Loesje22000
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On 1/3/2019 at 7:22 PM, chocolate-chip chooky said:
Wow, thank you 🌻
May or June would be just fine. We have plenty to keep us busy in the meantime. I plan on using Fred as a revision tool.
Any idea what price per book you'd like?
All the best to your daughter for her exams.
I just checked the shippings: those alone will already be about 65 euros without additional custom charges, so I am not sure this will be the cheapest way for you as the Belgium Post consider this as a 'commercial activity' and I have to fill in a lot of custom forms.... I am afraid www.alibris.com wil be cheaper then me...
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How soon do you need it?
DD has mathematics exam 29th april and it takes at least month before they publish the grades.
If she passes, I'll sell LoF Trig, Calc & Stats so that could be 1 parcell.
I only have no idea what the shippings are from me to you...
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I set my Goodreads goal today at 104 books again.
I would like to read more in English and hope to finish the Britt Tripp challenge this year.
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I read 117 books this year: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/10151847
For 2019 I set my goals again on 104 books.
I would like to read more in English, but I am not sure that will happen this year based on my last year experience...
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@marbel @Melissa M I send you a Goodread friendship request.
Although Loesje is my nickname, I use it there (and on Ravelry ) too, just for my overseas contacts.
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I encourage everyone who want to join, to try. I am not every year a weekly poster, but I do read :-).
A goal can also be 10 books a year ... or 2. Just how life happens.
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8 hours ago, Violet Crown said:
I wish we had some kind of ecumenical Benedict Option reading group, or social group, or something.... I'm probably not (full dosclosure) going to read the book as I've seen enough excerpts to form a firm idea what's in it, but an Orthodox Jewish friend and I have been discussing things that seem deeply related to what the book is talking about, and I see here interest in the ideas from Sandy (Anglican) and Æthylthryth (Orthodox-leaning if I recall?) that make me think there's a pan-religious chord being struck.
7 hours ago, Æthelthryth the Texan said:I’m totally game. We can start a social group here- maybe after Christmas when things have calmed down for everyone?
Sounds great!!
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On 12/7/2018 at 12:07 AM, Matryoshka said:
I update my Goodreads daily. I think I may have a problem...
I always have the hard letters scoped out at the beginning of the year. The rest of the letters I have in abundance. Last year and this I've finished the A-Z title and author challenges months in advance, and had so many left over I've half considered going one more round with either author or title. I think I'm only 1-2 letters short for A-Z author times two, but I thought I should concentrate on other challenges instead...
German authors are really good for finding Z's, and Q and X are common in Chinese names (much harder to find those in titles..). I think I've had a harder time with Y authors...
Irvin Yalom is an author I like to read: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/909675.Irvin_D_Yalom
And in Dutch quite some books are called 'Yemma', as that seems to be the word Maroccan authors use for their (older) mother. How that has been translated, and if Maroccan authors in other countries do the same I don't know.
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6 hours ago, Robin M said:
Is this the one? It's free on Kindle today
Hugs doll! All your books sound so interesting. Have added The Song at the Scaffold and Gold Mountain Blues to my wishlist.
Thank you!
The song at the Scaffold is a thin book. The opera based on the play of the book has a very impressive ending in music (I think):
With the Ladys Choir we sing a different song of it.
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4 hours ago, tuesdayschild said:
@loesje22000 Sorry that the December season is a struggle. Are you finished with school things for your Dd?
Thank you.
We have no exams this month, as dd loves christmas and thinks exams are not unitable with that 🙂
The next exam will be at the end of january so we will have some breathing space. But we still have our regular lessons, as we hope to attempt German Written, Math & Science during March - June
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I finished this week several books I was reading the last few weeks. They are all over the plate... 🙂
- The Song at the Scaffold + watching opera ‘Dialogues of the Carmelitessens’
- Untrue (about female sexuality)
- Van de koele meren des doods ( yes he can write beautiful sentences, yes I disliked the book although it is a Dutch Classic)
- I finished the Servo Arbitio in Dutch, I am impressed how readable the book was, but I think most people would need some more background to be able to follow the thought lines.
- Gold Mountain Blues a thick book about Chinese Immigrants in Canada. Very well writtten, but just a little too thick...
Struggling with the December season as always, so I hope others have a more joyful season.
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20 hours ago, Robin M said:
More ideas for the new year which leans towards reading through our already teetering tbr piles. Since celebrating 10th anniversary, lots of 10 themes.
