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

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

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "New tasks

Read a book with a character who desires world domination


Anyone into James Bond? Plenty of world domination aspirants there.

I’m amazed how many I’ve read on that list. Also have at least 2 I’m planning to read soon but could take on now unless someone has one on the go. It’s an odd collection of books.

Excellent!

Richard wrote: "The book I have is:

- Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's"

Friesian cows the same as Hendrika in my book which is a kids book with 32p so no use here. But I was delighted to find it!

Is it . I found our tattered and much loved copy while foraging for challenge books.😀

My MC visits the Imperial Crypt in Vienna where generations of Habsburg are in ornate coffins. That counts as a museum doesn’t it? He paid to go in and it had limited opening hours. I’ve added it to the sheet but can remove it.

Gosh , your poor child. Have the docs any idea what’s going on?

And I found one on my TBR list pubbed in August 2024. 😀

Thanks. Good work with the cheese time thing!

Karen, the busy bustling place is already filled on the team spreadsheet by my book The Fifth Witness, just not on the planning sheet.

Also is it better to have a book on the itinerary than another task? The book you listed of mine for pubbed in June is set in Zimbabwe.

It's probably good to have X's and other odd letters like Q in stock especially as the cheeses don't interfere with regular tasks.

I've read a few books by Chinese writer Xinran. She's written a lot of books and I should read more.

You might like Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations. Richard. It's about the generation of spoilt only kids. She overheard one small boy demanding his parents buy him the sky. Very readable.

I also really liked Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet. Very moving true story.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Absolutely, Karen! Here are some romance novels where the main text begins with the word “They”:

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📚 Romance Novels Starting with “They”
1. They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie
Opening lin..."

I have an old copy of this book and it starts with: "Mrs Van Rydock moved back from the mirror and sighed." She and Miss Marple then go on to discuss dresses and being at school together.

The line starting with they isn't there at all that I can see.
Wonder how the text can change so drastically from edition to edition...

I added ‘I’ to the cheese sheet. Also The Fifth Witness has CLN Valenzuela and CLN Opporizio.

I went to the library looking for a book with title starting with J for another challenge and found one written by an author born in Georgia ( the country). Win win!

Tina ❣ wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I was going to read a book set in Austria and Germany for the European continent setting in Travelling but Tina has read one set in Scotland. Is Scotland part of the European cont..."

No worries. Leave it there as Karen has checked. If they count Scotland England would work too! Easy.

I was going to read a book set in Austria and Germany for the European continent setting in Travelling but Tina has read one set in Scotland. Is Scotland part of the European continent? It’s not part of the EU anymore, I think, and not on the actual continent. I’ll read mine anyway but wondered.

We’re cheese gobblers. 😀🧀🧀

Finished the ‘busy, bustling place’ book for India.

Right. Thanks, Karen.

The Bafut Beagles is listed in Itinerary 3 and 4, and there are two Swedens in 4.