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

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

I'd say yes.

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

- this is book 5 of the House of Niccolo series, but I can wholeheartedly recommend these books if you like Historical fiction.
Author Dorothy Dunnett is magnificent and should be more widely known and read. The narrator John Banks is fantastic - he narrates all books for this series.

- this is a favourite book/series of mine, but this was the first time I listened to the audiobook version. Great, crazy literary fun book with good narration.

- simply hilarious in the true Wodehouse style and Jonathan Cecil is a great narrator.

- once again, a favourite book (I'm a bit more ambiguous about Gaiman's other books) and the full-cast narration suits it very well. Karen recommended this to me, so thank you. 🥰

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "And here's my contribution to Dickens.. . Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth who becomes his wife solve mysteries. It's light weight but enjoyable."

Thank you, Lisa.😊

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "@mel
- I also enjoyed bleak house and Little Dorrit is more enjoyable imo. Fantastic reads"

Oh, good to know!! I'm looking forward to it. I find that Dickens works for me (even) better on audio, so I'm going for the audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson whom I like very much. :)

After the final updates, we finished in 2nd place for Round 1 which is absolutely great !! Fantastic reading, Team!! Nothing Inferior about our painting. 🤭🥰 🥳

So, keep those books (doorstoppers ;) coming.

Having said that, for the next few days I'll be only able to read shorter books, but after we are back from our travels, I'm planning to finally tackle Little Dorrit, which is next on my Dickens-TBR and a few other books over 600 pages. 😊

Sana wrote: "Finished Warbreaker and loved it! I'm going to start The Way of the Kings as soon as I finish Pride and Prejudice."

🥰

Sana, how did you like Bleak House? it's one of my favourites by Dickens. The other is Our Mutual Friend.

OK, Team, I'm going to check us in for Round1 , so please hold off finishing your next book just a little while longer.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

50 minutes to go for Round 2. :)

Sophie

hope you are having a great time an the evening fireworks sounds great. :)

I've read quite a few Jeeves & Bladings Castle books, but Uncle Fred is a new discovery, so thank you. :) ♡

Sammy wrote: "I had a look too, and I have two, but both are print copies and I have the next 3 weeks or so of print books already lined up...

Even all the circus books I have already read are print copies. Guess I don't like circus audio 😆."

I don't like them much either way... 😅

This, I have on kindle, so maybe I can take it ahead along with the upcoming BOM.

A Curious Beginning

Just found a book tagged circus 7x on my TBR, but will be some days till I get there.

And Stardust is also tagged 5x with a U-character... hmmmm

Cat wrote: "I'm reading which has a demonic looking stag on the cover which scares me, but it does have lion in the text too. (though I guess Niccolo will ..."

Cat, you claim the heraldic beast, I won't get to start Niccolo until next w/e when we are back from our travels.

Audiobooks and family time are not a good fit. 😉

Or I'm OK with Lamb as scary....

Yikes.... circus 😖😖😖

Thanks to Sana I've discovered Wodehouse's Uncle Fred series. I have not come across them before, but just finished the delightful & hilarious Book 1 and I'll definitely try and get the other books too, especially with all these Us we need.

TIME MANAGEMENT




⏲️⏲️End of Round 1 / Start of Round 2⏲️⏲️
26 October, 9pm, UK time
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Teamies, here is the link where you can double check the time for the end of Round 1 (start of Round 2).

As Karen has requested in her post above:
- if you still have some books you are planning to finish for this round, make sure you add them to the sheet an hour before the countdown ends at the latest,

OR

- if you are already reading for Round 2, please finish after the countdown is over.

Many thanks.

You have been reading like a dream for this round and while our current status can change after every Team has updated their sheets, currently we are at 1st place. 😊 🚀

Finished my last book for this round as well. :)

Have a great trip Audrey!! (I HATE packing, lol)

That's a nice parallell to the feeding mini, then. :D

:D

To Lie with Lions has a family tree, but I can only start reading it around next w/e. :)