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

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

Sammy wrote: "Cat wrote: "Sammy is a menace!"

I shall change my name to Dennis forthwith 😆"

😆

Oh, also bought The Princess Diarist b/c of .... Yes, Sammy 🥰 and b/c of tagged diary 16x for TT. So it's shared responsibility for this one. 🤭

AAARRGHHH!

There's an audiblecom 80% sale going on.

Have I just bought several books? Yes, of course I have!

I couldn't resist Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland b/c of Sammy - it was 3 USD foreffssake ..... among other books.

Also bought the Scalzi-Christmas b/c of Sammy, obviously. 😆🥰

#30

Sooooo, technically, this hasn't been a new read. I read it in Hungarian (and liked it a lot, though didn't remember much else, besides the obvious storyline) more than 30 years ago as it was part of the school curriculum and it happily coincided with my mad-about-mythology phase.

But for the last 10 years or so I kept telling myself that I should really reread it and see how I matured, etc.

Then ever since Sammy acquired this bad great influence over me concerning audiobooks 😆😍, I thought that should I ever get to re-reading it, it should be the audio version.

I also consulted Sammy on EN translations and she suggested Robert Fagels. I checked Audible and it said the Fagels translation is narrated by Gandalf Ian McKellen. I was sold.

Anyhow: loved the translation, the narration even more so. 5 stars

And I'm totally going to reread to The Illiad as well, narrated by Dan Stevens. 😆

LoriLovesBooks wrote: "I didn’t like the book I was listening to for the R in Russia. So, that one’s open again."

Thanks for the heads-up, Lori! :)

The Mods made a nice little tab for how many countries teams have already read for and also listing the books.

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

KayLynn wrote: "Kari wrote: "My book won't work for 'character goes to a market', I removed it from the SS :(. Hopefully someone else has a book for market..."

The book I finished this AM is signed up for 'KEBAB'..."
I think going to the market may be trickier, so let's go with that, please. :))

If someone else comes across a market in their books, we can still change it back.

I found The Princess Diarist for tagged Diary task. :)

I also recognise the Sailormoon gif. 😍Funnily enough I used to watch the series in German back in my old university days as it was not available at that time in Hungary.

LOL, so true! 🤣

Ingeborg wrote: "stole the time travel book before I checked the thread! Very soon done with Night Watch. Hope that's okay. If not, as always, just move my books around. :)"

You are lucky, Sophie has a forgiving nature when it comes to Teamies being enthusiastic and claiming tasks. 🤭

But Fiona and I are equally relaxed about it. 😊 If you finish a book that works for a task we claimed, just let us know here and we'll do the swaps.

For Ilona Andrews fans: there was an earlier discussion with Captains/Mods that Ilona born in Russia (despite them writing as a pair) is accepted. :)

It's OK, Keli.

We may be able to use it for an upcoming Mini 2 task or a cheese spell-out. :))

And page count is what matters most when all is said and done. :)

Adding to the above that the Mods allow "tagged journal 10x" for this task as the diary option is very limited.

🥳🥳 Fantastic!!

🎡🎡Mini 3 - World Wheel🎡🎡

As you are reading your books and in case you come across someone going to the market, please take note, as that is the only unclaimed task for TURKEY.

Thanks. 😊

✈️New Tasks for Mini 2✈️

Read a book with an unearthly mode of transportation on the cover (i.e., spaceships allowed)

Read a book with an earthly mode of transportation on the cover (i.e., no spaceships)

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why): all excellently researched, written and narrated books

Claimed "train on cover" task with .

It's hightime for a Discworld re-read. Even though this is not a special favourite, I still like it because Moist and trains. :))

Awesome, Lauri, thanks. 😊