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

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

Only 24 hours to go!!! 🥰

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🕰️ The challenge starts on 17 May 2025, 9am UTC.🕰️

Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count.

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Andy wrote: "Melindam wrote: "If I'm reading an ebook/physical book, I like listening to classical music, if I can. :)

Occasionally, I choose sth different, like Mary Black, Norah Jones, Van Morrison or John M..."

Ooh, nice. 😊

If I'm reading an ebook/physical book, I like listening to classical music, if I can. :)

Occasionally, I choose sth different, like Mary Black, Norah Jones, Van Morrison or John Martyn. :)

Denise wrote: "Same! I'm sure I thought of her as Melindam for over a year before I realized. 😂."

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KayLynn wrote: "Homegoing both the author and book are Ghana.
What Storm, What Thunder both the author and book are Haiti.
The First Mrs. Rothschild author is from..."
Thank you, KayLynn. :))

Extra info, for Ilona Andrews, author born in Russia is also accepted.

Keli wrote: "I don’t know how many times I’ve been on a team with you Melindam, but this is the first time I have actually read your name as Melinda-m. For years, and it must be years now, my brain has always s..."

LOL, the extra M at end is from my family name, otherwise it's Melinda, really, but I'm happy to go with Mel. :))

Me too!!!!! 🤩

Thank you, Keli. :))

So, just putting it out there -in case some of you may be interested- author Nalini Singh was born in Fiji (a hard country). I just heard on the TT grapevine. 😊

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Andy wrote: "added a few planned to the books tab - hopefully doing it correctly?"

Absolutely! 😊

Awesome. :))

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Cat wrote: "Alicanto
1 350 to 450
2 Author initials in ENTIERRO
3 Item or animal with wings on cover
4 Set in a mountainous location
5 "treasure" in text"

I could cover page count, animal with wings and treasure in text if someone can take Historical Fiction where my Queens' Play is currently languishing. I'm keeping it for TT, so haven't started yet.

Cat wrote: "not too heinous! I thought about spinning World Villain, but was worried we'd end up with an easy country that no one was reading for as I assume we are all excitedly hunting down hard locales! (incidentally, Luxembourg! WOW that was tricky. The interesting local-authors were all poetry or short stories that didn't hit 100 pages.)"

Indeed. I have upcoming DR Congo, Uganda, Monaco and Holy See. 🤭

And I just realised that I could use some Hungarian classics for Slovakia and Romania settings (because of history & stuff) or authors born there for later.

Cat,

go ahead! Come what may! 😍

Vi wrote: "And each country can be used only twice?"

Correct.

Vi wrote: "I'm being a little slow but we essentially keep creating itineraries of 11 books right? Is this throughout the whole challenge? I need to reserve some books then!"

Yes it continues through the whole challenge.

We just need to pay attention that if a book will be used for a 2nd itinerary, it cannot be finished before the 1st itinerary is complete.

We will monitor the progress and let you all know. Also, we are trying to go for mid-level and hard countries, as much as possible, as they are worth more points (10/20). Finishing an easy country in Mini 1 brings us 5 extra points only, while using the same book for a Mini 2 or 3 task, give us 10 extra points.
It doesn't mean, we will not use easy ones eventually, but preference is given to tasks with more points.

Sophie wrote: "Thank you everyone! I haven't yet read The Man in the Brown Suit so that's a target for this challenge."

I hope you'll enjoy it, Sophie, but I have doubts about % of this one as well, as there are several locations and while some of it is in South Africa, it includes a fictional island along the River Zambezi.

Appointment with death is set partly in Jordan and partly in Jerusalem, but I'm not sure about %.