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

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

After I finish Harrow the Ninth, I think I might read
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I can get it on CloudLibrary. But I think it would make more sense to look for specific ingredients that we need most, rather than try to note every single word in the book... There will be too many!
So what do we think we need most this Round (besides Ube, legume, and watermelon)?

Finished Summer Frost
10/23
75 pages

Salt 37%
roasted duck 37%

Also has water several times if needed for tea, and author’s name is Blake if we want to use for a spell-out of UBE instead of for scavenger words.

Donna wrote: "I used bananas in a sandwich so you are good."

I had this one apple and Gouda sandwich once, a really long time ago, and enjoyed it. But every time I have tried to eat similar sandwiches since then, they are never good. Must have been in a weird mood that first time, or something!

Finished This Savage Song
10/22
428 pages

Green Apple x3 — p6, 55, and 164
* Apple x5 — p55 (2), 57, and 164 (2)
Coffee x2 — p6 and 326
Peaches — p55
Steak — p55
Water x6 — p194, 322, 348 (2), and 350 (2)
Fish — p270


* This list counts “green apple” separately from “apple” (generic term). So, 8 apples in total, with 3 of them green.
I just realized that the rules put fruit in the dessert category, but I had been counting those things in this book because I was thinking of apple on sandwiches and peaches in summer salad.
Totally fine with it if they can’t be used though. 😉
That still leaves 2x coffee, steak [for on a sandwich], and fish, and at least 4 instances of water that can be used for tea...

I’m about halfway through. I liked Gideon better. This 2nd one is... weird. It doesn’t feel anything like a direct sequel, and I have no idea what is going on. Like, at all. The whole book is like a febrile dream sequence.
Muir is a really good technical writer but had better pull a rabbit out of this necromantic hat soon, else I will feel like my time has been wasted.

I haven’t seen “kidney” yet (or could have missed it), but since [my edition of] the book is over 500 pages, I did flag cake and ice cream and chocolate and ginger biscuit 😃 plus there’s been coffee, onion, carrot, root vegetables, coconut, and marrow. Which is totally a thing people eat! But so is viscera, really, and I can’t imagine being able to use that. Viscera pasta?

In other news, I am almost finished with This Savage Song, which has surprisingly few food words in it. If only more of the characters would eat food instead of SOULS!

Harrow the Ninth

One of 3 books that I started after Round 2 began but before I got put on the team. I wouldn’t have chosen to start any of these if I had already been playing, but at least there are some good food word surprises in this one.
I mean useable ones. Not bowls of nun! 🍰🍦

Hahahaha, someone in one of my books just said they “ate a whole bowl of nun” ! Cannot use nun in a sandwich, I imagine. 😂

I was just re-reading the rules again just to check on this exact thing:

Each Book can be used for either scavenger hunt words or as spell-it-outs.

That’s a bummer because I have a U title book (for spelling “Ube”) that also has the word “watermelon” in text. I suppose the latter will be worth more, but too bad we can’t use both.

Excellent! Now to hope there are at least 12 good, useable words.

For my clarity... we can’t use generic words like “meat” or “vegetables”, right? It has to be something specific for use in pasta and sandwiches and such? Like, beef or bacon or steak or asparagus or whatever?

Yeah, the issue then just becomes “MPG Childrens on Goodreads” whether you agree with it for a particular book or not :/

So... Karen, just so’s I fully understand #297 (I am just joining the challenge now as a replacement player so I dunno from spreadsheet automation, lol):

Deathly Hallows, to use Christina’s example, could be used for Frozen (but not Dessert)... but since it is over 500 pages, could still be used to find up to 12 ingredients from the book, correct?

In case anyone is interested, last month I read Sin Eater. I can’t use it now but I recommend it, and not only because it has so very many foods!

*double high five*
😆

Y’all seem to have the spreadsheet well in hand, and I have no idea what I am doing. So I will probably list foods in posts here and let Lexi or whoever take care of creating meals if that is okay?


And a Big Book question:
I started rereading HP #5 yesterday. It is over 700 pages, but because it is Childrens, and the “Desserts, drinks and cocktails” category says that Children’s books cannot be used (making no mention of verified word count!) does that mean it will have to be used for “Frozen” instead, presumably with up to 8 scavenger words rather than the 12 it would otherwise have generated?

No longer just an unofficial mascot!
Woohoo!

Looking forward to cookin’ with you lovelies. I haven’t been reading as much as in past challenges but I will do my best 😄

My first (and hopefully only) DNF of the month. It also happens to be one of my oldest ARCs, from way back in 2017.


(my review)

A tedious mess, and particularly sad because some of the ideas were potentially really cool. Oh well.

Go Team Second Breakfast!!!
😀

The Drowsy Bookworm wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Hello Rachel, Lia, Jess, and Erin!
I hope you will all have fun around here. 😁"

Thank you!"

Erin, we have the same birthday! 5 November!
But I am 3 years older than you. It is also my own daughter’s birthday (yup, we share a birthday; she is turning 10 this year).

Hello Rachel, Lia, Jess, and Erin!
I hope you will all have fun around here. 😁

Gem ~Zero Shelf Control~ wrote: "Yes!!! Finished my first ever approved read from 2016 (oops), starting the next oldest too! I will get through these!"

Nice!

Since hitting 100% of my goal on this challenge, I haven’t read many old TBRs because I was trying to focus mainly on my NetGalleys, but here are 2 more oldies (and I am currently reading another...)


Was meant to be a BR but everybody else kind of bowed out. The writing is YA, as it’s meant to be, but the content is so adult and serious. What a tragic story!


Also a BR, over in the Back Room, lol. This was pretty bad, almost but not quite in a “so bad it’s good” way. Oh well!