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Anita (FAMeulstee) reads on in 2018 (4)

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1FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 29, 2018, 9:01 am

Welcome to thread four.!
I continue to show some of my bookshelves as thread toppers.

Here is the last bookcase in the livingroom, next to Franks desk. In 2005 there were the classics, the Russian library and Plato. Now it is filled with art books, dictionaries, atlases, a few cookbooks and garden nature & birding books.

Left: 2005, just after we moved here. Right: the same bookcase now.
 

2FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 27, 2018, 10:59 am

total books read in 2018: 136
91 own / 35 library / 10 BolKobo+

total pages read in 2018: 28,888

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books read in April 2018 (27 books, 5,353 pages, 19 own / 8 library)
book 136: De avonturen van Alice in Wonderland & Achter de spiegel en wat Alice daar aantrof (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) by Lewis Carroll, 244 pages, TIOLI #10, (msg 280)
book 135: Liefde, enz (Love, etc.) by Julian Barnes, 222 pages, TIOLI #8, (msg 280)
book 134: Een vrouw op 1000 graden (Woman at 1000 degrees) by Hallgrimur Helgason, 541 pages, TIOLI #6, (msg 277)
book 133: De vergeten hacienda by Sven Wernström, 126 pages, TIOLI #14, (msg 275)
book 132: Ronja de roversdochter (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) by Astrid Lindgren, 175 pages, TIOLI #10, (msg 275)
book 131: Operatie Napoleon (Operation Napoleon) - Arnaldur Indriðason, 350 pages, TIOLI #13, (msg 275)
book 130: De omgekeerde man (Seeking Whom He May Devour) by Fred Vargas, 285 pages, TIOLI #12, (msg 275)
book 129: Klein verhaal over liefde by Marit Törnqvist, 59 pages, TIOLI #16, (msg 229)
book 128: Het is fijn om er te zijn by Guus Kuijer, 100 pages, TIOLI #17, (msg 228)
book 127: Over tirannie (On tyranny) by Timothy Snyder, 123 pages, TIOLI #1, (msg 224)
book 126: Helden op sokken by Anne Makkink, 116 pages, TIOLI #13, (msg 223)
book 125: Wild vlees by Marita de Sterck, 170 pages, TIOLI #4, (msg 219)
book 124: Wie niet weg is wordt gezien (Hide and seek) by Ida Vos, 151 pages, TIOLI #14, (msg 218)
book 123: Vluchten kan niet meer (Collision Course) by Nigel Hinton, 124 pages, TIOLI #16, (msg 217)
book 122: Het wonderlijke archief van Mevrouw Fitzalan (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler) by E.L. Koningsburg, 111 pages, TIOLI #6, (msg 216)
book 121: De aard van het beest (The nature of the beast) by Janni Howker, 150 pages, TIOLI #7, (msg 215)
book 120: Sprong in de leegte by Lydia Rood, 232 pages, TIOLI #5, (msg 204)
book 119: Trioloog (Talking it over) by Julian Barnes, 208 pages, TIOLI #8, (msg 203)
book 118: De genezing van de krekel by Toon Tellegen, 117 pages, TIOLI #11, (msg 199)
book 117: Mevrouw Vis, aap en de vuilniskoningin (Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen) by Norma Fox Mazer, 119 pages, TIOLI #3, (msg 198)
book 116: Voor niks gaat de zon op by Els Pelgrom, 68 pages, TIOLI #2, (msg 190)
book 115: De paardentemmer (The Horse-Tamer) by Walter Farley, 155 pages, TIOLI #9, (msg 189)
book 114: Niemandsland (Regeneration) by Pat Barker, 318 pages, TIOLI #15, (msg 182)
book 113: Acqua alta (Acqua Alta) by Donna Leon, 349 pages, TIOLI #12, (msg 181)
book 112: Een osbork in de ruimte by Gerben Hellinga jr, 199 pages, TIOLI #17, (msg 159)
book 111: Coriolis, de stormplaneet by Gerben Hellinga jr, 198 pages, TIOLI #9, (msg 158)
book 110: De dood draagt rode schoenen (Dressed for Death) by Donna Leon, 343 pages, TIOLI #1, (msg 157)

3FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 6, 2018, 4:41 pm

books read in March 2018 (47 books, 8,414 pages, 36 own / 11 library)
book 109: Het huilen van Urgje by Marten Toonder, 72 pages, TIOLI #5, (msg 141)
book 108: De W.A.-man ; De pook ; Roest by Theun de Vries, 157 pages, (msg 138)
book 107: De gevleugelde kat (The Dream Merchant) by Isabel Hoving, 510 pages, (msg 137)
book 106: De kat en de adelaar by Hans Hagen, 65 pages, TIOLI #17, (msg 124)
book 105: De koperen tuin (The Garden Where the Brass Band Played) by Simon Vestdijk, 288 pages, TIOLI #8, (msg 119)
book 104: Geschiedenis van de Lage Landen deel 2 by Jaap ter Haar, 400 pages, TIOLI #5, (msg 113)
book 103: Vrienden van de maan by Mensje van Keulen, 140 pages, TIOLI #6, (msg 105)
book 102: Wat is dat? een voelboek (What's That?) by Virginia Allen Jensen, 22 pages, (msg 104)
book 101: Dood in den vreemde (Death in a Strange Country) by Donna Leon, 335 pages, TIOLI #1, (msg 90)
book 100: De kwade inblazingen by Marten Toonder, 66 pages, TIOLI #3, (msg 71)
book 99: Verhalen voor een Afrikaanse koning (Tales Told to an African King) by Humphrey Harman, 149 pages, TIOLI #5, (msg 65)
book 98: Verder alles goed by Nico Dijkshoorn, 62 pages, TIOLI #9, (msg 64)
book 97: Stralend kruid by Roberto Piumini, 90 pages, TIOLI #11, (msg 61)
book 96: Wachten op Doggo (Waiting for Doggo) by Mark B. Mills, 224 pages, TIOLI #6, (msg 60)
book 95: Het Gilgamesj-epos (The Epic of Gilgamesh), 151 pages, TIOLI #13, (msg 49)
book 94: De molen en de Boeseknor by Alet Schouten, 110 pages, TIOLI #14, (msg 16)
book 93: Uk en Bur by Wim Hofman, 79 pages, TIOLI #4, (msg 11)
book 92: Vaderland (Fatherland) by Robert Harris, 396 pages , TIOLI #8, (thread 3)
book 91: Vos en haas by Sylvia Vanden Heede, 140 pages, TIOLI #7, (thread 3)
book 90: Metamorphosen by Ovidius, 459 pages TIOLI #8, (thread 3)
book 89: De Cock en de geur van rottend hout by A.C. Baantjer, 137 pages, TIOLI #10, (thread 3)
book 88: Iolo komt niet spelen by Alet Schouten, 135 pages, TIOLI #4, (thread 3)
book 87: Het betoverde land achter de kleerkast (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) by C.S. Lewis, 157 pages, TIOLI #12, (thread 3)
book 86: De prinses van Clèves (The Princesse de Cleves) by Madame de Lafayette, 237 pages, TIOLI #13, (thread 3)
book 85: De zomer van 1927 (One Summer: America, 1927) by Bill Bryson, 542 pages, TIOLI #15, (thread 3)
book 84: Elfenmiddag (Afternoon of the Elves) by Janet Taylor Lisle, 128 pages, TIOLI #2, (thread 3)
book 83: Toen Faas niet thuiskwam by Martha Heesen, 84 pages, TIOLI #1, (thread 3)
book 82: De kat in de gordijnen by Dolf Verroen, 72 pages, TIOLI #17, (thread 3)
book 81: Roofvogels & uilen in Europa by Jaap Schelvis, 156 pages, TIOLI #3, (thread 3)
book 80: De storm (Against the storm) by Gaye Hiçyilmaz, 167 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 3)
book 79: Waarom kwamen de walvissen? (Why the Whales came) by Michael Morpurgo, 127 pages, TIOLI #5, (thread 3)
book 78: De encyclopedie van de grote woorden by Mark Boog, 79 pages, TIOLI #6, (thread 3)
book 77: Lieve Tracey... Lieve Mandy... (Letters from the Inside) by John Marsden, 142 pages, TIOLI #18, (thread 3)
book 76: Van Hector die een kater was by Alet Schouten, 98 pages, TIOLI #17, (thread 3)
book 75: Twtti Rhys Hec : een meisje van zestien (What About Grandma?) by Hadley Irwin, 168 pages, TIOLI #18, (thread 3)
book 74: Het schnitzelparadijs by Khalid Boudou, 303 pages, TIOLI #15, (thread 3)
book 73: Donderslag (Thunderwith) by Libby Hathorn, 236 pages, TIOLI #7, (thread 3)
book 72: Zoals de wind om het huis by Johanna Kruit, 39 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 3)
book 71: Alptraum : Stanley's laatste gems by Koos van Zomeren, 190 pages, TIOLI #10, (thread 3)
book 70: Birk (You Have Me to Love) by Jaap Robben, 255 pages, TIOLI #9, (thread 3)
book 69: Piraten aan de Stille Oceaan by Karl May, 286 pages, TIOLI #14, (thread 3)
book 68: Heksen en zo... by Annie M.G. Schmidt, 112 pages, TIOLI #3, (thread 3)
book 67: Your future! hét trendwatchers handboek by Lieke Lamb & Richard Lamb, 191 pages, TIOLI #12, (thread 3)
book 66: Wat dacht je van mij? by Corrie Hafkamp, 124 pages, TIOLI #4, (thread 3)
book 65: De vloek van Cornelia by Martha Heesen, 98 pages, TIOLI #1, (thread 3)
book 64: Noodweer (Dangerous Skies) by Suzanne Fisher Staples, 204 pages, TIOLI #2, (thread 3)
book 63: Luna van de boom by Bart Moeyaert, 32 pages, TIOLI 11, (thread 3)

4FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:05 am

books read in February 2018 (30 books, 6,987 pages, 21 own / 9 library )
book 62: Josja Pruis by Harm de Jonge, 135 pages, TIOLI #19, (thread 3)
book 61: Laat me nooit alleen (Never let me go) by Kazuo Ishiguro, 303 pages, TIOLI #1, (thread 3)
book 60: De wreker van Floris V by Renée Vink, 240 pages, TIOLI #18, (thread 3)
book 59: Godje by Daan Remmerts de Vries, 87 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 3)
book 58: La Bruja, de merrie (The wild heart) by Helen Griffiths, 170 pages, TIOLI #17, (thread 3)
book 57: Zwart op wit by Akky van der Veer, 150 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 3)
book 56: Het huis tussen de bomen (Up a road slowly) by Irene Hunt, 150 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 3)
book 55: Geschiedenis van de Lage Landen deel 1 by Jaap ter Haar, 432 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 3)
book 54: Britt-Marie was hier (Britt-Marie was here) by Fredrik Backman, 347 pages, TIOLI #17, (thread 3)
book 53: Sneeuw (Snow) by Orhan Pamuk, 471 pages, TIOLI #8, (thread 3)
book 52: Het boek van alle dingen (The Book of Everything) by Guus Kuijer, 103 pages, TIOLI #3, (thread 2)
book 51: Jonathan, wat zag je in die zomernacht? (A Midsummer Night's Death) by K.M. Peyton, 146 pages, TIOLI #11, (thread 2)
book 50: Edda translated by Marcel Otten, 429 pages, TIOLI #5, (thread 2)
book 49: Morgen is de toekomst by An Rutgers van der Loeff, 118 pages, TIOLI #14, (thread 2)
book 48: Zwart als inkt by Wim Hofman, 180 pages, TIOLI #15, (thread 2)
book 47: De adjudant van de vrachtwagen (Pulga) by S.R. van Itterson, 196 pages, TIOLI #4, (thread 2)
book 46: Een midzomernachtdroom (A Midsummer Night's Dream) by William Shakespeare, 82 pages, TIOLI #10, (thread 2)
book 45: Anansi de spin weeft zich een web om de wereld by Noni Lichtveld, 80 pages, TIOLI #7, (thread 2)
book 44: De verdwenen menora by Jan & Sanne Terlouw, 319 pages, TIOLI #16, (thread 2)
book 43: De havik (The Goshawk) by T.H. White, 235 pages, TIOLI #3, (thread 2)
book 42: Schorshuiden (Barkskins) by Annie Proulx, 795 pages, TIOLI #9, (thread 2)
book 41: Maliff en de wolf by Hans Hagen, 64 pages, TIOLI #18, (thread 2)
book 40: Meneer Ratti by Mensje van Keulen, 86 pages, TIOLI #19, (thread 2)
book 39: Pablo by Helen Griffiths, 166 pages, TIOLI #17, (thread 2)
book 38: Tommie Station by Mensje van Keulen, 158 pages, TIOLI #1, (thread 2)
book 37: Aardzee 2 (Earthsea omnibus 4-6) by Ursula Le Guin, 623 pages, TIOLI #2, (thread 2)
book 36: Mijn hersens draaien rondjes by Rita Verschuur, 123 pages, TIOLI #6, (thread 2)
book 35: Het is nacht, we gaan op jacht by Hans Hagen, 27 pages, TIOLI #12, (thread 2)
book 34: Muizensoep (Mouse Soup) by Arnold Lobel, 64 pages, TIOLI #13, (thread 2)
book 33: Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen (Guns, Germs, and Steel) by Jared Diamond, 508 pages, (thread 2)

5FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:05 am

books read in January 2018 (32 books, 8,134 pages, 15 own / 7 library / 10 BolKobo+)
book 32: Stijfkop, de vechthond (The Kershaw dogs) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 2)
book 31: De hobbit (The Hobbit) by J.R.R. Tolkien, (thread 2)
book 30: Het reality-essay by Dirk Vis, (thread 2)
book 29: Het is maar een straathond (Just a dog) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 2)
book 28: De man van de blauwe cirkels (The Chalk Circle Man) by Fred Vargas, (thread 2)
book 27: Zes maanden in de Siberische wouden (The Consolations of the Forest) by Sylvain Tesson, (thread 2)
book 26: Francisco, olé ! (Dancing horses) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 2)
book 25: De laatste zomer (The last summer) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 1)
book 24: Een studie in rood (A study in scarlet) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (thread 1)
book 23: Naar Moskou! Naar Moskou! by Willem Oosterbeek, (thread 1)
book 22: Lof der zotheid (In Praise of Folly) by Desiderius Erasmus, (thread 1)
book 21: Wolvensaga by Käthe Recheis, (thread 1)
book 20: Doldwazen en druiloren (Fruitloops and dipsticks) by Ulf Stark, (thread 1)
book 19: Het heksenkind (Witch fear) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 1)
book 18: Woutertje Pieterse by Multatuli, (thread 1)
book 17: Majesteit, Uw ontbijt by Sjoerd Kuyper, (thread 1)
book 16: De rode hengst op de renbaan (The Island Stallion Races) by Walter Farley, (thread 1)
book 15: Sacha, de russische blauwe kat (Russian blue) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 1)
book 14: Kaas en de evolutietheorie by Bas Haring, (thread 1)
book 13: Waarom ik lees (Where I'm Reading From) by Tim Parks, (thread 1)
book 12: De vergeten geschiedenis van mijn grootvader Sulayman Hadj Ali by Meltem Halaceli, (thread 1)
book 11: De reizen van Gulliver (Gulliver's Travels) by Jonathan Swift, (thread 1)
book 10: Een handvol sneeuw (The End of Days) by Jenny Erpenbeck, (thread 1)
book 9: A van alibi (A Is for Alibi) by Sue Grafton, (thread 1)
book 8: De oorlog heeft geen vrouwengezicht (The Unwomanly Face of War) by Svetlana Alexievich, (thread 1)
book 7: Het vierkant van de wraak (The Square of Revenge) by Pieter Aspe, (thread 1)
book 6: De abdij van Northanger (Northanger Abbey) by Jane Austen, (thread 1)
book 5: Twilight (Twilight) by Stephenie Meyer, (thread 1)
book 4: Reizen zonder John (In America: Travels With John Steinbeck) by Geert Mak, (thread 1)
book 3: De hond van Rafa (Rafa's dog) by Helen Griffiths, (thread 1)
book 2: Onafhankelijke mensen (Independent people) by Haldór Laxness,
book 1: Het gouden oog by Hans Hagen, (thread 1)

6FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 26, 2018, 6:05 am

Reading plans:

TIOLI March 2018 double sweep done.

TIOLI April 2018 sweep done, 7 books to go for second sweep
#1: Read a book with at least three pages starting with the same word, but NOT the word “the”
- De dood draag rode schoenen (Dressed for Death) - Donna Leon, 343 pages
- Over tirannie (On tyranny) - Timothy Snyder, 123 pages
#2: Read a book where something you could find in the sky is part of the title
- Voor niks gaat de zon op - Els Pelgrom, 68 pages
- Vogels in het zwart - Piet Meeuwissen, 139 pages
#3: Read a book with the word 'fish' or a species of fish in the title
- Mevrouw Vis, aap en de vuilniskoningin (Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen) - Norma Fox Mazer, 119 pages
- Maak me niet kapot (Sticks and Stones) - Lynn Hall, 140 pages
#4: Read a book that brings up the right title but the wrong touchstone
- Wild vlees - Marita de Sterck, 170 pages
- Athabasca - Hadley Irwin, 145 pages
#5: Read a book whose title references a physical action a human can perform
- Sprong in de leegte - Lydia Rood, 232 pages
- Bijna iedereen kon omvallen - Toon Tellegen, 122 pages
#6: Read a book whose LT average rating is more than 4.0
- Het wonderlijke archief van Mevrouw Fitzalan (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler) - E.L. Koningsburg, 111 pages
- Een vrouw op 1000 graden (Woman at 1000 degrees) - Hallgrimur Helgason, 541 pages
#7: Read a book with a title that is inclusive
- De aard van het beest (The nature of the beast) - Janni Howker, 150 pages
- Een huis met zeven kamers - Joke van Leeuwen, 127 pages
#8: Read a book by an award-winning author, written before the award-winning book
- Trioloog - Julian Barnes, 208 pages
- Liefde, enz - Julian Barnes, 222 pages
#9 Author where the second letter of the first name is the same as the second letter of the last name
- Coriolis, de stormplaneet - Gerben Hellinga jr, 198 pages
- De paardentemmer (The Horse-Tamer) - Walter Farley, 155 pages
#10: Read a book tagged both family and magic
- Ronja de roversdochter (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) - Astrid Lindgren, 176 pages
- De avonturen van Alice in Wonderland & Achter de spiegel - Lewis Carroll, 244 pages
#11: Read a book which contains a word in the title that can be found in a garden
- De genezing van de krekel - Toon Tellegen, 117 pages
- We gingen bramen plukken (A taste of Blackberries) - Doris Buchanan Smith, 71 pages
#12 Read a book that's in the library of another 2018 TIOLI challenger
- Acqua alta - Donna Leon, 349 pages
- De omgekeerde man (Seeking Whom He May Devour) - Fred Vargas, 285 pages
#13: Read a book the fits the "You Keep Missing the Target" Challenge
- Helden op sokken - Anne Makkink, 116 pages
- Operatie Napoleon (Operation Napoleon) - Arnaldur Indriðason, 350 pages
#14: Read a book by an author who was born, or died, in April
- Wie niet weg is wordt gezien (Hide and seek) - Ida Vos, 151 pages
- De vergeten hacienda - Sven Wernström, 126 pages
#15: Read a book where the beginning of the title is following the musical scale, a rolling challenge
- Niemandsland (Regeneration) - Pat Barker, 318 pages
- Doodgewoon - Bette Westera, 112 pages
#16: Spring cleaning! Read a book to remove it from your bookshelves
- Vluchten kan niet meer (Collision Course) - Nigel Hinton, 124 pages
- Klein verhaal over liefde - Marit Törnqvist, 59 pages
#17: Again? Read a book that is second in its series
- Het is fijn om er te zijn - Guus Kuijer, 100 pages
- Een osbork in de ruimte - Gerben Hellinga jr, 199 pages

7FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 2, 2018, 7:55 am

Reading plans in 2018

I have a large collection of mostly awarded childrens & YA books. At the moment I am reading the books I haven't read since joining LT, mostly alphabeticly, to decide which to keep. The ones not to keep are donated to a library in Rotterdam (where we lived until 2005).
I started in 2018 with 696 (was 702*) childrens/YA books, of those 350 (was 352*) are TBR.

End of March update:
- Childrens/YA books TBR: 350 - 60 read in 2018 = 290 + 1 book acquired = 291 TBR
- Childrens/YA books on the shelves: 696 + 2 books acquired = 698 - 2 culled = 696 - 47 ready to go = 649

* 6 books moved from childrens/YA collection to the adult collection.

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I keep trying to read more of my own books, of the 452 books I have read in 2017 238 (53%) were my own.
This year I try again to read at least 50% books of my own.

I join the TIOLI (Take It Or Leave It) challenges each month.

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March month summary: March in numbers
February month summary: February in numbers
January month summary: January in numbers

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Previous threads in 2018
Book 1 - 25: thread 1; book 26 - 52: thread 2; book 53 - 92: thread 3

My readings in previous years

452 books (110,222 pages) read in 2017/1, 2017/2, 2017/3, 2017/4, 2017/5, 2017/6, 2017/7, 2017/8, 2017/9, 2017/10, 2017/11, 2017/12, 2017/13
252 books   (72,474 pages) read in 2016/1, 2016/2, 2016/3, 2016/4, 2016/5, 2016/6
  29 books   (10,079 pages) read in 2015
  17 books     (3,700 pages) read in 2014
  13 books     (3,692 pages) read in ROOT 2013
  50 books   (18,779 pages) read in 2012/1, 2012/2, 2012/3
  82 books   (29,387 pages) read in 2011/1, 2011/2
120 books   (37,668 pages) read in 2010/1, 2010/2, 2010/3, 2010/4
  78 books   (22,698 pages) read in 2009/1, 2009/2
130 books   (39,901 pages) read in 2008

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Other lists

My best of lists on the WikiThing

8FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 24, 2018, 5:50 pm

Series I read, mostly mysteries, a list to keep track

Bernie Gunther by Philip Kerr 4/12
1 Een Berlijnse kwestie; 2 Het handwerk van de beul; 3 Een Duits requiem; 4 De een van de ander; 5 Een stille vlam; 6 Als de doden niet herrijzen; 7 Grijs verleden; 8 Praag fataal; 9 De man zonder adem; 10 De vrouw van Zagreb; 11 De schaduw van de stilte; 12 Pruisisch blauw

Broeder Cadfael by Ellis Peters 6/20
1 Het heilige vuur; 2 Het laatste lijk; 3 Het gemene gewas; 4 De kwade knecht; 5 De eenzame bruid; 6 De kille maagd; 7 Het vege lijf; 8 De duivelse droom; 9 De gouden speld; 10 Een wisse dood; 11 Een hard gelag; 12 De ware aard; 13 Een witte roos; 14 Het stille woud; 15 De laatste eer; 16 Het rechte pad; 17 Een zijden haar; 18 Een lieve lust; 19 De heilige dief; 20 De verloren zoon

De Cock by A.C. Baantjer 46/70

Flavia de Luce by Alan Bradley 2/5
1 De smaak van venijn; 2 Het stroeve touw; 3 De kunst van het liegen; 4 De show van je leven; 5 Slotakkoord voor een moord

Guido Brunetti by Donna Leon 4/25
1 Dood van een maestro; 2 Dood in den vreemde; 3 De dood draagt rode schoenen; 4 Salto Mortale; 5 Acqua alta; 6 Een stille dood; 7 Nobiltà; 8 Fatalità; 9 Vriendendienst; 10 Onrustig tij; 11 Bedrieglijke zaken; 12 De stille elite; 13 Verborgen bewijs; 14 Vertrouwelijke zaken; 15 Duister glas; 16 Kinderspel; 17 Droommeisje; 18 Gezichtsverlies; 19 Een kwestie van vertrouwen; 20 Dodelijke conclusies; 21 Beestachtige zaken; 22 Het onbekende kind; 23 Tussen de regels; 24 Ik aanbid je; 25 Eeuwige jeugd

John Rebus by Ian Rankin 2/18
1 Kat & muis; 2 Blindeman; 3 Hand & Tand; 4 Ontmaskering; 5 Zwartboek; 6 Vuurwerk; 7 Laat maar bloeden; 8 Gerechtigheid; 9 Door het lint; 10 Dode zielen; 11 In het duister; 12 Valstrik; 13 Lazarus; 14 Een kwestie van bloed; 15 De rechtelozen; 16 Gedenk de doden; 17 Laatste ronde; 18 Cold case;

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg by Fred Vargas 2/9
1 De man van de blauwe cirkels; 2 De omgekeerde man; 3 Maak dat je wegkomt; 4 De terugkeer van Neptunus; 5 De eeuwige jacht; 6 Vervloekt; 7 De verdwijningen; 8 IJsmoord

Konrad Sejer by Karin Fossum 3/12
1 Eva's oog; 2 Kijk niet achterom; 3 Wie de wolf vreest; 4 De duivel draagt het licht; 5 De Indiase bruid; 6 Zwarte seconden; 7 De moord op Harriet Krohn; 8 Een andere voorkeur; 9 Kwade wil; 10 De waarschuwer; 11 Carmen Zita og døden (not translated); 12 Veenbrand

Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell 7/12
prequel De jonge Wallander; 1 Moordenaar zonder gezicht; 2 Honden van Riga; 3 De witte leeuwin; 4 De man die glimlachte; 5 Dwaalsporen; 6 De vijfde vrouw; 7 Midzomermoord; 8 De blinde muur; 9 Voor de vorst; 10 De gekwelde man; 11 Wallanders wereld

Pieter Vos by David Hewson 1/4
1 Poppenhuis; 2 Het verkeerde meisje; 3 Het derde zusje; 4 De stenen engel

Sir Balwin by Michael Jecks 4/8
1 De laatste tempelridder; 2 De heks van Wefford; 3 De gehangene van Dartmoor; 4 Het mooie lijk; 5 Het lijk zonder hoofd; 6 Het zevende gebod; 7 De dood van de erfgenaam; 8 Moord in het klooster

9FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 7, 2018, 3:15 am

Books acquired in 2018: 30

March 2018 (13)
Soldaat Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Ik herhaal je by Ingrid Jonker
Schuim by Alfred Schaffer
Kooi by Alfred Schaffer
Binnenplaats by Joost Baars
Aardzee 2 (omnibus 4-6) by Ursula Le Guin
Gezien de feiten by Griet Op de Beeck (boekenweekgeschenk)
Natuurlijk by Jan Terlouw (boekenweek essay)
Het slechte pad by Robert Galbraith (e-book)
Poppenhuis by David Hewson (e-book)
Het verkeerde meisje by David Hewson (e-book)
Het derde zusje by David Hewson (e-book)
De stenen engel by David Hewson (e-book)

February 2018 (6)
Neo Rauch - Dromos - Schilderijen 1993-2017 by Ralph Keuning
*De holle heuvels by Mary Stewart
*De kristallen grot by Mary Stewart
*De laatste betovering by Mary Stewart
*Arthur, koning voor eens en altijd, gevolgd door Het boek Merlijn by T.H. White
Aardzee (omnibus 1-3) by Ursula Le Guin

* secondhand replacements for books culled in 2005

January 2018 (11)
2314 by Philip Akkerman
Doodgewoon by Bette Westera
De Bosatlas van het Nederlandse voetbal
Amerikaanse pastorale by Philip Roth
Liefdesliederen by Hadewijch
Middlemarch by George Eliot
De avonturen van Alice in Wonderland & Achter de spiegel en wat Alice daar aantrof by Lewis Caroll
Het Gilgamesj-epos
**Bekentenissen van Zeno by Italo Svevo
Het rood en het zwart by Stendhal
Anton Heyboer : het goede moment by Doede Hardeman ea

**replacment for damaged book

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Books culled in 2018: 2 (really gone) + 70 (ready to go) = 72 1

1) + 6 double books removed from catalogue and ready to go.

10FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:08 am

That is it, thread is open!

11FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:08 am


book 93: Uk en Bur by Wim Hofman
own, Dutch, awarded, Vlag en Wimpel 1988, no translations, 79 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Pangram rolling challenge: "How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!"

Short stories for starting readers. Two boys, named Uk and Bur, are having adventures in and around their house.


12harrygbutler
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:10 am

Happy new thread, Anita!

13FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:11 am

>12 harrygbutler: You are fast, Harry, thanks!

14harrygbutler
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:13 am

>13 FAMeulstee: I was just getting going for the day looking at threads and saw this new one start, so I jumped right in! :-)

15FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:24 am

>14 harrygbutler: And here the afternoon just started.
I had been reading all morning and decided it was time for a next thread :-)

16FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:24 am


book 94: De molen en de Boeseknor by Alet Schouten
own, Dutch, no translations, 110 pages
TIOLI Challenge #14: Read a book with water on the cover

Alet Schouten is one of my favourite Dutch authors. I have all the books she wrote for children and young adults, most of them are historical fiction. Sadly only a few of her books are translated.

Set at the end of the 19th century, a big family lives in a windmill. This windmill is one of many that keep the polder dry. Five big children and the youngest three are triplets.

17susanj67
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:27 am

Happy new thread, Anita! And 94 books read already - wow!

18jessibud2
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:36 am

Happy new thread, Anita. Lovely, the 2 looks in your topper

19scaifea
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:45 am

Happy new thread, Anita!

20EllaTim
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:51 am

Happy new thread, Anita. You really have doen some organising when it comes to books!

And very impressed by your lists of books read.

21Deern
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:59 am

Happy new thread Anita! Much impressed with your orderly shelves. I'm just considering throwing mine out and having a whole wall of high shelves built, my rooms are so chaotic.

Edit: just skimmed through your last thread - Happy belated 10th TA! :D

22karenmarie
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 7:57 am

Happy new thread Anita, and I love the 2005 vs the 2018 pictures!

23thornton37814
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:02 am

Happy new thread!

24FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:14 am

>17 susanj67: Thanks, Susan, my thyroid dip is slowly fading and reading goes smoothly and fast again.

>18 jessibud2: Thanks, Shelley, we all love to see books ;-)

>19 scaifea: Thank you, Amber!

>20 EllaTim: Thanks, Ella, I am a bit OCD when it comes to ordening books. I have always liked them neat and tidy at the shelves.

25Caroline_McElwee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:18 am

Nice to see more of your bookcases Anita. Happy new thread.

26johnsimpson
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:22 am

Happy new thread Anita my dear.

27FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:24 am

>21 Deern: Thanks, Nathalie, you had your 10th earlier this year!
We have considered a complete wall with books. But then the place for other items, like paintings, is lost.
My books were always organised, but the rest of my place used to be a mess. Frank doesn't do well in chaotic places, so I changed my habits ;-)

>22 karenmarie: Thanks, Karen, it is nice to see how the shelves it evolved.
I am going to dig in my old picture archives to see if I have any from previous houses, that are worth to scan.

>23 thornton37814: Thank you, Lori!

28FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:27 am

>25 Caroline_McElwee: Thanks, Caroline, it is fun to look back. I thought to remember where most books were when we came to live here, but looking at the pictures I see some where not where I remembered them.

>26 johnsimpson: Thank you, John.

29charl08
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:51 am

Happy new thread Anita - love the bookshelf shots. I think I'm going to have to teach myself how to put some new shelves in.

30foggidawn
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 9:02 am

Happy new thread!

31souloftherose
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 9:11 am

Happy new thread Anita! >1 FAMeulstee: I always like bookcase photos :-)

32Crazymamie
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 9:36 am

Happy new thread, Anita! Your reading amazes me, but I'll try not to stare with my mouth hanging open. You have pretty much lapped me twice.

33FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 10:25 am

>29 charl08: Thanks, Charlotte, we love them too :-)
We have no space to put more bookcases, so I have to cull enough to make space for new acquisitions.

>30 foggidawn: Thank you, Misti!

>31 souloftherose: Thanks, Heather, I think most of us do like bookcases. And even more what is in the bookcases!

>32 Crazymamie: Thank you, Mamie!
I am back at my full reading speed, and I love it. It compensates the years you would have been way ahead of me, because I only could finish 1 or 2 books a month.

34figsfromthistle
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 11:28 am

Happy new thread! Love the full bookcases. They are great to look at. However, they are not as great when you have to move, which is what I'll be doing next month :(

35SirThomas
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 11:31 am

Happy new thread, Anita!

36jnwelch
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 11:47 am

Happy New thread, Anita. I like the newer chair with the lamp in that desk nook up top. In fact, the whole area has an appealing look to it. Thanks for posting it.

37sirfurboy
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 12:09 pm

Happy new thread, Anita.

38drneutron
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 1:21 pm

Happy new thread!

39FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 1:55 pm

>34 figsfromthistle: Thanks, Anita, I love them too!
Indeed that is the only downside of owning many books, moving. Where are you going to live?

We moved once doing it ourselves with help from some friends, and that was arready way too much, with probably half of the books we have now. The next 5 moves we hired professional movers to do the job. However I always packed the books myself, using one box for each shelf, marking it properly so every book would be on the right place in the new house.

>35 SirThomas: Thank you, Thomas!

>36 jnwelch: Thanks, Joe, it is the perfect computer desk. Franks PC is inside, he only opens it up when he uses his computer.
Funny you mention the chair, as actually the present one is older. It is one of four chairs we had at our dining table, and I love the look, but can't sit on them long. Frank loves to sit on them, so we re-use them now at places where Frank is sitting and I am not. The dining table has more comfortable chairs now :-)

>37 sirfurboy: Thank you Stephen.

>38 drneutron: Thanks, Jim, sorry I forgot to add this thread to the threadbook myself.

40Ameise1
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 2:15 pm

Happy new thread, Anita.

41jolerie
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 2:27 pm

Happy new thread Anita! I'm here cheering you on as you shoot for a second sweep of the month. AMAZING! :D

42FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 3:49 pm

>40 Ameise1: Thank you, Barbara!

>41 jolerie: Thanks, Valerie!
And thanks again, only 5 to go, reading The Epic of Gilgamesh now :-)

43LovingLit
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 4:01 pm

Love your before and after bookcase, and desk chair! I see you have upgraded to a minimalist one, I like it.

44FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 5:28 pm

>43 LovingLit: Thank you, Megan, over 12 years in between.
Frank loves that chair, I can't sit longer than 15 minites on that chair. Luckely I almost never have to be there, only when I need a printer.

45PaulCranswick
maaliskuu 20, 2018, 8:28 pm

Wow Anita, what a rattlingly quick start to your fourth thread!

Happy new one, my dear.

46FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 4:59 am

>45 PaulCranswick: Thank you, Paul!
Everything LT related is going fast, both reading books and my threads ;-)

47vancouverdeb
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 5:20 am

Happy New Thread, Anita!! What a lovely set up you have for your books. And a belated congratulations on passing 75 books already. Wow, already at book 94.

48FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 6:06 am

>47 vancouverdeb: Thanks, Deborah, and all these black bookcases are only less than half of our complete collection. I will get to the books upstairs in the next threads.
I am still reading fast. I had a slight dip when my thyroid values went down, but I compensated by reading shorter books.

49FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 5:15 am


book 95: Het Gilgamesj-epos
own, translated Akkadian, classic, English translation The Epic of Gilgamesh, 151 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a classic originally published in a languange not your own

This is a translation of the twelve tablets of the so called "standard Akkadian version", with use of other and older versions to fill the gaps. The oldest known parts of the epic are five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh, king of Uruk, dating around 2100 BC. The standard Akkadian version dates back from between 1300-1000 BC.

Gilgamesh is oppressing the people of Uruk, so the gods decides he needs a companion. Enkidu is created by the gods and lives as a wild man. Enkidu is lured into civilisation by sexual contact with a woman, and then travels to Uruk with her. At first Elkidu and Gilgamesh fight eachother, but then they become friends. They have some adventures together, but then Enkidu falls ill and dies.
In despair over the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh goes on a quest to find the secret of eternal life. He finds a plant that makes young again, but looses it on his way back home.

In a way this is where it all began, writing books and reading them. In the text it is visible it originated in oral story-telling, many repeats of the same words or sentences. It is amazing to read the translation of something written down in cuneiform so many centuries ago.

50msf59
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 6:57 am

Happy Wednesday, Anita. Happy New Thread! Love the bookcase toppers! Very neat and tidy.

51karenmarie
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 7:32 am

Hi Anita!

>39 FAMeulstee: Good idea about packing your books yourself and labeling each box for shelf identifier. The last time we moved, 20 years ago this coming July, I didn't care where books were on my shelves. It's only since joining LT and doubling the number of books I have that I've had to start relying in location tags rather than my memory of where a book is.

52majleavy
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 10:02 am

>49 FAMeulstee: Hi, Anita. Gilgamesh is great, isn't? I remember getting chills, when I read it so long ago, for the reasons you mention: the age of it and its status as the first written narrative we nave.

53FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 10:26 am

>52 majleavy: Thanks, Michael, it was great :-)
Besides the reasons you mention, the language of my Dutch translation was beautiful, both in rithm and words.

54humouress
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 1:43 pm

Happy new thread Anita! I like the ‘then’ and ‘now’ bookshelves.

You know, you’ll have to work a lot harder to catch up with me in terms of reading ;0)

55FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 7:23 pm

>54 humouress: Thank you, Nina, it is fun to compare.
I will try my very best to catch up with you ;-)

56EllaTim
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 8:14 pm

>49 FAMeulstee: Hi Anita! How interesting. I've maybe totally misremembered, because in my memory there was a mention of a flood covering the earth in this book? I had this impression of how some bible stories might have travelled around the region and ended up in the bible and in the Gilgamesh epos. But what you write here is a different and interesting version of Genesis.

What version have you read, I would love to read it, as you say the translation is so good. Could you give some details here?

57Berly
maaliskuu 21, 2018, 8:27 pm



How are you almost to 100 ALREADY?!?!?! You are my hero.

58humouress
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 3:02 am

>55 FAMeulstee: No, no!

Unless that means you’ll slow down?

59FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 22, 2018, 3:13 am

>56 EllaTim: Yes, the flood is mentioned, Ella, but isn't the most important storyline. There are more parts that were previousely only known from the bible, like some lines of Ecclesiastes (Prediker). Thes days most experts think the flood in Gilgamesh is the original one, or more precisely the flood in the older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems.
At the time it was first discovered, for christians the mentioning of the flood was the most important part, as that was only known from the bible. Now we know it is also mentioned in some ancient Chinese texts.

My version is the latest translation by Theo de Feyter with an afterword by Frank Westerman, published by Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep in the Perpetua reeks (2012).

>57 Berly: Yes, Kim, with some short books on the top of my pile I will probably get there soon :-)

>58 humouress: LOL, probably no slowing down ;-)
After I pass 100, maybe ignore the first digit?

60FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 5:15 am


book 96: Wachten op Doggo by Mark B. Mills
from the library, e-book, translated, original title Waiting for Doggo, 224 pages
TIOLI Challenge #6: Read a book where the author's first name is also the name of a city or village in your state, province or the like

Charming light and funny romantic story, with a dog as one of the main characters.
When Daniel returns home, his girfriend is gone, leaving behind the dog she took from the shelter a few weeks before. Daniel doesn't want a dog in his life, but Doggo eventually stays, and changes Daniels life.

61FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 5:19 am


book 97: Stralend kruid by Roberto Piumini
own, translated Italian, awarded, Vlag en Wimpel 1995, no English translation, 90 pages
TIOLI Challenge #11: Read a book with something that grows from (or under) the ground in the title

In English the title translates "Radiant Herb".
The famous Turkish painter Sakumat is called to the palace of Ganuan. Ganuans son Madurer is suffering from servere allegies and has to stay always inside his rooms. Ganuan wants Sakumat to paint Madurers room with landscapes, so the boy can get a gasp of the world outside his rooms.
At first the painter and the boy talk much about what should be painted on the walls, the boy only knows the world from his books. Finally they decide to start with mountains, with some figures Madurer knows from his books. From the mountains to hills and then some walls with the sea. In the last of the three rooms, Madurer wants a field, not like it is in the distance, but how it looks when you stand in the field. Here the boy starts to help the painter with the painting. He invents and paints a radiant herb that glows in the dark. Then Madurers conditions gets worse.

A beautiful little poetic story about art, life and death, reality and fantasy.

62EllaTim
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 7:42 am

>59 FAMeulstee: Thanks Anita! How fascinating that even Chinese texts mention a flood. What happened, did they have a climate change? Or is it just that rivers will flood, and people living near them will make stories about the flooding?

Thanks for the details of the translation you read.

63FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 8:41 am

>62 EllaTim: I am not sure, Ella. I think river (or sea) floods might have been the root of these stories.

64FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 22, 2018, 3:40 pm


book 98: Verder alles goed by Nico Dijkshoorn
own, Dutch, Bookweekessay 2012, no translations, 62 pages
TIOLI Challenge #9: Read a book first published in the last 10 years

Letters and postcards written to friends and family, all dated in 2011, Some funny, some more serious.
Published in the Bookweek 2012.

65FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 5:15 am


book 99: Verhalen voor een Afrikaanse koning by Humphrey Harman
own, translated, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1986, original title Tales Told to an African King, 149 pages
TIOLI Challenge #5: Read a book where the title includes at least two different words beginning with the same letter

Juba's father died when Jumba was very young. He grows up in exile on an island in the big lake, as his uncle came with a big army and took the throne. Juba was saved by a few loyal servants. One day Siggi, a storyteller arrives on the island. Through the years Siggi tells folktales, to prepare Juba for his return.

African folktales, put together in a nice story.



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And with this book I have completed a double TIOLI sweep for this month! :-D

66charl08
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 4:40 pm

>61 FAMeulstee: Sounds like a fascinating idea for a story Anita!

>49 FAMeulstee: Is a great review. I am not so good at reading these classics.

67FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 6:03 pm

>66 charl08: Yes it was, Charlotte, I have two more of Roberto Piumini's books waiting. Looking at the author page, some of his work are available in English translation.

The Epic of Gilgamesh was a short read, 151 pages including a foreword and afterword. The other classic I read this month, Metamorphoses was a much longer and more time consuming read.

68richardderus
maaliskuu 22, 2018, 7:00 pm

The Epic of Gilgamesh is some fine readin' Madam I'm-Almost-at-100-Reads. Glad you liked it.

69Deern
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 3:11 am

So, what will #100 be??? :D

70FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 5:28 am

>68 richardderus: Thanks, Richard dear, it surely was a good read. Just finished read 100 :-)

>66 charl08: A very Dutch book, Nathalie.
De kwade inblazingen is one of the 177 Bommel stories. A kind of comic/graphic novel, originally published in a national paper. Every day three drawings and an accompanying text (about a book-page long), like this (not from this story):

It first started out as a children's cartoon, but gradually became more relevant to adults. Nowadays his texts are considered literature, and Toonder received several literary prizes for them. He invented many new words and expressions and some of those are now widely used in the Dutch language.

In the 1990s 48 of these stories, chosen by the author, were published in hardcover, and they are on my shelves. When I was young I collected them from the paper and made my own Bommel books by glueing them on the pages of phonebooks.

71FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 23, 2018, 5:45 am


book 100: De kwade inblazingen by Marten Toonder
own, Dutch, no translations, 66 pages
TIOLI Challenge #3: Rolling challenge: Read a book with a plural noun in the title, going up in alphabetical order

One day in autumn, two dwarves are on their way south, to escape the cold weather. Near Bommelstein (The castle where Bommel lives) one of them leaves a very heavy device next to a shed, as it is too heavy to take all the way. He leves it accidentely switched on. Then strange things start to happen in the shed.

As always Bommel (main character, a bear, full name Oliver B. Bommel) messes up everything, while his young friend Tom Poes (other main character, a white cat) is the one who clears the trouble. Traditionally the last drawing is of a big diner at the castle.

72FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 6:03 am

I will be gone the rest of the day. We are going to a classical concert tonight in Utrecht. The Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, will play "Tripel Concerto" (2016) from Sofia Gubaidulina (a student of Shostakovich, one of few women who are composers of classical music) and "Symphony No. 7 - Leningrad" from Shostakovich.
We go early to do some shopping in the centre of Utrecht, Frank want to look for a hat and the largest hatstore hapens to be in Utrecht. There is also a large bookstore nearby :-)

73jessibud2
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 7:25 am

Sounds like a wonderful day and evening out! Enjoy!!

74harrygbutler
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 8:08 am

>70 FAMeulstee: >71 FAMeulstee: De kwade inblazingen sounds fun, and your day and evening enjoyable. What sort of hats does Frank like?

75Carmenere
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 8:12 am

Oh my goodness! Happy New Thread, Anita! I don't know how this thread has escaped me!
Enjoy the concert this evening, it should be delightful!

76Sakerfalcon
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 8:17 am

>72 FAMeulstee: Have a great time in Utrecht! Hats, books and music sounds like the perfect combination!

77Oberon
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 10:30 am

>72 FAMeulstee: Sounds like a great night out. Have fun!

78Deern
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 10:48 am

Sounds wonderful, enjoy!! :)

79EllaTim
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 23, 2018, 12:21 pm

Enjoy, Anita! A special evening with those two concerts!

I loved Bommel as well as a child, have some of the stories on my shelves. A new edition, three stories in a hardcover edition.

I even had a Bommel book on my Dutch literature reading list for school. Verzin toch eens een list
But I had made a small mistake in writing out my list for the exam, I wrote "Verzin toch eens een lijst" (I guess my attention had strayed momentarily). You can imagine how my teacher liked that, at the exam!

80LovingLit
maaliskuu 23, 2018, 4:25 pm

>72 FAMeulstee: sounds like a good night out! Enjoy.

81charl08
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 5:39 am

>72 FAMeulstee: That sounds like a lovely outing Anita. I got off the train yesterday and the station bookshop was just closing, probably a lucky escape though...

82ChelleBearss
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 7:52 am

Happy weekend, Anita!
Somehow I missed a new thread and 81 posts! Whoops!

83FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 9:29 am

We had a good time in Utrecht. Frank found a black flat cap in the hatstore and we bought 4 secondhand books in the bookstore. For me the Dutch translation of Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo was waiting, I had it reserved on-line. Frank found three poetry books Ik herhaal je by Ingrid Jonker (South-African, poems both in Afrikaans and Dutch translation), Schuim by Alfred Schaffer and Kooi by Alfred Schaffer.
Then we walked a bit through the old centre of the city and found a nice restaurant, where we had diner.

The concert was very good, Gubaidulina's Tripel Concerto was facinating, with three solists (violin, cello and bajan), who all performed superb. Shostakovich was good, but I have heard better performances of his 7th.
When we wanted to go home, there was some trouble with the trains. We were lucky, we were back in Lelystad less than half an hour later. For others the delay had been over 1½ hours!

84FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 9:37 am

>73 jessibud2: Thank you, Shelley, we did, see previous msg :-)

>74 harrygbutler: Yes, Harry, the Bommel books are fun. The writer was very creative with language, sadly that makes translating nearly impossible. Frank was looking for a flat cap and found what he was looking for. He has a lot of hats and caps. He has a tendency for collecting, not only books, also sunglasses, caps and hats ;-)

>75 Carmenere: Thank you, Lynda! This thread is only four days old and somhow moving fast.
We enjoyed the concert, see previous msg.

>76 Sakerfalcon: Thanks, Claire, it turned out to be a good combination. We were brave and only bought a few books.

85jessibud2
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 9:45 am

>83 FAMeulstee: - I love Morpurgo's books and have read a few other of his titles, including Private Peaceful. Also loved The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Mozart Question, The Rainbow Bear, and Dear Olly.

86humouress
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 9:52 am

Congratulations on your double sweep Anita!

My son read Private Peaceful a couple of years ago as a school text. He recommended it to me, but it does sound a bit sad.

Happy Earth Hour!

87FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 24, 2018, 5:24 pm

>77 Oberon: Thank you, Erik, we did :-)

>78 Deern: Thank you, Nathalie, it was :-)

>79 EllaTim: Thanks, Ella, we had not heard any work by Gubaidulina before. She is worth more exploring.
We saw the new editions in the bookstore in Utrecht, I was tempted as they are in the original paper format... Then I reminded myself that book space is an issue, so I will keep it at my 48 Bommel books on the shelves ;-)
I think I also had one Bommel book at that list, my exam was disastrous anyway as I completely blacked out. The second teacher tried to help me out and started questioning about Theun de Vries, but even that didn't do the trick.

88FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 9:59 am

>80 LovingLit: Thank you, Megan, we did have a good day out :-)

>81 charl08: Thanks, Charlotte, that maight have been a lucky escape. We were not lucky with the train back home, we had some delay.

>82 ChelleBearss: Thank you, Chelle!
This thread is moving fast, I only started it a few days ago!

89FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 10:07 am

>85 jessibud2: He is a good writer, Shelley. I read a copy of Private Peaceful from the library, but wanted my own copy. I recently read Why the whales came and War Horse before I joined LT. Checking the titles you mentioned, it looks like only The Amazing Story of Adorphus Tips is available in Dutch translation.

>86 humouress: Thank you, Nina!
It is indeed a very sad book, I shed a few tears and gave it 5 stars....

90FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 5:14 am


book 101: Dood in den vreemde by Donna Leon
from the library, translated, original title Death in a Strange Country, 335 pages
TIOLI Challenge #1: Read a book in which the last letter of the author's first name plus the last letter of the author's last name spells a word

In the second book in the Guido Brunetti series, a body is found in one of the canals of Venice. It turns out the death man was an American, serving the US military. Brunetti superior and US militairy seems to want this murder to be a robbery, gotten out of hand. Brunetti can't help himself, and keeps chasing for the truth.

Like the first book, a good mystery, and Brunetti is a character I would like to read more about. I am going to read the next book soon.

91EllaTim
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 24, 2018, 5:22 pm

>87 FAMeulstee: Did you see Gubaidulina in the tv series Toonmeesters, with Reinbert de Leeuw?

Here is a part of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcd3Hmbit8I

Ouch, a blackout, that's awful, you must have been very nervous.
I managed to get through in spite of my teacher receiving me with a trick question, because of my mistake:-(

92FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 5:37 pm

>91 EllaTim: No I didn't, Ella, thank you for the link!
Glad your mistake wasn't fatal for your grade.
Yes, for me there was way too much at stake. I was only allowed to move out when I got my VWO diploma, and my mother and me were very poisonous to eachother at that time. I already doubled 5th grade, and got one more year with my parents. So I was more than ready to move out. Chemistry was an other blackout, but I got that one with the re-examination. And the Math re-examination was the miracle, the whole year I hadn't scored above 4.8. I needed a 6.1 to pass, and I got exactly that!

93bell7
maaliskuu 24, 2018, 7:49 pm

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend, Anita!

94vancouverdeb
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 12:29 am

I'm glad you enjoyed your concert, your trip into the hat store and book store, Anita. Sounds like a lovely day. And a lovely dinner out too. Happy Sunday!

95banjo123
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 12:38 am

That does sound like a lovely day, music, books and hats!

96harrygbutler
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 10:45 am

>84 FAMeulstee: I'm glad you had a good time, Anita. I have a small collection of hats myself; for a time, while there was still a hat store in Philadelphia, Erika would get me a new one each year for my birthday. :-)

97EllaTim
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 11:29 am

>92 FAMeulstee: I watched it last night, I remembered having seen part of the series, but seeing it now brought back that she was the composer who was so in love with sound, that she had made a musical instrument of stones.

Good for you that you managed to pull through in spite of difficult circumstances!

98streamsong
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 2:14 pm

Hi Anita! Congrats on both your double sweep and shooting right by 100 books!

You've inspired me to read Gilgamesh later this year.

Your night out sounds lovely. Books, music, and a wonderful dinner out - I bet a lot of us would have enjoyed that!

99FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 3:00 pm

>93 bell7: Thank you, Mary, I started to rearrange my books :-)

>94 vancouverdeb: Thanks, Deborah, we had a nice day out. Happy (what is left of your) Sunday!

>95 banjo123: Thank you, Rhonda, it was :-)

100FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 3:12 pm

>96 harrygbutler: Thanks, Harry, we had a similair tradiotion. For some years Frank got sunglasses for his birthday. Now he has enough to have a match with every outfit.

>97 EllaTim: The way she talked about music impressed, Ella. Those stones... don't think anyone else could think of making those. After the documentaty I watched some performances of her work on YouTube. The concert we attended was broadcasted by AvroTros at NPO 4, I think it can be found at "Uitzending gemist".

>98 streamsong: Thank you, Janet, reading keeps going very well, TIOLI Challenges even better :-)
I hope you enjoy Gilgamesh as much as I did.
It was a well spend afternoon and evening. It would have been even better with LT company. If all goes as planned we will meet some group members later this year.

101kidzdoc
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 4:47 pm

Congratulations on passing the century mark (in books, not years of age), Anita!

102The_Hibernator
maaliskuu 25, 2018, 11:05 pm

100?! Seriously? That's impressive

103FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 26, 2018, 6:38 pm

>101 kidzdoc: Thanks, Darryl, in half years I am way past the century, won't start about how many moons that is ;-)
And your post passes the century mark of this thread.

>102 The_Hibernator: Yes, seriously, Rachel. Now I have to write the next two reviews.

104FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 7, 2018, 9:55 am


book 102: Wat is dat? een voelboek by Virginia Allen Jensen
own, translated, awarded, Boekensleutel 1979, original title What's That?, 22 pages

My shortest book this year.
Little Shaggy and his friends, in a very short story. A very special story, as the illustrations are raised on the pages, so you can explore them with your fingertips. This way the story is accessible for blind and partially sighted children.

105FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 26, 2018, 7:07 pm


book 103: Vrienden van de maan by Mensje van Keulen
own, Dutch, awarded, Nienke van Hichtum prijs 1991, no translations, 140 pages
TIOLI Challenge #6: Read a book where the author's first name is also the name of a city or village in your state, province or the like (Ens, Flevoland)

Luzabel is a vampire, she goes on a quest to find a bride for her son Landolino. She finds the perfect girl, named Anneke, in a bookstore. She takes Anneke back to the vampire castle. Meanwhile Anneke's parents and the neigbours son try to find Anneke, to bring her back home.

I am no fan of vampire stories, but in the genre it is a fairly good story.

106ronincats
maaliskuu 26, 2018, 7:10 pm

SO far behind, Anita! *waves*

107humouress
maaliskuu 27, 2018, 12:08 am

100 Anita; is that all? ;0)

Congratulations!

108karenmarie
maaliskuu 27, 2018, 10:34 am

Hi Anita and congrats on more than 100 books read so far this year!

