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

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

My next book is Peace which is a detective mystery. Might work for our new task. Seems he has to investigate a vicious killing linked to a strange, isolated family.

Would my Jeffery Smart memoir count as getting under the skin of something? His own skin? He reveals lots about his private life, Not just about his art but also his love life and what it was like being gay both in Aus and also when he travelled to Europe after WW 2, in Europe and England. He was born in 1921. He met an extraordinary number of now famous people in the sixties while living in Rome.

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Not quite straight: A memoir by Jeffrey Smart
Date July 3rd
Pages 464
3 stars
Interesting memoir by the Australian artist.

Team Tower: N, J, S.

Purple cover

I just booked Sky Burial by Chinese author Xinran for pick up at my local library branch. Fills the Chinese Chipmunk task or if someone's already on that, an X in Team Tower.

My book group read another book by her, Buy Me the Sky, about the effect on all the resulting only children the one child policy had. A generation of spoilt little brats. Hahaha She overhead one kid say , 'Buy me the sky' to its parents.

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A Column of Fire by Ken Follett - 03/07/23 - 916 pages
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mini Challenges:
Spell Out – Author K/F ..."

I’ve read the first two in the series. This is on the list.

Andy wrote: "have a few books to add after time off, looks like I'm going to need to figure out some new challenges
guessing we still need spell outs and colour covers?"

Eldarwen is focusing on Team Towers and the new challenges rather than colour covers, for more points.

Andy wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Completion Post
by Paul Beatty
Date: June 29th
Pages: 288
4 stars

Wow! What a read. Seriously caustic satire about race in the US...."

Yes!

Michael wrote: "I would tire of that responsibility quickly too. 😂😂"

Haha. This guy lasts about two days then expects his girlfriend to look after the baby. It was written in 1978. I don't think that bloke's attitude would get him far nowadays! It's the 'woman's work' thing in action.

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by Rosamunde Pilcher

Date July 2nd
Pages 311
3 stars

Chipmunk: parent child relationship. Widowed Oliver takes his son, 2 yr old Thomas, from the keeping of his maternal grandparents but soon tires of the responsibility.

I’m halfway through in which a man steals back his 2 year old son. It’s a big plot point because he involves the heroine in caring for the boy. It’s a romance but she ends up with someone else. Enough parent child stuff?

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Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
Date June 30th
Pages 224
3 stars

What a hilariously ridiculous bunch of stories. Kept reminding me of the Famous Five with the stereotypical foreign baddies.

Chipmunk 109: Crime solving duo. Tommy and Tuppence series

Yep. no 2 in the Tommy and Tuppence series.

Good old Agatha wrote a few Tommy and Tuppence books. Crime solving married couple. I’ll hunt one out of my shelf. Quick read and better to add to our total rather than fiddle things?

Eldarwen wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I’ve just started the second in the chunky Ken Follett series. 800+ pages."

Oh, yes, those are all MASSIVE! Apparently quite good as well. My mum keeps telling me I should read t..."

They're very readable and Follett is a great storyteller. I filled in a lot of knowledge gaps about WW 1 when I read the first one in May. Stuff I'd covered in History at school many decades ago but either forgotten or it wasn't covered. Both likely scenarios.

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by Paul Beatty
Date: June 29th
Pages: 288
4 stars

Wow! What a read. Seriously caustic satire about race in the US. It's funny, brilliant and extremely well-written.

Chipmunk: Booker prize winner 2016

Good! We’ve got both covered.

My Booker book has MPG Humour. We can use that if necessary because there are a couple of other Bookers I had my eye on in the library.

Kaley wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "New Chipmunk Task!

103. X-Rays - Read a book with the letters BONES in the title"

I'm planning to start The ​Crown of Gilded Bones in the next few days — won't fi..."

I’ve just started the second in the chunky Ken Follett series. 800+ pages.

Roger - president of NBR United - wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Eldarwen has the free Chipmunk tasks on p1 of our thread. She only puts the completed books on the spreadsheet.
Dates don't matter for Chipmunks as long as they're started after ..."

Yes I missed that bit. Thanks.

Michael wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I took that to be The Booker Prize. It's for English language novels not translations. The GR Booker list has books that aren't winners. I went to the Booker Prize website which i..."

I had a look too and they also have our Booker but not read yet. It's towards the end of their list And did you see they've unlocked all their Chipmunks tasks?! I'd better get started on that Booker book.