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

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

Question for Discworld experts: does DEATH count as a neurodivergent character? 🤔

Or not really as it is not spelled out actually?

Bl**dy hell. I guess GR is "as good as their word" & wastes no time in going forward with their brilliant developments.

Today every effing post takes me 5-6 attempts before I can post them without the superlong error message appearing.

Yes I will. :))

Claire,

unfortunately we cannot use A Midsummer Night's Dream as it is a play and it doesn't have the necessary word count.

‼️I have added the Round 5 and Music Mini tabs to our sheet.

You are very kind, Kelly.

The image is chatgpt, of course! - I couldn't draw or design anything even close to save my life, but I enjoy creative writing stuff. 😊

You signed up with 14 books and each of us is allowed 5 extra books on top of our sign-ups, so you are good. :)

I will add the extra tabs to our sheet in a few hours.

5️⃣🔠WORD FOR ROUND 5: TAJIKISTAN🔠5️⃣

🌋 Round 5 & Mini 9 tabs will be added to our tracking sheet a bit later today.


⏲️⏲️End of Round 4 / Start of Round 5⏲️⏲️

6 December, 9pm, UK time: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...


🎨🖌️ Mini 9- Boring Wheel of Life


TASK LIST

📄Admin Chores📄
❎ Read a book where the author's initials can be found in the word PAPERWORK.
❎ Read a book where the author's initials can be found in the word FILING.
❎ Read a book tagged DNF (or direct equivalent) at least 10x.
❎ Read a book where the main character works in an office.
❎ Read a book with letters TAXES in title (any order).

🌳Gardening Chores🌳
❎ Read a book where the title is exactly 5 letters long.
❎ Read a book where the title is 6+ letters long.
❎ Read a book where the title contains one of the following digraphs: CH, PH, SH, TH, WH.
❎ Read a book where the title contains a double letter.
❎Read a book where the title contains a repeat set of at least two letters (e.g BEGINNING repeats IN).

🍴Food-ish Chores: Cooking from Scratch 🍝
- Find 5 of the following food items in your book. One book per food item. 5 different food items. Plurals are allowed.
- potato
- rice
- pasta
❎ bread
- beef
- lamb
- chicken
- fish
- lentil
- broccoli
- carrot
- pumpkin
- squash
- yam
- bean
- corn
- okra
- tomato
- onion
- lettuce
- cucumber
- apple
- peach
- fig
- grape
- banana
- salt
- pepper
❎ sugar
- spice

🥡Let's Just Get a Takeaway!🍔
- Read 5 books with one of the following tags. One book per country. 5 different countries.
- China
- Mexico
❎ Italy
❎ France
❎ India
- Greece
❎ Japan
- Thailand
- Korea (South Korea and North Korea will also work)
- Turkey
- Nigeria
- Jamaica
- Bangladesh
- Hawaii (yes, we know Hawai'i is no longer a country)
- Fried Chicken - needs "Southern Gothic" tag


⛵Relaxation "Chores"🍹
❎ Read a book tagged "bookclub" at least 10x.
- Read a book with a character who does some sort of art (professional, hobby, with kids).
❎ Read a book with a character who is neurodivergent.
- Read a book where the title starts with a letter from BARBEQUE.
❎ Read a book where the title includes all the letters from the word PARK.


This mini challenge runs during Round 5 of the challenge, 6 December to 20 December. This mini challenge can only be completed once. You cannot bank books for this mini challenge.

- Books must be used in a spell out to be used for this mini challenge.
- Books can only be used for one mini challenge.
- Subtitles may also be used for this mini challenge.
- Each task completed is worth 10 bonus points.
- A bonus of 30 points will be awarded if all tasks are completed.

I just saw this and I'm still laughing!

If Book Titles were Honest sketch by Foil Arms & Hog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3oW...

It wasn't in the Monthly Cathegory, but I listened to and gave it 5 stars.

It was recommended to me b/c of the Antarctica setting and I loved it! A lovely Middle-Grade fantasy story by Heather Fawcett and I found it much better than her Emily Wilde series and I'm sorry she didn't write a book 2 for it. :)

My inner child and outer adult were very much in unision about this book. :))

Total audiobooks read this year so far: (97, end of Nov)


Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1
, 5 stars


Audiobooks NOT in category read: 1
, 4 stars

🎬 TRAILER 🎬

[Low rumbling thunder. Ominous wings beating overhead.]

When the world needs a hero…
…it will get more than it bargained for.
It’ll get… CAT. 🦸🏻‍♀️

[Intense music swelling. A crow screeches mid-note.]

A lone Mod went on vacation, thinking she could escape Her Destiny.

Hunted by cormoran(t)s.
Crazed by cukoos.
Menaced by the King of Crows.
When Even The Hallmarked Man can’t save the game.
When all hope is lost…

[Soft golden light as something mysterious unfolds.]

One colour…
One shade she has always shunned…
Will rise.

🤎 B* R* O* W* N 🟤

[Heroic orchestral blast shakes the popcorn.]

That which haunted her reading challenges…
…will become her only hope.


[Birds flee and screech in fear. A single feather 🪶falls in slow motion.]

In the chaos, A LEGEND awakens.
A new force stands tall.
A Moderator transformed…

This Christmas…
the birds strike.
But CAT rises as…

THE HERODATOR.🦸🏻‍♀️
…
…
…

“HERODATOR: Brown Ascends🤎”

Coming soon to a Reading Challenge near you.

Sooo, Team Mount Doom (aka Tongariro) has all the books dedicated to Cat's story and is 1 book shy of being finished. In anticipation, you are offered a little 🎬 Teaser Trailer.

🤭

Claire wrote: "
Melindam, good to hear the book was useful."

Very! Means I can enjoy my music book in slow-motion. :))

🎬 TRAILER

[Low rumbling thunder. Ominous wings beating overhead.]

When the world needs a hero…
…it will get more than it bargained for.

It’ll get… Cat.

[Intense music swelling. A crow screeches mid-note.]

A lone Mod went on vacation, thinking she could escape Her Destiny.

Hunted by cormoran(t)s.
Crazed by cukoos.
Menaced by the King of Crows.
When Even The Hallmarked Man can’t save the game.
(He really, truly cannot.)

When all hope is lost…

[Soft golden light as something mysterious unfolds.]

One color…
One shade she has always shunned…
Will rise.

B* R* O* W* N

[Heroic orchestral blast shakes the popcorn.]

That which haunted her reading challenges…
…will become her only hope.


[Birds flee and screech in fear. A single feather falls in slow motion.]

In the chaos, a legend awakens.
A new force stands tall.
A moderator transformed…

This Christmas…
the birds strike.
But Cat rises as…

THE HERODATOR.
…
…
…

“HERODATOR: Brown Ascends”
Coming soon to a Reading Challenge near you.

I have written a kind of graphic teaser trailer to Cat's story.
I thought to post it in the Travelogue thread and once Karen's finished the last book for the story (NO PRESSURE, Karen! 🤭), I can post the more detailed story (first sharing with you all).

I also asked chatgpt for a "movie poster" to go with the trailer.

Sophie wrote: "Latest news today is they don’t know how long it will take, but at least 10 days. The water is ok for washing from midday but needs boiling before drinking or cooking with it. I’m hoping for normal..."

OMG!!! This is horrible!

Sophie wrote: "That’s a fantastic bookcase!

I’m struggling a bit this week - our water has been out since Saturday (affecting a town of 24,000 people). Everything is just that little bit harder and the kids scho..."

😖 Ugh, poor you! That must be super trying for everyone! Any chances it will be resolved soon?