Steph...I just read Logan's Need for hunt. I copied what I found to yours. Let me know if you find anything I missed.

Susan A wrote: "I just finished a mini challenge - -20 books in 48 hours. I just couldn't keep track of the food items or the character names. Most of the books were in the 161-300, with 1 over 300. Since we curre..."

I think this is a fair plan.

Susan A wrote: "Lisa -- do you want help making meals? It seems like too much work for one person and too much work to wait until the end of the month."

I probably do need help making meals, but I thought Vian, who has done this challenge before, was going to help. I was going to start on Thursday since we will probably have 60 books by then, starting with the highest page count books.

I just read a book that had absolutely no specific food in it. They ate Pizza or went out to dinner. I'm shocked. They had lots of booze, but the book was too short to use.

Vian wrote: "I'm back! Labor Day is always a crazy weekend that rolls into the week, and the holiday + unexpected work stuff made this a longer away than I thought it would be.

I should be back. I just added m..."

Great. Let us know if we should change our process at all. :) Welcome Back!

Susan A wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "I messaged Kat about TART. She said we can sign up as our group of 4, but if for some reason Hayley says no, we can continue as a group of 3. Sound good?"

Sure...just we're not in ..."

Just not be last. That's my motto

I messaged Kat about TART. She said we can sign up as our group of 4, but if for some reason Hayley says no, we can continue as a group of 3. Sound good?

Susan A wrote: "I think Hayley is in Disney World this week"

Should we just assume she will say yes? Why does she always get to go on vacation? :)

Has anyone seen Hayley in other challenges or groups?

@Steph and @Susan: I'd do TART, but we need 4 and I haven't heard back from Hayley on the message I sent. Hope everything is ok.

Susan A wrote: "Steph wrote: "Lisa, Hayley and Susan are we skipping this round of TART? I didn't know signups were up. I was messaged about joining another team but figured I'd check with you all before making a ..."
Me Too. Books we read for that would be able to be used for this too..... I was thinking about it, but whatever you all want. :)

Susan A wrote: "I really wish we had access to a bigger set of examples. The small sample doesn't help with all of my questions, and I'm not comfortable asking as many questions as I'd like.

MN Lisa -- your lates..."

Some of the questions I asked didn't get answers that I understood, so I'm just going with my gut.

We can stop tracking burgers, but we still might need the ingredients that are on the burgers. Like cheese, buns and tomato. That can help make sandwiches.

Maybe Vian can provide some assistance as they are the only ones that have played this before. Or we can just play as we think is right and see where that gets us.

I can't seem to concentrate on a book to save my life. So, I've added a new tab to our planning spreadsheet with some choices of sandwiches and stuff to make. I looked at a few menus from my area for ideas.

Is a burger considered a sandwich?

Question: Wine. I know the book has to be over 500 pages to use this as a drink but if we want to use as part of a pasta dish can it be under 500 pages? For example: SALMON + DILL PASTA: Garlic seared salmon, fresh dill, butter wine sauce, green onion, lemon

I would need pasta, salmon, dill, butter, wine, onion and lemon...right?

Susan A wrote: "I just finished Death on the Nile 352 pages -- so 8 spell or scavenger. I could not find 8 scavenger words, even including water, coffee and tea.

It has a milllion eligible character..."

I hid the columns for author and character so I can unhide them or you can add them to the food area, which ever works best. Then make sure to change the one field to "Spell" instead of "Scavanger".

Susan A wrote: "That sounds like a good plan.

I have a 500 pg book planned for this week. it has 12+ desserts/drinks but it also has 3 vinegar.

I probably won't have many 500+ books over the course of the challe..."

The items from the 500 point books can be used at any time. So we can bank the Dessert and drinks for any round.

I'm checking on the items. so if we use 2 of the 3 vinegars in round 1, can we use the last in round 2?

Sorry if this was asked and answered. When it comes to round 2, can we use items we found in books read in round 1? For example, we find vinegar 3 times in a round 1 book, but we only use two of those in round 1. Can we use the 3rd instance of Vinegar in round 2?

Hayley wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Susan A wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Susan A wrote: "I think we everything to make a monthly special now!"

I only found 5 of the 6 needed. Did I miss something? I found chicken, spices,..."

I think the harder to find ones we might want to list multiple times but based on the books we have done already I don't think we will be hurting for ingredients

I'm going to sort by Available and then Remaining and start using those ingredients with books over 300 pages.

The over 500 page books I'm going to concentrate on the drinks and desserts we find and use ingredients if we can't fill the other items. My 500 Page book should have about 10 drinks/desserts, outside of coffee and tea.