109johnsimpson
maaliskuu 27, 2018, 3:45 pm

Hi Anita, congratulations on reaching 100 books read for the year my dear, wonder how many you will end up with by year end dear friend. Sending love and hugs to you and Frank my dear.

110FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 27, 2018, 3:54 pm

>106 ronincats: *waving back* to Roni!
It is almost impossible to keep up with the threads this year!

>107 humouress: Should do better, Nina ;-)
The summer months are usuallly my best reading months.

>108 karenmarie: Thank you, Karen, I just keep on reading *smile*

>109 johnsimpson: Thanks, John, I wonder the same. Probably between 400 and 450.
Love and hugs back to you and Karen.

111humouress
maaliskuu 28, 2018, 4:01 am

>110 FAMeulstee: Omigosh *throws hands up in despair*

112vancouverdeb
maaliskuu 28, 2018, 6:12 am

My goodness, 100 books already! Congratulations!

113FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 28, 2018, 6:56 am


book 104: Geschiedenis van de Lage Landen deel 2 by Jaap ter Haar
own, Dutch, awarded, Nienke van Hichtumprijs 1972, no translations, 400 pages
TIOLI Challenge #5: Read a book where the title includes at least two different words beginning with the same letter

History of the Low Lands (the Netherlands and Flandres), 15th and 16th century, second book in a series of four.
Important times for our nation, in 1568 the Dutch Revolt cumulated into war. Eventuallly leading to the Dutch Republic.

Very readable history book. Combining non-fiction with short fictional stories set in that time.

114FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 28, 2018, 7:09 am

>111 humouress: LOL, cant have them all, Nina!
Next month we go on vacation, that will slow my readings (a little bit) down...

>112 vancouverdeb: Thank you, Deborah, I just keep on reading :-)

115ChelleBearss
maaliskuu 28, 2018, 12:54 pm

Congrats on your first 100! :)

116figsfromthistle
maaliskuu 28, 2018, 3:06 pm

Congrats on reaching 100!

117FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 6:29 am

>115 ChelleBearss: & >116 figsfromthistle: Thanks, Chelle and Anita!

118msf59
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 29, 2018, 6:43 am



^Congrats, Anita! And Sweet Thursday!

119FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 5:14 am


book 105: De koperen tuin by Simon Vestdijk
1001 books, own, Dutch, Dutch Literary Canon, English translation The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, 288 pages
TIOLI Challenge #8: Read a book for a project

Nol Rieske grows up in a small province city in Friesland. Being a son of a judge, he is part of the upperclass. When he is 8 years old, his mother takes him to the park, where music is played in a bandstand. Nol is impressed by the music and starts dancing with Trix, the 12 year old daughter of Cuperus, the conductor, and falls in love with her. He convinces his mother he wants piano lessons from Cuperus, who teaches him most of all his love for classical music. The lessons are at Cuperus home, but Nol rarely sees a glimpse of his beloved Trix.
After a disatrous performance of the opera Carmen (Bizet), Cuperus detoriates, heavy drinking eventually leads to his death. Meanwhile Nol started his study in the next city, he want to become a doctor. He writes some letters to Trix, but she keeps him at a distance. Called home to the deathbed of his mother, he finally finds the courage to declare his love to Trix...

It took two chapters to get into the story. It took me long to finish it, because classical music is important in the book. When a piece was mentioned, I went searching the internet to listen to it.

120FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 7:23 am

>118 msf59: Almost missed you, Mark, you came in while I was working hard on my latest review.
Thank you! And wishing you a sweet Thursday too!

121karenmarie
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 8:53 am

Hi Anita and I hope your Thursday is going well.

>119 FAMeulstee: It took me long to finish it, because classical music is important in the book. When a piece was mentioned, I went searching the internet to listen to it. Although not usually to listen to music, I do that with books all the time - zip over to the Internet to flesh out a reference. It really enhances the reading experience.

122foggidawn
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 8:54 am

>119 FAMeulstee:
I did that with a lot of the folk music that was referenced in the Tillerman Saga, this time through. Much of it did not sound at all like I expected!

123FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 29, 2018, 10:10 am

>121 karenmarie: Thanks, Karen, it is going well enough. I fell yesterday and hurted my knee. Not very bad, but walking is a bit difficult. It will probably be over in a few days. So I am mainly sitting on the couch and reading :-)
The internet is an amazing addition for quick searches, I do the same. This time it was a bit more time consuming, listening to the classical music that was mentioned in the book. Luckely I know the opera Carmen well enough, so I did not need to listen to that one.

>122 foggidawn: Isn't it fun, Misti, when a book leads you to other things, like music, art or other books. And most can be found quickly.

124FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 11:00 am


book 106: De kat en de adelaar by Hans Hagen
own, Dutch, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1998, no translations, 65 pages
TIOLI Challenge #17: Read a book that features a cat

Eight year old Farid lives in Dadu, Pakistan. He can't go to school, because he has to help his father, who drives a bus. When they leave for Sehwin the bus is overly filled, even some people (and sheep) on the roof of the bus. Farid has to collect the money from the passengers. His mother used to do that, but she broke her legs some time ago, when she fell of the roof of the bus. The whole way to Sehwin Farid thinks he is seeing a black cat, but others don't see it. Could it be a magical cat?

125humouress
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 11:43 am

>123 FAMeulstee: You’ll have time to catch up with your reading then Anita ;0)

I hope your knee gets better soon.

126FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 2:10 pm

>125 humouress: LOL, Nina, that is now our running gag for the year ;-)
I hope so too, it is feeling better than it did yesterday, so I am optimistic!

127richardderus
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 4:41 pm

Joint problems rot and stink. The joints are used for every tiny movement, as they're happy to remind you whenever you have the nerve to move one! *smooch*

128FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 29, 2018, 6:16 pm

>127 richardderus: Yes they do, Richard, mine will be gone in a few days, yours are sadly much worse :'(
*smooch* right back at you!

129EllaTim
maaliskuu 30, 2018, 7:39 am

Hi Anita, thanks for visiting my thread! My back went out, and it's taking it's time to heal. I can't sit at the computer for very long. So I'll be visiting threads in small bites, unfortunately.

Sorry to hear your knee is painful, wishing you fast healing. But your reading is still going like a fast train.

Your review of Vestdijk is inspiring, I will have to read that one as well. It's nice when a book is giving you the impulse to look things up and investigate further.

130FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 30, 2018, 9:34 am

>129 EllaTim: Glad to see you around, Ella, sorry your for your back problems. I hope your back won't bother you for long.
My knee is healing fast, must be all the well wishes here ;-)

I doubted if I would like De koperen tuin. I think it was an assigned read at school and back then did not like it at all. This time it was a way better read.

131Crazymamie
maaliskuu 30, 2018, 12:21 pm

Happy Friday, Anita! Congratulations on passing 100 books read already!

Sorry to hear about the fall and your knee pain - no fun. Hoping it feels much better very soon.

132FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 30, 2018, 5:58 pm

>131 Crazymamie: Thank you, Mamie!
My knee is getting better. Yesterday I skipped my daily walk, today I was able to do a short walk in the afternoon. I hope to get back to our usual walking distance tomorrow.

133humouress
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 12:11 am

>132 FAMeulstee: Must be getting better if you’re skipping. :0)

134FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 3:04 am

>133 humouress: I needed a dictionary to see the humour in that one, Nina :-D

135humouress
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 3:19 am

Dodgy knees are no fun, right Anita? I blame mine on my children; my knee used to creak when I climbed stairs after my youngest was born. But ya gotta laugh; if you don't laugh, you cry and that's even less fun.

136FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 3:31 am

>135 humouress: Can't blame anyone else on this one, no childrenen and even no dog around anymore to blame. It was total clumsyness on my side. Laughing helps, usually not at the moment itself, but afterwards.

137FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 5:13 am


book 107: De gevleugelde kat by Isabel Hoving
own, Dutch, awarded, Gouden Zoen 2003, English translation The Dream Merchant, 510 pages

Josh Cope is just an average 12 year old boy. So why is an international corporation offering him a job? Josh accepts their offer and finds himself soon in dreamworlds, traveling through time, to find a solution to a century old family conflict.

This epic fantasy adventure is getting very mixed ratings on LT. I loved it!

138FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 7:09 am


book 108: De W.A.-man ; De pook ; Roest by Theun de Vries
from the library, e-book, Dutch, no translations, 157 pages

Three stories.
- WA-man written in 1943, first published in 1944. How a young man in the 1930s is slowly drawn into the NSB (Dutch National Socialist Movement), ending up helping the Germans when they occupy the Netherlands.
- De pook (written 1947, first published in 1967). Winter 1994/1945, during the Dutch famine, an older lady is dying because of lack of food. In the appartment upstairs a German widdow is still having parties with lots to eat. She decided to go upstairs and get her share.
- Roest (written 1958, first published in 1967). After being arrested with illegal papers during the first years of WWII, a man is send to camps in Germany. Returning after the war, he isn't able to find his life back.

139charl08
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 9:02 am

Glad to hear the knee is recovering.>138 FAMeulstee: Sounds good, but I'm guessing my lack of Dutch will be an issue!

140FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 9:37 am

>139 charl08: Thank you, Charlotte, I did ⅔ of my usual walk today. Only walking down the stairs doesn't go smoothly yet.
It probably will be an issue ;-)

141FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 9:41 am


book 109: Het huilen van Urgje by Marten Toonder
own, Dutch, no translations, 72 pages
TIOLI Challenge #5: Read a book where the title includes at least two different words beginning with the same letter

One day in summer, Bommel and Tom Puss decide to go out camping. They set up the tent, when an awful noise is heard. Turns out to be a very big toddler who is crying. His family does everything to prevent him from crying, as the noise is unbearable.

As always Bommel (main character, a bear, full name Oliver B. Bommel) messes up everything, while his young friend Tom Poes (other main character, a white cat) is the one who clears the trouble.

142humouress
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 10:14 am

I must admit that I've been curious for a while. I've noticed (utilising my schoolgirl German, which is very rusty) that when you have a title in both Dutch and English they don't always translate directly. I'd be interested in knowing the literal translation of each Dutch title in English.

143FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 31, 2018, 10:23 am

March 2018 in numbers

47 books read (8,414 pages, 271.4 pages a day)

own 36 (76%) / library 11

28 male author / 20 female author (one book by 2 authors)
26 originally written in Dutch / 21 translated into Dutch
43 fiction / 4 non-fiction

44 books in TIOLI Challenges (double sweep)
  6 e-books
  3 1001 books
  1 Dutch Literary Canon
29 childrens/YA
  3 mystery/police prodedural

longest book 542 pages
shortest book 22 pages
average book 179.1 pages

--
date first published:
between 13th - 10th century B.C.: 1
1th century: 1
17th century: 1
19th century: 1

20th century
1950s: 2
1960s: 4
1970s: 5
1980s: 10
1990s: 10

21st century
2000s: 5
2010s: 7

--
ratings:
  2 x
  7 x
15 x
17 x
  5 x
  1 x

Best books
Het Gilgamesj-epos (The Epic of Gilgamesh),
Metamorphosen by Ovidius, 459 pages TIOLI #8,

De gevleugelde kat (The Dream Merchant) by Isabel Hoving,
De koperen tuin (The Garden Where the Brass Band Played) by Simon Vestdijk,
Stralend kruid by Roberto Piumini, 90 pages, TIOLI #11,
De storm (Against the storm) by Gaye Hiçyilmaz,
Alptraum : Stanley's laatste gems by Koos van Zomeren,
Heksen en zo... by Annie M.G. Schmidt, 112 pages, TIOLI #3,
Noodweer (Dangerous Skies) by Suzanne Fisher Staples,

144FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 1, 2018, 7:33 am

2018 totals first three months:

109 books read (23,535 pages, 261.5 pages a day)

own 72 (66%) / library 27 / BolKobo+ 10

62 male author / 49 female author (* two books by 2 authors)
49 originally written in Dutch / 60 translated into Dutch
95 fiction / 14 non-fiction

104 books in TIOLI Challenges (sweep January and February, double sweep March)
25 e-books
  9 1001 books (total 68)
  3 Dutch Literary Canon (total 14/125)
62 childrens/YA
  9 mystery/police prodedural

longest book in 2018: 795 pages
shortest book in 2018: 22 pages
average book: 215.9 pages

--
date first published:
between 13th - 10th century B.C.: 1
1th century: 1
13th century: 1
16th century: 2
17th century: 1
18th century: 1
19th century: 4
20th century: 68
21st century: 30

--
ratings:
  6 x
17 x
36 x
35 x
13 x
  1 x
  1 x

145FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 10:33 am

I will try to remember with my next reviews, Nina.

Here the latest ones with very different titles in translation:
>137 FAMeulstee: De gevleugelde kat = The cat with wings (English title The Dream Merchant)
>119 FAMeulstee: De koperen tuin = The copper garden (English title The Garden Where the Brass Band Played)

146humouress
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 10:49 am

Thanks Anita. That is interesting; very different.

147FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 11:04 am

>146 humouress: For the first book I like both titles, both apply to the book. The copper in the Dutch title of the second book refers to the copper of the brassband, lightning up in the sun. There the English title is acurat, but I prefer the Dutch title.

148humouress
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 11:19 am

>147 FAMeulstee: I have to agree. Although, of course, I haven't read the books.

149charl08
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 12:12 pm

>145 FAMeulstee: I love the idea of a copper garden being a garden with a brass band. Although a bit noisy, possibly!

150FAMeulstee
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 2:13 pm

>148 humouress: That can change, Nina, I am sure you can find a copy of both ;-)

>149 charl08: I like the visual, Charlotte, in a large garden you might be able to keep enough distance to avoid the noise getting overwhelming.

151ChelleBearss
maaliskuu 31, 2018, 9:52 pm

Those are some impressive book stats!

