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

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

Not that much to wait. 😊

🏔 COUNTDOWN

🕰️ The challenge starts on 11 Oct 2025, 9pm UK time.🕰️

Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count.

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

Rebecca wrote: "I'm good with it, do whatcha gotta do to get us the most points!"

Thank you. 😊

Rebecca wrote: "Several people have mentioned the Dorothy Dunnett series and I've had it on my TBR for years. I guess I need to breakdown and read it. I had heard that it was a little difficult to get through, would you say that?"

For book 1 of the Lymond Chronicles, absolutely! (I refer you to my non-review about The Game of Kings ;)

On first try I gave it up, but returned to it later and for me it was so worth it!!
But after book 1, each book got easier to read despite some heavy content (Dunnett didn't spare her characters and her readers) it became the Most Rewarding Book Series like EVER!! 🥰

Finishing book 6 gave me the greatest bookhangover of my reading life and I didn't know what to do with myself for a month! 🙃🫠

I read the House of Niccolò series after that and while those books are "easier" to read and I loved them, I didn't fall in love with them. (But tastes differ.)

But with whichever series you start, DD is a magnificent writer.!

Sophie,

Happy birthday to your Big Little Boy! 😊

And yes, it seems, when you tick the notification box, it stays put. 🤞🤞🤞

Rebecca,

Yes, I've been to Fairy Glen and loved it. :)

I hope you will make it to Hungary and won't get disappointed.
This w/e we are visiting in the North of HU with my parents, husband and son (will turn 12 next year) and do some slight trekking along small lakes and waterfalls. There is also a small train line operating along the way for which my parents are gratfeul and my son is completely train-mad. 😁

Salzburg, BTW, is one of my favourite places and we'll be visiting it (again, yaaay) in 2 weeks. We are going by train (only about 5 hours). Can't wait. 🤩

Sophie wrote: "I’m about half way through the series but always need a reminder and a push to carry on with them despite really enjoying them when I read them."

Sounds like me & Kate Daniels. 😅

But these last 2 months I finally read books 7 & 8. So... I will finish eventually. 😉

That's a great thing, your daughter being in a Shakespeare play. You can be proud both of your her & yourself. 😊

Awesome, V.

For me, X-s are the hardest to come by. :)

Indeed the perfect moment, Claire. ;)

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Grabbed tagged "Muslim" task.

Our 1st wheel word is Djibouti, so time for my Uzma Jalaluddin book. 😉

Sophie wrote: "The Truth is my first book up.

Finding the link for it made me question GR search algorithm again. It wasn’t on the first 12 pages of add book/author. Lots of things with the truth ..."

I'm considering buying the newly released audio version for this book.... eventually.

I'm happy with the "old" narrators: Stephen Briggs, Nigel Planer, etc, but I don't own The Truth on audio and with my us audible subscription now only the new versions are available.

Not really, but yes, it could always be worse. 😉

I've been lining up some U-books since TT ended and I have a list as well (following the example of another team's captain a few years ago).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Thank you Claire, Elisabeth. 😊

Karen, very annoying about the library book! :s

I was planning on starting with a longer book: a very interesting bio about French king Louis IX, but it won't fit anywhere for "Djibouti" so it's off at the moment. 😄
This week & the next is very busy & stressful workwise, so in the end I opted for some shorter books (For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by a favourite author, Ben Macintyre, a P.G. Wodehouse shorty story & a nice PNR reread). I hope to get to my longer books the week after. I have several options, but despite being a planner most of the time, I think this time the choice will be on impulse. 😊

VNerdbooks wrote: "Once it is out of my hands it can go wherever you want it's nothing to do with me lol"

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I have never heard about this book (not that it signifies;) but feel no curiosity, so it is safe from me & my Mount Doom. ;)

I'm planning to leave mini tasks alone as much as possible, but in my experience a bit of shuffling is usually needed with spell-outs just before a Round is closing. Nothing very dramatic, tho'.

Oh, no! Sorry about that, Alysa!! 😔

I'll try to do everything I can to make you all feel cherished, I promise! 😉

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I kind of feel privileged that I get notifications for my own Team and E's. I just have caught notifications ok before the bug set in. But since then, I'm just stalking threads via the main thread. Super annoying.