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Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: Two Months from Start Date


For those of you who love a word search, here is one inspired by the wonderful book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

I highly recommend this book, especially the audiobook read by Neil Gaiman, and while you can't read this book to cover all the words, I will allow you to read it to cover one word if you get stuck!

The Challenge: Below is a list of 25 words to find. They can only be found within the text of a book - no covers, titles or authors. For each word found, you will need to provide the book title, the page or location number, the sentence containing the word, and the date you finished reading your book.

There is no limit on the number of words found per book.

Words must match exactly. No substitutions, please.

Inspired by all of the delicious food eaten at the Hempstock Farm and the joy it gives to the Nameless Boy.

apples
beef
blackberry
buttered
carrots
cheese
cream
custard
gravy
greens
honeycomb
jam
milk
nettles
nuts
pancakes
pie
plum
porridge
potatoes
raisins
soup
tea
toast
vegetables

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PARTICIPANTS

Denise FINISHED!
Ed FINISHED!
KarenK2 FINISHED!
Shelly FINISHED 22/25
Suzanne

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 7.1.21 - 9.1.21

apples "in the shade of the apple orchards" p. 51 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 7.2.21

beef “Beef up your sales!” p. 392 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

blackberry “MMmmm. Blackberries.” p. 259 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

buttered “eating buttered arrowroot biscuits” p. 330 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

carrots " it was always stick and carrot with Merton” p. 405 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

cheese “with her face so sickly as cheese” p. 250 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh 7.4.21

cream the men’s boxes contained a yellowish powder, the women’s pinkish cream” p. 246 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh 7.4.21

custard “in the middle of a nasty custard-throwing divorce” p. 132
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

gravy “gravy made from spuds” p 252 A Suitable Boy Part 1 by Vikram Seth 7.31.21

greens“what she did produce was a small green book” p. 28 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh 7.4.21

honeycomb - a honeycomb which she would not ordinarily have p. 313 Latter End by Patricia Wentworth 7,18,21

jam “I managed to jam the handle with a brick” p. 14 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

milk "it's no use crying over spil milk" p. 41 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 7.2.21

nettles “How now my nettle of India? “ p. 1172 A Suitable Boy Part 1 by Vikram Seth 7.31.21

nuts “you must be nuts not to want my brother” p. 351What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

pancakes “made him pancakes and strawberries” p. 97 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.2

pie “ a witch was baking my sister Gretel in a pie” p. 313 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

plum “I’m freezing my plums off” p. 34 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

porridge “a bowlful of porridge set in front of him” p.212 The Lost Woman by Sara Bladel 7.14.21

potatoes “cloying mixture of cigarettes, potatoes, sweat…” p. 327
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

raisins “used to slip into the kitchen for raisins” p. 31Latter End by Patricia Wentworth 7.18.21

soup - “a girl looked at him over the soup” p. 78 A Suitable Boy Part 1 - by Vikram Seth 7.31.21

tea "drinking his seventh cup of tea" p. 32 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 7.2.21

toast “glad its only you who’s burnt the toast” p. 14 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

vegetables He’s a goddammed vegetable” p. 260 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

