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Maddy’s on a roll (as usual)!I am on track to finish my high fantasy 500+ pager later tonight.
I’ve also made very good progress on the shorter book I started this morning for Apples To Apples. I think I can finish it tomorrow.
All have bowed to the socks. ;D
Haha, maybe in a curry. Top search in Google says “The sweet-tasting belladonna fruit is a purple-black berry attractive to children, sometimes fatally so.”I was gonna list “entrails” at some point but chickened out. 😂
Happy weekend, everybody!I had a crazy week. So glad it is over.
My best friend got me a pair of socks for my birthday that say “Fuck Off, I’m Reading.” I will be wearing them today and pointing at them emphatically whenever anybody comes near.
Well, apart from my hour of 5th Grade Book Club hosting duties...*gulp*
Re: "Round 4 Theme - Read a book with two P's in the title"Can there be MORE than two P's in the title? Or does it have to be exactly two?
Can there be MORE than two P's in the title? Or does it have to be exactly two?ETA: I'll move this to the Q&A thread as well.
Realized I could go back and look for "quality" etc in the Round 3 book I posted the other day.The Book of Kindly Deaths
local 22%
Sadly, that's the only thing!
Round #3 Adjective called: Sultry
Final noun pick: Moonlight
Spreadsheet updated :)
Lexi wrote: "It is separate, so it could have 8 ingredients and 8 of those words if we use those ingredients in 8 different meals."Niiiiiiiice.
Thanks!
Lexi wrote: "while alcohol is fun, please use coffee or desserts first for the 12 items books as coffee is worth more than alcohol for 1 item and desserts can be given to teens."I don't think there will be any coffee in my current 500+ high fantasy novel, but otherwise I will bear that in mind.
I am also going to start a 500+ page space opera next. Apparently my hind brain would like to read long Middle Books In Trilogies right now. But I'll pick something else shorter, too, once the next Apples To Apples theme is announced on Friday. Hopefully something with plenty of coffee.
I can't relate to all this coffee. In real life, I don't like it at all. Give me tea or give me death!
My daughter really wants me to read
, which is one of her favorites right now. I am like, "I will, sweetie, but not until this challenge is over. Let me read you some more of that Harry Potter tonight!" LOL. I'm actually hosting an informal book club Zoom for her class this weekend. Me and a bunch of 10 year olds... I will be drinking quite a lot of tea.
So "local", "neighbourhood / neighborhood", or "quality" are separate from our ingredient count? Like, a 350 page books can have 8 ingredients PLUS one of these words? Or does it replace an ingredient, so a 350 page book would give us 7 ingredients plus one of these words for a total of 8?
Sorry if I am being dense.
Also, my Kindle search tells me there's some tea, which I missed while reading. Will add that to the list as well.
Ack, sorry, there are only 2 vinegars. I made a mistake when transposing my handwriting to GR. Here are quotes:"Eliza could still smell the vinegar"
"half-torn label on the vinegar bottle"
Book also has onion (84%) and oats (86%) if those are useful. Missed from my scrap-paper handwriting marginalia.
Will update previous comment too.
Finished The Book of Kindly Deaths by 11/17/2020
304 pages
[MPG Childrens; verified via audio 9hr55min]
"fish and chips" 6%
fish 4%
chips 6%
potatoes x4 : 10% (x3), 13%
potato x2 : 11%, 44%
vinegar x2 : 6% (x2)
salmon 1%
"roasting pig" 18%
bacon x4 : 5% (x3), 9%
liver x2 : 33%, 70%
rabbit x2 : 21%, 37%
squid x2 : 37% (x2)
crab 58%
beef 64%
chicken 39%
"tomato-based sauce" 5%
organic butter 5%
"brightly colored eggs" 26%
eggs x4 : 26%, 27%, 30%, 32%
wholegrain bread 5%
bread 5%
cheese x8 : 48% (x4), 72% (x4)
milk 65%
water x4 : 10%, 11%, 17%, 42%
salty water 4%
"dark water" 33%
salt 26%
sugar 27%
peppermint 26%
vanilla 70%
spices 57%
sage 26%
thyme 27%
lemon 27%
citrus 26%
seaweed 4%
turnip 44%
mushroom x2 : 44%, 80%
coffee 70%
onion 84%
oats 86%
tea x2 : 52%, 66%
A surprising amount! I stopped tracking most stuff after a while.
Round 3 completion post
The Book of Kindly Deaths by Eldritch Black
Read: 11/17/2020
Pages: 304
How it fits: “Deaths” in the title
Nouns chosen:
book (title), moonlight (precis), family (precis), children (tagged 3 times), witchery (tagged 1 time)
ETA:
Round #3
Adjective called: Sultry
Final noun pick: Moonlight
Welcome aboard, Susan!
No more “Swinbourne” items this round, right?It would be those new non-food items instead, and not in addition to?
Lexi wrote: "If the pattern continues, we should aim for around 240 meals. We still need fish and chips as we are a fish and chip place and I like our fun curries. I think more coffee and tea and pasta are good..."Desserts, drinks, and cocktails are good goals too, right? From the eligible 500+ pagers? Because they have a 1 item minimum.
There’s already been a bunch of cake in the big book I just started. I could, like, just stop tracking food in that book after I hit 12 desserts...
Kind of sounds like real life: I stop eating only after I have hit 12 desserts. 😉
Rebecca wrote: "Let’s just try to have fun, read what we want and make the most of it 😁"That’s what happened to my team during Lava last year. By the final round, we were like, We’re not going to win, so let’s just spell out whatever words look like more fun and variety, instead of trying to spell “IN” and “ON” fifty times for more points.
I just started a 500+ pager which will take me a while to read, and I also still have that Harry Potter #5 going.
I’m about to start a 300+ pager too, which is meant for the Apples To Apples challenge and so must be finished by Wednesday afternoon. So hopefully it won’t be a DNF. It’s one of many Kindle Freebies upon which I hope not to waste too much time if they suck!
Just do whatever is the most fun! 😄You might end up getting us a bunch of extra points for creativity anyway!
ETA: this is not inconsistent advice vis-a-vis my call to feed more people in my previous comment, since that was specifically in regards to the incomprehensible new non-ingredient bonus words. Coffee vs Curry is one thing. Coffee vs Instagram is another.
Thanks Lexi!Yeah... there are several people I can think of who seem to routinely speed-read and/or re-read 500+ page books, so I am not surprised.
For the tiers/bonus point words thing, do we find out our score later, and that dictates our tier for Round 3? Or did we just get placed into the high tier that one time and now we are still in it?
Are we still supposed to look for Ube and such, in addition to the new Round 3 bonus words, or are the new words *instead* of Ube and such?
I might just ignore the new non-food bonus words, TBH. Even if I had a bunch of books with the word “instagram” in them or whatever, being able to use fewer actual ingredients makes for fewer meals in the long run, which means fewer customers fed.
Maybe I’m showing my political leanings (haha) but I would rather feed more people than be trending on social media. 😂
