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

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

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "No, but it sounds so interesting!!

Looks like we need a few Cs, Os, and that U may need some planning"

I have a U. The Unquiet Grave Main character is Cormac Reilly

Should we add books to the new cheese or leave the selections to the captains? I imagine there are letters on hand from finished books.

Ooh I’m going to be looking for this cheese!

I can cover the Antarctica one.

There's a map in the front of my current read. It's a chunky one but a fast read so a few days to finish.

It’s sunny today after all the rain. Tennis this afternoon with reading before and after.

Too easy haha

Here’s a decision for you Insiyah 😀 I just finished . It’s set mostly in Kenya and was published in Jan 2001.

I'll finish my Botswana No 1 Ladies Detective Agency book today that has Mma Rambotswe as MC if the R spot is still open. Also has a character called Charlie.

So basically we need to prioritise the cheese. I like pecorino.

Reading in the Eurovision ad breaks. is going to be a wild ride!

It says in the rules they must have a verified word count above 30k. No idea where you’d find that though.

There doesn’t seem to be a minimum for the easy countries, is that correct? So we can aim to fill up our itineraries with the other levels and use the easy country books for other tasks. It’ll be easy to fill a few gaps with easy countries to finish an itinerary quickly.

Thanks Karen.

For Hard I have Algeria and Cameroon in my bookcase. Also Mali is coming up in July for my book group read. How about this for a title?
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

For "mid -level" I can do Kenya and Singapore.

For the colours on covers slots does that mean exclusively eg for Canada a red and white cover? Or is it simply that those colours need to be there somewhere amongst other colours?

Also what if a book doesn’t fit anything? Can It be held in store for later? I’m thinking about my first book Money: A suicide note. It only fits the country USA atm but as we can only have 2 books set there it’s limited.

Hi Team Mates. So nice to see so many familiar names again!

I’m kicking off with because I’m using it for a May challenge and then . They are both set in the US but a look through my book cases turned up a book set in Algeria and another in Cameroon both in the tough category.

I like going up a tower although The World Trade Centre was disconcerting as it moved quite noticeably. That was in 2000. Also been up the Empire State, The Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower plus a few smaller ones like the Galata Tower in Istanbul.

Richard wrote: "I live in an area (in Australia) where there are about 10 wineries all less than 30-minute bus-rides between them. So 1 weekend a year, there's a 'Winery Walkabout'...where hundreds of people can b..."

Hi Richard, we were on a great team together late last year. Wheels, I think. Hope you get onto a team this time.

What's the date of the winery weekend? It sounds fun. There are lots of top wineries around Canberra too.

And I finished my final book! It had coffee tables, pants and in the last dozen pages a piano playing Christmas carols which is what I wanted.

Finished with the Romans. Unfortunately they didn’t wear pants or use quilts. I’ll have a good crack at finishing my last one. Will be a much quicker read.

This has been the best team whether we come 1st or not! Thanks everyone.

We're off to the coast for the weekend leaving today, For the Aussies, Narooma then Tathra where my husband has a gig at the pub, I'm taking my bloodthirsty, ruthless Romans (I, Claudius) with me and will definitley finish it. Also taking my other listed book The Weekend. I'll know by tomorrow if ther's any chance of reading that.