*****COMPLETED 12/29/21***** LAST WORD= "HONEYCOMB"

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 7/3/21 - 9/3/21

25/25

✔apples-p.231- The Vile Village-"...like a floating crop of crisp, ripe apples..." 7/6/21
✔beef-p.9- It Would Be Night in Caracas-"...breakfasts that turned my stomach: shredded beef, crispy pork rind..." 7/28/21
✔blackberry-p. 54-Leaves of Grass-"And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,..." 7/5/21
✔buttered-p.105-The Judge and His Hangman-"He first buttered several slices of dark bread..." 7/4/21
✔carrots-p.55- Leaves of Grass-"...rows of carrots and parsnips crossing savannas..." 7/5/21
✔cheese-p.164- My Tender Matador-"I only found some bread rolls, Swiss cheese, and..." 7/9/21
✔cream- p.106- The Judge and His Hangman-"Then he poured a heavy cream sauce over it..." 7/4/21
✔custard-p.124- The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire-"...and still leave change for a custard apple." 7/10/21
✔gravy-p.19- Crocodile Tears-"...tries to wipe her mouth free of...jam, of gravy..." 7/19/21
✔greens-p.124- Martin Chuzzlewit-"...as if all the greens that had ever been boiled there were evergreens..." 9/28/21
✔honeycomb-p.12- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"Yellowman, the sweet half, is a golden, toffee-like honeycomb made from brown sugar..." 12/29/21
✔jam-p.121-My Tender Matador-"...toast with peach or raspberry jam..." 7/9/21
✔milk-p.39-The Spy Who Loved Me-"...the theft of milk bottles - things that really affected the local housewives..." 7/6/21
✔nettles-p.44- First Love-"...stung by the nettles, I daresay?" 7/18/21
✔nuts-p.89-My Tender Matador-"...that strange taste, are they nuts? raisins?" 7/8/21
✔pancakes-disc 3 of audiobook- Raisins and Almonds-"...remnants of pancakes eaten." 7/9/21
✔pie-p.24-My Life and Hard Times-"...can-openers, pie pans, pot lids..." 7/10/21
✔plum-p.17-My Tender Matador-"Pink clouds of plum blossoms and their..." 7/7/21
✔porridge-p.157- Waverley-"...against the side of an old mossy, green inverted porridge pot..." 7/23/21
✔potatoes-p.106- The Judge and His Hangman-"Now Barlach called for veal cutlets, rice, French fried potatoes..." 7/4/21
✔raisins- p.89-My Tender Matador-"...that strange taste, are they nuts? raisins?" 7/8/21
✔soup-p.1- The Judge and His Hangman-"...and let him sober up over black coffee and soup at the inn..." 7/3/21
✔tea-p.17- The Vile Village-"I wouldn't return there for all the tea in China!" 7/4/21
✔toast-p.31-The Judge and His Hangman-"Then I had to pronounce a toast..." 7/3/21
✔vegetables-p.26- The Vile Village-"...nothing to do with root vegetables." 7/4/21

COMPLETED

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 7/3/21 to .. 7/27/21
Two Months from Start Date
Words must match exactly.

apples .. apples so sweet and soft .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 2783

beef .. dried beef and a wheel of cheese .. Enemy Women pg 167

blackberry .. into the blackberry thickets .. Enemy Women pg 23

buttered .. it will be buttered toast .. I Am the Sea loc 466

carrots .. slices of carrot floating .. The Black Ice pg 98

cheese .. she left a wooden tub with cheese .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 639

cream .. a little cup of sour cream .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 1526

custard ,, creamy corn custard ice cream ., V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking pg 198

gravy .. biscuits, ham and gravy .. Deadman's Preacher pg 242

greens .. in flat greens and browns .. Killing The Girl loc 2913

honeycomb .. its honeycomb color set off the pretty .. Conspiracy in Death pg 101

jam .. vade, et amplius, jam noli peccare. .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 3489

milk .. dashed out to find fresh milk .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 613

nettles .. the summertime nettles and weeds .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 63

nuts .. known by us kids as the nut house .. Killing The Girl loc 224

pancakes .. scallion pancakes with citrus ponzu .. V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking pg 56

pie .. a piece of apple pie .. Killing The Girl loc 2532

plum .. Perry's home-made plum jam .. Killing The Girl loc 2653

porridge .. porridge brought to him in bed .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 840

potatoes .. here for the turnips and potatoes .. Enemy Women pg 37

raisins .. one cup golden raisins .. V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking pg 237

soup .. soup and milk but only a few sips .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 2985

tea .. coffee instead of tea .. Killing The Girl loc 245

toast .. raised his glass in a toast .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 391

vegetables .. just vary the main vegetables .. Killing The Girl loc 1692

7/4/21 4☆ 7/5/21 2☆ 7/7/21 3.75☆
7/8/21 4☆ 7/11/21 3☆ 7/16/21 2☆
7/25/21 3☆ 7/27/21 4.25☆

Hi Vanessa,

In other "exact match" word searches single/plural are acceptable (apple/apples). Is this acceptableto you?

Denise

Yes! I am okay with plural/singular of any word!

Yum yum! Welcome, Denise, Ed and Karen!

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: Two Months from Start Date

TIMED OUT 3 WORDS FROM COMPLETION
7/29-9/28/21

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
For those of you who love a word search, here is one inspired by the wonderful book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

I highly recommend this book, especially the audiobook read by Neil Gaiman, and while you can't read this book to cover all the words, I will allow you to read it to cover one word if you get stuck!

The Challenge: Below is a list of 25 words to find. They can only be found within the text of a book - no covers, titles or authors. For each word found, you will need to provide the book title, the page or location number, the sentence containing the word, and the date you finished reading your book.

