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

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

Awesome, thank you. ☺️

He certainly feels a proud kinship with you! ☺️

oh and I almost forgot... he asks some further recs from you.

Sammy wrote: "you know... The biggest problem with reading lods of short books is the ridiculous amount of time spent updating challenges after 😆"

😂

Also, Domi mentioned you the other day, Sammy.

He recently discovered a new favourite song: Take me home, country roads by John Denver and when I told him it's Country music, he remembered about the AI song he created and how you asked for a Country version. ☺️

I've just started the restless before-a-challenge period and don't know what to read, also, work is rather crazy at the mo' (it's been a long mo', LOL), so I'm trying to take it easy and decided to listen to music and to some great classical music review podcasts on youtube. :)

Sammy wrote: "I just realised I finished a snek book the other day, so bumped yours Mel 😉"

Glad you did!! ☺️

yay, for Wednesday morning admin time, Sophie! ☺️

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Piecing together the replies on snacks, I think we could put together a quite varied rolling buffet and the occasional 2nd-breakfast picnic along the trail would be quite exciting, as long as Gollum wouldn't try to sneak in and steal our food...
...
although as he seems to like raw fish the best, maybe we would even be safe from him, unless someone brings sushi?! 😂

Dear Mods,

as notifications seems wonky, putting this here.

We have an unasked for promotion thread popping up among the team threads... 🫥

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

In case you are a fan of both the book and the movies, I absolutely recommend Anything You Can Imagine (Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth) by Ian Nathan.

I listened to the audiobook with a great narrator and it was so much fun. Loved it!

Elisabeth wrote: "None of those would come rescuing anyone would they? Or I am not understanding the question?"

It's all tongue-in-cheek.
Sadly, none of those would save us for sure. Feel free to list any actual literary characters you'd feel you could be saved by! ☺️

I reread The Odyssey for TT and loved the audiobook narration by Gandalf Ian McKellen. It was magnificent! ☺️

Alysa wrote: ...Which books/characters did you feel like throwing into Mount Doom?

Oh gosh, anything I've rated 1 star? That's a hard question. Every book is somebody's baby... but I do wish some of those book babies hadn't been born.

🤣

So true! I can totally live with others disliking/hatin' some of my beloved books, so in return I'd like the same rights.

One reader's Love Boat may be another's Titanic. 🤭

And yes, you and this Team were totally meant to be. Sorry to hear about your Mordorous ;) trip!

Welcome Alysa & Elisabeth.
Looking forward to "meeting" you later. 😊

Sammy wrote: "*waves at The Hobbits you lot from The Silk Road!*"

Hi Sammy! ☺️

GR just gets weirder and weirder! (And I'm being v-v diplomatic here! 😅)

While thankfully I'm getting notifications both for this thread and our captains one (must have turned them on before the bug set in), the only other team I get the notifications for here is Mullerthal Trail.

Very odd and annoying! 😡

Balrog is the baddest ass, certainly! Lol

Welcome to the Team, V! 😊

Are you ok going with V or would you like us to call you something else?

Lovely to have you with us, Claire. 😊

I have heard about the (in)famous Patrick Rothfuss, but haven't read any books by him.

Talking of MM romance, while it's not my usual genre, I really enjoy KJ Charles' books.
And, Julia, Tal Bauer was recommended to me by others, so I may try one of their books some time. :)

This is a safe space, no judgements on reading choices and preferences! 😊

Thank you for the Intro, Claire.

Maybe loving JA is not original, but it's proof of (y)our exceptionally good taste. 🤭

And we appreciate the name change. 😊

Julia wrote: "⚔️ If you needed rescuing, which literary character(s) would you choose would you choose the Nazgûls, the Balrog or the Orcs?
Nazgûl all the way! (Horse girly here, so this is a non-brainer.)."

😂 Love it!