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

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

I’m reading Weather Detectives right now which is science mpg! :)

I just interlibrary loaned Island Of The Dragon's Blood
for the remote places.
It looks really interesting!

I think I have been thinking of the spell outs wrong. Do we just need the one letter for L-I-L-A-C? I was thinking we needed all of the letters in the book...

Tone wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Tone wrote: "Finished Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett


A4 - Granny uses a broomstick to travel
C1 - The orangutan that is t..."

Sounds good. I'll give it a try.

I just got out Firekeepers' Daughter and Equal Rites, so I'll try to get those questions finished. Do we know what the regular BOMs are for next month?

Brittany wrote: "Yay I can do DQ answers for The Founding now :) thanks to Melissa!"

:)

Sharon wrote: "Sorry I've been MIA - we had a very busy weekend for the holiday. i feel like this is the first I've even picked up a computer/device in days!"

! I hope it was a really good and busy holiday :)

Melissa wrote: "I am going to finish a few books first, but Illuminae is not too cheery. It’s kind of like a zombie book but biochemical weapons instead of zombies. I’ll finish it, but it makes me want to read a r..."

Now, I can't stop thinking about the main two characters... maybe I did like this book after all...

Tone wrote: "Finished Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett


A4 - Granny uses a broomstick to travel
C1 - The orangutan that is the librarian at Unseen Univer..."

Tone wrote: "Finished Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett


A4 - Granny uses a broomstick to travel
C1 - The orangutan that is the librarian at Unseen Univer..."

Do you think this is worth giving a shot? I can interlibrary loan it... or maybe wait for another one?

Is it okay if I update the BINGO for the Troll doll? It's highlighted for Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus on the book page, but still green / blank on the BINGO page. :)

Completed: All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America
Pages: 336
Bingo:
E3: p. 103 "As well as conveying the elegiac relationship to Lincoln's death, Whitman might have been describing the lilacs in front of many homes in America..." (among other references of lilacs on the presidential grounds)
G1: Cabbages is in the subtitle
D1: During WW1, there were sheep on the white house lawn - their wool sheered and sold for the war efforts
97 MPG History
238 MPG Politics
118 Title has all the letters D-E-A-T-H
Added to tracker

Finished: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

5/28
pages 203
Tasks:
231 MPG Race
186 Author is a person of color

Completed
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Pages: 262
F5: page 45 "I navigate around cactuses that look like ping-pong paddles and giant troll-doll hair to get to the top,"
(I was very excited when I read that line!!)
12 Humor MPG
229 Mystery MPG

On tracker

Melissa wrote: "I just got out Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West from the library which will cover # 18 if we need it. I'll use it another place if it's filled befo..."

I am interested to hear about your thoughts on this. I'd like to read it someday.

Completed:
Highland Treasure

H3 - Scottish warriors (and a healer) rescue MC - that is the plot of the book. There's a lot of plaid - and there's plaid on the front cover.

47 Sword on cover
81 Spell out BEES (I'm not sure what the letters stand for at the end?)
21 Romance MPG
153 Historical fiction MPG
155 MC uses horses as a mode of transportation

added to tracker

If you want an escape, this book is the ticket :)

Completed: The Seventh Wish[bookcover:The Seventh Wish|26073068
Bingo: B5 - character goes out on ice looking for ice flowers, they sort of become a metaphor?
34 family MPG
107 one of the MC dresses up as Champ the Lake Monster as the mascot of a team. Other MC dress up in costumes for Irish Dance
163 There is a talking fish
Added to Tracker

Completed: Norse Mythology
Bingo: B5 (Frost Giants)
75 MPG Mythology
67 focuses on siblings (Thor and Loki are siblings)
234 Main character has a son (all of the main characters have sons)
Added to tracker

Completed: The Four Winds
(Loved this book!!)
Tasks
34 - MPG Family
196 - Recommended by Lady Sybil
154 - Historical fiction MPG
244 - Important character dies (I'm not saying!)
14 - features a protest
234 - Main character has a son


Has been added to the tracker

Ashleigh wrote: "Book:
Date: 19/05/21
Pages: 330

Tasks:
25 - character Eve
26 - character Ian McNab
29 - character Trina
159 - character Ian McNab
88 - set in New York City
112..."

Wow! That book was a jackpot for tasks!

Completion Post
On the Tracker

His Majesty's Dragon
Naomi Novik
Date Read: 5/17
Pages: 356
74 - has the word GOD in the title
118 - Title has all the letters D-E-A-T-H
122 Boat / ship on cover
123 (Well, the boat is on the sea)
137 MPG Fantasy
163 Is a dragon considered a talking animal?
4 First in a series
BINGO C3