There is no limit on the number of words found per book.

Words must match exactly. No substitutions, please.

Inspired by all of the delicious food eaten at the Hempstock Farm and the joy it gives to the Nameless Boy.

22/25

🍎apples - The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit - Krista Davis 09/02/21 pg. 183 “Bernie had thrown some raw sliced APPLES into the salad.”
🩱beef - Death in Wine Country - Gemma Halliday 08/21/21 pg. 225 “Wagyu is a Japanese breed of BEEF cattle.”
🩱blackberry - Farm to Trouble - Amanda Flower 08/17/21 pg. 60 “I could almost tast her BLACKBERRY cobbler.”
🍎buttered- Natural Thorn Killer - Kate E. Dyer-Seeley 09/05/21 pg. 40 “I BUTTERED a piece of toast.”
🩱carrots - The Quiche and the Dead - Kirsten Weiss 08/27/21 pg. 133 “I laid out the basil and vegetables- CARROTS, celery, onion, and snap peas”
🏖cheese - Death by Baguette: - Jennifer S. Alderson pg. 58 “Enormous wheels of CHEESE
🩱cream - Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure pg. 246 “capturing the last bit of whipped CREAM my fork had missed.”
🍎custard - Natural Thorn Killer - Kate E. Dyer-Seeley 09/05/21 pg. 229 “A deep black frozen CUSTARDfilled it to the brim, topped with a sprinkling of black sesame seeds.”
🍎gravy - The Cider Shop Rules - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/09/21 pg. 68 “before they ran out of Freddie’s homemade biscuits and GRAVY, I knew it was going to be a great day.”
🍎greens - The Cider Shop Rules - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/09/21 pg. 228 “then wrapped the posts in holiday GREENS.

honeycomb

🩱jam Musseled Out pg. 147 “I fixed myself some toast and JAM and headed to my office upstairs.”
🩱milk - Musseled Out pg. 81 “without the offer of MILK or sugar”

nettles

🏖nuts - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 95 “rosemary, garlic olives, dried NUTS, berries, or cheeses”
🏖pancakes - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 51 “delicately thin PANCAKES the French were known for.”
🩱pie - Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure pg. 334 “perfect compliment to Mom’s cherry PIE.
🩱plum - Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure pg. 94 “I applied a coat of PLUM hued gloss”

porridge

🏖potatoes - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 113 “and new POTATOES with roasted almonds.”
🩱raisins - Arsenic and Old Books pg. 145 “THE RAISINS are bad for you.
🩱soup - Crocodile on the Sandbank pg. 14 “taking SOUP from the hand of my maid, Travers.”
🏖tea - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 101 “The other one is a green TEA with mint,”
🏖toast - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 175 “I’ll TOAST to that,”
🏖vegetables - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 113 “shredded pork, mixed VEGETABLES, and new potatoes”

COMPLETED

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 7/3/21 to .. 7/27/21
Two Months from Start Date
Words must match exactly.

apples .. apples so sweet and soft .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 2783

beef .. dried beef and a wheel of cheese .. Enemy Women pg 167

blackberry .. into the blackberry thickets .. Enemy Women pg 23

buttered .. it will be buttered toast .. I Am the Sea loc 466

carrots .. slices of carrot floating .. The Black Ice pg 98

cheese .. she left a wooden tub with cheese .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 639

cream .. a little cup of sour cream .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 1526

custard ,, creamy corn custard ice cream ., V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking pg 198

gravy .. biscuits, ham and gravy .. Deadman's Preacher pg 242

greens .. in flat greens and browns .. Killing The Girl loc 2913

honeycomb .. its honeycomb color set off the pretty .. Conspiracy in Death pg 101

jam .. vade, et amplius, jam noli peccare. .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 3489

milk .. dashed out to find fresh milk .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 613

nettles .. the summertime nettles and weeds .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 63

nuts .. known by us kids as the nut house .. Killing The Girl loc 224

pancakes .. scallion pancakes with citrus ponzu .. V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking pg 56

pie .. a piece of apple pie .. Killing The Girl loc 2532

plum .. Perry's home-made plum jam .. Killing The Girl loc 2653

porridge .. porridge brought to him in bed .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 840

potatoes .. here for the turnips and potatoes .. Enemy Women pg 37

raisins .. one cup golden raisins .. V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking pg 237

soup .. soup and milk but only a few sips .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 2985

tea .. coffee instead of tea .. Killing The Girl loc 245

toast .. raised his glass in a toast .. Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence loc 391

vegetables .. just vary the main vegetables .. Killing The Girl loc 1692

7/4/21 4☆ 7/5/21 2☆ 7/7/21 3.75☆
7/8/21 4☆ 7/11/21 3☆ 7/16/21 2☆
7/25/21 3☆ 7/27/21 4.25☆

