Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s Comments (group member since Sep 26, 2012)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Emma wrote: "So I am going to do my spell it outs today. I thought we still created meals using letters, but do we just make food words?"

Yes just food words, Emma. Have a look at the spreadsheet for inspiration.

Hope all is okay Ariel, stay safe.

I'm half way through my last book for this month, should have it finished by tomorrow.

And don't forget we all have to vote on the restaurant names by the end of the countdown.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Great teamwork ladies. 💕

All good with shuffling for more meals. Agree that just using the minimum number of ingredients allowed for a meal is the better strategy for more meals.

Also just a heads up that I will be away from 9 November so will be reading less from then. And won’t have reliable internet either.

We also have to vote which affects Round 2.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Good luck with the move, Emma.

That sounds great Kaley and thanks for volunteering to allocate the meals this month. So if everyone can organise their meals in their books read during the week so it's easy for Kaley to allocate that would be awesome.

Hope everyone is enjoying the challenge.

Great if we have excess books. To avoid confusion probably better if the individual team member swaps their books under 300 pages out for another one they've read. No treading on anyone's toes that way. 😊

Who wants to volunteer to allocate the meals at the end of the month for this month? There are three months so if 3 people want to volunteer they can have a month each. I'll sit out and leave it to the tech savvy people, LOL.

Great going team.

We only need six more books read to finish the first month. 😁

Vicky wrote: "I'm finishing up The Four Winds over the weekend which will give us another BOM swap to use. Unfortunately, there was no way I'd get the other September BOM in time with the hold ti..."

Great Vicky. I'll be reading the two October BOM's too.

The Sin Eater

The Sin Eater

Megan Campisi
3.63
8,485 ratings1,664 reviews
Can you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it?

A Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the final private confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and so guarantees their souls access to heaven. It is always women who eat sins – since it was Eve who first ate the Forbidden Fruit – and every town has at least one, not that they are publicly acknowledged. Stained by the sins they are obliged to consume, the Sin Eater is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town.

Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, and has never considered what it might be like to be so ostracized; she’s more concerned with where her next meal is coming from. When she’s arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater, finding food is suddenly the last of her worries.

It’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new doors. And when first one then two of the Queen’s courtiers suddenly grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace corridors.

Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi is a wonderfully imaginative and gripping story of treason and treachery; of secrets and silence; of women, of power – and, ultimately, of the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast with no hope of redemption for, as May learns, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . .

So glad we have some spread sheet wizards in our group!

Hope you're all enjoying the challenge.

Great thinking ladies. My books till the end of the month are under 500 pages so I'll try and do more sandwiches. quiches or curry meals if the ingredients fit.

I read a BOM so we can swap two meals from adults to teenagers/children also if needs be.

Great work all.

Oh no Vicky. Hope you feel better soon.

So far I've been so lucky and escaped it despite my husband, one of my sons, his wife and children and my daughter and her partner all having it. Youngest son and I missed out who knows why. Hoping it stays that way.

Right on track, team.

Half way through the month and books read/reading are at 41/80!

All seems to be working now.

Does anyone want to read the BOM's and participate in the discussion. We can then get two swaps per person/per book when the meals are being allocated.

Books this month are - and . I did The Paris Apartment but had already read The Four Winds. But am planning to read both of next month's books. 😊

My library's got it, so I can do DQ's.

My library got it, so I can do DQ's.

Thanks Vicky. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Kaley wrote: "I have sauce in my book so I can add a seventh if no one else gets to it before me. I’ll probably finish that one tomorrow. And I’m going to be doing a lot of single-ingredient meals so I can def s..."

Thanks Kaley! I think it's fine, it can be up to 5 sentences. I'm not very imaginative, maybe add something with a Scottish theme? "Feed your Bravehearts or your wee Loch Ness Monsters with our bonnie faire". Like I said writing not my forte, LOL.

Ariel wrote: "I have a pasta dish in the sheet but need one more ingredient: does anyone have any garlic or oil of some kind available? I checked all of my other books but don't have anything I can find."


Ariel, just post your book and leave a gap and someone will add the extra ingredient when they find one later.

Is anyone working on a blurb for our cafe? We'll need one for Round 2, probably a mini challenge.