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Team Tequila Mockingbird
Another question - are we allowed to read books we are also reading as part of another NBRC challenge?
Sarah wrote: "Another question - are we allowed to read books we are also reading as part of another NBRC challenge?"I think so as long as it isn’t another team challenge. But it would be a good question for the thread to ask the admins!
There's no need to ask separately - of course you can double up and use the same book for various team challenges, Sarah :)And yay to the team name! I guess the mods came across our restaurant name in the spreadsheet and since we still hadn't submitted a proper team name they used that one.
Amanda, do you wanna write a little something about our restaurant?
Also, YES, 'books p/m av' stands for books per month on average! I just used the numbers from the 'looking for a team' thread that have been mentioned there but not everyone shared an average # of books they read (or can read) in a month which is also okay. Just let me know now if you can or add your # to the ss.
Christina wrote: "There's no need to ask separately - of course you can double up and use the same book for various team challenges, Sarah :)And yay to the team name! I guess the mods came across our restaurant na..."
Sure I can do that! Anything specific we want our restaurant to be about/ themes?
Amanda wrote: "Christina wrote: "There's no need to ask separately - of course you can double up and use the same book for various team challenges, Sarah :)And yay to the team name! I guess the mods came across..."
well we like books and we like booze, and we obviously have to serve food as well 😂 so anything would be fine really. it doesn't even have to be long
do you folks usually take part in BOMs? because I don't know if you've already seen this (if you haven't I suggest you turn on notifications for various threads that are important for this challenge):"HOT NEWS- Customer Bonus
For every team member that participates in a Book of the Month (BOM) (by joining the discussion and/or writing discussion questions) they will be able to swap out one assigned customer for another of their choice.
Limited to one customer for each team member per BOM. (i.e. you can't get the customer bonus for writing DQs AND participating. But if you join 2 BOMs in October, you can get 2 bonuses).
This bonus will be available for BOMs that start after the challenge begins. That means Chain of Gold will be your first opportunity to earn the bonus."
Christina wrote: "do you folks usually take part in BOMs? because I don't know if you've already seen this (if you haven't I suggest you turn on notifications for various threads that are important for this challeng..."I don’t do BOM personally as I 99% of the time never have the books.
I would love to read the BOM this month as I love Cassandra Clare. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to have the book - depends if it comes in the library fast enough or if I gave the extra money to buy it. I would love to read it though. I’ve never participated in a BOM in the group - do I have to do anything special to participate?
Also I went back to the “all about my restaurant rocks” to look at the meals, etc and don’t see the rules? All I see are photos and “r” from the mods. Any help?
Here is a little write up, I’ve never written about a restaurant before so I just winged it! If you want anything changed/added just let me know!“Tequila Mockingbird is a family resistant situated on the rocky shores of Maine. We serve everything from fish and chips to curries (beef, lamb or chicken!). We have alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to fulfill every need! Lastly, remember to save some room for dessert, you never know what delicious sweets await you! We look forward to serving you and giving you an experience you won’t soon forget! Indoor and outdoor dining available.”
Sarah wrote: "I would love to read the BOM this month as I love Cassandra Clare. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to have the book - depends if it comes in the library fast enough or if I gave the extra money to buy..."I think you have to participate in the threads a certain amount of times by a certain date, but I could be wrong. I’ve never done them before. Also I sometimes have the issues with the “r” message showing up when I’m on my phone. I just checked and was not having that issue today. We’re you accessing from the phone or a computer?
I always love taking part in BOMs for other team challenges because of the bonus points, but neither of the upcoming BOMs are appealing to me :( I might listen to the audiobook of Truly Devious though if I can find it anywhere.In order to be able to swap out customers thanks to BOM participation, you'll either need to answer 3 sets of DQs, or you can sign up to write DQs (Discussion Questions) in time.
I'll post all BOM discussion links (and everything else that's important) in this post (message #7) on page 1 for anyone interested.
Christina wrote: "I always love taking part in BOMs for other team challenges because of the bonus points, but neither of the upcoming BOMs are appealing to me :( I might listen to the audiobook of [book:Truly Devio..."My main issue is I can never get my hands on the books, most of the time my library doesn’t get brand new releases or if they do the waiting list is ridiculous. I don’t usually have the extra funds to buy new books all the time. I buy a lot of used books.
