Karen ⊰✿’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2012)

Karen ⊰✿’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Yes all good, Lisa 👍

You can double up - just a total of 20

Yes that is fine, Lisa

Seeing we are in month two I think it would be a bit unfair on others to change the rules now for spell it outs or ingredients 😊😬

Yes that’s ok, Sammy

Yes that’s right Kira. It will then count them and highlight if a team tries for more than 20 😀😉👍

Yes 8 total, Lisa 👍

Janeylou wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "results from Look at The Crowds are up!

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

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That’s right

Mahi wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Mahi wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Mahi wrote: "I think the spreadsheet isn't including everything in calculating the "Scavenger hunt / spell it out letters used" points. The ..."

Re: using column for formula - Yes true - not sure why we did it differently. Maybe we had ideas of putting other things towards the end of the sheet. It’s been too long since we created all this in 2020 😆

Ok I’ll check the two point thing when I’m on a computer as I need to follow the formulas through and remind myself. The wording says “number used” not points so I just need to check we didn’t then account for the points elsewhere. Or maybe it was written in one way and then no one realised last time it wasn’t doing the points correctly 🤣🤔

Mahi wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Mahi wrote: "I think the spreadsheet isn't including everything in calculating the "Scavenger hunt / spell it out letters used" points. The formula only goes until row 48..."

We will fix that if teams use more than number. It’s based on last year’s template and so we just started with a random number and it is larger each round.
Not sure I’m following why the formula would need to multiply by 2? Looking at last years team sheets it is the same formula

Janeylou wrote: "Do we need to check in anywhere when we all finished for the month?"

Nope

Haha yes but it’s really just a guideline Susan. We don’t count the words :)

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 6

Books:
published


to be published



Feedback ratio: 95%


FINISHED


ADDED


End of Month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:%

Vicky wrote: "I don't know why I thought there were 31 days in September! LOL

I'm more asking about the timeline to finalize meals once books are in - do we have time to shuffle ingredients around after the las..."

No, you need to have them read and the meals done by the countdown.
You can have books started in Sept, but unread, used in Oct.

So basically if you think you are going to finish the book 1 minute before the countdown, best to leave it until Oct and then finish it in Oct and use it then

Copied from the countdown:


Customers arrive! You have 48 hours to feed them and finalise round 1. (You can start reading for round 2 while this is occuring).
Remember: Your meals are set at the end of the round and once customers arrive can't be changed. i.e. You can't change meals around to suit the customers you receive

Vicki wrote: "I read a book with 675 pages per Goodreads; however, I borrowed the ebook from Scribd which shows 925 pages. I might have some foods that are in the over 675 page bracket which is more than the pag..."

Yes it is fine to just use your Scribd page # as reference

Is toast on the cover enough for food? 😬



When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.

Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?

The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years--a sparkling debut novel about mothers and daughters, culture and class, sex and love, and the extraordinary resilience of female friendship.

Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth. Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and over the course of the novel, the reader learns about their loves and losses. How Funmi stole Zainab's boyfriend and became pregnant, only to have an abortion and lose the boyfriend to police violence. How Enitan was seduced by an American Peace Corps volunteer, the only one who ever really saw her, but is culturally so different from him--a Connecticut WASP--that raising their daughter together put them at odds. How Zainab fell in love with her teacher, a friend of her father's, and ruptured her relationship with her father to have him.

Now, some thirty years later, the three women are reunited for the first time, in Lagos. The occasion: Funmi's daughter, Destiny, is getting married. Enitan brings her American daughter, Remi. Zainab travels by bus, nervously leaving her ailing husband in the care of their son. Funmi, hosting the weekend with her wealthy husband, wants everything to go perfectly. But as the big day approaches, it becomes clear that something is not right. As the novel builds powerfully, the complexities of the mothers' friendship--and the private wisdom each has earned--come to bear on a riveting, heartrending moment of decision. Dele Weds Destiny is a sensational debut from a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction.

You can leave it blank or rate it last - we will match it up when the votes are done so it will just be taken out of the mix and not impact your end rank 👍

Janeylou wrote: "When we write a description of the meal we created , it doesnt have to have any relation to the book/ books the words came from ..does it ??"

no, you can be creative

No colours won’t impact the formulas 😊👍