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

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

I have a yellow cover

Eldarwen wrote: "Michael wrote: "I didn’t even know Luxembourgish was a language. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ I will blame my American education and culture. Learning something already. 🙃🙂"

See? Team challenges can even be useful ..."

We watch a lot of Euro and Scandi crime series on TV and came across a good one from Luxembourg. I can speak a bit of French and German but couldn’t pick what they were speaking. It’s like French but with a strong accent etc. Occasionally they’d liaise with other law enforcement and swing into French or German which I could understand. Found it fascinating. Watching a good French Canadian thing atm called The Wall. More familiar French in that!

Insiyah wrote: "Hey everyone! I'm Insiyah, one of the co-captains. I'm living in London, though I'm currently in Cairo, which is why it took me so long to introduce myself. 😅

This is my second TT, and I've got a..."

Hi Insiyah. I read Anna Karenina last year. I’m interested to hear what you think of it. I kept wanting to give Anna a good talking to and tell her to get her act together. Hahaha I keep meaning to read more Dickens but haven’t yet. Over the last few years I’ve made a point of reading some of the classics, hence Anna K.

Does this work for the Winners Tower, Lord Vetinari, the connection being Lord?
Lord Edgware Dies

This has a bright red cover for the Rainbow Tower.

Hi Lisa. There seem to be a few of us team challenge addicts in Aus. hahaha

Is there a planning spreadsheet somewhere?

Hi Team, Elisabeth here. Sorry I’m a bit late checking in but I’m here and ready to go.
There are some familiar names on the team which is great.

I haven’t read through the thread yet and looked at the spreadsheets but will later today.

This my 2nd TT and I’m in Australia.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Great team for my first TT experience. How lucky can you get?
Thanks everyone and special thanks to our team leaders.

Well done, Deanna!

Finished Didn't think I'd get through it in time but it was enthralling and quite gripping in parts. I've always been an Agassi fan.

Starting another book--not sure I'll finish by the deadline but I'll give it a go.

Finished

Very good! I like the 'how to get rich on stolen socks' line hahahaha

Karolyn wrote: "Ugh. That sounds messy. I would use the one that matches the cover and page count of your book. We won’t need to use it for the challenge, so I don’t worry as much. But we can ask a GR librarian to..."

Thanks Karolyn. Apart from a challenge use, it is a pain because in the series list it shows up as though I haven't read it when I'm looking at where I have reading gaps.

The book I’m reading now is number 4 in a series. It’s titled Dead End but the series has been republished by Sphere in 2019 and some books given different titles which makes it tricky to identify them. Dead End has the cover I have but is separately listed on GR as Dead End 4 but not included as an ‘other version’ on the author’s main page. The old version is titled Grave Music.

I didn't know that was a book, Deedee. It was a play called Marathon 33 and I thought the movie was based on that.

I met my husband when we were both playing in a local theatre production in the onstage dance band for the marathons in the play. You're right, it's a very bleak story set in the Great Depression.

I just corrected the title of my book. It's Orchestrated Death without the 'in'.

Finished .

I've added Orchestrated Death as my next read. The cover is no use but the title may be and if not it'll have food and drink in it so might be useful if you need to switch things around. My edition doesn't have a listed page count but I've put the number of pages actually in the book.

Finished
Great read! Hilarious in parts as you'd expect from Mel Brooks.

I'll finish my actor on cover book--meant to last night but kept falling asleep with about 40 pages to go.

Will knock over Taste and just picked up a couple of quick reads which will work for the titles--Orchestrated Death and Dead End. May not manage both.

Karolyn, I’ve just come across poetry in the text of . Not sure if that helps or not 😀

Sixty wrote: "I've been laid up in bed most of the summer, so this challenge has kept me entertained! I will also be sad when it ends!"

That's a miserable way to spend summer, Sixty. Hope you're on the mend.