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We don't vaccinate for chicken pox here. I am getting a bit nervous, as none of my kids have had chicken pox yet and I keep hearing bad stories about getting it as a teen.

I'm always interested in that, too, in a weird kind of way :D. There is a small, but very vocal anti-vax group in the Netherlands, which apparenty gets all their info from American websites. After getting told that the horrible mercury in vaccins will ab-so-lu-te-ly damage my kids....and then discovering that there has never been any mercury in Dutch vaccins......not a good experience.

:lol: & I'm jealous! It's going to take ages before the new In Death will be at the library here. Fortunately I'm at book 23, so I still have some to go :D.

Multiquote thing...aaargh. Nan, I can't imagine that amount of snow. We only have rain here. Lots of rain. Eliana, congratulations! M-Mv, congratulations!

Thanks, Laura. I also love the silent alarm of my flex! I'm not sure I need the heart rate function of the Charge, but I do like that it counts stairs.

Thanks for the review, NavyMommy. Dd11's fitbit won't charge anymore and dh suggested giving mine to her and buying a Charge for me. I'm still undecided.

Great news, Pam! :hurray:

I have that book. It's one of the dusties on my list for this year. Good to hear it's worth reading.

Great find! :hurray:

That is awesome! :party:

:party: On behalve of all the WTM-homeschoolers in the Netherlands.....uhm, that would be me&myself.....THANK YOU! Looking forward to it.

Thanks! For 1.59$ I would already have hit the buy button, but at 10.00$ (why is the price always higher for not-Americans? :toetap05: ) I'm waffling.

According to Ester Maria Schwab used to be *the* standard for teaching Greek mythology in European schools. I remember reading it in high school, not assigned by school, but just because I was interested, but it was't a very exciting read.

:grouphug: Praying for you and your baby!

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I am having so much luck finding BaW recommendations in my library recently! It's really amazing. Last week I read that Chameleon book you all were talking about, in a Dutch translation no less. Yesterday I finished Penelope Lively's Consequences (such a sweet book!) and this morning dh picked up Shikasta, by Doris Lessing, and All the Light We Cannot See. I just put The Eyre Affair on hold. Amazing.

Yes, now I remember reading your post about Wide Sargasso Sea and why it bumped higher on my TBR list. (I bought it originally because I was following Great Courses' A Days Read.) Thanks for finding your old post! I had Jane Eyre on my reading list for my English (foreign language) state exams. I found it such a slog, and so boring, and you had to look for all this symbolism stuff (lightning in trees, flying birds, colour-of-such-and-something), yuck. Although to be honest, my lack of reading skills in English at that time had a lot to do with finding it a slog :D. That shouldn't be a problem now.

Yes, I know. Like seeing a movie and having that change how you thought the characters looked like. I'm going to take my chances :), Wide Sargasso Sea is high on my dusties list.

Thanks, Kareni, for mentioning Charles de Lint's free Kindle book! I always appreciate your free finds. Stacia, I'm sending you a PM. JennW, thanks for mentioning Bitch in Bonnets! Now I have broken my no-book-buying rule for 2015 ;). Luckily, at 1.20$ for the Kindle edition it's not too bad and it won't take up any space.

I had planned to read Jane Eyre, and Sargasso Sea because I vaguely remember it has some connection to Jane Eyre, but all this talk about Jane Austen has me itching to reread Sense and Sensibility. Hmmmm, I might need to flip a coin or something :). I hear you on the stacks and stacks of your TBR books, although mine are mostly dusties. I really want/need to read lots of dusties this year. And there is definitely no dust on my Jane Austens :D.

No magic wand here, but I can give you a virtual :grouphug: . Maybe make a list in order of priority and try to finish the most important goals?

I saw that in the Dutch newspapers too and it got me concerned. I almost exclusively read on my ereader in bed, but I absolutely do not want to mess with my sleep. I wonder though if they are talking about e-ink readers or ipad-like readers? I always thought that e-ink readers weren't using blue lights, but maybe the ones with build-in lights do? (That's the one I have.) In the Dutch newspapers they specifically mentioned e-ink readers, but they didn't say anything about the lights. If you were to read an e-reader without using the build-in light, you would use the same light as the people who read regular books, right? Why would that be a problem? Doesn't make sense to me. ETA, I know see that this article mentions reading on an ipad. That makes sense! Weird, the difference in newspaper articles.

I agree. I haven't read any other books of his, but I really liked the Old Man and the Sea.