Melindam’s Comments (group member since May 02, 2017)

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

I nominate Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats… tourism .Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 1999.

A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy clichés - Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc.

The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being the ruthless tour-master - and his all-powerful demons. To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?

Volunteering for DQs (Interior Painting) and throwing in an extra credit, please.

I'm in obviously and if I can get the nominator's usual day 1 that would be great. Thank you. :)

Start of Month

Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2



End of Month>

Total audiobooks read this year: 99

Audiobooks in monthly category read: 3
- 4 stars, good narrator
- 2,5 stars, very good narrator, rather weak story
- 4 stars, really liked the story and the narrator was OK.


Audiobooks NOT in monthly category read: 6
- 5 stars
- 3,5 stars
- 4 stars
- 4 stars
- 5 stars
- 5 stars

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
- hilarious Wodehouse and Jonathan Cecil is the perfect narrator for this.
- one of my favourite Classics books of all time.
- one of my favourite book and the narration is outstanding

lol, yes, I'm totally baffled by the absence of a piano in a Trollope novel. Preposterous!! :D

I may have mistakenly thought it must have a piano in text. :))

Elisabeth,

I was probably checking the formulas for the mini tabs and just clicked on piano next to your book to see if it was working then forgot to remove

Please delete it if there's no piano in texr.

♡

Elisabeth,

Glad to meet another Trollope fan. :)

Love both his Palliser & Barchester books (also read a few individual novels). One of my all-time favourite books is Batchester Towers.

Lisa,

tasks are more important, so if you have a book that fits, just go ahead & claim it. :)

Nice to have you back, Richard. :))

I'd say yes.

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

- this is book 5 of the House of Niccolo series, but I can wholeheartedly recommend these books if you like Historical fiction.
Author Dorothy Dunnett is magnificent and should be more widely known and read. The narrator John Banks is fantastic - he narrates all books for this series.

- this is a favourite book/series of mine, but this was the first time I listened to the audiobook version. Great, crazy literary fun book with good narration.

- simply hilarious in the true Wodehouse style and Jonathan Cecil is a great narrator.

- once again, a favourite book (I'm a bit more ambiguous about Gaiman's other books) and the full-cast narration suits it very well. Karen recommended this to me, so thank you. 🥰

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "And here's my contribution to Dickens.. . Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth who becomes his wife solve mysteries. It's light weight but enjoyable."

Thank you, Lisa.😊

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "@mel
- I also enjoyed bleak house and Little Dorrit is more enjoyable imo. Fantastic reads"

Oh, good to know!! I'm looking forward to it. I find that Dickens works for me (even) better on audio, so I'm going for the audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson whom I like very much. :)

After the final updates, we finished in 2nd place for Round 1 which is absolutely great !! Fantastic reading, Team!! Nothing Inferior about our painting. 🤭🥰 🥳

So, keep those books (doorstoppers ;) coming.

Having said that, for the next few days I'll be only able to read shorter books, but after we are back from our travels, I'm planning to finally tackle Little Dorrit, which is next on my Dickens-TBR and a few other books over 600 pages. 😊

Sana wrote: "Finished Warbreaker and loved it! I'm going to start The Way of the Kings as soon as I finish Pride and Prejudice."

🥰

Sana, how did you like Bleak House? it's one of my favourites by Dickens. The other is Our Mutual Friend.

OK, Team, I'm going to check us in for Round1 , so please hold off finishing your next book just a little while longer.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

50 minutes to go for Round 2. :)

Sophie

hope you are having a great time an the evening fireworks sounds great. :)

I've read quite a few Jeeves & Bladings Castle books, but Uncle Fred is a new discovery, so thank you. :) ♡