Alysa’s Comments (group member since Jun 27, 2015)

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

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 Phoenix
12/5/2020
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 Net
12/4/2020
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

@Lexi, LOL, you were reading The Russian Cage and I was reading A Longer Fall and they are so close to each other on the spreadsheet that for a second I thought I'd messed up and put the wrong Gunnie Rose book on there somehow. :D

How was Book #3 compared to the previous installments? I need to read my NetGalley copy...

Finished Hogfather
12/2/2020
416 pages

Many interesting things...

"Klatchian coffee" p202
"find the coffee" p274
"last till the coffee" p274
"genuine ground coffee" p275
coffee p344
tea p21, 30, 48, 151, 213
"a daily bowl of rice and yak-butter tea" p175
lemon p170
"thicknesses of honey" p247
"a nice lot of honey" p247
"fish that made their own light" p42
"Krullian pipefish" p259
"a type of fish" p259
"suspicious of fish" p259
"orange fish" p269
"skeletal fish" p269
"mollusks and crustaceans" p180
"meat, fish, fowl, eggs and many types of vegetable dishes" p161
turnips p56, 57, 59, 88
potatoes p50, 104, 223, 264, 349
garlic p212, 273
onions p273
corn p256
beans p129, 227, 243
"a mess of beans cooking" p222
"eat beans" p222
"eating beans" p222
"a bowl of beans" p223
"a bit o' my beans" p223
gravy p349
pate de foie gras p384
salmon mousse p349
shrimp p384
curry 182
"half a bloody coconut, a lump of bacon rind, a handful of peanuts" p61
nuts p70, 84, 120
walnuts p76
pickled walnuts p205
bacon p218, 226
meat
chicken p151, 256
turkey p120, 151, 222
turkey leg p348
widgeon p223
swan's liver p223
salt pork p226
chitterlings p226
black pudding p226
pig knuckles p227
pork dripping p227, 241
"herb and butter dipping sauce" p180
butter p273
cheese p120, 203, 218
"the bread rose" p208
"after the bread rising" p208
bread p240, 241

local p107, 198, 208
quality p87, 231

Round 5 Completion Post


Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Read: 12/2/2020
Pages: 416
How it fits: MPG Holiday > Christmas; "Hogfather" wearing a Santa hat on cover
Nouns chosen: fairy (precis), night (precis), stocking (precis), wizards (tagged 32 times), adventure (tagged 76 times)

Spreadsheet updated

ETA:
Adjective called: profound
Final noun pick: adventure

Went back and found a couple more words in A Longer Fall
(comment #546) -- including vinegar! I knew I had seen it in there somewhere! :D

I foolishly picked a Terry Pratchett book to finish up the Apples to Apples challenge. I say foolishly because although I love Pratchett, it can be hard to read his books quickly, and I need to be done by tomorrow afternoon. Lucky thing I had a lot of time on Sunday. Got a good amount of the book in then!

Camilla wrote: "Page count corrected."

Great!
Thanks, Camilla!

Anyone else a GR librarian on this thread?
I try not to update books while I'm reading them for challenges -- especially page counts!

I'm reading this edition of Hogfather, which is showing on GR as 236 pages but it's actually 416 according to many sources, including the publisher's site:
https://www.harpercollins.com/product...

I'll go post there...

Is anyone else here a GR librarian?
I try not to update books while I'm reading them for challenges -- especially page counts!

I'm reading this edition of Hogfather, which is showing on GR as 236 pages but it's actually 416 according to many sites, including the publisher's site:
https://www.harpercollins.com/product...

Finished The Smile of a Ghost
11/29/2020
516 pages

coffee p239, 270, 371, 443, 444, 445, 496, 526
tea p34, 47, 53, 55, 80, 88, 131, 133, 142, 158, 160, 166

"a cup of tea and a bourbon biscuit" p80
"a big chocolate flake" p40
"Cadbury's chocolate flakes" p271
"bars of Green and Black's Maya Gold chocolate" p350
chocolate p128
"hot chocolate" p329, 403, 405, 526, 532
marzipan p271
birthday cake p358
"a great turreted cake" p544

sugar p47, 55
bitter lemon p270
marmalade p225
wine p12, 102, 133, 197, 198, 341, 412, 416, 419, 420
white wine p265, 371
red wine p371, 414
brandy p241, 243, 249, 251, 254
beer p85, 130, 275, 391
lager p113, 375
"clutching long cans of lager" p360
"lager slurping out" 360
"glass of cider" p344, 434, 435
"cloudy homemade cider" p442
"can of Coke" p498

curry p371, 375
chips p38, 42, 459, 460
bacon p448
cheese p305, 379

local p19, 48, 61, 101, 102, 106, 113, 144, 145, 153, 166, 167
quality p241, 416, 435, 502

Finished A Longer Fall
11/28/2020
304 pages

coffee p69, 108, 111, 112, 195
"we need some coffee" p68
"like some more coffee" p68
snap beans p93, 124, 128
speckled butter beans p124
"I finished my butter beans" p128
"as butter beans ought to be" p128
squash p124
mashed potatoes p93
vegetables p61, 124
salt p128
catfish p124
chicken p61, 93, 99, 124, 128
bacon p66, 128, 195
butter p93, 124
gravy p93, 124
bread p64, 203
corn bread p124, 127
pepper p82
vinegar p82

local p61, 82
neighborhood p150

Wow, thanks! And I actually almost changed my final noun choice!
Glad I didn’t. ☺️