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

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

Hahahahaha

Blue! Should be interesting. It's part of an Icelandic crime series.

Haha that book and music genre you posted made me laugh, Lisa. A wild fright and polka don't usually go together, although I guess it depends how you feel about polkaing.

Sounds great! Knitting has become very popular again. I used to knit jumpers for the kids when they were little but haven't done anything for decades.
My daughter In law knits and sews merchandise for the kids band she and my son are in. They're called The Vegetable Plot so she knits beanies, cute stuffed veggies and makes tote bags, aprons and pencil cases out of veggie print fabric. She loves it and gets together with other crafty friends and neighbours for sessions.

What sort of crafting is your stall?

I finished Salsa With me. It also had Tango which might come in handy.

A tin ear to musos means the person is deaf to any musical nuance, tuning, subtlety or expression. Not complimentary. Maybe it's called Tineye for a reason...

I vote blue, Lisa.

What do you think about this? Blue? Tineye says it's predominantly grey.

Yay team! I’m finished for this round.

I can get for Salsa.

Baroque will probably pop up most because it refers to architecture, style and design as well, being an era.

Can't say the same for some of those others!

Oh good grief! I can see myself delving into my old music reference books again. My drummer/ percussionist husband has a ton of books on world music. Not my preferred reading though although some of the bios could be interesting.

If that's the case I can hold off on my clarinet book although not sure if it's worth it points wise.

Instrument titles would be quite hard to find. Maybe musicians named in the text? Or types of music mentioned? People attending a musical event or where music is played or playing?

I've started my Clarinet Virtuosi book, It's actually very interesting but I guess non clarinet players would be yawning by page 2. haha
I met the author when she was here giving a talk many years ago, so my old hardback copy has her signature.

We can't use characters from nonfiction, can we? Luckily her first name is Pamela.

Btw my North and South book has a blue cover but it hasn't been added to the sheet because I needed to check the percentage first then forgot until yesterday. Oops. Sorry

I’ve just been to the library but failed on the instrument front. It’s much easier to look at ebook covers than pull books out from shelves, I’ve discovered.

Finished North and South and really enjoyed it. Has strong Pride and P elements but that's okay.

Tineye says it's a 53 % blue cover so just scrapes through although it doesn't look as though we're short of them.

I'll look for musical covers at the library on Wednesday.

Catsalive wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Cats, Inspector Montalbano is one of my favourites. I have one in my TBR pile. I love the way Italian detectives can't operate properly unless they've had a good meal. Aurelio Zen..."

Hahaha. And vino.

Cats, Inspector Montalbano is one of my favourites. I have one in my TBR pile. I love the way Italian detectives can't operate properly unless they've had a good meal. Aurelio Zen is much the same.

Lisa, I see Orchestrated Death on the sheet. I love those Bill Slider books. Have you read many? They seem to have rereleased the earlier ones and they've reappeared in the library. I picked up some 2nd hand.

Not much reading for me today. Concert day with the orchestra. There's a nerve wracking very long-- 2 pages-- quite fast unison feature section for the two clarinets in one piece with lots of notes and nowhere to breathe--wish us luck. Beautiful symphony though. If you're interested it's Symphony 1 by Florence Price, 1930's. She's the first black American woman to have her work performed and published. It's very African/ American in flavour. Love it.