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

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

You would need to nominate a book in the dedicated thread for it to qualify for polls/voting. :))

Unfortunately it's too late for this Wheel as the niminations are 2 months ahead. In the other hand you can nominate it for January if it meets the requirements. :)
(am on the phone now so cannot share the link, but you can check the NBRC group page for the BOM nomination threads.)

Don't worry Elisabeth. It's actually a very short book (official page count is set at 174) and even with the extra points it isn't that much we can show for it. So if you read a book above 300 or 400 pages, we get higher points for it. :)

This may be the reason our Mods decided to launch an extra BOM with a longer book to offer better chances to teams.

Volunteering for Team Interior Painting

⏮️ UPDATE - There will be a bonus BOM in November, starting on 22 Nov.⏭️



📕📕 November BOM 📕📕

by Sarah Beth Durst

starts on 2 November

BOM Discussion link

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by Agatha Christie

starts on 16 November

BOM Discussion Link


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by Donna Tartt

starts on 22 Nov

BOM Discussion Link


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Thank you. :))

:D

And I'm done, phew... ;)

Because it's tagged Thailand enough times. :D

#bookswereadforteamchallenges

Greetings from the Austrian Alps, Teamies. We are at a wonderful place and today I can up my reading a bit.

Talking of underwhelming, I need to finish Anna and the King of Siam, as it is one of those books which if I give it a break, I may never pick it up again. It's not bad, but fails to impress me. There's less of the white Victorian superiority than I expected, but it's there nevertheless.

Elisabeth, just add the task number in column O on the Round 2 tab and fill in the details on that tab. The details should be transferred automatically to the Mini tab.

I nominate Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats… tourism .Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 1999.

A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy clichés - Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc.

The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being the ruthless tour-master - and his all-powerful demons. To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?

Volunteering for DQs (Interior Painting) and throwing in an extra credit, please.

I'm in obviously and if I can get the nominator's usual day 1 that would be great. Thank you. :)

Start of Month

Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2



End of Month>

Total audiobooks read this year: 99

Audiobooks in monthly category read: 3
- 4 stars, good narrator
- 2,5 stars, very good narrator, rather weak story
- 4 stars, really liked the story and the narrator was OK.


Audiobooks NOT in monthly category read: 6
- 5 stars
- 3,5 stars
- 4 stars
- 4 stars
- 5 stars
- 5 stars

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
- hilarious Wodehouse and Jonathan Cecil is the perfect narrator for this.
- one of my favourite Classics books of all time.
- one of my favourite book and the narration is outstanding

lol, yes, I'm totally baffled by the absence of a piano in a Trollope novel. Preposterous!! :D

I may have mistakenly thought it must have a piano in text. :))

Elisabeth,

I was probably checking the formulas for the mini tabs and just clicked on piano next to your book to see if it was working then forgot to remove

Please delete it if there's no piano in texr.

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Elisabeth,

Glad to meet another Trollope fan. :)

Love both his Palliser & Barchester books (also read a few individual novels). One of my all-time favourite books is Batchester Towers.

Lisa,

tasks are more important, so if you have a book that fits, just go ahead & claim it. :)

Nice to have you back, Richard. :))