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  1. That sounds so scary! I willbe praying for your sister and her baby and for all of you. :grouphug:
  2. They are absolutely available in German and Spanish. German: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3785537549?keywords=mary%20pope%20osborne%20das%20magische%20baumhaus&qid=1454563448&ref_=sr_1_5&sr=8-5 And Spanish: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A301731%2Cp_lbr_one_browse-bin%3AMary%20Pope%20Osborne My oldest daugter went from reading MTH to reading Enid Blyton (I know, also frowned upon here, but I needed a fun series) to Percy Jackson/Harry Potter and then could read whatever she wanted in English. My dd9 is at the Enid Blyton stage now, dd7 reads MTH. We are trying to do the same in French....obviously at the MTH stage now. I decided not to teach German :D (man, you should have heard my sister berate me and call me a complete slacker :lol:). I need fun series in Latin and Greek, those easy readers are often far from fun.
  3. Absolutely! If MTH is the example of bad writing in early reading books, wow, you sure do not want to read any Dutch books for emerging readers. My kids are extatic when they reach the level of English vocab needed to read MTH. Then reading starts to become fun. Dare I say it, I just ordered the first 20 MTH books *in French* from ebay. All those A0 and A1 level French readers (ERK language level) keep focussing on colours and days of the week....blech. With MTH you get to read about Vikings and Dolphins and the Rain Forest! (I wish MTH came in Latin and Greek, too.) Divergent, on the other hand, we'll skip :D. If you are ready to read at that level in a foreign language, there are plenty of other good books to chose from.
  4. Praying for your nephews and family :grouphug:
  5. Thanks, Jean! I had heard parents talking about this type of behaviour by teens on this forum, but I have to admit I always assumed it was a bit of an American thing. Noone around here ever mentions it, tracking starts in 7th grade and the amount of work students have to do increases a lot. This whole 'teen growth spurt, therefor their brains don't function' thing is completely unheard of. Well, it obviously doesn't matter if *I* don't believe in it :lol:, because dd12's brain definitely stopped functioning :D. So exercise and food are the solution? Anything else?
  6. Is this strictly a boy thing or do girls have this too? Because it would perfectly explain some really weird things I have been seeing this week with math with my dd12. It's like everyting fell out of her head, something I have never seen before with her. (Her younger sisters have that sometimes after breaks, but not my oldest.)
  7. :grouphug: I'm having the same kind of week, so I know how it feels.
  8. praying for you and your whole family :grouphug:
  9. I have never before had a problems with likes, but I have now. I miss them...... Help?
  10. I'm having the same problem, 'no permission to access'. Can you email me a copy, too, Robin?
  11. Heather, that looks a-ma-zing and so much fun!!
  12. Knock me over with a feather; my library has 5 different titles by Per Petterson in Dutch translation!To Siberia is going on my reading list.
  13. I keep laughing about this list of resolutions! And I'm not going to admit how many resolutions (starting with the exact first one) I might have made for 2016 :blush: .
  14. Please share what you are reading this week as well as your reading lists and tell us about your reading year: I finished History of the Medieval World. I loved it and am looking forward to HoRW. I finished Crossroads of Twilight, book 10 of Wheel of Time. Man, that book was a slog. It took me 4 months to get through and I only made it because everybody keeps telling me books 11-12-13-14 are much better. And indeed, book 11 *is* better, I've already read 500+pages of it :D. I'm still slogging through Pamela, it's so annoying I can only take it in small doses, so I don't think I will finish it today. How many books did you read this year and did you meet or beat your own personal goal? I read 146 books, which is way more than my goal of 100. I used to be one of those who were complaining about reading a book a week :D. I still don't know what has changed. Dutch: 52 English: 90 Latin: 4 Dusty: 15 Chunky: 11 I'm not feeling up to giving a complete list, I seem to go from migraine to sinus infection to migraine this last month. Share your top 5 (or more) favorite books. Adam Sisman – Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, the Making of the Life of Dr Johnson Ursula le Guin - Earthsea quartet Wendell Berry - Jaber Crow Jo Walton – Farthing (Small Change part 1) Doris Lessing – Shikasta, Re: Colonized Planet 5 I loved Adam Sisman's book, have written about that before. Highly recommended to non-fiction readers. I love Ursula le Guin and very much enjoyed her Earthsea quartet. I noticed that there are several more Earthsea books, but I will have to buy them to be able to read them.....so that might take a while. Wendell Berry. I kept hearing/reading people raving about his books, so I used birthday money to buy Jaber Crow (obviously no Dutch library is going to have his books, sigh). Loved it. Jo Walton's Farthing gave me quite a punch and made me realise how very vulnerable our freedom is. Shukriyya, thank you for mentioning Shikasta! I loved it! I'm looking forward to reading the other books in the series, but again, I will have to buy them to read them....and that might take a while. One book that touched you - made you laugh, cry, sing or dance! Rod Dreher - How Dante Can Save Your Life Beautiful book, although at times a bit too personal to be comfortable to read. Beautiful edition, too! Share your most favorite character, covers and/or quotes? Too many quotes to copy now I finally have found a good way to use my common place book, and most of them in Dutch. What countries or centuries did you explore? 18th century in Dutch and Brittish literature. What was your favorite part of the challenge? I love reading these weekly threads and love the many book recommendations! Thanks everyone! And especially Robin for leading these threads!
  15. I'm in! I'm usually quite good with decluttering, so we don't have that much stuff, but this year I really want to go as minimalistic as possible. I'm even ready to get rid of books. :svengo: Or I'm possessed by an alien, that is also possible :lol:.
  16. We might have a difference of opinion about 'not too long' :D. I downloaded the Gutenberg version in 6 volumes and the first volume alone has 648 pages..... Do you have any recommendations for works by Johnson himself?
  17. I know I'm not the only one who loves books-about-books, so I want to mention: Michael Dirda's new book: Browsings, a Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books. It was my Sinterklaas present and it is quiet good. Not as good as Classics for Pleasure and Bound to Please, but still very nice. His essays are a bit more personal and -I feel- a bit scattered, but still he can sell me on any book :D. (Like the Sisman book, see above, which he recommended in Bound to Please.)
  18. I'm finishing up several books, but wanted to mention this one: Adam Sisman - Boswell's Presumptuous Task, the Making of the Life of Dr Johnson. I know it's a bit weird to be reading the Making of the Life of Dr Johnson, without having read The Life of Johnson, or anything by Johnson himself :blush:, but it was a very interesting book! Definitely on my top-2015 list. I'm now going to read The Life of Johnson, by Boswell, but that might take the whole of 2016 to finish :D.
  19. I had no idea it would be translated into Dutch, so I bought it in English when it came out. I would really like to support SWB's book being translated, but buying another copy is sadly not in the budget. You buy it ;).
  20. I would like that too! Story of Science has been translated into Dutch recently and there was a highly complimentary review in a major Dutch newspaper this weekend! :hurray:
  21. Congratulations! :hurray: I did well for 10 days, but I did eat dessert yesterday.
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