Ten Chain Book Train - Each book must connect to the other either by a word in the title or author name. For example An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire leads to The Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier which leads to The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and so on. Have to be read chronologically, no skipping around and linking them up later and can only read the same author in succession twice.
Scavenger Hunt - Take the last book you read and go to page ten. Highlight every tenth word for a total of ten words. Then find 10 books of which each has one of those words in the title.
And of course, 10 x 10 which could be 10 books in 10 different genre or subgenres; 10 books from 10 countries, cities, states, provinces; 10 new authors, etc, etc, etc.
Here's the New Bingo challenge for 2019 in both jpeg and pdf - lots of open categories and open to interpretation
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😘 Thank you for making the Bingo!
As always I will have some questions during the road, but I am impressed it is such a different one!
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3 hours ago, mumto2 said:
I am so happy that everyone had as much fun as I did! I have to admit that I was wondering what to do with my mammoth Goodreads shelf, now I can just keep adding to it! Next year the plan is to finish some of my series and see how close that takes me to completing the counties!
Please do!!
I often use your shelves!
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6 hours ago, Robin M said:
I'm going to leave Brit Trip info up on the blog for next year. There are so many counties that the same path can be followed and be totally different each time depending on what books choose to read. @mumto2 Sandy and @aggieamy Amy put a lot of work into it, so I think it should be a perpetual challenge for anyone who wants to continue. Thank you both, you're awesome.
Thanks!
Brit Trip didn't work finally this year (it is hard to do Brit Trip in Dutch ? )
But I would like to continue if possible, so I can finish it in 3 years or something like that ... I think when the majority of the exams has been passed, my brains can handle reading in English again. For the moment I am just glad I can read (in Dutch) and sing.
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2 minutes ago, Penguin said:
Well, then:
VEEL SUCCES!!!!!!!!!!!!
The toi toi is interesting to me. In Danish, one would say pøj pøj to wish good luck on exams.
(Pøj rhymes with toy)
Thank you!!!
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Just now, Penguin said:
@loesje22000 Would veel succes be the right way to wish someone good luck with exams?
Absolutely!!
you can also use it when someone has a job application interview (sollicitatiegesprek) or when someone has an oral presentation to do. In artistic scenes ‘toi toi’ with two thumbs up means the same thing...
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2 hours ago, Penguin said:
Whew. I bet you are really looking forward to that month with no exams. Good luck to your daughter (and you) with the upcoming German and Dutch. I am so impressed that she studies so many languages!
Thank you! It is her track. she has less hours math & science. The Science & Math track has no Latin, and no German, but then she would have 6-8 hours of math per week, and seperate science exams for Physics, Chemistry & Biology. One has to pass for the main subjects of ones track so the choice was narrowed down to what subjects we think dd can pass: Latin, French, English, Math, Physics, Biology or Economics....
and yes we are longing for an exam free month
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6 exams in 3 months might have been a little too much...
It is also the travelling, the insights (so more travelling), and the stress...
This week German oral, 30/11 Dutch written, and then we have a month no exams...
I am waiting for the spring examplanning
I hope dd will pass the foreign languages this school year, so we will haven science, math and Latijn next year
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Somehow if I don't catch the thread on Sunday I seem to get lost,...
So I'm posting so I will be sure to be able to find the new thread next week...
I finished Wintergarden, a book about German History during the 20th Century, and Dawn a book from a Turkish Author.
Reading a thick book about Chinese Immigrants in Canada and still reading the book from Luther.
DD is still attending exams
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I finished ‘You are your brain’ by Dick Swaab. He is a neuroscientist and the book has been written for the common people, it has no reference or source list, and is sometimes too popular imo. The line between facts and personal opinions is not always clear, which is problem for me when he states something which is not a logical consequence of the facts.
The part of the book about Free Will, lead me to the translation of the Servo Arbitrio by Martin Luther. Luther and Erasmus disputed about Free Will, and I like the book so far.
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These are ‘krimi’ graphs, but most graphs will be about consumption patterns.
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Dd is preparing her German Oral Exam next month, and we are looking for some graphs that are normally used at Deutsch B1 exams. Her textbook provides one page with 6 graphs, and we just need more graphs to practice .... ? Does anybody else has such pages in their textbook? I will try to post mine as example.
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@Mumof2 Congratulations!
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Life of Fred Trigonometry
in High School and Self-Education Board
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It would be cheaper to send from the Netherlands, somehow Belgium Post is more expensive then the Dutch Post... 😞