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

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

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.

Oh wow! Thanks so much, Sammy. ❤️

Book 1 for TT BOM was my very first book by RJB & I didn't know what to expect, but I totally loved it, so I thought... why not nominate Book 2? :))

I'm sorry. 😟

Awesome! 🥳

And mine won for the adult/non-fiction one, so those will be some nice fat extra points. 😊

Hi Rebecca,

Great to have you! ☺️

And hereby our Team is COMPLETE! 🥳

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. ☺️