Amanda wrote: "Here is a little write up, I’ve never written about a restaurant before so I just winged it! If you want anything changed/added just let me know!“Tequila Mockingbird is a family resistant situate..."
this is so good!!!!! but I feel like our restaurant name sounds a bit more,,,,, hardcore? 🙈😂 like less serious and more into booze? 🤣
I agree that we need a bit more of a boozy atmosphere in the description 😂 thanks Christina for the info on the BOM participation!Amanda do they have a store near you called “half price books”? They sell used books (and buy!) and also sell some new books for half price (hence the name). That’s usually where I shop if I can’t get something at my library.
Christina wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Here is a little write up, I’ve never written about a restaurant before so I just winged it! If you want anything changed/added just let me know!“Tequila Mockingbird is a family re..."
Okay 😂 I’ll add more of a booze vibe, I don’t drink so I wasn’t sure where to go with that lol but I’ll update and repost later tonight ☺️
Sarah wrote: "I agree that we need a bit more of a boozy atmosphere in the description 😂 thanks Christina for the info on the BOM participation!Amanda do they have a store near you called “half price books”? T..."
No I wish 😭 we have no used book stores. My nearest barnes and nobel is an hour away, books a million is two hours away. Any other book stores are about 2 hours + away. Everything has to be ordered online unless I happen to pick it up at the grocery store or get it as a gift.
I just saw Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare is available on scribd, and so is the audiobook of Truly Devious and the ebook of Circe (the last two are October's BOMs if I'm not mistaken).if you don't have scribd yet and want to join through my link (https://www.scribd.com/g/7pjk7c) you'll get two free trial months instead of just one and I'll get a free month as well :) and obviously you don't have to keep using it once your trial months are over 😏
Christina wrote: "I just saw Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare is available on scribd, and so is the audiobook of Truly Devious and the ebook of Circe (..."Awesome thank you! I’ll sign up probably for October reads. I’ve been interested in Circe.
Only 2 days away! So do we need to plan and discuss what books we are reading or just read, read, read? Is someone going to take lead on the spreadsheet editing or is it a fend-for-yourself scenario?I definitely will need some hand holding along the way...but I’m super excited and ready to go!
Im still pretty confused tbh im hoping once we start i will understand what im doing a bit better lol!!!! Looking forward to it tho!!!!
So do we do scavenger hunts and spell it outs at same time or just focus on one? Im sorry just trying to get my head round the rules before we start!! X
Sarah wrote: "Only 2 days away! So do we need to plan and discuss what books we are reading or just read, read, read? Is someone going to take lead on the spreadsheet editing or is it a fend-for-yourself scenari..."I think the plan is to just read read read for now :) I believe we agreed to post in the thread and then have one or two members work on the spreadsheet to keep everything simpler, but don’t quote me on that!
kirsty gray wrote: "So do we do scavenger hunts and spell it outs at same time or just focus on one? Im sorry just trying to get my head round the rules before we start!! X"You choose one or the other per book. it is a lot of rules but it will be easier once we get going :)
Yeah, I might need some hand holding too ;) Lol
As for scavenger hunt or spell-it-out, I think the best way would still be to list EVERY food word /ingredient you come across in your book AND EVERY letter your book would work for for the spell-it-out so we could still decide how to use a book at a later point or switch a book around if needed.
Do y'all have access to the spreadsheet or no?ALSO!!!! The challenge still starts on September 19th, so it's still 4-ish more days to go! (I linked the countdown to the start in message 7 about a week ago)
Christina wrote: "As for scavenger hunt or spell-it-out, I think the best way would still be to list EVERY food word /ingredient you come across in your book AND EVERY letter your book would work for for the spell-i..."Sounds good to me. I know I’m planning on going heavy with the scavenger hunt verses the spell it out, but I’ll still have some spell it out books as well.
Christina wrote: "Do y'all have access to the spreadsheet or no?ALSO!!!! The challenge still starts on September 19th, so it's still 4-ish more days to go! (I linked the countdown to the start in message 7 about ..."
