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

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

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.

Yeah, one of my books had tons of words and I stopped doing multiples of words after awhile and didn't even add in for real desserts or drinks because I knew they wouldn't be counted. I read the second book in the series and will read the third too because there are so many good food words. I will get my tiny book updated today with both food and characters because it could be used for either. I'm working on a 600 page book right now. We can't go anywhere for Thanksgiving. The numbers are too high and Kentucky has some serious gathering restrictions so we can't even go to friends. No more than 2 households together, no more than 8 people unless it's immediate family that you live with. I'll be off Thursday-Sunday so just planning on relaxing, reading, and eating. John's off those days also so we may go look at new SUV's because we had budgeted to get a new one this year but we were waiting until the end of the year sales. I'll get to pull 9-10 hour shifts the next few days but hopefully I can listen to books some.

Completion Post: Round 4 Theme - Read a book with at least two P's in the title

Book: The Saturday Night Supper Club
Author: Carla Laureano
Date Read: 11-21-2020
Pages: 416
How it fits: Double P's in Supper

Nouns: From precis: chef, award, campaign From tagged: romance, Christian

If anyone wants a random book to read with a lot of ingredients to choose from, I'm working my way through The Saturday Night Supper Club because it had double P's in it for apples to apples challenge. It's pretty good so far and I'm just sad that it's only worth 8 ingredients and not 12. There are some good words in this book!

I made a lot of meals and used ingredients from different people's books. I know that I still have blanks but I figured it would be easy to fill those in. A couple of us found out that Changeless has vinegar in it many, many times so I'm planning on reading that and if we need to just use it for vinegar for our fish and chips that would be good. I have one more books to add with food and then I'll probably have like 3 more books finished before tomorrow night. So with the special words, I don't know how to add the word if it wasn't in the book that I made the meal with so I may need help with that.

Hey! Okay, so I'm catching up some of my tv shows today and will be working on adding my words. I have a lot of words to add for one book so that's going to take me a hot minute plus the chapters are labeled weird which means I have to do page numbers so that's really going to take awhile. Thanks for making meals for me. Welcome back Jenny! Are you feeling better? I saw you update the spreadsheet. :) We are back under some serious restrictions here in Kentucky so no Thanksgiving plans at all which means more reading time and down time next week.