FINISHED

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 7.1.21 - 9.1.21

apples "in the shade of the apple orchards" p. 51 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 7.2.21

beef “Beef up your sales!” p. 392 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

blackberry “MMmmm. Blackberries.” p. 259 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

buttered “eating buttered arrowroot biscuits” p. 330 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

carrots " it was always stick and carrot with Merton” p. 405 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

cheese “with her face so sickly as cheese” p. 250 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh 7.4.21

cream the men’s boxes contained a yellowish powder, the women’s pinkish cream” p. 246 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh 7.4.21

custard “in the middle of a nasty custard-throwing divorce” p. 132
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

gravy “gravy made from spuds” p 252 A Suitable Boy Part 1 by Vikram Seth 7.31.21

greens“what she did produce was a small green book” p. 28 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh 7.4.21

honeycomb - a honeycomb which she would not ordinarily have p. 313 Latter End by Patricia Wentworth 7,18,21

jam “I managed to jam the handle with a brick” p. 14 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

milk "it's no use crying over spil milk" p. 41 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 7.2.21

nettles “How now my nettle of India? “ p. 1172 A Suitable Boy Part 1 by Vikram Seth 7.31.21

nuts “you must be nuts not to want my brother” p. 351What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.21

pancakes “made him pancakes and strawberries” p. 97 What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity 7.24.2

pie “ a witch was baking my sister Gretel in a pie” p. 313 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

plum “I’m freezing my plums off” p. 34 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

porridge “a bowlful of porridge set in front of him” p.212 The Lost Woman by Sara Bladel 7.14.21

potatoes “cloying mixture of cigarettes, potatoes, sweat…” p. 327
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

raisins “used to slip into the kitchen for raisins” p. 31Latter End by Patricia Wentworth 7.18.21

soup - “a girl looked at him over the soup” p. 78 A Suitable Boy Part 1 - by Vikram Seth 7.31.21

tea "drinking his seventh cup of tea" p. 32 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 7.2.21

toast “glad its only you who’s burnt the toast” p. 14 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

vegetables He’s a goddammed vegetable” p. 260 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr 7.10.21

Great job, Karen and Denise! Almost there, Shelly and Ed!

TIMED OUT 3 WORDS FROM COMPLETION

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: Two Months from Start Date

7/29-9/28/21


22/25

🍎apples - The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit - Krista Davis 09/02/21 pg. 183 “Bernie had thrown some raw sliced APPLES into the salad.”
🩱beef - Death in Wine Country - Gemma Halliday 08/21/21 pg. 225 “Wagyu is a Japanese breed of BEEF cattle.”
🩱blackberry - Farm to Trouble - Amanda Flower 08/17/21 pg. 60 “I could almost tast her BLACKBERRY cobbler.”
🍎buttered- Natural Thorn Killer - Kate E. Dyer-Seeley 09/05/21 pg. 40 “I BUTTERED a piece of toast.”
🩱carrots - The Quiche and the Dead - Kirsten Weiss 08/27/21 pg. 133 “I laid out the basil and vegetables- CARROTS, celery, onion, and snap peas”
🏖cheese - Death by Baguette: - Jennifer S. Alderson pg. 58 “Enormous wheels of CHEESE
🩱cream - Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure pg. 246 “capturing the last bit of whipped CREAM my fork had missed.”
🍎custard - Natural Thorn Killer - Kate E. Dyer-Seeley 09/05/21 pg. 229 “A deep black frozen CUSTARDfilled it to the brim, topped with a sprinkling of black sesame seeds.”
🍎gravy - The Cider Shop Rules - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/09/21 pg. 68 “before they ran out of Freddie’s homemade biscuits and GRAVY, I knew it was going to be a great day.”
🍎greens - The Cider Shop Rules - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/09/21 pg. 228 “then wrapped the posts in holiday GREENS.

