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You are all right. It's whatever you interpret the categories to be and can be fiction or non fiction. The genres of mystery and crime novels overlap quite a bit so there's going to be crossover with each category bingo.
Crime novels will be about solving a crime and can be police procedural, police detective or hard boiled private eye detectives, medical, legal or military thrillers.
Mystery novels are solving a mystery but has some parts of crime involved as well.
Cozy Mysteries - what makes a cozy a cozy.
Thank you!
I will have to look if cozy mystery exists in Dutch.
And otherwise I’ll read something in English :)
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I would say yes, that is a mystery book.
Thanks again!!! :)
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Ah, OK...I see!
The mystery of Stonehenge would be an example of a real-life mystery.
Mystery novels are fiction that center around a puzzle to solve. Usually the puzzle is some sort of crime. Mumto2 and Amy can surely give you plenty of suggestions :) Agatha Christie would be an example of a mystery writer in English. I read Outsider in Amsterdam by Janwillem van de Wetering last year, and that is considered a mystery.
Thanks again!
So this could be a mystery:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2789191-een-venetiaans-geheim
:heading of to choir practice:
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Loesje, my take on the bingo vocab is below. But I, of course, have no authority in the matter. These are just my interpretations and official explanations from Robin override my comments.
Detective: Normally, I would want my book to include an actual detective - a member of the police force with the job of solving crimes. However, since I see Amateur Detective on the Mystery Square, I would be looking for someone who is NOT employed by law enforcement. Father Brown and Nancy Drew come to mind.
Crime: This one is on the main Bingo square, so I don't take it to mean that it has to be a mystery. A true crime book would work here - that is what I would probably use.
Mystery: Books classified as mysteries are the obvious choice (plenty of mystery readers here to offer guidance!), But once again, since this is on the main Bingo Board, I think that I feel like I could take some liberties here. There are plenty of real-world unsolved mysteries to read about, too.
Cozy: There are cozy mysteries, but I don't read mysteries so I will leave it to one of the other BaW posters to define. Beyond mysteries, yes, I think cats, knitting and all variants of hygge apply.
Hope this helps!
Thanks!
I think I have a translation problem with ‘mysterie’
Mysterie is not a section here in adult fiction so books are not classified that way.
We have detective (kind of sherlock symbol)
Crime (gun symbol)
And adventure (compass symbol)
When I google for mysterie on the site of the library I got things like:
The mystery of stonehenge or
The mystery of the statues of ‘Paaseiland’ (Eastern Island?)...
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Exams, Exams, Exams :)
Dd would be 11th grade by age, and we would like to pass the majority of the 12th grade exit exams.
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So to set my English BAW bingo squares vocabulary right:
A detective is about a murder or fraud and the question who did it?
A crime is about drugs, smuggle, what ever breaks the law?
A mystery is about puzzles and riddles and the queest how to solve?
Cozy is about cats, tea, chocolate and knitting?????????
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:lol: I hope it was a good book!
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It was a good story, so I finished it nevertheless. But now I have to look for an other one for that square... :)
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We do French and Latin daily.
Dutch and English are one time slot. Sometimes we do both languages, writing exercises take time so we alternate then. As most textbooks are in English or Dutch she always will see the other language too.
German is a smaller subject here, and as we have Dutch and Latin too it is less time consuming to make progress.
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How do you structure learning more than one language into the day? Right now we are doing every other day, but I think daily is important.
We don’t have the credit system here, but a tracking system.
Dd’s track is a languages track and has therefore less hours math and science.
History and Geography are smaller subjects here, not a full credit.
We can pass the 12th grade exams whenever we think dd is ready (or when she wants rid off a subject) so we are now preparing the French exam, but will attend the Dutch or English exams later.
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This site:
Has a bunch of audio fragments added with comprehension questions divided about 4 levels
We use them for exam preparation
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Mmm I just finished a book that our library tagged as 15th century, so I picked it for a bingo square, but it is only about an 15th century book, and completely set in current times...
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^^Who is the author? It sounds interesting but all I'm pulling up are unrelated titles.
Thanks!
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Sorry, for putting you in extra work.
I’m Dutch, and read mostly in Dutch (and a little in English) but for this thread I translate Dutch titles into English if it is not already officially translated.
It is this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30520425-de-verborgen-impact
And not translated yet into English...
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I finished quite some books this week:
* The Swedish gentle art of death cleaning
A reflective book, more then a practical how to
* Plead for populism
Essay(s) about the need of populism and why we don’t live in a diplomacracy in his eyes. intruiging was his view on the ‘verzuiling’, the first time I saw it stated as something positive
* Hidden Impact
Book about the hidden enviromental impact of our western lifestyle.
