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

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

Thank you, Claire. 😊

Talking about Us (&I s), I think we may need a few more of those.

Rebecca, I have switched your G-book to I, as it is really needed. 🙂

As it is a a former BOM, I'm giving some thoughts to adding it to Ladder 2 somehow.

If we put it to Rung 2, following mine, then maybe adding Steelheart (not Claire's as that has a snug place in ladder1), then Alysa's book could follow. 🤔

I'm considering reading Steelheart. Will check if it's available for me.

Finished yesterday another U-gem: book 3 of P.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred series. The audiobook is narrated by Jonathan Cecil, an absolute delight. I coulnd't help laughing out loud several times on my train commute, but I'm used to people looking at me funny. 🤭

Sorry about that, Alysa!! 😔

Yes, I think it can get away with it. 😊

Alysa,

I will be reading another previous BOM, Bookshops & BonedusT, so I will place it as Rung 1 and your The Last Murder at the End of the World as Rung 2.

Cat wrote: "I think we all have those, Mel! but yes, keep it bookish! :)"

🥰

Cat wrote: "@Mel, Hungary and her diaspora are having quite the literary year! First the Nobel Prize, now a British-Hungarian has won the Booker! What next?!"

Well, I have my wishes, but they are more political, than literay, so won't express them here. 😊🤞

‼️I have added new rows for the Genres Mini with codes G41-G80.
You can claim them again.‼️ 😊

Alysa wrote: "Claire wrote: "I’m okay if someone takes the last place in the first story ladder. I can always find other open prompts."

I’ll put my book in for the first rung in second ladder, as Mel suggested...."

Awesome. Thank you. 😊

Christene,

unfortunately is not orange enough, so will find another mini fit for it.

Purple item on the cover still keeps it in the Colors mini. :)

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

Neon lights sparkle on the cover

ClaireB wrote: "I just started Masquerade for some BOM points.
But I couldn't find a prompt for which it could fit, so I put it for the first "story" prompt. I hope it can be used for it. It didn't seem to be a b..."

Absolutely, I think it will fit the overall madness nicely. 😊

Alysa wrote: "For the second title ladder I am hoping to read The Last Murder at the End of the World but IDK what round it will work best for, so I don’t want to put it in the spreadsheet witho..."

Claire has already filled in the first ladder nicely, but if you add your book as 1st rung on the 2nd ladder, I could read Dune or Dark Matter, but for Round 4 only, in case they fit the spell-out.

‼️🏔3️⃣ ROUND 3 HAS BEGUN 3️⃣🏔‼️

10 minutes until Round 3 starts. I'm going to check us in now.

⏲️⏲️ End of Round 2 / Start of Round 3 ⏲️⏲️
8 November, 9pm, UK time
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Sammy wrote: "Melindam wrote: "Aaaand I JUST KNOW when to stalk the Silk Road thread, don't I? 🤭"

Your timing, as always, is impeccable."

Right!? Obviously my Tom H-alert is still alive and kicking. 😊

I did a bit of dragging around, so we have complete spell-outs right now.

Folks,

I'm giving it another 30 minutes and then just ask you to hold back finishing your current books until the Round is up. 😊

Sammy wrote: "LMAO!

I'd be surprised if Thor has made his way past the picture book stage 😆"

🤣

Aaaand I JUST KNOW when to stalk the Silk Road thread, don't I? 🤭