I didn’t realise my GR updates could one makes curious... Happy to be missed though 🙂 In the beginning I read more in English but less books. Then I realised that most of you read in their native tongue and use translations 🙂 so I read more but in my native tongue (Dutch). In 2019 I read 100 books and from that about 10-15 in English (English Kindlebooks are cheaper then Dutch ones) Beside reading 100 books I hope to buy as less as possible again. I bought about 10 books last year which I consider as ‘good’. Most of them were Kindle or used books. My last 2019 book was Sunsister in the 7-sisters-series. I LOVED the serie and am a little proud I read them all in English (foreign language reading in Kindle app is soooo much easier) so for the next breaks I need something new. (7 sisters was my holiday & vacation reading during 2019) And now I have to pick a new book for a new year 🙂 Happy new year and glad to be back!!

Thank you for mentioning me! Due to time differences I often miss the new thread on sunday and don’t find it easily any longer on monday. And once I was off track... Dd passed her exams last months and has her diploma now, which give acces to university. She will leave in september so we will have time for more relaxed homeschooling next few months. I plan to read about 100 books in 2020.

Thank you! The only requirement was to pass those exams, not how you prepared them 🙂 So she used Schoolbooks from different countries to prepare them. But yes those exams also limited our broadness, so we are very happy to back to sociology, psychology, philosophy e.o. Subject dd liked but were not a requirement...

Thank you! American homeschool highschool was so different with ‘ passing exams in 13 subjects’ that I got lost 🙂

For those who still know me: dd passed her last exam and get her diploma! we will finish the homeschoolyear with more WTM stuff before she will leave for college...

I just upgraded my ipad to the latest IOS edition today. But I seem to have lost a function in MAIL by doing that. Does anybody know how to attach a photo to a mail instead of inserting it? I really prefer to mail photos as attachments... TIA for helping me

To me it looks like a different type of box lid clippers:

I have to pay an annual fee (depends on the city you live in) , for IBL, dvd’s , reservations, almost everything. Our current library is cheap, but our former was expensive so I bought more books. Children under 18 are free though.

@Violet Crown @Junie some french stuff dd read: https://www.amazon.fr/Comtesse-Ségur-01-malheurs-Sophie/dp/2012011411/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=malade+sophie+segur&qid=1558985332&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr2 https://www.amazon.fr/Mémoires-dun-âne-Comtesse-Ségur/dp/2070584224/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=Memoire+ane&qid=1558985445&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Cyrano de Bergerac

Do you know A-level Psychology? They have textbooks available 🙂 we use AQA A-level Sociology and Psychology

I needed some time to check, but it seems your whole list has been translated and is available through my library. Tijl Uilenspiegel is a classic but different languages are thinking it is a classic of their language. Max Havelaar is a classic, so is The Good Hope they are not really old but Dutch before 1800 is hard to read. I don’t know how well Couperus has been translated into English but he also part of the dutch classics imo. sometimes a different translation helps as the idea of a good translation changed during the year. The one I own is a mid 60-70 one: solid but dry and close to the original. A more current translation would be more accessible and would have probably more footnotes to explain stuff 🙂

I read The Hunchback a few years ago and have it shelved in memory as ‘very good readable’... From the list from Violet Crown I read: 1. Dickens, Great Expectations7. James, The Portrait of a Lady11. James, The Turn of the Screw I just finished a Faulkner and I don’t think I can handle another one that soon... Maybe I should hunt for a better Translation of Gulliver, because that book I left unfinished, because the book went totally over my head... I felt sooo dumb 😞 I want a book I can read in Dutch as summerreading, if possible.

I finished 'The Teagirl from Hummingbirdlane' and 'Stonecutter' last week. I missed quite some BaW threads I am afraid, so I was wondering if there is any summer read a long again?

I finished the Teagirl of Hummingbirdlane (in Dutch), I really liked that book. Relaxing but not too fluffy. It might only make you not doing your householdtasks in time

I just enrolled dd for the last exams next year. I have to write a homeschooling plan for next year according the law. For the moment I have 4 subjects: math, sciences, history, Latin, everything else has been passed this year... after years with 4-8 pages full of text it feels odd to have max. 2 with almost 1 page of text.

BJU History might be pretty anti Roman Catholic and pro USA. BJU Biology is creationistic and gave at middle school level a poor presentation of evolution theory. So we skipped that chapter during middle school and used a secular text during highschool...

I finished this month: Ice Princess, from a new to me scandanavian author, and I decided to want to read more. The Skating Rink, also from a new author An unnecessary Woman, I really liked the book, it was a long time ago I was eager to finish the book. Some tame Gazelle by Barbar Pym, I like her books, but this one was harder with all the poem and literature quotes...

I missed a few weeks I think. DD passed her English Written retake, attended German Written yesterday and we just made a studyplan for Maths and Science in April&May. I became board member of a ladies choir and that fulfills the hole 'almost done with homeschooling' left. So some weeks I hardly read... I finished 'through te glasses of Chekhov' a book that travels through Russia along Chekhovs books and letters. I also finished 'Woman behind the piano' about Female Composers. My currently reads are: Days without End The sound and the fury both slightly too hard to read before bedtime My Lent reading is: 'Fragile Alleluia' about the pelgrim psalms. I learned from past years and picked a book that isn't divided in a reading per day, but just fits in the season.

@8FillTheHeart her daughter used something that sounds like: By the onion sea, I thought, I know she studied Russian. ETA: https://bytheonionsea.com/

Thank you! I have 🙂 Next week we have our board meeting about this and after 10 years of ‘just’ homeschooling it feels sooo good to have something outside the house ... I think we fit in the ‘untraditional traditional choir’ category 😉

Thanks for the ideas!! Long sleeves are custom with our conductor. I think we start with something easy and cheap while saving money for something more stylish in the future...

What does your choir outfit look like? I became member of a newly founded lady’s choir, and as board member I am in the position to give ideas about the -yet to chose- choir outfit. We are a secular choir, and our country does not have the custom of ‘choir robes’. Most choirs here wear black with black and sometimes an accent color (scarves and ties). But I am open to new ideas 🙂 I understand if someone for privacy reasons don’t post pictures of their own choir, but just something similar from other choirs. My mixed choir wears black w. black w. red scarves & ties, so that is not an option.

Of course I will miss dd when she will be at college. But for the moment I just will be happy to get my life back... I am done with those exams...

Passing the last exams, eventually retaking some other exams for higher grades. So we will have about 6 months of no rules and no exams. I am not sure we are prepared for so much freedom 😉