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

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

Yes. Unless it’s an exact 10 tags they want. If that’s the case I can look at where else it might go. Sure to be somewhere.

Mine has 50 TT tags. Makes sense if it’s listed as MPG.

Mine fits round 3 but we’ll need them both to fit genre anyway. We have options!

Sophie wrote: "Happy birthday! Hope you’ve had a great day.

My go to for time travel books is always St Mary’s by Jodi Taylor. For this challenge it helps that the narrator is Zara Ramm."

I'll add that to my TBR list. Thanks

Melindam wrote: "Maybe it's a hint that the 1426-man is also time traveler? 😉🤭"

Haha there are all sorts of unlikely things going on and the heroine isn’t very likeable so far.

My Time Travel book has a heroine from the 21st century travelling back to 1426. Just came across a 1426 man quoting ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave’ which was written in about 1808 by Sir Walter Scott. Hmmm. I like a good time travel but …. Hope yours is better, Alyssa.

Alysa, I'm happy to postpone finishing mine for the genre reboot if yours fits the new word. We should know what that is soon. I have plenty of other books waiting to be read.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Holiday mini :) that is the optional one.

The one related to the brown mini needs 10 books (and we haven't put any there yet!)"

All clear now. Thanks.

I found a time travel on my Kobo— seems to be one of those freebies you get sometimes—but so far there’s only an A I can use. Three people have G names! I’ll pace it so I can finish this round but it might be better for our new unknown word.

Do we use books from the Holiday Mini or from any mini? Why is it listed in the Brown mini?

Confused? Moi? haha

No worries, thanks Karen. As an author I have librarian rights.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I’m reading a very new release which has a cover place holder instead of the Australian publishers cover which I have . Such a bummer because it’s a cityscape. Can do a few colour..."

It just dawned on me to look online and download the image. Got It.

Should I change where I put it on the Spreadsheet? It’s on ‘ red in text’ atm

I’m reading a very new release which has a cover place holder instead of the Australian publishers cover which I have . Such a bummer because it’s a cityscape. Can do a few colours though which are probably better atm.

I will have to move Nightflyers. Turns out the chocolate was drinking chocolate.

Melindam wrote: "Elisabeth,

Your Two for the Lions has a precious E character, so I'm going to move it to an E-slot."

No worries but it's still saying L as the letter and I can't alter it now.

The book I have down for a food item also has the outside of a spaceship on the cover R11. Should I move it? The Mini 3 food seems easier and quicker to fill than the spaceship one.

Also have a Travel book by Hemingway. Its letters are limited AEH and Paris for place. Its short so I can read it this round and be sure of using it but I'll wait until we get our new word.

I filled the last Entertainment task with a jazz band. I'll finish that book today or definitely tomorrow.

Melindam wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "My ancient Rome book ends with a big popular event at an arena where a criminal is killed by a lion and multiple gladiators fight to the deat..."

Saturnalia was celebrated about a week before Dec 25 and seemed to change in duration from a day to many days. From the description it sounds the same—gift giving, decorations, food etc.

We can only do mini 3 once, can't we?

My ancient Rome book ends with a big popular event at an arena where a criminal is killed by a lion and multiple gladiators fight to the death.

Don't think it's really suitable family Christmas entertainment so I'll it leave it in the food section of mini 3. :)

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone.

There’s a lot of info about Abramovic in the book which I suppose helps understand why she does the extreme things. Discussions about what art is etc woven through the story of Arky Levin and his wife who is in a coma. It’s thought provoking.

Now I’m into good old Agatha Christie and also Ancient Rome. 😀

Okay.
I bought it because I was seeing the author Heather Rose at a writers festival session last weekend and hadn't read any of her books. This one looked and was fascinating. It's fiction inspired by Marina Abramovic, a performance artist, who in 2010 sat in a MOMA gallery space with an empty chair facing her on which visitors could sit and look into her eyes for as long as they wanted. She did 7 hours a day for 75 days without eating, drinking or moving. The effect it had on the people who queued sometimes overnight to take the seat and the enormous crowd who arrived to watch every day was extraodinary. I have a dim memory of reading about it at the time.

The Museum of Modern Love