Elisabeth’s Comments (group member since Apr 23, 2022)

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

I have a short Q which I can have a good go at finishing today.

A trip to the library produced a short O which I swapped with my long O. Will definitely finish this new one in time.

Not sure I’ll finish my O book in time but can sub in a shorter one if I find I can fit a book in after I finish the I book. There’s another O spot free so I’ll leave mine but bump it if necessary.

GR is working properly! Must have been a glitch. What a relief.

I have a short Q book too, oddly enough. 😀

Stuffs up our Book Games.

This is weird. Maybe it's just me on my PC but the bookpages no longer display publishing details or other edition lists.

Snowtulip wrote: "Thanks for taking the hit Susan!

Looks like we are close to finishing our Arena Hazard, so I will try to finish my E book."

I’ll finish the C book today.

Unless someone has a C book on the go I can read another Agatha Christie quickly.

Susan A wrote: "I'm feeling guilty. I leave for vacation on 8/10, so I only have a few more days to add specific books. I'm not planning to do any challenge specific reading while on vacation. If anything fits, I'..."

Don’t feel guilty, I’m very pleased I don’t need to read the Hiroshima book.😀

Has anyone got any ideas about the nuclear stuff on the cover? I had a quick search and there are quite a few books on Hiroshima etc so I guess something to do with atoms, red sun images, bombs or nuclear subs. All pretty grim reading…

TheHiroshima Diary is available at my local library with a different cover. so I can grit my teeth and pick it up. I have my L book to finish as well so it will take a few days to get through. Any other takers?
It’s the anniversary of those bombings. August 6th and 8th.

My sympathy, Kaley. I had a similar thing a few months ago. I slept most of day 1 but was able to read on and off after that. Even getting up to go to the toilet was exhausting!

I can knock over another Agatha Christie quickly if we need it for NUCLEAR WEAPONRY author name. Otherwise I plan to read an Ann Cleeves but it's longer as is my other next read.

I put in as nuclear weapon plot element. I’ve started it and he refers to his father quite a bit. Stalin’s nuclear weapons program was important at the time and his father was hailed a hero after he died of radiation poisoning.

Comrade Koba. I can read this but the link may be a little weak . The MC telling the story is the son of a nuclear physicist in Stalin’s Russia. I don’t think the father is in the story though. It’s a plot element though because he will have shaped the boy’s life and thinking.

I vote stick with it. It’s longer but we’ve already covered some and the letters are common. I can cover an I and most of the others— not that I will!

Just noticed that the I book is set in China, so maybe not for this.

I think the answer is yes. They’re the banked books.

I’ll finish my AH B book this morning and will push to finish the T as well. It’s a fairly quick read if I focus on it.

Susan A wrote: "Thanks Elizabeth! For the Shelter/weapon/food/defense stuff, it seems like we were encouraged to think of any possible way to make it work. Is that the standard here?

As for trees, I did a google ..."

I suppose any tree can be cultivated and used for something even those that aren’t fruit bearing. They’re used for windbreaks and stock shade too.

I took a related item on the cover to mean something like farm animals, fruit, farm equipment, fields, crops, a farmer or cow boy/girl etc

Plot element as someone living on a farm or plantation, selling farm equipment etc In the Miss Marple book I’m reading someone went to India to run a tea plantation but didn’t end up doing it. If he’d stayed I think that would work even though it was 18 years earlier.

I have a book set in Africa on a coffee plantation but it’s long and with very small print so I’m putting it off.

It’ll be interesting to see what the team thinks about a tree and rain.
Rain is certainly necessary to agriculture but a tree might have to be the right type.

If we get stuck for Mexico, I could reread The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.
Or someone else could.