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

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

And .... of course... another doorstopper ... sorry 😶‍🌫️

Scylla
1 500 to 650
2 body of water on cover
3 features a sacrifice of some type (your interpretation)
4 features a sorceress
5 title contains the word "FIRE"

Sammy wrote: "Oh, just realised I have an Isreal setting coming up this week! Unfortunately just outside of page range with 192 pages, but I do have others! 😆"

That's a relief. 😁

Sammy wrote: "ok, I'm seriously beginning to think we have some kind of invasion of the body snatchers thing going on here...

who are you and what have you done with E?"

🤣

Eldarwen wrote: "Awww, look at me above that infamous line!
Hahaha"

😍🍾🥂

Yaayy! 😊

I just finised my Rwanda book & realised that I still have the colonialism one to push through, so will take even longer to start.

#40

3 stars, very thorough research, decent writing, some interesting insights, but didn't add any new "revelations" to the book I've read about it erlier.

Still, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, a friend gave this book to me together with another on a similar subject. I think I'll try and read it as well right away, so that I can get these off my shelf.

Sammy wrote: "I do have a 500-pager coming in the next week, but if anyone is reading anything, feel free to drop it in!"

I also have one that I'm planning to start over the w/e, but whoever finishes first, Sammy. :)

I'm happy for you to claim it. Mine is a physical copy, so I probably won't be very quick about it.

In! I should really get to Book 2 in the Orphan X and Book 7 in the Kate Daniels series. 😁


Total audiobooks read this year so far: 70 (end of Aug)

Audiobooks to read:

Audiobooks in monthly category read: 3
, 5 stars
, 5 stars
, 3 stars

Audiobooks NOT in category read: 1



MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Sammy, I vote your book with the BLOOD title to have two circles on cover. 😉

I'm making progress with my Rwanda book - not the easiest of listens, natch, but at least it's not too long.

😅

Last year's wheelathon (boringwheeloflife) could also be a good basis for a new wheel, I think.

Riding on TT, how about evil Cheese monsters? 😅

I also seem to remember discussing book pet peeves with Sonia some time ago? Either in our thread or maybe in the Q&A ones?

Could be a Wheel of Monstroulsy Annoying Tropes. ☺️

Sammy wrote: "Also, this is monster 350!

We be awesome 😁"

😍🤩🫡

I commiserate.

Sammy wrote: "Totally get that! I'm not supposed to be spending anything at all!

Unfortunately this means a LOT of rather dubious audible+ books at the moment 😆"

🤭

my monthly audible credits are within my budget, but everything else needs to be put on hold until December when I'm writing to Santa. 🤭

Had to restructure my reading plans a bit, as I just realised that the audiobook version of King Leopold is not available for me and I need to cut back on my reading costs a bit for this year.

So I decided to cover colonialism with a different book I already own, and instead of Congo, I'll read a Rwanda book as that's available for me on Audible. Page count I can cover with my current listen.

Feel free to remove them if my pace is too slow or if you have sth that's working.

Sammy wrote: "We had 3 people come for viewings, and one made an offer, but it was 10k under what we're looking for, so we turned it down. They're coming back for another viewing next week (we're away this week)..."

Keeping fingers crossed! ☺️

Shadowing Lemma

1. 100-175
2. tagged Science at least 10x
3. Author's initials in CANNIBALISM
4. some kind of shadow on cover
5. MATH(S) OR MATHEMATICS in text