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

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

Let's keep it under location and then we'll see. :)

1 partial spell-out is allowed. :)

And yes, flute should refer to the instrument in this case. :)

Round 4 & Music Mini tabs readded, can be populated again.

OH-KAY, people, I don't know what has just happened, but need to do something to restore the tracking.

I have so many exciting books about musicians/composers, ALAS.... they aren't friends with Indonesia! LOL

Oh wait.... I may have one that works... will need to check.

4️⃣🔠WORD FOR ROUND 4: INDONESIA🔠4️⃣

🌋 Round 4 & Mini 8 tabs have been added to our tracking sheet.


⏲️⏲️End of Round 3 / Start of Round 4⏲️⏲️

22 November, 9pm, UK time: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...


🥁🎼🎶 Mini 8 - Music


TASK LIST

🎹 Instrument🎹
- Find 5 of the following musical instruments in the text of your books. One book per instrument. 5 different instruments.

Instrument List:
Accordion
Bagpipe
Banjo
Bassoon
Cello
Clarinet
❎Drum
Flute
❎Guitar
Harmonica
Harp
Mandolin
Marimba
Oboe
Piano
Piccolo
Saxophone
Trombone
Trumpet
Tuba
Ukulele (or Ukelele)
Viola
❎Violin
Xylophone
Zither

🗺️Location🗺️
- Read 5 books set at least 50% in one of the following musical locations. One book per location. 5 different locations.

Location List:
Austin, USA
❎ Berlin, Germany
Bogotá, Colombia
Brazzaville, Congo
Chengdu, China
Chicago, USA
Detroit, USA
❎Havana, Cuba
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kingston, Jamaica
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Manchester, United Kingdom
Melbourne, Australia
Milan, Italy
Montreal, Canada
Nashville, USA
❎New Orleans, USA
Paris, France
Seoul, South Korea
Shanghai, China
Sydney, Australia
Tokyo, Japan
Toronto, Canada
Varanasi, India (also known as Benares)
Vienna, Austria

📔Cover📔
- Read 5 books which depict an instrument on cover. Any instrument, they just have to be clearly an instrument. You can find the same instrument multiple times.

1. Guitar on cover (Mel)
2.
3.
4.
5.


🎶Genre🎶
- Find 5 of the following music genres in the text of your books. One book per genre. 5 different genres.

Genre List:
❎Baroque (Mel)
Bhangra
Bluegrass
Calypso
Electronica
Fado
Folk
Grunge
K-Pop
Mambo
Mariachi
Merengue
Motown
Noh
❎Polka
Rautalanka
Reggae
Salsa
Shashmaqam
Ska
Spiritual
Sufi
Tango
Yodeling (or Jodeling) (Note: either English or US ll / l variant acceptable)
Zydeco


🎷Musician🎷
- Read 5 books written by or about musicians. This could be non-fiction about a musician or band; or it could be fiction - in which case the main character(s) should be a professional musician (or aspiring). Someone who plays an instrument for personal pleasure only doesn't count.
1. Nonfic book about Seiji Ozawa (pianist/conductor)
2. Nonfic book about opera singer Nellie Melba
3.
4.
5.



This mini challenge runs during Round 4 of the challenge, 22 November to 6 December. This mini challenge can only be completed once. You cannot bank books for this mini challenge.


- Books must be used in a spell out to be used for this mini challenge.
- Books can only be used for one mini challenge.
- Each task completed is worth 10 bonus points.
- A bonus of 30 points will be awarded if all tasks are completed.

Alysa wrote: "INDONESIA and another Mini?!?
What is this Wheel doing to us! lolol"

🤭

‼️🌋

Hobbitses,

just a quick note (I will do a proper post and update our tracking sheet in an hour or so)

our New Word for Round 4 is INDONESIA (no Us, thank fully!!)

and here is the link to the New, Music Mini, running for Round 4 only.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Copies of the Round 4 sheet & the Music Mini have been added to our sheet.

Rebecca wrote: "Slight problem, my last book I read The Christmas Stranger doesn't fit any of the minis right now. It's only genre is Christmas because it's so new no one has tagged as anything else yet. I hope we..."

Hi Rebecca,

No biggie. :)

And once you finish Hunter, we can restart the Colours Mini (though books already finished cannot be used for that unfortunately).

Sophie,

I have added your new U-book to MPG Romance and moved Claire B's to MPG Crime.

Sophie wrote: "I’ve got 2 books left it turns out because I got the children’s book word count wrong. Can definitely do one U, maybe 2."

🥰

I'm glad you like your BOM, Alysa and I'm with you on pushing out books I don't like faster, otherwise they may stay on the roadside. 😊

Sophie wrote: "I can read another U book, but that will take me to my cap and the series I've got isn't working well for the minis atm."

Thank you, Sophie. If nothing else, we can use it for Cat's crazy story and I can move another book from there to Genres Mini.

I'm on my last book for this round, unfortunately (reaching my limit with it), and as it is used for the Wheels mini, I don't want to abandon it.

Claire wrote: "Ii can put my book A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on the U. It has a character that starts with U ‘Ser Uthor Underleaf‘. But it was put under A, but maybe A is easier to find."


Oh yes, please!!!! 😊

Will do it, Claire.

My dear Hobbitses,

Seems we are in need of 2 U books to be able to go onto an extra word, so please be on the lookout. Thank you. 😊

I have almost finished listening to and my inner child & outer adult are in rare accord: we are both loving it. 😊

The audiobook narration is really good and I'm sorry that it hasn't been translated into Hungarian as I think that my son would also like it.

But as Fawcett Emily Wilde series has been translated, I'm hoping they may get to translating this one as well.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I finished
for defenestrated. It was cute enough, but I'm glad we didn't make you re-read it mel. lol

That's my last book for the round. Back to my tomes!"

Thank, Karen. :) I also gave it 3,5 stars. It was nice & cosy, but I wasn't very keen on rereading. 😁

Claire wrote: "I have one in my collection Roadmarks. I can read it, but maybe not for this round."

Fingers crossed it will fit our next word!! 😊

I will do some digging on the road sign cover....

no success so far :(

Julia wrote: "My current book works for R01 - Character gets lost 😊"

Great!! 😊