152vancouverdeb
huhtikuu 1, 2018, 7:09 am

Great book stats, Anita! Reading an average of 261.5 pages per day is amazing. I hope your knee is feeling 100 % soon.

153msf59
huhtikuu 1, 2018, 7:19 am

Happy Sunday, Anita! Happy April 1st! We are having a cold Easter this year. Boo!!

154humouress
huhtikuu 1, 2018, 11:03 am

>151 ChelleBearss: Tcha. That’s nothing. You should see my stats.

>152 vancouverdeb: ... wait: 261.5? I think I have difficulty making 26.

155harrygbutler
huhtikuu 1, 2018, 11:16 am

Hi, Anita! I hope you've been having a good weekend. That's an impressive average of pages per day!

156FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 1, 2018, 4:50 pm

>151 ChelleBearss: Thank you, Chelle, still below last years numbers.

>152 vancouverdeb: Thanks, Deborah!
Last years average was just above 300 pages a day. The knee is improving, a few more days and it will be well again.

>153 msf59: Thanks, Mark, also a cold Easter over here. So I keep myself occupied indoors with reading and re-shelving books.

>154 humouress: Don't look at my answer to Deborah, Nina!

>155 harrygbutler: Thank you, Harry, most of these pages are easy reads, like YA & childrens books.

157FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 6:54 am


book 110: De dood draagt rode schoenen by Donna Leon
from the library, translated, original title Dressed for Death, 343 pages
TIOLI Challenge #1: Read a book with at least three pages starting with the same word, but NOT the word “the”

In the third book in the Guido Brunetti series, a male body is found wearing a red dress and red high heels. It seems he was a transvestite, but his face is bashed so servere, recognition isn't possible. Brunetti was just ready to go on vacation whith his family, when this case is assigned to him. He send his wife and children ahead and hopes to follow them in a few days. But the case is much more complicated than it looked at first sight.

Again a good mystery, and I still want mor Brunetti. Sadly I can't find a copy of book4, so the next one is going to be book 5.

158FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 3, 2018, 7:09 am


book 111: Coriolis, de stormplaneet by Gerben Hellinga jr
own, Dutch, YA, awarded, Vlag en Wimpel 1987, no English translation, 198 pages
TIOLI Challenge #9 Author where the second letter of the first name is the same as the second letter of the last name

Two humans traveling in space get in trouble and are forced to land on an unknown planet. The weather is very strange, everywhere is always hard wind from the east. One of the humans dies, the other named Makombo, is now dependent on the first osbork he met, a female called Kazazi. They soon learn to communicate through drawings. Because of the wind, osborks always travel westward. Getting back to his spaceship Makombo has to go all the way around the planet.

I think I first read this book in the early 1990s. It was one of my first SF books and I loved it. I liked it very much again.

159FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 7:18 am


book 112: Een osbork in de ruimte by Gerben Hellinga jr
own, Dutch, YA, no translations, 199 pages
TIOLI Challenge #17: Again? Read a book that is second in its series

Sequel to Coriolis, de stormplaneet.
Fifteen years later Makombo returns to the planet Coriolus. He came to ask Kazazi for help in his own world, but she isn't as adventurous as she used to be. Middle aged osborks prefer to stay home. But her son Nardov volunteers to go with Makombo. The world outside his own planet scares Nardov at first. But he grows up fast and even gets the chance to help uraveling an interstellar conspiracy.

Very good follow up on the first book.

160Deern
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 8:18 am

I'm sorry about the knee, sending good wishes for quick healing!
It seems Easter was cold everywhere except for Merano (where I wasn't this year and where it started raining 2 hrs after my return).
But here, despite the rain, all the flowers are now coming out, and in a couple of days the first apple blossoms should be there. Crossing fingers for sun and not too much heat in 11-12 days! :)

161FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 8:46 am

>160 Deern: Thanks, Nathalie, the knee is getting back in shape.
The rain likes you? ;-)
That would be perfect weather for our visit to Merano. Franks vacation (4 weeks) started today.

162neverstopreading
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 10:18 am

If you ever decide to live stream a video of yourself reading for a day, let me know. I'd like to see what it looks like! ;-)

163charl08
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 11:52 am

>162 neverstopreading: Speedy, I'd imagine.

Hope Frank has a good holiday. Do you have anything special planned?

164humouress
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 12:13 pm

>157 FAMeulstee: That looks like it should translate as ‘The Dude Dressed in Red Shoes’ :0)

165EllaTim
huhtikuu 3, 2018, 6:02 pm

Hi Anita!

>164 humouress: That would work as a title;-)

166FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 3:55 am

>162 neverstopreading: LOL, chances on me going live on video are nihil, Cody. I just sit on the couch and read, on average a page per minute.

>163 charl08: Hi Chalotte, tomorrow Frank goes to Rotterdam. He and his friend Wilco go out and have diner together and then have a drink somewhere. Frank stays two nights. Next week we go on vacation, first a weekend to Merano and meet Nathalie followed by a week in Munich.

>164 humouress: That is a perfect summary of the book, Nina :-)
Literally the Dutch title translates as "The death wears red shoes".

>165 EllaTim: Hi Ella, how are you now?

167FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 4:18 am

I am just back from a visit to the doctor. Last week blood was drawn for the thyroid values. Those looked much better. Besides that, I had had a couple of nights sleeping bad and didn't sleep at all from Monday on Tuesday. Last night went better, I went to bed at 18:30 and woke up this morning at 7:00. Turns out my bloodpressure was a bit high, probably stress related.

The last 14 days had been very stressful, first my dad fell and had bruised his ribs. He was in lot of pain and could not visit my mom for a couple of days. Then my mom was moved to the closed part of the nursing home. This is to try to get my remaining sister out (the one who thinks a human can live from sunlight alone, is against any form of medication and doesn't believe my mom has dementia). My dad is not on speaking terms with her, ever since my other sister died from starvation last year. And she was, with two housemates, with my mom every day from 15:00 to 23:00 interfearing with my moms care. It was not possible to give my mom medicines during the time my sister was there. In the open part of the nursery home it was not possible to keep her from doing that. In the closed part the attending geriatrist has more to say. The new rules should limit my sisters visits to 4 times a week from 18:00 to 21:00 and she isn't allowed to take her housemates with her.

I hope to hear tonight how it went last week. On the fist day on the new rules she came alone, but stayed until 21:30...

168SirThomas
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 4:40 am

I hope you will receive good news, Anita!

Dementia is hard for the relatives, but there can be good times too.
My mother-in-law also suffered from it.
When we - and she - had accepted the situation, we had many wonderful experiences.
She was in a nursing home, too. So we didn't have to worry that anything would happen to her.

It's hard to hear about your sister. I send you hugs and good wishes.

169scaifea
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 6:29 am

Hi, Anita!

I'm sorry to hear the stress that your sister is causing you and your family. Here's hoping having your mom in the closed area will help. I'll be thinking about your dad, too.

170charl08
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 7:50 am

So sorry to read you've been stressed out by your mum's care. Hope the new system works better.

How did I miss you and Nathalie were having a meetup? I'm so jealous!

171jessibud2
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 9:14 am

{{Anita}} I hope the changes will help alleviate some of the stress. It's never easy, is it?

172FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 9:22 am

>168 SirThomas: Thank you Thomas!
My mother went to the nursing home when my father was no longer alble to take care of her. She is usually fine, except when my father leaves, as she has no clue why they don't live together anymore. She can honestly tell how she still loves to do all the housework (she is wheelchair bound these days), and I think she is convinced she still is doing everything she used to do.
My sister and me are not on speaking terms for about 15 years. I quitted all contact after she had been stalking me for months, because I took anti-depressants and she thought that was very bad for me. She could not accept I disagreed.

>169 scaifea: Thank you, Amber, my family has always been trouble. I wish I could ignore them, but sadly I can't.

>170 charl08: Thank you, Charlotte, it is sad this was needed to do.
I am not sure if I mentioned on my thread last year, when we started planning this trip. We tried to meet 5 years ago, but then Ari got back problems in Dresden and we had to cancel the Merano part of our vacation to head back home to see our own veterinarian.

>171 jessibud2: Thank you, Shelley. I hope the same. Indeed my family will never be easy :-(

173FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 4:49 pm

Called my dad today, as I do every Wednesday, and looks like the transition went fine. My mother gets more and better care, now my sister can't interupt half the day. My mother goes to more activities, like singing together and knitting. After the first evening, my sister has been urged to leave every time at 21:00 and did so. I am very releaved!
Frank & me will visit my mom next Tuesday & then go to my dad and have diner there.

174Crazymamie
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 5:07 pm

Anita, you March stats gave me a giggle - you read more books in March than I have read the entire year so far!

I'm glad the transition went fine for your mom and that she is doing better with the new routine. Keeping you in my thoughts - families are tricky.

175FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 5:54 pm

>174 Crazymamie: Happy to make you giggle, Mamie, March was a good eading month for me :-)

Thanks, I am glad my mom does better there. And if my mom does better, my dad also feels a lot better, he had way too much on his plate in the last year.
My family is very tricky, I am very glad some families are much nicer :-)

176Familyhistorian
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 6:01 pm

I somehow unstarred your thread a way back, Anita. Happy belated 10th Thingaversary and 100th book. Looks like you are well on your way to reading over 400 again this year.

It is good to hear that your mom is in a place where she will be taken care of. I hope that your blood pressure went down once that stressful situation was taken care of. How is your knee?

177FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 4, 2018, 6:12 pm

>176 Familyhistorian: Thanks, Meg, there were a lot of celebrations for milestones on my thread recently :-)

We are all (my dad, my brother & me) releaved my mom's move went so smoothly, she is now at the same floor as she was, but in the closed department. The care is more intensive there.
My knee is much better, I can even go down the stairs in a normal way again!
I feel better, so I expect the bloodpressure is getting back to normal.

178ChelleBearss
huhtikuu 4, 2018, 6:42 pm

Sorry to hear that you've had some stress with your family. I'm glad that the closed section seems to be working with your mother and preventing your sister from interfering too much.
Hope you get a great sleep tonight!

179karenmarie
huhtikuu 5, 2018, 9:24 am

Hi Anita!

I hope you're knee is fully recovered. Moving normally is good for your whole body and avoids overcompensation by your other knee/joints. Sorry to hear about the insomnia and blood pressure problems.

I'm also sorry about all the stress with your sister. It sounds like moving your mother to a closed department is a very good solution. Reduced time, no roommates, better care.

Between that stress reduction, your knee doing better, and thyroid levels reduced, things should be looking up for you.

I hope you and Frank enjoy the visit with your mom and dad next week.

180FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 5, 2018, 1:01 pm

>178 ChelleBearss: Thank you, Chelle, we are all releaved it went so well. My dad wasn't sure if the transfer would be good for my mom, but now he is glad he went with it.
I had a good night sleep. For the first time in two weeks I woke when the alarm went off, instead of way before.

>179 karenmarie: Yes, Karen, my knee is as good as new. If I touch it, I can feel it was hurt, but no more limits for walking etc.
Looks like the insomnia (and probably the high bloodpressure) were indeed stess related. After speaking with my dad on the phone yesterday, I felt that the tension was slowly fading from my body.
I hope better times are ahead. Next week we leave for our vacation, so it would be nice if I am in shape by then.

181FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 5, 2018, 1:15 pm


book 113: Acqua alta by Donna Leon
from the library, translated, original title Acqua alta, 349 pages
TIOLI Challenge #12 Read a book that's in the library of another 2018 TIOLI challenger

In the fifth book in the Guido Brunetti series, a woman is searously beaten up by two man. She is warned to keep away from an appointment later that day. When the man she should have met is found murdered, Brunetti suspects the two incidents are related.
I love that Donna Leon tries to give a complete image of Guido Brunetti's life. Not only his work, but also his family.
The title refers to the high tide, that once in a while sets water on the streets of Venice .

And again a good mystery, I still want more Brunetti. Sadly I had to skip book 4 (could not find a copy at the library) and the next one that is available there is book 14. What to do... I don't want to get more books on the shelves. Maybe wait for the e-books, it looks like they are slowly becoming available. I already own the first book in that format and I think I would like to read them again someday.

182FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 11, 2018, 8:11 am


book 114: Niemandsland by Pat Barker
1001 books, from the library, e-book, translated, original title Regeneration, 318 pages
TIOLI Challenge #15: Read a book where the beginning of the title is following the musical scale, a rolling challenge

What a book... an excellent read.

Set in 1917, Siegfried Sassoon has been protesting against the war. Instead of being sentenced to death by the council of war, he is send to Craiglockhart psychiatric hospital where dr Rivers tries to treat his patients in a humane way. Their trauma's are deep, what they have lived though is unspeakable for many of them. The dark truth is that they have to return to the front as soon as they are cured.
Chilling descriptions of the oppressive society in the UK, where class is everything. Even in the trenches class determents where you belong, and how servere your trauma has to be before you might get treatment. And if you are not lucky, you get a doctor who doesn't believe in human treatment, but believes electroschocks are the way to treat shellshock...

This is the first book in the Regeneration trilogy, I will certainly read the next two books.
The Dutch title means "No one's land".

183jolerie
huhtikuu 5, 2018, 4:24 pm

Just popping in for a quick hello Anita! Your reading prowess is so inspiring! How many books do you think you'll read this year? Over 300?? :D

184FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 5, 2018, 5:04 pm

>183 jolerie: Hello Valerie, thank you!
Probably over 400 books, last year I did read 452 books. Not sure if I can ever beat that number...

185thornton37814
huhtikuu 5, 2018, 10:46 pm

>181 FAMeulstee: I should get to that one later in the year.

186vancouverdeb
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 2:05 am

Anita, I'm so glad that things are going better for your family . So much stress. It sounds like things are gradually going better for you too and I hope you have a good sleep tonight , and I'm wishing you a good day today.