honeycomb

🩱jam Musseled Out pg. 147 “I fixed myself some toast and JAM and headed to my office upstairs.”
🩱milk - Musseled Out pg. 81 “without the offer of MILK or sugar”

nettles

🏖nuts - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 95 “rosemary, garlic olives, dried NUTS, berries, or cheeses”
🏖pancakes - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 51 “delicately thin PANCAKES the French were known for.”
🩱pie - Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure pg. 334 “perfect compliment to Mom’s cherry PIE.
🩱plum - Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure pg. 94 “I applied a coat of PLUM hued gloss”

porridge

🏖potatoes - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 113 “and new POTATOES with roasted almonds.”
🩱raisins - Arsenic and Old Books pg. 145 “THE RAISINS are bad for you.
🩱soup - Crocodile on the Sandbank pg. 14 “taking SOUP from the hand of my maid, Travers.”
🏖tea - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 101 “The other one is a green TEA with mint,”
🏖toast - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 175 “I’ll TOAST to that,”
🏖vegetables - Death by Baguette: A Valentine's Day Murder in Paris pg. 113 “shredded pork, mixed VEGETABLES, and new potatoes”

*****COMPLETED 12/29/21***** LAST WORD= "HONEYCOMB"

Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 7/3/21 - 9/3/21

25/25

✔apples-p.231- The Vile Village-"...like a floating crop of crisp, ripe apples..." 7/6/21
✔beef-p.9- It Would Be Night in Caracas-"...breakfasts that turned my stomach: shredded beef, crispy pork rind..." 7/28/21
✔blackberry-p. 54-Leaves of Grass-"And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,..." 7/5/21
✔buttered-p.105-The Judge and His Hangman-"He first buttered several slices of dark bread..." 7/4/21
✔carrots-p.55- Leaves of Grass-"...rows of carrots and parsnips crossing savannas..." 7/5/21
✔cheese-p.164- My Tender Matador-"I only found some bread rolls, Swiss cheese, and..." 7/9/21
✔cream- p.106- The Judge and His Hangman-"Then he poured a heavy cream sauce over it..." 7/4/21
✔custard-p.124- The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire-"...and still leave change for a custard apple." 7/10/21
✔gravy-p.19- Crocodile Tears-"...tries to wipe her mouth free of...jam, of gravy..." 7/19/21
✔greens-p.124- Martin Chuzzlewit-"...as if all the greens that had ever been boiled there were evergreens..." 9/28/21
✔honeycomb-p.12- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"Yellowman, the sweet half, is a golden, toffee-like honeycomb made from brown sugar..." 12/29/21
✔jam-p.121-My Tender Matador-"...toast with peach or raspberry jam..." 7/9/21
✔milk-p.39-The Spy Who Loved Me-"...the theft of milk bottles - things that really affected the local housewives..." 7/6/21
✔nettles-p.44- First Love-"...stung by the nettles, I daresay?" 7/18/21
✔nuts-p.89-My Tender Matador-"...that strange taste, are they nuts? raisins?" 7/8/21
✔pancakes-disc 3 of audiobook- Raisins and Almonds-"...remnants of pancakes eaten." 7/9/21
✔pie-p.24-My Life and Hard Times-"...can-openers, pie pans, pot lids..." 7/10/21
✔plum-p.17-My Tender Matador-"Pink clouds of plum blossoms and their..." 7/7/21
✔porridge-p.157- Waverley-"...against the side of an old mossy, green inverted porridge pot..." 7/23/21
✔potatoes-p.106- The Judge and His Hangman-"Now Barlach called for veal cutlets, rice, French fried potatoes..." 7/4/21
✔raisins- p.89-My Tender Matador-"...that strange taste, are they nuts? raisins?" 7/8/21
✔soup-p.1- The Judge and His Hangman-"...and let him sober up over black coffee and soup at the inn..." 7/3/21
✔tea-p.17- The Vile Village-"I wouldn't return there for all the tea in China!" 7/4/21
✔toast-p.31-The Judge and His Hangman-"Then I had to pronounce a toast..." 7/3/21
✔vegetables-p.26- The Vile Village-"...nothing to do with root vegetables." 7/4/21

All Challenges All The Time
Word Search: Ocean at the End of the Lane | I'm Hungry
DURATION: 2/1/2022 - 3/31/2022 (Two Months from Start Date)

Progress: 25 out of 25

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
For those of you who love a word search, here is one inspired by the wonderful book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

I highly recommend this book, especially the audiobook read by Neil Gaiman, and while you can't read this book to cover all the words, I will allow you to read it to cover one word if you get stuck!

