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

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

When I first glanced through the new Wheel tasks I read the MOIST one as the word being in the title. Did a quick search and discovered we could read either porn or how to cook moist muffins and cakes.
hahahaha

I can read Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha C to cover MPG crime and the featuring death task for Discworld.

Finishing Tom Hanks first though. 400 +

Any AC would cover that if anyone wants it.😀
Unless…does it mean Death as a character? Eg Death is the narrator in The Book Thief.

Completion Post
Fall by Candice Fox
Date 14/7/23
Pages 426
4 stars
Great Aussie thriller.

Team Tower
F, C. Characters: Frank Bennett, Eden Archer, Imogen Stone, Hooky, Tara, Joanie.

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by J.M. Coetzee
Date July 14th
Pages 224
3 stars

Team Tower
Y J C Characters: Howarth, Sarah, Marianne,

And another rebellion in Dictionary of Lost Words. Suffragettes!

Okay — aliens 😀

Actually now I think of it the teenage daughter Ryder in Judge’s Girls had a teen rebellion and got into police trouble with some friends. She was feeling ignored and neglected by her mother and half sister.

Not sure Youth is going to work for rebellion. He's left Cape Town because of apartheid and the growing unrest of both the black South Africans and his own dissatisfaction with his life.
Hmm. Is that enough?

Michael wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Post colonial is a difficult tag to find. I have a couple of the Camus books that are listed but they're tagged colonial rather than post colonial. I thought I had A Passage To In..."

Great! Take a deep breath and dive into that jungle...

Post colonial is a difficult tag to find. I have a couple of the Camus books that are listed but they're tagged colonial rather than post colonial. I thought I had A Passage To India but don't. I can check the library for it although someone else might like to read it. Or tackle Heart of Darkness...

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by Pip Williams
Date July 13th
Pages 423
4 stars

Team Tower
T, D, P, W Characters: Esme Nichol, Harry, Lizzie, Murray, Beth, Rosfrith, Gareth Owen, Sweatman, Natasha.

Andy wrote: "I'm in the middle of a 500+ pager Victim Without a Face
and 400+ pager Little Women

makes a good combination
when the thriller gore gets to be too much I just switch ov..."

Very funny, Andy.😂

I've nearly finished a 400+ and have several more on the TBR after Youth.

Eldarwen wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I'm about to read Hotel Du Lac which covers the Booker Prize task of The Sellout. The Remains of the Day won the Booker too. "

Just a little note: we cannot replace books already..."

Okay Well we can use Youth then for a rebellion. I haven't read that yet. It's short so shouldn't take too long.

For the rebellion task would personal or one man rebellion count do you think?

If so might work and also covers the Sith title task. The hero in that does his one man rebellion against the removal of his home town area from the map because it's deemed too undesirable a place. He ends up in the High Court.

I'm about to read Hotel Du Lac which covers the Booker Prize task of The Sellout. The Remains of the Day won the Booker too.

Also picked up by JM Coetzee at the library. In that the main character rebels against his strict parents and also the regime in South Africa and escapes to live in London.

I haven't noticed anything different.

Eldarwen wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I think that works. My first thought when I saw the topic, after the obvious princess meaning, was a precious, spoilt type young woman."

Good enough for me to have one more perso..."

Andy's book can be used for the J title too, so we can use Judge's Girls for something else.

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by Kazuo Ishiguro
Date July 11th
Pages 258
5 stars

Team Tower T, R, K, I. Characters: Stevens, Kenton, Darlington, Farraday

I think that works. My first thought when I saw the topic, after the obvious princess meaning, was a precious, spoilt type young woman.

Winter Of the World could be used for the rebellion task I think. A couple of characters fight in the Spanish civil war against Franco, there are resistance fighters all through WW2 rebelling against Hitler’s forces not to mention the war itself and the Japanese in the Pacific..

It was used in Team Tower for an A but that should be covered fairly easily. And we do have plenty of 600+ books it seems.

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by Joseph Conrad
Date July 10th
Pages 136
4 stars
Rather disturbing!

Wheel tower Sith. Title H from Sith. Tagged Postcolonial 38 times.