187charl08
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 3:25 am

>182 FAMeulstee: This reminds me I have one of hers on the TBR shelf. I loved this trilogy, it deserves all the accolades - great review.

188FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 6:02 am

>185 thornton37814: I did not wait for the group read. When I saw it at the library I had to take it with me ;-)

>186 vancouverdeb: Thanks, Deborah, I had again a good night sleep. Even though I was alone, as Frank is in Rotterdam for two nights. My family has always been more or less trouble, my whole life I kept hoping they would stop causing stress. I know that is not ever going to happen :-(

>187 charl08: Thanks, Charlotte, it was a great book. I hope to get to the next book soon.

189FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 6:11 am


book 115: De paardentemmer by Walter Farley
own, translated, original title The Horse-Tamer, 155 pages
TIOLI Challenge #9 Author where the second letter of the first name is the same as the second letter of the last name

While Alex and Henry are waiting for the plane to leave, traveling back to the USA with Black, Henry tells about his oldest brother Bill. Bill Dailey was a horse tamer, back in the day when horses were the main way for transportation. Bill tried to educate people about horses, using more gentle methods than most did. Henry worked some time together with his brother and learned a lot.

190FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 7, 2018, 9:52 am


book 116: Voor niks gaat de zon op by Els Pelgrom
own, Dutch, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1983, no English translation, 68 pages
TIOLI Challenge #2: Read a book where something you could find in the sky is part of the title

Set in the late 19th century, 12 year old Fine has to leave her home. She got a job in the city, as helper of the doctors housekeeper. Many children had to work in those times. She befriends the orphan boy, who takes care of the carriage and horses of the doctor. They are not treated nicely, but at least they get meals every day.

The title is literally translated "For nothing the sun rises", wich means "Nothing in life is for free".

191msf59
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 6:40 am

Happy Friday, Anita. I hope you had a good week. I have wanted to read Regeneration for several years now. Glad you loved it.

192tymfos
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 10:36 pm

Hi, Anita! I'm too far behind to really catch up, but I'm very impressed by how many books you've already read this year!

Wishing you a great weekend!

193PaulCranswick
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 11:13 pm

116 books already, Anita! Are you ahead of your reading numbers on your stellar year last year?

Have a lovely weekend.

194ronincats
huhtikuu 6, 2018, 11:42 pm

So glad that your mom's move to the closed wing seem to have gone smoothly, that your sister's visits are successfully being limited, and most of all that you are feeling better--thyroid, knee, and blood pressure all normalizing!

195FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 7, 2018, 3:45 am

>191 msf59: Happy Saturday, Mark!
I hope you get to Regeneration. For me there were some harrowing scenes in book.

>192 tymfos: Thank you, Terri, wishing you a loveley weekend too!
Catching up is hard, as the threads keep moving fast. This year I focus on my own childrens and YA books, most of those (65 of them) are fast reads.

>193 PaulCranswick: Yes, Paul, book numbers are high.
Compared to the 1st quarter of 2017 my number of books went up and number of pages read went slightly down. As I said to Terri above, I am more determined to read through my childrens and YA books, there wer 350 to go at the start of 2018. That works well in combination with the TIOLI challenges, as I have read 65 so far.

>194 ronincats: Thank you, Roni, I am glad to be back in the upswing. The thyroid medication is probably not perfect yet, but at least heading in the right direction.

196Ameise1
huhtikuu 7, 2018, 10:50 am

Happy weekend, Anita. We've got finally spring weather.

197FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 10:15 am

>196 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara, we had a warm weekend too. Now we are back to normal temperatures.

198FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 10:49 am


book 117: Mevrouw Vis, aap en de vuilniskoningin by Norma Fox Mazer
own, translated, awarded, Vlag en Wimpel 1982, original title Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen, 119 pages
TIOLI Challenge #3: Read a book with the word 'fish' or a species of fish in the title

Joyce lives with her uncle, near the dump where her uncle works. At school she is bullied and called names with "dump" in it. Her teacher does not know how to help her, and her uncle tells her she does not need anyone besides herself. One day a temporary school custodian, Mrs Fish, does try to help Joyce and really listens to her.

I really liked the story.
The cover of this book is special, made by Nicolaas Wijnberg a Dutch painter/lithographer, who only made a few book covers.

199FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 9, 2018, 11:18 am


book 118: De genezing van de krekel by Toon Tellegen
own, Dutch, awarded, Gouden Uil 2000, no translations, 117 pages
TIOLI Challenge #11: Read a book which contains a word in the title that can be found in a garden

Toon Telligen has written many books about the animals in the wood. In this universe there is only one of every animal, so their names are "Ant", "Cricket" "Elephant".
In this book Cricket and Elephant are the main characters. Cricket wakes up one day with a heavy head, whatever he tries, it does not go away. Meanwhile Elephant is climbing trees, and falls down each time when he finally reaches the top. Although he know he will fall again, Elephant can't stop climbing trees.

In a subtile way Toon Telligen is telling about depression (Cricket) and addiction (Elephant). The writer is very good in playing with words and has an absurd kind of humor. It is a book to read again and again, I am sure I find other things at a next read.
The title would be in English: "The curing of the Cricket".

200Deern
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 11:34 am

Just reading up on the family issues and sending lots of hugs and positive energy. I had missed somehow that you have another sister believing in sunshine nutrition - and then trying to influence your mum in that direction. I'm so sorry! I can well imagine that insomnia and the high blood pressure were stress-related, and I hope you can relax a bit during your vacation. Looking forward to our meet-up! :)

201FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 9, 2018, 12:50 pm

>200 Deern: My sisters lived together, Nathalie, with two others. A kind of mini-sect, with my remaining sister as leader.
My father blames her for the death of my eldest sister, and stopped all contacts. I don't see her either, I quitted all contact over 15 years ago.

I am calming down, only a tiny bit nervous to make such a long journey, as we haven't traveld far in the last two years...
We are leaving Friday, stay the night in Ulm and travel to Lagundo on Saturday, expecting to arrive there around 16:00.
Looking forward to finally meet you! :-D

202streamsong
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 1:01 pm

The first thing I noticed about your post >198 FAMeulstee: was the beautiful cover. It's cool to know that was done by a special artist.

When I haven't been out of town for a while, I also start worrying about going. But then I have a wonderful time! I hope you do, too. I envy all the wonderful LT people you get to meet.

203FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 9, 2018, 1:54 pm


book 119: Trioloog by Julian Barnes
own, translated, original title Talking it over, 208 pages
TIOLI Challenge #8: Read a book by an award-winning author, written before the award-winning book

Two friends and one woman, talking about what happened in their relationship.
Stuart and Oliver are friends since their schooldays. Oliver always took the lead and is very surprised when Stuart finds the love of his life on his own. Gillian and Stuart get married and on their wedding day Oliver falls in love with Gillian. His aproach works, Gillian divorces Stuart and marries Oliver.

At times it was funny, because all three tell their stories, you get the whole.

The Dutch title isn't an existing word, but playing with the word Monoloog (=Monologue). As three people are talking in the book: Trioloog (would be Triologue).

204FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 9, 2018, 4:07 pm

>202 streamsong: Thank you, Janet, I am sure I will enjoy our vacation. Indeed doing things more often makes it easier.
I recognised the style on the cover, we own one of his works a silk-screen print (or serigraph print, not sure which translation is the best) of this one:

205FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 10, 2018, 4:38 am


book 120: Sprong in de leegte by Lydia Rood
own, Dutch, awarded, Eervolle Vermelding 2006, no translations, 232 pages
TIOLI Challenge #5: Read a book whose title references a physical action a human can perform

Cornélie Vergouwe is an unusal girl, she is highly gifted intelectually. But in her early schooldays her classmates and teachers only found her annoying. She was punished for asking too difficult questions, so she stopped asking. At home it isn't much better, her parents think they have to protect Elsa, the younger sister, against Cornélie, although for Cornélie it feels she can only be herself with Elsa.
Cornélie starts diving into risky and odd behavior, like skateboarding (hurting herself over and over again until she can do jumps at the half-pipe), starting an affair with a loverboy (she knows ahead what he wants from her), running away and staying with a circus for the summer. Besides her sister the horses are her main refuge.
When her sister gets badly wounded, after doing a risky move with her skateboard and gets into a coma, Cornélie feels terrible guilty and can't find a way out. The she meets Salomon Kats, an old jewish man, who lost his parents in WWII and later in life his wife and child. He knows all about the feelings of guilt Cornélie is going through and tries to help her finding a way out.

It is a lot that is packed in this book, however it worked very well for me. An unusual YA book, well worth reading.
The title would be in English "Leap into emptyness".

206EllaTim
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 2:53 pm

Hi Anita, sorry to read about the stressful situation with your mother and sister! And glad she is doing better now, and you are having less stress.

I'm glad you loved Regeneration, I read it years ago and still think it is so very good.

Wishing you a good vacation and a very nice meet up with Nathalie! Be sure to take some pictures...

I'm spending much less time on LT at the moment, have been to the fysiotherapist today, now one half of my back is feeling better, next week a more thorough treatment:-)
But I have to be very careful with how I sit and spend time at the PC or the iPad, both seem to provoke problems.

207FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 3:57 pm

>206 EllaTim: Thanks, Ella, it was hard to sit and wait if the new place and protocol for my worked out. My sister isn't predictable and can be very nasty, even violent at times. When my mom and dad still were together, my father had to call the cops to get her out of their appartment...

Regeneration was great, but the scene with the other doctor using electro shocks kept haunting me for a while. If I ever read this book again, I will skip that part!

I won't forget to take my camera with me, I probably won't forget to take pictures ;-)

Sorry your back is still bothering you, maybe the fysiotherapist has tips for changing the position of your back when you are using the PC?

208EllaTim
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 9, 2018, 4:16 pm

I'm sorry about your sister, must be hard to deal with, families can be so difficult. And yours especially.

I'll ask him, sitting is a problem for me, and I haven't found a good way to deal with it. It's not just at the computer but can be just as hard when eating in a restaurant where the chairs are a bit too large for me.
He's already told me to buy new walking shoes;-) A bit embarrassing, as he could see the holes in the soles of my old pair, oops.

209FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 4:38 pm

>208 EllaTim: Well, I am used to my family, Ella, it would be harder for anyone else to be put right into it ;-)
But I sure wished many times to have any other family but mine.

Oh, shoes can be important. Untill well into my 30s I could wear any shoes. These days are sadly over.

210foggidawn
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 5:02 pm

>209 FAMeulstee: Yes, I've reached the same point with shoes -- in the past few years, I've discovered that I have to buy higher-quality shoes than I used to get.

211FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 5:09 pm

>210 foggidawn: Oh, the joy of getting (a bit) older :-D

212banjo123
huhtikuu 9, 2018, 11:49 pm

So glad some of the family stress has eased for you.

I am als a fan of the Regeneration trilogy. Glad that you liked it.

213Deern
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 10, 2018, 2:42 am

>201 FAMeulstee: Which means you're coming in via Fernpass and Reschenpass? There might be a bit of weekend traffic on Saturday, but it's much nicer than the big motorway. They put up many speed cameras in Südtirol last year, mainly in the villages, but they're all in bright orange, and there has to be an "Achtung Geschwindigkeitskontrolle/ Controllo di velocità" sign. Safe travels!!! :)

214FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 10, 2018, 4:14 am

>213 Deern: We were not sure yet, if it might be easier to take the Brennerpass.
I dislike to drive faster than is allowed, so I never worry about speed camera's ;-)

215FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 10, 2018, 4:36 am


book 121: De aard van het beest by Janni Howker
own, translated, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1987, original title The nature of the beast, 150 pages
TIOLI Challenge #7: Read a book with a title that is inclusive

When the factory in Haverston closes down, Bill Coward's father and grandfather are loosing their job. The whole village is upset, as nearly everyone worked at the factory. At the same time a mysterious Beast is wandering around on the moors, first it killed the chickens of Bill's grandfather, later many sheep and lambs are killed. Almost everyone thinks it is a large dog that goes around killing livestock, but Bill thinks it is something else and goes after the Beast himself.

A very good story, reminds me a bit of some books by David Almond.

216FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 11, 2018, 1:07 pm


book 122: Het wonderlijke archief van Mevrouw Fitzalan by E.L. Koningsburg
own, translated, awarded, Vlag en Wimpel 1983, original title From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, 111 pages
TIOLI Challenge #6: Read a book whose LT average rating is more than 4.0

Claudia runs away with her younger brother Jimmie. She decides the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York would be a good hiding place. They hide at closing time at the toilets and spend the nights in an old canopy bed. When a newly acquired statue arrives, they go and see it, and wonder like everyone els if it might be made by Michelangelo. Claudia is determined to find out.

Adventure and mystery set at an unusal place, a fun read.

217FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 11, 2018, 1:38 pm


book 123: Vluchten kan niet meer by Nigel Hinton
own, translated, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1979, original title Collision Course, 124 pages
TIOLI Challenge #16: Spring cleaning! Read a book to remove it from your bookshelves

When 15 year old Peter sees a motorbike with the ignition key still on it, he can't stop himself and goes for a joyride. He loves the ride, but when he is going to return the motorbike he gets in an accident and someone is killed. He runs away from the scene and tries to keep a low profile for a while. But he can't run away from the feeling of guilt...

218FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 11, 2018, 1:50 pm


book 124: Wie niet weg is wordt gezien by Ida Vos
own, Dutch, awarded, Vlag en Wimpel 1982, English translation Hide and seek, 151 pages
TIOLI Challenge #14: Read a book by an author who was born, or died, in April

Rachel is nine years old when WW II starts. She lives in Rotterdam, after the bombing of the city her mother wants to move closer to her family. At her new school in Rijswijk, some classmates don't want to play with Jewish girls. When later distant family members start to disappear, her parents decide it is time to go in hiding. At first the family can stay together, but later Rachel and her sister have to leave their parents and hide separately.
When the war is finally over, they have to get used again to "normal" life. Their parents survived, but many others from their family did not.

