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

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

Finished 5 more since the last time I checked in here:



Glad to get them all off the list! Might squeeze in a few more before 2020 is over, but it’s not a priority.
All told, I also deleted probably something like 350 old TBR’s as well! Next year the “5 years old” goal will stand: anything that’s been on there since 2016 or earlier. I suspect there will be many more books deleted as well as happily read.

Round #4
Adjective called: delicious
Final noun pick: revenge

Spreadsheet updated

Finished Chaos Vector
11/25/2020
544 pages

"steaming coffee" 20%
"side of her coffee cup" 20%
"the swirl of her coffee" 20%
"can that thing make coffee" 24%
"your coffee machine" 24%
"stained with coffee" 29%
"at least coffee" 29%
coffee : 49%, 53%, 56%
"milk simulate" 31%
chocolate bars 5%
"the chocolate melted" 5%
"a delicious, almond-and-cocoa flavored concoction" 5%
"wiped chocolate from the corner" 5%
candy : 5%, 8%
"a steaming cup of tea" 8%
tea : 27%, 57%, 58%, 86%, 89%
"hot tea" 31%
"strong black tea" 31%
"spill his tea" 31%
"a perfect cup of tea" 49%
"an extra cube of sugar into Ilan's tea" 49%
"Biran added sugar" 49%
Sugar : 14%, 31%, 90%
Honey 39%
"a great noodle place" 2%
"excellent noodle shop" 8%
"best damned noodle place" 8%
"three noodle bowls" 8%
"empty noodle bowl" 9%
"the noodle place" 10%
"a bowl of noodles" 19%
root vegetables 13%
vegetables 50%
green onion 9%
Fruit : 20%, 50%
Apple : 30%, 69%
"Whiskey, by the scent" 58%
"how much whiskey she tossed back" 58%
"whiskey, smooth as silk" 58%
cocktail 31%
bread 13%
fish : 16%

Quality : 57%, 63%, 77%, 79%
Local : 3%, 6%
Neighborhood: 10%, 49%, 59%
Neighborhoods 8%
"all the celestial bodies in the neighborhood" 24%
"it had nothing in this neighborhood" 24%

Yeah, there was no way that Lucy wouldn’t win with that sultry elephant! 😂

Finished The Liminal People
11/23/2020
224 pages

coffee 21%, 22%, 27%, 36%
19% "comes from fish-and-chips"
19% "his parents owned a fish-and-chip shop"
19% "got to be like Fish'n'Chips"
20% "the fish'n'chips boy"
40% "Fish'n'Chips"
46% "Fish'n'Chips"
74% "Fish'n'Chips"
84% "Fish'n'Chips"
lemon 59%
mincemeat 68%
curry 19%, 38%, 47%, 59%

local 9%, 17%, 30%, 43%
neighborhood 16%, 19%, 39%, 51%

Again didn't track everything, so lemme know if a few more items would be helpful for variety.

Round 4 Completion Post


The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett
Read: 11/23/2020
Pages: 224
How it fits: two P's in people
Nouns chosen: wrath (precis), girl (precis), nature (precis), crime (tagged 4 times), revenge (tagged 2 times)

Spreadsheet updated

ETA:
Round #4
Adjective called: delicious
Final noun pick: revenge

Gah, keep forgetting to do “local” etc. in the same completion post!

Queen of the Unwanted:

p318 quality

Unfortunately that’s it, unless we can somehow use “locally grown herbs” (p23)

Finished Queen of the Unwanted
11/22/2020
592 pages

I didn't track everything and there's no coffee and nothing for fish & chips. But @Lexi let me know if you need water for the tea(s), more wine or brandy or cordial, or any potential curry ingredients instead of stuff I've listed.

p19 wine
p28 "dainty -- and quite delicious -- seed cakes"
p29 "hesitant to touch the cakes"
p29 "boldly taken a cake"
p29 "the danger those seed cakes represented"
p86 brandy, sweetmeats
p87 brandy, wine, whiskey, ale
p114 "those damned seed cakes"
p114 "the seed cakes her council members ate"
p124 "a hot cup of tea"
p125 tea
p225 "sweet cherry cordial"
p257 "an afternoon tea"
p259 tea
p349 tea
p350 "a soothing cup of tea"
p354 apple, bread, cheese
p356 "crunched into her apple"
p356 "as she chewed her apple"
p359 wine, "hot tea that I dropped. In a very... inconvenient location"
p373 "a strong, smoky whiskey"
p373 "watered-down wine"
p375 tea, "a cup of mint tea"
p447 "an especially strong cup of tea"

When you first said tick papers, I started picturing ticker tape. Which is... not the same thing at all.

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.