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

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

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I just watched Joanna Lumley on the Danube on the ABC (Aussies). She’s following the river from start to finish and went to Vienna i..."

Watching that show made me want to go back but not in winter!!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I just watched Joanna Lumley on the Danube on the ABC (Aussies). She’s following the river from start to finish and went to Vienna in this first episode. To my surprise she went t..."

Fantastic. It’s such beautiful country. We went to Germany, Prague and Vienna in about 2017. Took the train from Berlin to Dresden hired a car and drove around the area near the Czechia border where my Dad’s mother’s family came from. His grandma lived in Regensburg when she was married. Johanna was walking around there too near where our hotel was. We turned up on Regensburg Day which was fun. Lots of street stalls selling food and drink.

We trained again to Vienna. I wish I’d known about the Crypt. We did see a lot though.

I just watched Joanna Lumley on the Danube on the ABC (Aussies). She’s following the river from start to finish and went to Vienna in this first episode. To my surprise she went to the Habsburg’s Crypt Museum which was in the book I read and used for a Travelling task. It’s an amazing collection.

I have a book first pubbed in Sept 2007 but won’t get to it for a few days at least.
It also has 65 The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on the cover. I’d class that as a famous landmark.
Update: it’s not the Brandenburg Gate. My husband thought it was the Reichstag after the fire but we’re not sure now 😀

Finished The Heart Is a Star which has MPG Contemporary. I should finish today or tomorrow and clean up the Foreign Lands task 44. The it's on to trek about Algeria with the intrepid Isabelle Eberhardt who dressed as a man so she could travel safely, at the turn of the 20th century, as a journalist. Died at 27 in a flash flood.

I feel as though I've been trekking in Africa as well having been armchair travelling to Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe with Algeria, and Mali coming and an outhor born in Eswatini (Swaziland). Have been to Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe though.

Pesto certainly works well with it but grilled is good too. It seems to be better cooked somehow.

I do a chicken and veg tray bake with halloumi cubes through it. Pesto goes over the top. The baked halloumi gives little salty cheesy mouthfuls amongst the potatoes and chicken etc. I haven’t ever eaten it ‘raw’ so to speak with crackers or something.

It sounds a bit like halloumi.

We have the new Michael Connelly sitting waiting. Start of a new series after Harry Bosch. also filled a few gaps in the Bernie Gunther series at the Lifeline Book Fair over the weekend.

I'm reading which has Travelling 65 MPG Contemporary. I won't finish it today though.

I know, just kidding.

I can see Richard watching the clock tonight, fingers poised to open his book. Hahaha

I’d say world domination is hardest of those options. Does multiple generations mean a family saga type thing or where the characters are from different generations as in, grandparents, children and grandchildren all living together?

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Finished my book Precipice pubbed in August 2024. It was interesting. Set just before and during WW1 and is a fictionalised historical about the true and bizarre ..."

Apparently he burned all her letters but she kept his. He wrote three times a day for a number of years. Mail was delivered very quickly back then. 😀Totally obsessed. Nobody really knows how far the relationship actually went but he clearly loved her to the point of madness.

Finished my book Precipice pubbed in August 2024. It was interesting. Set just before and during WW1 and is a fictionalised historical about the true and bizarre infatuation PM Asquith had with a young society woman to the point he wrote hundreds of letters to her and sent Top Secret cabinet and war plan info for her comments. Very strange. Also has a lot of the cabinet discussion detail about the disastrous Gallipoli campaign which was Churchill's brainchild.

It just occurred to me that the Travelling task in which a character seeks world domination could be a businessman/woman. Eg a fast food giant, a car manufacturer, pharmaceutical, technology person etc.
Something you may come across, Richard?

Exiles which I just finished has three points of view. I didn’t realise until the last few chapters when it switched pov to two other characters.

And the book I just finished has a Zara.

I’m half way through Exiles by Jane Harper and set in South Australia so I can do task 54.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Thanks Richard!

Hmmm. Well the British did end up taking countries across the world, but were they actually after world domination? I’m not sure. Any history buffs in here?"

They certainly gave control back hence the British Commonwealth. It wasn’t always through uprisings but probably mostly.