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

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

Would be awesome! 😉

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if it's over 3 hours, it is 100 pages, no matter how long

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Rebecca wrote: "I have one with an instrument on the cover that I’ll put on the spreadsheet when I get home in a couple of hours"

Awesome, thanks. 😊

Happy Thanksgiving to All who celebrate!

Well, if it's crying time 😉, I'm struggling a bit with I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine. It is interesting, but too much on the dry and scientific side for me. It's not that difficult to follow, but not that absorbing either, so I'm following Elisabeth's example and intersperse it with some other reading. 😊

‼️🎼 For the Music Mini, we now only need

- 1 book with a musical intrument on cover
- 2 books for the musician tasks.


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Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Sounds like a great book to read with your son!"

The greatest thing about these books is that you don't even have to be a music aficionado to enjoy them. :)

Elisabeth wrote: "Handel is one of my favourite composers. He wrote such good melodies."

Yes, I love his music too, but also Vivaldi's, Bach's, Corelli's ... and there are other baroque composers I'm just discovering (Torelli, Manfredini, Leonardo Leo).

It's quite funny, how I don't like baroque paintings or architecture, but I absolutely adore the music. :)

Elisabeth wrote: "Btw Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White was a 5 star read for me. It's a beautifully written memoir by a now author/ journalist who grew up In NO in the 60's a..."

Glad that you liked it so much. :)

Currently reading and enjoying Why Handel Waggled His Wig by cellist Steven Isserliss. Fortunately I could find the word count for it on Arbookfind.

My son and I already read his Why Beethoven Threw the Stew (sadly not on Arbookfind) and we both loved it. It's such a nice, funny little book, perfect for kids to introduce them to the life and music of great composers and this one follows where the other left off.

Just ordered the Hungarian paperback version for my son. He's started piano lessons 2 years ago and is preparing for a Christmas concert in the music school. :)

Elisabeth wrote: "Sorry, I've had to remove Nutshell from instrument in text because I took the reference to a violin from one of the reviews but it was actually referring to another book. I've moved it to genre for..."

It's OK, Rebecca claimed that spot with piano. :)

Julia wrote: "Thanks for salsa sauce suggestion, I have a book that works 🙌"

🥳 awesome!

Updating the post above. 😊

🎼🎡 MUSIC Mini Challenge - Update🎶🎡


❎ Musical instruments in text: All claimed.

❎Musical Genre: All claimed.
(view spoiler)[It is the words that count, not the meaning, so if you should come across e.g. salsa as a sauce, that should be fine.
1. Baroque
2. Polka
3. Sufi
4. Spiritual
5. Salsa (hide spoiler)]


❎Musical Location: All claimed!


❗Musical instrument on cover: 1 more is needed, it can be any! instrument, we can repeat


❗Musician book: 2 more is needed, they don't need to be different, so if we come across 2 guitarists or 2 more singers, they all count. If it's a fiction book, the musician should be the/a main character.

@Claire B,

I found "harp" in the text of The Wren in the Holly Library, (though Google books won't give me the page number), so I have changed it for the Musical Mini, if you don't mind. 😊

@Christene,

I found the word "spiritual" in Gone Before goodbye, so I added it to a "musical genre" task.

Alysa wrote: "For the purposes of the Mini, do singers who don't play an instrument count as musicians?
I think so but just checking.
If so, I will read Autobiography by Morrissey"

Yes, they do. :)

Elisabeth wrote: "I have which has a tiny sax and trumpet on the cover. A reread but that’s fine. 🙂"

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Elisabeth wrote: "No, I finished it. Polka was on p505.

Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White is really about the jazz men of the Preservation Hall bands who the author learned ..."

Actually, I'm thinking that musical instrument on cover may be the trickiest, so let's put it there knowing that this is a Musical jolly joker and may be swapped if needed later. :)

Elisabeth wrote: "I just came across defenestrate in my book . Never mind. It also has accordion, piano, spiritual and according to Mel, polka which I haven’t found yet. The page nu..."

I used the amazon look-inside search, but if it led me astray, then we can use spiritual, instead. :))

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Woohoo!
Gosh those first 3 rounds went fast!

So I finished


It is an absolute hoot! If you don't mind swearing and things getting spicy (on..."

Hooray for books that make us go lol in public! 😊