Lot of pictures, confronting about what really makes an impact
* The vineyard by Maria Duenas
I think I like her other book better, slow start, sometimes very descriptive, but finally very much well worth. I think I start to like Spanish literature :)
* Headlong by Michael Freyne
I liked the book very much! Although I wondered how someone outside Belgium / Netherlands would experience the book. Sometimes I forgot it was a translated book. It refers a lot to art history and history of the lower lands.
* dictatorship for beginners
A fun sometimes silly book about dicatorship.
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Maybe there are a few threads about this, but I'm too exhausted from dealing with all of my STUFF to look.
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I almost wish I was forced to move overseas or something so I could just get rid of everything. Wouldn't that be freeing? Sigh.
That is just my question (with moving every five years) do I want to move this again?
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For my poem per week challenge a dutch untranslated christian poem:
Een mens lijdt dikwijls 't meest
Door 't lijden dat hij vreest
Doch dat nooit op komt dagen.
Zo heeft hij meer te dragen
Dan God te dragen geeft.
Het leed dat is, drukt niet zo zwaar
Als vrees voor allerlei gevaar.
Doch komt het eens in huis,
Dan helpt God altijd weer
En geeft Hij kracht naar kruis.
The poem is not translated, but these verses give the feeling of the first three lines:
Too often we suffer most sorely
and thereby feel most poorly
from dreaded aches and pains.
I finished the rectors wife.
I really loved the first 10 chapters, but then it went downhills :(
I also read Girls of Riaad, a kind of Arabic chick lit.
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It is the speed of French speaking that is so hard...
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Now that is poetry that I like. I understand all the words he's using and can picture because of the link you added.
I think that is the reason why it is so beloved.
We have several of these bridges in the Netherlands, so most people will picture this in their head.
When I read the 225 best known dutch poems last year, it was nice to notice, that some era’s had a lot of poems I liked, and other era’s where a struggle to read. So I would like to explore the era’s I liked a little bit more...
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Great find Robin, but I don’t know these names :)
(= I am not familiar with modern poets)
These are more ‘classics’:
http://www.letterenfonds.nl/download.php?file=Dutch-Classics-2012-poetry.pdf
This is a famous one:
https://allpoetry.com/The-Mother-The-Woman
Keep this picture in your head while you read it:
http://www.ronaldvandenboogaard.nl/images/stories/fruit/zaltnegen.jpg
(just in case you live in very different environment)
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I'm particularly interested to see how many people have a goal to read more poetry in 2018. How cool. I've got a mini personal challenge to do some WWI poetry during the week of November 11th. (Perhaps Fearless Leader will let us host a mini challenge that week for poetry in general?) I'm not much of a poetry reader but I feel drawn to that era. After reading it I always wonder if maybe I missed the boat on the deeper meaning.
My poetry intelligence level is Shel Silverstein but I'd like to improve my understanding.
I found a (Dutch) Great War Poetry book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20743107-de-100-beste-gedichten-van-de-eerste-wereldoorlog
As 2018 is the last year of 100 year anniversary Great war it may be neat to read more.
Robin this is what I read last year:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36297774-van-heer-halewijn-tot-hugo-claus?from_search=true
But it doesn’t seem translated...
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I saw the muse challenge on the 52 books blog/site.
I like the idea of a poem per week, although I have no idea what to use for that.
Last year I read a Dutch poem anthology of the 225 most famous dutch poems.
I just read them.
Maybe I revisit some
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I aim for 104 books including the BINGO
DD and SIL will join me with the BINGO :)
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Happy New Year!
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Eating more vegetables (as in 500 grams a day)
Eating less carbs (as in eating less industrial foods)
Moving more (as in a 30 min. Walk a day at least)
That made me lose 10 kg in 2017, I think I can lose another 10 kg this way.
To channel the stress and frustration that I normally ate away I attended a second choir.
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I think I will try the BINGO from Robin again :)Is anyone planning on other challenges in addition to the 52 books? I’m stuck deciding between Modern Mrs Darcy, Book riot and popsugar
I started lasted year with that and it definitly broadened my readings.
It also helped me to make a better use of our library system.
DD wants to try again to get a black out
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Book a Week 2018 - BW3: Travels along the Silk Road
in The Chat Board
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Of course we have Miss Marple in Dutch :) but I use the BINGO less for revisiting old friends then for broadening my horizons and reading new authors... I only visit the library once per month and this is something I can’t find in the catalogue and have to find out in the library itself.
I think Krimi is a German most Dutch people of my age will know: German series like Derrick are always presented with this word; when I was teenager I tried to finish my homework in time on thursdays as that was ‘ Krimi’ night at Dutch television...