The Challenge: Below is a list of 25 words to find. They can only be found within the text of a book - no covers, titles or authors. For each word found, you will need to provide the book title, the page or location number, the sentence containing the word, and the date you finished reading your book.

There is no limit on the number of words found per book.

Words must match exactly. No substitutions, please.

Inspired by all of the delicious food eaten at the Hempstock Farm and the joy it gives to the Nameless Boy.


Year Zero by Rob Reid - ***** - 2/14/2022 - 364 Pages
Apples: "She was referring to the CEO of a vast music label - one who famously clutches apples and other loose food with both hands when he eats." Page 94
Beef: "He collided head-on with his lead attacker, knocking it out cold, and sending its limp body reeling into a beef chutney souflie three tables away." Page 39
Blackberry: "I nodded, although judy wasn't looking at me (uttering some of the most momentous words that a young attorney could hear within these walls, she was meanwhile checking email on her old school BlackBerry)." Page 94
Jam: "This let us flip through our selection of visual effects in private as we rode to the meeting (and a midtown traffic jam gave us ample time for this, despite the fact that it wasn't even a mile away)." Page 298
Milk: "They listed twenty separate butters, broken down by u u' region and species of “milk-giver." Page 32
Nuts: "But they just have to get up there and mime it to a famous recording, and the crowds go nuts (catch 21 Britney Spears show to see something similar here at home)." Page 160
Tea: "...they all defected and joined the Tea Party movement!" Page 62


Mother Land by Leah Franqui - ***** - 2/13/2022 - 384 Pages
Cheese: "The girl was a student and gossiped with her fellow cashier, waiting apathetically as Rachel counted exact change or decided which cheese to buy." Page 5
Cream: "Not cold coffee, the one with ice cream, but just, like, coffee, over ice?” Page 294
Pie: "She made Thai curries and Persian pulaos and cut butter into pie crusts." Page 366
Plum: "Swati still hadn’t said a word. Rachel sat beside her warily, and the older woman, her plum lipstick fading at the center of her lips, vivid in the outlines, looked at her helplessly." Page 9
Potatoes: "She had walked to get beans and onions and lemons and potatoes that day, sweating out her anger, mostly at herself, in Mumbai’s sweltering humidity, which embraced her in a voluptuous oil-slicked hug, the air heavy with pollution and dust." Page 1
Soup: “Oh, a chopped salad, a soup, something like that." Page 55
Toast: "He was looking at her happily, smiling at the rum in her glass, pouring himself a drink, eager to toast to the end of a long day." Page 30
Vegetables: "So she didn’t go pick up vegetables." Page 4


Runaway by Heather Graham - **** - 2/7/2022 - 355 Pages
Greens: "Bread will be right along, and then your roast with plenty of the world's finest mashed potatoes, greens, and yams!"
Porridge: "Bread - umm - porridge . It will warm you."


Color Me Murder by Krista Davis - **** - 2/6/2022 - 289 Pages
Carrots: "Zsazsa reached for an onion and a bunch of carrots with the greens still on them."


Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill - **** - 2/16/2022 - 350 Pages
Gravy: "Ethan hadn't spoken since his own eight-inch Italian beef sandwich had been delivered, still dripping from its dip in gravy." Page 40


The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz - ***** - 2/23/2022 - 347 Pages
Pancakes: "He had signed up for a correspondence course in business administration and—with the smell of potato pancakes and jam still hanging in the air—now began to read up on the pricing of stock options in the security markets, ..."


The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz - *** - 2/28/2022 - 368 Pages
Nettles: "Catrin put on a gardening glove that she found lying in the grass, and tugged away at the nettles that had grown under Blomkvist's currant bushes."


Gimme Some Sugar by Molly Harper - ***** - 3/10/2022 - 304 Pages
Raisins: "Ugh, please tell me it's not something involving raisins. Raisins are the worst.” Page 160


Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult - ***** - 3/16/2022 - 440 Pages
Custard: "Jordan reached for Sam's jar of vanilla custard and scraped out the leftovers with his forefinger." Page 267


A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle - *** - 5/8/2022 - 311 Pages
Buttered: "Over thick, buttered bread and tangy antipasti, I told Jane everything that had happened since I saw her Friday morning until now." Page 85


Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - ***** - 6/17/2022 - 448 Pages
Honeycomb: "When they kiss, Alex can hear a half-remembered old proverb from catechism, mixed up between translations of the book: “Come, hijo mío, de la miel, porque es buena, and the honeycomb, sweet to thy taste.”

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