Melanie’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2014)

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

If things like Beneath/Below/Back/Forward are allowed, I have more options. I just wasn't sure what the rules actually consider to be a directional word so I stuck with the four cardinal directions or Up/Down since those were listed with the task.

Here are some books with directional words in the title that I found on my shelves (I only used Up/Down and N/S/E/W since I wasn't sure others were allowed). I've already read a big chunk of these but I can try to get to some of the others if needed as there are some shorter Harlequin category romances which are quick reads.




In Kindle Unlimited:

Alyana wrote: " Top edge of quadrilateral (going left to right)
- Right edge of quadrilateral (going top to bottom)
- Bottom edge of quadrilateral (going left to right)
- Left edge of quadrilateral (going top to ..."

I honestly don't know what this means 😂🙈"

Basically you're making a square/rectangle with the book names where the first/last letter need to line up.

Here's an example using the following titles: A Duchess a Day, As the Devil Dares, Your Wicked Heart, & Sweetest Regret.

A Duchess a DaY
s_____________o
T_____________u
h_____________r
e_____________W
D_____________i
e_____________c
v_____________k
i_____________e
l_____________d
D_____________H
a_____________e
r_____________a
e_____________r
Sweetest RegreT

The A's line up for the top of the square and the left side going down. Then the Y that the top ends with lines up with the right side going down. And finally the title on the bottom uses S on the bottom left to the T on the bottom right.

Hopefully that helps.

I have a bunch of others with the word UP in the title (including some Harlequin series books that are on the shorter side) I can pick up if no one has anything for that one.

Christina wrote: "


Tower Teams 3: Save Christmas

- Top edge of quadrilateral (going left to right)
- Right edge of quadrilateral (going top to bottom)
- Bottom edge of quadrilateral (going left to right)
- Left..."

I can cover one of the "Direction word in title" books. I'll be rereading the next book in the Peter Ash series which has Up in the title.

I will be finishing the 3rd Expanse book today which works for the Space Opera task.

Christina wrote: "logged the following books from people's shelves to finish June up so no need to log them yourselves anymore!

Beatrice: Atalanta (added finish date)
Megan: The City of Brass
Melanie: Postmortem
Na..."

Postmortem should have already been logged I think? It was used for a Chipmunk task.

Will update in a bit.

Erin, I feel like you are my people. I turned our spare room into my own little personal library (that also ended up becoming my office when I went WFH 3 years ago).

Hopefully this works, here are a few pictures of my favorite room in my house. Excuse the mess as I am reorganizing to try to make more room as this isn't even all of my books. And on top of this I have about 25ish file boxes full of books that I've culled that I need to donate to the library at some point.

Sorry I know I still have that one for #6 open. I am working on it and hope to have it done this weekend.

Thank you to whoever marked A Murderous Relation as read on the spreadsheet for me! I finished it late last night and forgot to open the spreadsheet to mark it as done.

I'm reading the 5th Veronica Speedwell book which would work for this one (Veronica and Stoker solve crimes together).

#83 - X-Files - Read a book featuring a crime-solving duo

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "And because I do everything else except actually read half the time, in between planning books and browsing images, I actually found a ridiculously cute Reading Chipmunk I can't resist sharing.

I ..."

This is adorable.

We get a ton of chipmunks (and squirrels) in our yard in the fall as we have a giant tree that drops 8 million acorns then. It's fun to watch them out my window (for both me and the cats although I think the cats are watching for a different reason).

I have one that works for this one that I can finish later today (The Little Bookstore on Heart Lake Lane).

#69 - Film 10s - Ten Little Indians - Read a book that shares a title word (singular indian is OK)

If anyone reads category romances, Harlequin Presents has a lot of books centered around Sheikhs so some of those are likely to be set in the UAE. I did find 2 Harlequin titles that mention Dubai in the title that seem to be set there based on the descriptions if these interested anyone.

Work has been crazy busy for me this week so I haven't had a chance to read anything. But thankfully tomorrow is Friday so I'll finally be able to pick some books up later in the day and I hope to read a bunch this weekend.

I moreso have the problem where I tend to buy the whole series before even reading the first book. I've gotten better about it but I definitely could cut back more.

Alyana wrote: "

This is what we see right now.. We can def smell it and I think the air quality alert is in effect all the way down to the Southeastern US!"

Wow, that's crazy looking. I'm in the US in New Jersey and the smoke has made it all the way here. I had to look up what was happening this morning as I thought it was a fire near us, didn't realize the smoke was coming all the way from Canada.

Anyone have any good audiobook recommendations?

I'm looking on the Audible site since the entire site is up to 85% off and figured I'd see if anyone here has any audiobooks they'd recommend.

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "So many of us have never heard of Fourth Wing, myself included, until now.

Today in my updates/feed, a fellow reader liked a review on this book. The reviewer rated the book a one..."

Yeah I've only heard not great things about that one so I was hoping it wouldn't win.