I can view the spreadsheet but not edit it.
Ok now I know it begins tomorrow!! Do we communicate on meals we are trying to make and things we are trying to spell out? Can we make a meal out of a single book if it has multiple ingredients listed in the pages? Ahhhhh I’m getting so overwhelmed!!!
Sarah wrote: "Do we communicate on meals we are trying to make and things we are trying to spell out?"I created a TRACKING SPREADSHEET (soon to be link, still needs work; will also be linked on page 1, msg 7) which you're all very welcome (and encouraged) to use. I added my first two planned reads so far so you can see how it's used (it's just a copied and slightly changed version of the official spreadsheet).
I also added the 'kitchen meals' tab from the official ss where you can plan out meals as well, whether you want to cover them all by yourself or want someone to jump in if they can. I was thinking each one of us can come up with words to spell out for certain meals with the books we're respectively already working with anyway, but let each other know if we still need a specific letter (eg just leave it out on the ss).
I'm not sure I phrased this in a way that makes sense, so please let me know if I need to get into this again 🙈
Sarah wrote: "Can we make a meal out of a single book if it has multiple ingredients listed in the pages?"
depending on page count (and audiobook length for children's, graphic novels, poetry etc) you can use a book several times.
up to 2 scavenger words / spell-it out letters per book >50 pages and <=160 pages
up to 4 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >161 and <=300 pages
up to 8 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >301 pages and <=500 pages
up to 12 scavenger words / spell-it-out letters per book >501 pages
while I'm struggling with the tracking sheet I suggest y'all watch this video (again) in the meantime ;)
here's our
TRACKING SHEET
!I couldn't make the second tab work as it does in the official spreadsheet, so you'll have to copy some things from the first tab. you (and everybody else who comes across this link) should have editing rights.
please stay away from the green cells in tab 1, they work as they're supposed to as of right now (that's me jinxing it now, sorry)
if you have any ideas on how to make things easier, please let me know 🙈
Thanks Christina. I did give the video another watch and picked up that a book can be chosen to use for spell it out OR scavenger hunt so that’s where I was getting confused. I think it’ll be confusing for a little bit until we all get the hang of it. Hope everyone is ready and excited 😄
just dropping in from another team to say OH MY GOSH THAT'S SUCH A CLEVER TEAM NAME.
Ive added yhe book im restarting today to the tracking sheet i hope ive done it right!! Ill add scavenger things as i come accross them or at the end, do the scavenger things have to be whats listed or just anything food or drink related do we know?? Ill keep a list of everything for now until i know for sure xx tracking sheet is fab btw thank you for setting that up!!! X
I get to start at 5pm my time today and will be starting easy with Milk and Honey. This one will be all scavenger and no spell it out due to the nature of the book.
I have started a book “A Curse so Dark and Lonely” which will be used for scavenger as I’ve already run into tons of food items. 478 pages. Also reading The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert which I will probably use for spell it out.
The Hazel Wood is 359 pages. Sorry about that.
Sarah, as you've already started the book it won't count towards the challenge as it only starts in about 3 hours unfortunately
I haven’t actually I meant starting today. I will make sure it counts :) I won’t be home from work to start anything for another 4 hours.
Sorry I realize it may sound confusing that I already know about the foods in the Curse book / I began it about 9 months ago and put it down after just a few chapters as I didn’t have time to finish. 🙂 I will begin the official challenge in about 4 hours
great, I'm pretty sure I already fell asleep for like 15 minutes listening to To Kill A Mockingjay just now 🤦🏼♀️
is everybody still with us who joined the team?
Sarah wrote: "Sorry I realize it may sound confusing that I already know about the foods in the Curse book / I began it about 9 months ago and put it down after just a few chapters as I didn’t have time to finis..."sorry haha I read it as in ~you've started those books earlier today! thanks for clarifying ;)
Checking in.. still here :). Just need to review everything again and get started.
Checking in! Will start reading tonight but won't be on much until Monday! I'll also take a look at the spreadsheet and see if I can debug some of the issues, Christina! I'm pretty handy with them!
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