Melissa’s Comments (group member since May 12, 2019)

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

MelanieJoy wrote: "I finally finished The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency!"

Congrats!
Do you think you will continue with the series?

Jhmingos wrote: "I can't get to it right away, but I can cover the "journal" tag with Leaves of Grass."

Nice.
I wonder why they tagged it "journal"? Do they consider the poetry a journal of sorts, or do they journal about the poetry?

Fabulous!

For "tagged journal 10x" it can also be "tagged diary 10 x"

Oops! It looks like we filled that slot.

MelanieJoy wrote: "The Berry Pickers is tagged "cultural" 32 times - does this count as culture? If so, I'll be done tomorrow. I'm almost 70% done."

I'll ask - it's different with each challenge

Just read an excellent memoir - We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People - I highly recommend it!

Updates!
We finished Mexico, and are off to Japan.

Tasks for Japan include:

Author born in Japan
🌍Red and White on cover
🌍character eats Sushi
🌍cherry tree(s) and/or blossom(s) on cover
🌍features a geisha
🌍"temple" in text
As well as a Japan spellout

For the US, we still have:
🌍Stars on the cover
🌍letters EAGLE in title (any order)
Plus a bunch of letters for the spellout

We are on our 6th Itinerary

And
We have the following new tasks for our mini:

🌍Read a book where two people with different religions interact
🌍Read a book with MPG Adventure
🌍Read a book first published in August of any year
🌍Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the Asian continent
🌍Read a book tagged "Journal" at least 10x

We are going to the USA next!
I'm not sure how to move it from it's location, but Deana will be on it!
A looooong spellout

Jhmingos wrote: "Good news! I finished Crooked Plow which was the last book on Brazil for Mini 3. If you read literary fiction, I highly recommend it, but the way. Also, I think I found a book that..."

Nice!
Thanks for the suggestion.

Good question. I just scanned through and it looks like we have a Z, Q, U, X, your Q, a Y, I, O - so I'd say just keep going with any of the tricky ones if you see one that looks interesting.

That is absolutely amazing!

Well, I just read an Aztec mythology book. That was very interesting! Kinda gruesome...
It fits that Aztec slot.

Fabulous!! Thanks Cordelia!!
I hope it was a somewhat decent read :)
I'm going to get a U book out of the library tomorrow to get ready for a next U.

Awesome. Thanks Cordelia!

Unfortunately, that was finished before the cheese started.

I was just picking away at this cheese- I didn't see a U in our stored books. Does anyone have a U hidden anywhere?

Alaina wrote: "I don't think I've seen this anywhere, but is there a specific rule for when someone reads anthologies? Can we use all the authors who contributed in the spell-out options or locations? Or just the..."

Let me check - I don't think all of the authors can count.

We are doing so well!!

I finally was released from my book Acts of Faith - definitely an interesting read, but I'm not totally sure how I feel about it yet. It was tough to get through though, and I am free!!

Hopefully my next couple of books will go more quickly.

I love how we keep eating up these cheese tasks! My current book is taking longer than expected - complicated characters.