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

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

We’re finding good books!
My book just introduced a character named Quinette. Go Q!

Alaina wrote: "We don't get any points if we do a buddy read, right? I wasn't sure if I should add that to the way of kings."

No, not in this challenge.
But I did start it! And I'm hooked! There's a lot of sword stuff right now, but I'm kinda getting to know the characters too :)

Alaina wrote: "Oh it is okay! Take your time!! I can’t wait to see your thoughts because I have so many. I’m so annoyed I couldn’t finish it today because of work 😭"

Work always gets in the way of good reading time😆!

Alaina, I promise to start our Brandon Sanderson book!! I promise!! I'll get the audio to speed me up a bit.

I just finished Huckleberry Finn which is tagged book 27 times. Weird.

Jhmingos wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I've been puttering around, updating.

We have one new task for the Traveling: Read a book that is in the Foreign Lands List

We have 4 more for China:
Author born in China
Red and ..."

I just noticed the second part of this - yes that works for China :)

Speaking of door stoppers, Alaina, our buddy read thread is open for The Way of Kings!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Excellent! I'll be getting to this this week :)

Jhmingos wrote: "Cordelia wrote: "It's been a chaotic week here so not as much reading as I'd like. I did get to do some, and I did a ton yesterday which was nice.

I'm hoping now to have the brain power to read s..."

Good reminder. I do have the second Kingsbridge somewhere around here...

Deanna did some fabulous negotiations and Oman is in for the next itinerary! Nice work Deanna.

Jhmingos wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I've been puttering around, updating.

We have one new task for the Traveling: Read a book that is in the Foreign Lands List

We have 4 more for China:
Author born in China
Red and ..."

You know, let me see - I'll work on it today and see if I can negotiate some books....

I have had Wild Swans on my tbr for a long time - I'd like to read it for an author born in China, but it will probably be a week - maybe 5 days if I do a lot of cleaning? before I'm finished? (I'm going to listen to the The Sun is Also a Star first, then Wild Swans) Does that work for folks?

I'd say go for the Killer Kebab!

Yes! That is totally fine. I think I can get the Y done in that time too.

I've been puttering around, updating.

We have one new task for the Traveling: Read a book that is in the Foreign Lands List

We have 4 more for China:
Author born in China
Red and Yellow on cover
N
A

and 5 more for Turkey
letters KEBAB in title (any order)
train on cover
U
K
Y

We decided to try to maximize our medium and hard countries for the itinerary, as we just get 5 points for the easy guys, but we can keep going with that too! We had 2 Omans in one day, and I could only use one :)

MelanieJoy wrote: "I just finished the BOM. I can’t find my computer but as soon as I do I will post DQ answers.

EDIT: DONE."

Awesome. Thanks, MelanieJoy! That gave us 60 points with your DQs :)

Deanna wrote: "Jhmingos wrote: "Deanna wrote: "

DELICIOUS!!!!

🎉🎉Way to go Icono teammates! We conquered another spell out with our banked books and earned an additional 55 points!🚀

Don't forget to put spell o..."

Truth!
Two for the price of one.
I found that book to be so sad. I thought I would find the humor, but I was just really sad about it. What did you think?

I just finished Things We Lost in the Fire. There is something about South American horror writers! They're good.

Looks great Deanna!

I just have it on Kindle.

I like to have as many platforms available as possible :) Kindle, audio, paper....