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

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

Just dropping by to say helloooo from Team 🏔️ Mount Doom Tongariro Alpine Crossing! ☺️👋

Just dropping by to say helloooo from Team 🏔️ Mount Doom Tongariro Alpine Crossing! ☺️👋

Just dropping by to say helloooo from Team 🏔️ Mount Doom Tongariro Alpine Crossing! ☺️👋

Just dropping by to say helloooo from Team 🏔️ Mount Doom Tongariro Alpine Crossing! ☺️👋

⁉️An Important Question⁉️

I already mentioned this in the post above, but would like to repeat that from time to time we may need to play tetris with books and move them around to avoid having incomplete spell-outs at the end of the Rounds or simply to make a mini, closer to completion than the rest, move forward.

Could you please let us know if you are OK with this? Thank you!😊

(If not, we accept this of course and try to avoid this as much as possible.)

Happy to see the chatting going on in our thread and fully encourage you to go on! ☺️

But so that we don't lose sight of info important to the challenge, you can always find the general need-to-know/good-to-know info or links on Page 1 of our team thread. I will try my best to keep the messages/info updated. From time to time, I'm going to repost stuff, but always feel free to ask is something is not clear.


1️⃣🔠WORD FOR ROUND 1: DJIBOUTI🔠1️⃣

🕰️🕰️Start of Round 1🕰️🕰️
11 October, 9pm, UK time
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...


📚 1st BOM of the Challenge:

by O.O. Sangoyomi
starts on 16 October Link to BOM Discussion


H*O*U*S*E*K*E*E*P*I*N*G

📝 message 4: RULES + link to the Tracking sheet and Countdown


📝 message 5: BOM Info


📝 message 7: Minis Info


🛣️ If you are a planner, feel free to add books to the tracking sheet and claim tasks, but not more than 3-4 at a time, please.
Please make sure you also add other options your book works for. Once you finished a book, you can claim another task.

🌋If you are more of a mood reader it's enough to add the books as you start reading them or finish them, no hurry.

✅ Karen, Julia and I will try our best to make sure that your books get assigned to claimed tasks, but sometimes, to move forward and for the sake of points, we may need to play tetris, if its OK with you. We will let you know if some more targeted reading is needed, but otherwise will be happy to leave you to follow your own pace and mood. 😊

➕ If you are uncomfortable using spreadsheets, you are welcome to make completion posts in the thread and we will help you adding the books to the sheet. Just make sure you link the right edition of the book you read and list the options the book works for.

❓Feel free to ask any questions if you something is not clear.

❗And the MOST IMPORTANT: Have fun and read good books!! 📚 😊

Also, because listening to John Denver made me feel like maudlin, in case I haven't told you yet... Love Y'All!! 😂❤️

(Oh my.... no wonder I have kept away from this genre.

As a bloody Hungarian it's enough to have inherited transgenerational and indelilbe genetic pessimism. Top it off with Country Music and you ...get...thoroughly .... destroyed...

Simply lethal. 🤣)


And dang, why do I remember this only now and not during TT?
(view spoiler)[
You are a Hungarian if
you call the triagle shaped cheese that comes in a circle shaped box a cheese cube!

https://share.google/images/f7XdF54IR...

And BTW, we pronounce the HU word for cheese, "sajt" a bit like 'shite', but the "a" sound is pronounced sth like in "what". ;)
(hide spoiler)]

Sammy wrote: "Chris Stapleton is one of the best singer/songwriters alive today. honestly, I'm not sure he's human. Human beings don't have the kind of voice control he has!

check out: https://www.youtube.com/w..."

This is seriously jaw-dropping! Listened to this with Domi in the morning, gave him a bit of a boost before he made his reluctant way to school. 😉

Thank you Cat, I will create a Country list and will include all your recs and then Domi can pick his own favourites. :)

Lol, too funny.

Country music is not that widely popular in Hungary, though some songs/singers like Dolly & Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers ARE more widely known.

Sammy wrote: "Melindam wrote: "It made me laugh the way he was belting out the refrain of Country roads while in the shower. 😅"

Hey, all the best people do that... 😂"

🤣

Sophie wrote: "Yeah the squares are often a banana skin type task.

Shhh Mel, I’m here incognito as a normal team member. Going to be quiet and try to stay under the radar to read."

Oopps, sorry. 🤭 Hadn't had too much sleep this week and it starts showing. Better to close shop for today.

It made me laugh the way he was belting out the refrain of Country roads while in the shower. 😅

Thank you, Sophie, Sammy! 😊

With Domi's current level of English, no strict lyrics controls are necessary, though the other day I refused to translate some Eminem lyrics for him, lol.

Alysa wrote: "Hmmm, I am interpreting the instructions as only past BOMS (the spreadsheet is broken into different tabs, to differentiate BOMS from BRs and such). Maybe ask in the Captains group?"

Nah, I'm just tired & stupid & was looking at the wrong tab... please just disregard what I wrote on that. Will delete my post, so as not to confuse this issue.

Also, as we have Mods Karen & Sophie on the team, they can always correct me. :))

And all of you, as team members can express your wishes on strategy and tasks and preferred Minis and we will take this into consderation as much as possible. You are not stepping on any toes with this. 🙂

Alysa wrote: "We spent time in Budapest at the beginning and end of most trips but we mostly concentrated on the eastern part of the country, like around the Miskolc, Eger, Debrecen, and Tokaj areas. The 2020 trip was supposed to be to Lake Balaton but IDK if that's going to happen! ..."

Cool. I rarely visit the Northeast region, though just this w/e we will travel to Eger & beyond. 😊

I work in Budapest (and used to live there), but currently I live with my family close to my hometown between Budapest and Lake Balaton (it's called Székesfehérvàr 😁, basically meaning White Castle, b/c of Roman settlement heritage). My university town is very close to Balaton and we visit often that area as I have friends & relatives living there.

Cool.

I admit I only know Chris Stapleton b/c of his duet with Justin Timberlake. 🤭 Love the song Sayin' Something.

I'm sure he will. He's already asleep, but was excited when I told him about your incoming list.

We'll have a pick of some songs to listen to tomorrow. 😊

Oh wow, how exciting, Alysa! Both the travels and the cookbooks/food stuff!

I hope you had a good time on your past visits and that you will be coming again! 😊

Was it in/around Budapest you visited or did you get to some other locations as well?

Concerning past BOM squares & ladders.... that may be the toughest part of the challenge and one requiring very specific reading efforts. Let's see if/how we can manage that.