Just finished the high sheriff of huntingdon. Just a little too much romance for me personally. I understand it is part of life ;) but too descriptive in my eyes. Having fever is good for britt tripp readings btw :)

I finished swamplandia last week. Not sure what to think about it. Tackled by fever yesterday I read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182897-fina A book from dd.

Sunday = smashed potatoes + vegetable (this week sauerkraut) + sausages Monday = cooked potatoes + meat + vegetable Tuesday = bean dish Wednessday = rice with chicken (any part) and grilled vegetables Thursday = Monday Friday = baked potatoes, fish, vegetables Saturday = Pasta / take away (tomorrow take away) The vegetables are on rotation, and depending of the season, availability, and price.

The book is wayyyy too short ;) I just noticed wales is not on the britt trip, isn’t it. Just looking for an other bus :)

We dont’t have ITV here, but we watch it when we are in the UK. George Gently is something I watch on my own, and so is Vera. Endeavoure is a family one :) Back to switching rooms, trying to finish before DH is coming home tonight :)

Fained! ;) Midsummer Murders is a thing on Dutch Public Television, we watch it as a family for a lot of seasons now. The serie is very clean? in what you get to see and what not. We like the new Barnabys as well and are impatiently waiting for a new season. It is not on BBC, isn’t it?

Maybe, my bus will be directed to Wales: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27261074-sing?from_search=true A good read for the moment I think.

I finished Howards End and On the Beach last week. I loved Howards so much more then a Passage to India. On the Beach was quite different from other Nevil Shutes I read before, so I became a little disappointed. Wednessday dd had her exitexam Geography, and I thought to be clever to put my Cambridgshire book on my tablet to read while waiting there. I had not realised the dictionary function would work only with WiFi so I didn’t finish the book. I hoop to do so soon. But Howards End seemed to fit Surrey so I took a wrong bus ;) to visit at least a county... I started reading a lent book with Bonhöffer quotes.

From how many accounts....? :blush:

I must have taken the wrong bus (you know: left driving in UK ;) ) and ended up in Surrey while finishing Howards End. I started this week in Poison ( cambridgeshire) but there is no WIFI in the examcentre for waiting parents so my kindle dictionary didn’t work... I will try to pick up the reading somewhere.

We needed some more current stuff to be able to tackle an other level of classics. We read : http://www.averbode.be/7enpoche Mazerunner Language magazines, dd started with Mary Glasgow, we now use: http://www.elimagazines.com/www/en/magazines.html Literature guide is something typical for English Languages in my eyes, but Joan introduced me to profil guides: https://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=sr_nr_n_11?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A301061%2Cn%3A301146%2Ck%3AProfil+guide&keywords=Profil+guide&ie=UTF8&qid=1518678254&rnid=301130

I love de gebroeders Leeuwenhart. Really really love it. Dd and dh not so :( Ohh, you will never believe it! The biography has already been translated into Dutch and my library owns it: http://zoeken.turnhout.bibliotheek.be/detail/Jens-Andersen/Deze-dag-een-leven-de-biografie-van-Astrid/Boek/?itemid=%7Clibrary%2Fmarc%2Fvlacc%7C9857467 On my TR list :)

Dd loved ‘Sweetness’ mumto2! We also have the next volume in the library so she is happy to have found a new serie :)

Thank you both! The dutch title is pretty negative. More like Favlia tastes the bad side of life. Also more linked to all the chemistry and posion aspects of the story. So definetly not sweet and pieish! Momof2 The book We own is a triology I think these are the individual titles: https://www.bookdepository.com/Master-Detective-Kalle-Blomkvist-Mystery-Astrid-Lindgren/9780192749277?ref=grid-view&qid=1518450986100&sr=1-55 https://www.bookdepository.com/Kalle-Blomkvist-Mystery-Living-Dangerously-Astrid-Lindgren/9780192749291?ref=pd_detail_1_sims_b_p2p_1 https://www.bookdepository.com/Kalle-Blomkvist-Mystery-White-Rose-Rescue-Astrid-Lindgren/9780192749314?ref=pd_detail_1_sims_b_p2p_1 We read Lindgren in Dutch or German not in English ;) These books are not for sensitive children, with real dead bodies and real criminals. But very enjoyable about endless long summers :)

I think dd will be very charmed by the book. It is just my brains that if they are not grabbed by a book I have problems to focus on it. Specially at the end of the day. The book reminded me of Lindgrens: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/2492436-m-sterdetektiven-blomkvist The Dutch Title of Sweetness is something like ‘taste of virulence/venom’ which makes sense to me, but I am not sure I understand the English title :)

I eat: https://www.ah.be/producten/product/wi218382/eat-natural-ontbijtgranen-noten-zaden + https://www.ah.be/producten/product/wi396393/ah-biologisch-volle-kwark Or a salad with beans, slices of ham and cheese As breakfast

I finished last night: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and I think it is a perfect book for dd, so thanks for the recommendation! I could not hold my attention on it, but finished it nevertheles.

I agree :) I read the book last year and I remember sometimes I kept my breath almost too long... :) I wish more books were like this !

Thanks!!! I won’t :)

I can get it through IBL (= 2 euro per book) http://zoeken.provincieantwerpen.bibliotheek.be/detail/Josephine-Tey/The-man-in-the-queue/Boek/?itemid=%7Clibrary%2Fm%2Foba%7Cc%3Aob%3A1011452 Dorothy Sayers is well translated but mostly available through IBL.

This one is short and therefore cheap.... In a serie there is normally one volume a lot cheaper at bol.com so I pick that one for trips like these...

Just in time to jump on the bus for the round brittain tripp: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18038937-the-blue-girl London: check!

I finished this week: The golem and the djinn Daisy Miller The body in the orchard. I liked them all :D The body in the orchard is a Flemish book set in Brussels. Brussels is divided in several police departments, each with its own language (some Dutch, some French, some biliangual); it is Flemish neither Wallonian including a lot of immigrants with all types of background. This makes solving a murder in an orchard in Brussels not easy. Reading the book felt like passing the integrationtest, as I could follow the humor and absurdism.

Then we are still in progress: 20 years in june...

This! I use 4 amazon sites: .com .fr .co.uk .de Our kindle is linked to the .com site