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

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

Sammy, happy to hand the slot over to you. After Niccolo, I'm going to read my MPG War book, so you'll finish yours way ahead of me. :)

Sammie,

you can kick out my book and put it for page count and if there's hubris theme, there as well.

I'm at 25% only, so it will be a few days before I finish my book.

😅

Exactly so!

Hence the -1 star, right? 😊

What?! No "vegetarian" in The Faerie Queene?

Or flip-flops on cover? 🤭

:))

I listened to samples of both versions and also disliked the female narrator, Judy.

Sammy wrote: "Melindam wrote: "#51 - 5 stars

Great narration by John Sackville"

I really enjoyed that series!"

I'm going to read at least the next book in the series some time, but not right away. Oops, forgot to add it to my TBR. 🤭

Sammy wrote: "I've just spent some time adding books that I'd not added to GR yet to my shelves. Won't do my "have less books on the tbr than at the start of the year" any good, but at least they'll be on GR for..."

Yes, I also started adding books from my kindle/audible wishlist that have been there for quite some time now, but haven't found their way onto my GR shelf yet. 😊

Which of course also turns the date-added GR option irrelevant for my shelf, but whatever.... 🤭

#51 - 5 stars

Great narration by John Sackville

I'll be able to take on folklore later if needed.

Here are our currently unclaimed tasks:

- sandals on cover (flip-flops/thongs accepted)
- the word VEGETARIAN in the text
- Set in Arizona or a state/country that touches Arizona (Mexico, New Mexico, California, Nevada,Utah)
- Tagged Jewish or Judaism (at least 10 times)
- MUD (any order) in title
- tagged Folklore (at least 10 times)

Happy Holidays and New Year! 🎄🎅🎉

Hope to see you in the Perks Group for UNO in February. 🥰

Woo-Hooooo!! 🤩🥳🎉✨

We'd also like to thank the CEOs for organising this fun Wheel! 😊🥰

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "It is official

We are the winners!

Amazing job everyone! I think this is my first ever NBRC challenge win! 😮

We are now also immortalised in the Hall of Fame :)"

Woo-Hooooo!! 🤩🥳

First time win for me as well. 😊

Happy Dance!! 🎉✨

Well-done and well-deserved, DreamTeam!! 🥰

Alas, no joy for Judaism for the time being.

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control. Roger Crowley shows how this struggle shaped the modern world. From 1511 to 1571, European powers linked up the oceans, established vast maritime empires, and gave birth to global trade, all in the attempt to control the supply of spices. Taking us on voyages from the dockyards of Seville to the vastness of the Pacific, the volcanic Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle, and the coasts of China, this is a narrative history rich in vivid eyewitness accounts of the adventures, shipwrecks, and sieges that formed the first colonial encounters—and remade the world economy for centuries to follow.

Will also check if there may be a shorter Great Courses series on Judaism in the audible+ catalogue.

LOL, no worries, Cat.

I will finally!! start To Lie with Lions which is 672 pages. :)

The other -again read by Cat- was Battle Ground by Jim Butcher.