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Choose Your Own Adventure: Harry Potter 12/12/2020 - 3/15/2021 (ystp)Duration: Aiming for about 3 months. Starting 12/12/2020, so my target is... let's say 3/15/2021.
Option 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
Book Level: Cursed Child : 25+ books
Scavenger Hunt Level: Harris : 121+ words
Books Read:
Words:
(view spoiler)
Complete! 3/9/2021
29 books, 129 words
2 Sapphire Coins
I would like to do this challenge!I played NBRC Quidditch earlier this year and have been reading the HP books to my kid, so I'm in the mood. Plus, scavenger hunts are fun. And I want those sapphire coins, yo!
Duration: Aiming for about 3 months. Starting tonight 12/12/2020, so my target is... let's say 3/15/2021.
Option 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
►Pick a level and find the [listed] words... in the books you read. There is no limit to the number of words per book
Book Level: Cursed Child : 25+ books
Scavenger Hunt Level: Harris : 121+ words
Books Read:
Words:
(view spoiler)
Complete! 3/9/2021
29 books, 129 words
Complete! 3/9/2021
29 books, 129 words
That's probably it for me, unfortunately, as I haven't started anything else since finishing The Vine Witch and won't have much reading time before the deadline anyway.I hope all of our MIA team members are doing okay!
Go Team Second Breakfast! And thanks Lexi for all your hard work on putting together all the interesting meals :D
Finished The Vine Witch12/11/2020
263 pages
quality : 34% , 68%
local : 18% , 19% , 44%
vinegar 28% , 38%
coffee 34% , 64%(several) , 72%
tea 49% , 64% , 66%
"strong tea" 38%
"willow bark tea" 68%
fish 1% , 82% , 84%
salt 38% , 45% , 46% , 77%
honey 67% , 77%
"dried herbs" 2% , 9% , 63%
bread 4% , 31% , 38% , 62%
"crusty bread" 55%
turmeric 52% , 83%
ginger 83%
fennel 83%
garlic 32% , 83%
onions 32%
cinnamon 19% , 44%
nutmeg 19%
cardamom 19%
rosemary 9% , 42%
"ground-up chicory seed" 2%
milk 3% , 4%(several)
flour 3%
eggs 3%
cheese 2%, 4% , 38% , 39%
snails 1%
That's great, Lexi!
I was doing super well this round, until this week! Darn real life, cramping my style. 🤪
Ugh, this has not been a good “reading week” for me. I will finish my current book but that’s probably it!
Finished Rebel of the Sands12/7/2020
316 pages
“grabbed the tin of coffee” p35
“Is there coffee yet?” p35
honey p103
pickled lemons p106
flatbread p218
spices p103
dates p109
oranges p198
pomegranates p198, 235, 236
water 5, 162, 174, 184, 189
No local, etc.
Not about to sign up for any big classic doorstoppers, but I did just finish another old TBR :) 
I know a lot of people really loved this, but (unpopular opinion time!) I thought it was pretty meh, on more than one level. Oh well!
Not sure if I will read any more old TBRs this month, so I’ll catch folks on the flip side!
Lucy wrote: "Thanks so much! I was not expecting that, especially after posting late for one of the earlier rounds. All thanks to those elephants :D"Oh so sultry.
😂
Finished Frozen Charlotte12/6/2020
309 pages
@Lexi, I will list this book on the spreadsheet on Mon if you haven’t done it by then. Can also add quotes if you need and for the “double appearances” I have in these ingredients...
Coffee 60%
Tea 60%
curly fries 1%, 60%
fries 2%
Lemon 37%
Lemons 38%
Vegetables 15%
tuna 72%, 75%
Steak 15%(x2), 17%(x2)
Bearnaise sauce 15%
beans on toast 15%
toast 22%(x2)
bread 35%
butter 35%
cheese 72%
berries 25%
Egg 15%
Bacon 60%
Salt 34%, 35%(x2)
Local 30%, 57%
Quality 48%
Round 2 complete!#86
Just finished one more that had been TBR since 2014:
2.5 stars. Had a lot of potential and rang many gothic bells, but there were way too many random plot holes and inconsistencies and such for my liking. I’d be interested to see if this author improved in her subsequent books though, since parts of this were good. The overall writing here was not bad, just underdeveloped!
Wow, thanks! I guess reading a longer book for Round 5 paid off! 🙂
Lexi wrote: "Alysa,my library had a searchable copy and it had none of the three words so no worries. Thank you
Also, I really liked the 3rd Gunnie Rose. I liked the character development and the plot made se..."
Thanks for checking, Lexi!
Re Gunnie Rose, that's good news. I liked the setting and plot of the 2nd book but don't feel like there's been much character dev.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix12/5/2020
766 pages -- but can only be used for Fresh or Frozen because of MPG Childrens
coffee p231, 493, 495, 555
"two coffees" p494
"for their coffees" p494
"drinking his coffee" p494
tea p8(x4), 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 424, 448, 449, 555(x2), 556
water 374
milk p357, 555, 632
sugar p555
"wilted salad" p13
meat p78, 375, 672
steak p374(x3), 375(x2)
"dragon steak" p374, 375, 385, 386, 388
vegetable p78, 188
potato p111, 238
potatoes p505
mashed potato p143
roast potatoes p188
baked potato p155, 504
"Chinese chomping cabbage" p297
runner beans p752
brown rice p234
pumpkin p551
kipper(s) p113, 204
bacon p113, 257, 424
eggs p113, 257, 424
toast p113, 205, 424
bread p188
roast chicken p144
chicken leg p157
turkey p447
kumquats p175
radishes p236, 237
nuts p290
"wild boar's severed head" p299
lamb chops p238
cheese p445
ginger p227
salt p510
Had to do some roundabout searching to go back and find these, since I was already a good way through the book when these words were announced, lol:
neighbourhood p15
quality p175, p234
Empty Net12/4/2020
200 pages
"You ever had fried green tomatoes?" p84
"Fried green tomatoes. You're Canadian." p84
"whatever those tomato things were" p86
pimentos p87
tea p149
water p129, 148, 151, 179
See previous comment #556 regarding "local" etc.
Hey so I finished Empty Net last night, but I read a library ebook version via Overdrive, which is not searchable. I see it’s also available on KU but I don’t currently subscribe.
Can somebody with KU check that book for local/quality/neighborhood, and let me know approximately where you find those words (assuming you do), so I can go back and check my version?
I am pretty sure I saw “local” once or twice, but forgot to write it down until it was too late. At least I got all the useable foods.
This book had mostly unusable ones though. Darn lower league fictional hockey players and their pizza, cheeseburgers, and twinkies.
Thanks Aiswrya!
Round #5 Adjective called: profound
Final noun pick: adventure
spreadsheet updated
