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

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

Sammy wrote: "Congrats!! 🥳

I have much the same issues...

I started the year with a 337 print book TBR and a 135 audio book TBR.
I have read 541 books so far this year.
I now have a 338 print book TBR and a 12..."

🤣

Thank you, Sammy! :)

For next year, I have decided to launch a big exercise and hunt and gather all the books I have on my various TBR shelves/lists/etc and add them all here, bloating the numbers even more.
Obviously it'll mess up my when-have-I-added-them dates even more, but I've been very inconsistent with them anyway, so it doesn't much matter.

Also, with this book I'm done with the challenge for this year.

My original goal was 30, so reaching 50 makes me feel good.

Has it reduced my TBR pile? Hell, NO!!! 🤭

I started off with 127 books at the beginning of the year and have exactly the same number now. 🤣🤣🤣

#50 - 3 stars

A Jane Austen "retelling" it isn't, but I did not expect it after book #1 in this series. I expected the over-the-topness, but the excess went beyond even book 1. It was gilding the lily to the death approach: very theatrical, overmelodramatic and way too much and yet it wasn't bad, just not my style.

I have claimed orange cover and character works in finance, but shout out if you have books that may work only for those. :)

Books finished from now on may be used from a new round of ADMIN Mini!

I added new rows on the Mini tab. The new Admin mini codes are A21-A40

Admin Mini - New Round
🎨the main character works in an office
🎨typical administrative material on the cover
🎨tagged office (at least 10x)
🎨the main character works in taxes
🎨the clue to solving a murder is found in paperwork
🎨someone is murdered in an office
🎨the plot revolves around white-collar crime
🎨the main character needs to know how to handle a budget
🎨letters GREY in title
🎨letters TAXES in title
🎨letters ADMIN in title
🎨author first & last initials in SHREDDING


Feeding Mini All claimed


Gardening Mini - 2 Unclaimed tasks
🎨#5 in series
🎨Green cover

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Finished the final book for the office mini!"

Awesome!!!! 🥳🥳

Thank you, Lisa. We have a better chance of finishing the Admin mini first.
My Bangladesh/Turkey books are both doorstoppers, so I won't be able to finish them before the w/e, unfortunately.

Thank you, Richard. :)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "On the plus side the book I got for Hawaii has lobster which made me very happy 🤣"

Lobster (roll) in Hawaii, sounds all sort of good to me. 😉"

🤭

Elisabeth the admin mini (FILING) uses the quilt/coffee table bonus, so this should be good.

Wow, :D

I've been contemplating buying the audio as an accompaniement, to bridge over the bits when I'm not able to do the kindle-reading, so you jyst made another strong case of it :D

Cat,

I bought the Istanbul book b/c I saw your rating and review. I'm at 15% and it's fantastic: I absolutely love it! :)

The kindle edition being over 1000 pages is a plus. :D

:D

Cat wrote: "why don't we have tagged Spain in the gardening mini, eh?!"

PRECISELY!! 🤭

I have found another set-in-Spain book, just don't know when I can get to it as it's a shortie!

Concerning my Bangladesh book, I decided to go with the fiction one in the end.
The non-fiction The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide is super interesting and it stays on my TBR, but the topic is just too tough for me to deal with right now.

The long and the short of it is that I have put it down originally to a G, but with the switch I can cover an I instead. So if someone has a book that works for G, you can claim it. :)

Teamies,

we really smashed it this round, fantastic reading!!! 🥰🥳

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I've never been on a #1 team before, though I'm very happy with 2x 3rd (Tower Teams: Teams Sloth and District 7) and 2x 2nd (Wheels: Teams Orient Express & Cher) places of previous teams. 🥰 .

Aaand, Round 3 has started!!! 🙃☺️

Team, I'm going to check us in now.

19 more minutes and then we can let it rip for Round3! 😍

Sana wrote: "Completed Words of Radiance What an epic ride!! I'm blown away."

Cross-posted. ;) 😉 Glad you liked it.

A16 mini task was already claimed & finished, so I added it for the trellis-building sequence.