bamaace83 ’s Comments (group member since Dec 11, 2018)

bamaace83 ’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Hey everyone, I'm Anna. I've played TT in the past and I love this challenge. I live in the Louisville area and am on Eastern time zone. Real life has been super crazy lately but I can usually get things updated on the weekend.

I read all over the board but steamy sports romances have been my things it seems like the past couple months. I've never read the Discworld books but plan on reading some during the challenge.

Here is my shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Awesome job everyone! Thanks for being such a great team to play with. :)

I just saw this and thought I would share. Great job everyone on finding the special words. We found the most!

Customer have arrived!

Shout out to everyone for chasing the google items, and special kudos to those who got more than 100 (and even 200!)

Team Google items
Team Read It and Eat 222
Team Second Breakfast 197
Team Read Hot Chilis 175
Team Lettuce Read 157
Team Tienuurtj 127
Team Dholes with Sole 126
Team SCAAMP's Pub 122
Team The IncrEDIBLEs 84
Team Tequila Mockingbird77
Team Pie and Prejudice 67
Team Trouble 64
Team Chaotic Cooks 54
Team The Ravenous Reader27

Thanks so much Jenny for finishing everything up. Thanks for being such a great team. This was a fun and challenging challenge but I loved all the different little aspects of it. :)

I don't know if we have enough ingredients left even after I add my last two books to make 40 more meals. I'm adding these ingredients and then I'll come back later to check.

I think it's how it's set up on my phone. I double checked it but how I read the books the page numbers are off compared to what Goodreads says because my phone isn't as big as an actual kindle. I did chapter numbers for the special words but vinegar appeared 5 times in Chapter 9 so that's why I did the phone page numbers. What should I do to fix it? Change them all to Chapter 9, 11, and 13?

Vicki how about you put the Catching the Wind book in my spot of 77. Your book has so many more good food words than the book that I'm currently reading and then I don't have to rush to finish it tonight and can work on meals.

I made a good bit of meals this morning. I know that I have to finish two books and I will get those done. I did use a lot of ingredients but now work is getting busy so I probably won't be able to make more meals or work on things until tonight. I will try to make cute names but if anyone has time and wants to help me make cute names that would be great. We are doing so well. :)

Cool, I can try to get creative and come up with some names. I rearranged my books that I had listed but I know that I will have mine done by Friday. I just may be coming in screaming hot with that last book Friday night. I'm also hoping for some downtime at work tomorrow to make some more meals.

I've started going back and fixing the meals that we have done so we can make sure that the bonus words are included. I've highlighted the ones that I've done. I'm at 102 I think. I've noticed that some of the books the words haven't been searched for and I'm guilty of this as well. I've gone back for a couple of my books and I'll go back again later. If y'all need help finding the special words let me know. I think it would be good to have each meal contain a special word and I can do some rearranging Friday/Saturday to make that happen but I would like to get a head start so it's not as time consuming. I also need help naming all the meals I made with fancy words. I'm not very good at that. Last thing, the green highlighted box is the wrong link for the book. I don't know how picky the mods are but I saw that and wanted to make it known so we don't get dinged later.

I got distracted with real life situations last night but I have some down time this morning so I can work on some meals.

Cool, I'll leave those alone. I'll have time again to play around tonight to see what I can find also. I may use ingredients that are available just to get some more meals on the list so we aren't scrambling Friday/Saturday. :)

Tammie wrote: "A few thoughts

I think continuing a balance approach to meals is good but weighing heavier on fresh because points are higher may be a good idea for this round...other ideas welcome!"


That's very smart! I may actually play around with the spreadsheets later if I have downtime at work and see if I can take the pasta dishes that I made last night and turn them into something else for more points. I was going the balanced approach but I actually like the idea of a little heavier towards fresh. I know I still have 2 500 page books to update and I can always take one of the last spots and find another good 500 if needed. My reading this week is all over the place and I'm going to be juggling some books around anyway.

I made a lot of meals. I need to get the books again from the library to find the missing special words and I'll work on that tomorrow and Tuesday. I'll also keep reading and adding words. I know I left a spot open for vinegar but I have a book coming up that has tons of vinegar in it. Looks like we are definitely going to need more desserts and non-alcoholic drinks. I left lots of ingredients in one of my 12 point books to add for desserts.

So, I plan on reading a lot this weekend and I can spend a good time on Sunday working on meals. I'll have a good audio book going so I can read and work on the spreadsheet at the same time. I'm also planning on doing tons of errands tomorrow and wrapping presents so more audiobooks. My goal is 5-6 books finished this weekend if I can. I listen to chipmunk speeds and I have ebooks of the audio books because I read pretty fast so I can go back and forth. This work week went crazy. I ended up reading a couple 200 page books and depending on other people's reading I can add those next Thursday/Friday if we need them. I think that I'll have a few more 300 page books next week so I wasn't going to add them just yet. I read a few I realized that I need to go back and find the bonus words in so I'll get that updated also.

You’re free to use my ingredients to make meals if you have time. I won’t get home for another hour or so to add more ingredients but I know that I have books with ingredients that can be used.

Just added all the books that I'm currently reading and planning on reading in the next week. I may have a few more little books to add depending on how these challenges roll. I will get my meals and the other ingredients added tonight.

So sorry about not getting everything updated, yesterday ran away from me. I updated 2 of my books at lunch time and I'll work on getting the rest updated tonight. I think I have some books to add.

Sounds good, I will have time tomorrow to get everything caught up. It's Alabama/Auburn football day today so we have junk food, drinks, and a Bama team to cheer on.

I had to do that a few times already also. Only one time did I have trouble finding the book and then I just bought it because it was easier than trying to figure out another way.