The author used her own memories to write this book, very impressive read.

219FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 11, 2018, 2:01 pm


book 125: Wild vlees by Marita de Sterck
own, Dutch, awarded, Gouden Zoen 2001, no translations, 170 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Read a book that brings up the right title but the wrong touchstone

Max is on vacation in the mountains with some friends, when his grandfather dies in an accident. When Max comes home, is grandfather has been buried. Max and his grandfather were very close, and Max has to find a way to deal with his grieve. He wants to know every deatail of the last hours of his grandfather, even when it is hurting the involved. It takes months before Max can go on with his life.

220EllaTim
huhtikuu 11, 2018, 3:53 pm

Hi Anita, you have read some good books again!

>218 FAMeulstee: I would like to read this. This same story happened to an acquaintance of mine.

221FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 11, 2018, 4:11 pm

>220 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella, many good books this month :-)

Ida Vos has written some more books about WW II. She started writing afater a nevous breakdown that was related to her war trauma. I have Dansen op de brug van Avignon waiting on the shelves.

222EllaTim
huhtikuu 11, 2018, 4:36 pm

>221 FAMeulstee: Writing seems like a good way to try to deal with it. My acquaintance has had to deal with trauma as well.

223FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 3:13 am


book 126: Helden op sokken by Anne Makkink
own, Dutch, awarded, Gouden Griffel 1999, no English translation, 116 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book the fits the "You Keep Missing the Target" Challenge

Ten brothers and a sister live together with a cat in this fairytale like story.
Each day the brothers go out, competing in outdoor activities, while their sister stays home with the cat and prepares diner. One day the sister decides she has been home enough and wants to go with her brothers. They send her back home, but the next day the youngest brother stays with his sister and they end up in an adventure.

With beautiful illustrations by Marit Törnqvist.

224FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 3:36 am


book 127: Over tirannie by Timothy Snyder
from the library, e-book, non-fiction, translated, original title On tyranny, 123 pages
TIOLI Challenge #1: Read a book with at least three pages starting with the same word, but NOT the word “the”

This is an important book, although its main focus is on the present situation in the USA, it deservers a wider audience. In short chapters the writer scetches the threats democracy faces at the moment and how totalitarian regimes have come to power in the past. He also gives practical advice how to become active and resist.
I tihnk the author did miss the roots of our present decline, I think that started before the collaps of Eastern Europe: in the 1980s velvet facism came up, eating the roots of solidarity and turning groups of people against eachother, creating an environment of distrust. This tendency paved the road for gouvernments and oligarchy, and they cleverly used he rise of the internet for their own agenda.

225Caroline_McElwee
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 6:45 am

>167 FAMeulstee: so complicated Anita. I'm glad you got more sleep eventually. Fingers crossed the new system re your mom works.

>182 FAMeulstee: a brilliant series.

226charl08
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 6:47 am

>218 FAMeulstee: This sounds brilliant Anita, will look for it. Safe travels!

227FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 9:07 am

>225 Caroline_McElwee: Thank you, Caroline.
Tuesday we visited my mom, her room is almost the same, only no kitchen. She hardly recognised me and Frank, talking about "her husband" instead of "dad". Then we went to my dad and had a nice diner in the restaurant.
Yes, Regeneration was very good, I hope to get to the next book soon.

>218 FAMeulstee: Thank you, Charlotte, we drive to Merano in two days. First day to Ulm (Germany), staying the night there and then on to Merano.
I hope you can find a copy of Hide and seek.

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Two more reviews to write and then I go packing my suitcase.
I hope to catch up with the treads tonight, after that I am not sure when I will be able to check LT again.

228FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 12, 2018, 9:26 am


book 128: Het is fijn om er te zijn by Guus Kuijer
own, Dutch, no English translation, 100 pages
TIOLI Challenge #17: Again? Read a book that is second in its series

Second book (of five) about Polleke, an eleven year old girl. Her parents are divorced and her mother has a starting relationship with Polleke's teacher. Her boyfriend Mimoen shows interest in her best friend Caro. Her father lives on the street and Polleke wants to help him.
This might sound a bit hard and difficult subjects for a childrens book, but the writing is light and Polleke always sees a light or funny side in every situation.
The title translated: "It is nice to be there".

229FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 9:37 am


book 129: Klein verhaal over liefde by Marit Törnqvist
own, Dutch, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1996, no English translation, 59 pages
TIOLI Challenge #16: Spring cleaning! Read a book to remove it from your bookshelves

A girl sits on a pole in the sea. She sees many boats and ships pasing by. One day she sees a man on a small boat and falls in love. She keeps staring at the boat until it fades in the horizon.
Short story about falling in love, mainly told with pictures and a little bit of text.
The title translated: "Small/short story about love".

230jessibud2
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 9:39 am

Have a great vacation, Anita, safe travels

231jnwelch
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 10:14 am

What Shelley said, Anita. Packing is my least favorite part of traveling. Have a safe and fun trip.

232FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 3:34 pm

>230 jessibud2: Thank you, Shelley.

>231 jnwelch: Thank you, Joe, while packing I always think I forget to pack some things.

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See you all, I hope to get a chance to get to LT while we are away.
Closing my laptop down now and packing it!

233ronincats
huhtikuu 12, 2018, 10:57 pm

Safe travels, Anita!

234vancouverdeb
huhtikuu 13, 2018, 4:52 am

Safe travels , Anita and have a wonderful trip!

235figsfromthistle
huhtikuu 13, 2018, 7:22 am

HAve a wonderful vacation, Anita!

236Sakerfalcon
huhtikuu 13, 2018, 7:40 am

Safe travels, Anita! I hope you and Frank have a wonderful time!

237karenmarie
huhtikuu 15, 2018, 6:02 am

Hi Anita!

Have a lovely vacation. Safe travels.

238EllaTim
huhtikuu 15, 2018, 6:54 am

Safe travels, Anita. Though maybe you have arrived by now?

239msf59
huhtikuu 15, 2018, 8:19 am

Happy Sunday, Anita. I hope you are having a nice weekend. Cold and rainy here. Ugly weekend. I am staying in with the books today.

Glad you tracked down a copy of On Tyranny. It is a great read.

240humouress
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 15, 2018, 10:08 am

Hi Anita! Your thread is zooming away as always. I'm sorry to hear about your family troubles, but happy to hear that your health and your dad's health is looking up.

Safe travels!

ETA: have you tried Overdrive for books that are hard to find? I love the concept and have three different libraries on it, though I don't seem to be using it much these days as my own shelves are overflowing with books I really ought to read at least once, soon. :0)

241Caroline_McElwee
huhtikuu 15, 2018, 10:32 am

Missed the holiday announcement, but have a lovely time Anita.

242Deern
huhtikuu 15, 2018, 2:17 pm

{{{Anita and Frank}}}, thank you again for coming here to Merano. It was such a pleasure meeting you and spending the weekend with you. Have a lovely time in Munich and a safe trip home!

243Caroline_McElwee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 15, 2018, 4:08 pm

Oooh, an LT meeting, how lovely Nathalie. Any photos?

244Deern
huhtikuu 16, 2018, 8:29 am

>243 Caroline_McElwee: Anita took several, but they're still travelling and without Wifi. I'm sure she'll post some when they're back home.

245FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 16, 2018, 10:24 am

Safely arrived in München, at the hotel here I have (a bit slow) internet. I hope to post the pictures with Nathalie tomorrow, as I always put my pictures through a photo program first (cropping, aligning etc., no I am no perfectionist!!! ;-) )

246FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 16, 2018, 10:29 am

>233 ronincats: Thank you, Roni, most of the traveling is done now. Next Sunday we go back home.

>234 vancouverdeb: Thank you, Deborah, we had a wonderful meet-up with Nathalie (Deern) in Merano, more about it later.

>235 figsfromthistle: Thank you, Anita, the first few days went well. Now we are in Munich for 6 days.

>236 Sakerfalcon: Thanks, Claire, we survived three days of travel by car very well.
We both can drive, so we switched places every 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

247FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 16, 2018, 10:35 am

>237 karenmarie: Hi Karen! We have having a good time. We had a great meet-up with Nathalie on Saturday and Sunday. More later.

>238 EllaTim: Thanks, Ella. We drove to Merano in two days, spend the night in Ulm and drove on Saturday to Merano. Today we went on to München. We will stay here until Sunday.

>239 msf59: Happy Monday to you, Mark!
The weather in Merano (North of Italy) was fine, sunny on Saturday, a bit cloudy, but mostly dry on Sunday.
Yes, I was happy to find On Tyranny in the e-library :-)

>240 humouress: Thank you, Nina, all the *safe travel wished* worked well ;-)
Thanks for the tip, I will look into Overdrive when I am back home.

248FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 16, 2018, 10:40 am

>241 Caroline_McElwee: Thank you, Caroline, how nice to see you on my thread!

>242 Deern: Thanks, (((Nathalie))), it was a pleasure to finally meet you in real life, third WAS the charm ;-)

>243 Caroline_McElwee: You can find some pictures at Nathalie's thread. I hope to post mine tomorrow.

>244 Deern: Might be even sooner, Nathalie, I will se what I can do this evening, or tomorrow :-)

249EllaTim
huhtikuu 16, 2018, 8:04 pm

>248 FAMeulstee: I had a look at the pictures in Nathalie's thread, really nice!

250FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 17, 2018, 2:52 pm

>249 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella, here some more.

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Here are the first two pictures, taken in the garden of the Plonerhof (where we stayed two nights) in Lagundo.
Left: Nathalie & Anita with Lucy's book. Right: Frank & Nathalie.
 

I have more pictures of the next day, I will put them on my thread later. It takes a while to upload a picture. that goes way faster at home.

251jessibud2
huhtikuu 17, 2018, 3:09 pm

Lovely pics, Anita. I am sure I must have missed it somewhere but who is Lucy and what is the book?

252FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 17, 2018, 4:06 pm

>251 jessibud2: Thanks, Shelly.
The Hounds of Spring was just published by Lucy Andrews Cummin. She is a member of our group known as @sibyx :-)

253jessibud2
huhtikuu 17, 2018, 5:07 pm

>252 FAMeulstee: - Oh, thanks, Anita. I recognize that name from seeing it around on the threads.

254Whisper1
huhtikuu 17, 2018, 9:32 pm

Dear Friend Anita, I haven't been on LT for a long time. Work, health issues and family have absorbed my time. I've only read 29 books thus far this year, but many have been stellar.

I think of you and send all good wishes.

255humouress
huhtikuu 18, 2018, 12:24 am

>250 FAMeulstee: Wonderful! You all look great, and it's a nice setting, too. How nice that you've both got Lucy's book; I'll have to look into that.

256vancouverdeb
huhtikuu 18, 2018, 1:21 am

Great pictures, Anita! All of you look great ! I'm so glad it worked out that you could get together - and you and Frank could have a holiday .

257charl08
huhtikuu 18, 2018, 2:26 am

I love how you posed with Lucy's book - so nice to see you all looking so relaxed and happy.

258Deern
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 18, 2018, 3:23 am

>250 FAMeulstee: Haha, there are the eyes-squinting pics (turned out better than I'd feared tbh), it was so sunny! Since yesterday the Saturday weather is back, it seems for good this time. A pity you missed the apple blossoms, they're all out today in the valley and smell so good. I hope you're enjoying Munich!

259Caroline_McElwee
huhtikuu 18, 2018, 5:00 am

>250 FAMeulstee: lovely. And I just ordered Lucy's book.

260FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 18, 2018, 3:38 pm

>253 jessibud2: You are very welcome, Shelley.

>254 Whisper1: So good to see you around, Linda.
We are on vacation at the moment, when I am back home I will do my rounds again at LT.

>255 humouress: Thanks, Nina, the Plonerhof is a very old farm. It is now in the middle of the village, but still has a beautiful garden and a small apple orchard. I think their main income comes now from guests staying in the house.

>256 vancouverdeb: Thank you, Deborah. The third was the charm in this case. We tried twice 5 years ago, and now Nathalie finally met us :-)

>257 charl08: Thanks, Charlotte, we had a very good time together. I onlyread a few pages in Lucy's book. Speaking German now most of the day, it is nearly impossible to switch to reading English, so I have to try again when I am back home. It is hard enough to type my replies here ;-)

>258 Deern: Yes, they turned out well enough, Nathalie. Frank & me are hiding our eyes in the shade of our hats. The weather in München is good, a bit warm, but our hotelroom has airco, so we can sleep cool. Last two days we had a lot of Italian teenagers in the hotel, they left this morning, so I heard more Italian here than I did in South-Tirol!

>259 Caroline_McElwee: Thank you, Caroline. It is good to see Lucy has so many supporters in our group.

261FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 18, 2018, 3:57 pm

Yesterday we visited the Haus der Kunst where we saw two very impressive exhibitions.
Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art and Kiki Smith: Procession.

Today we went with a guided tour to the concentration camp in Dachau. This forced labor camp was opened in 1933 by Himmler, at first it was mainly used to get rid of political oposers of the Nazi regime. Halfway the tour through the camp I got so much overwhelmed, I quitted the tour and sat down for half an hour. Later Frank and I wandered together through the remains of the camp.
Back in München, we walked a bit through the center of the city and had dinner at Der Pschorr.

262thornton37814
huhtikuu 19, 2018, 11:01 am

>261 FAMeulstee: I can understand becoming overwhelmed in a place like Dachau. I'm quite upset about the way U.S. immigrations and customs officials handled a situation this month in our community. The way they conducted the roundup reminded me so much of the Nazi era.

263jessibud2
huhtikuu 19, 2018, 12:41 pm

>261 FAMeulstee: - Anita, I also visited Dachau once, when I was living in Germany for awhile. I felt an obligation to *bear witness*, so to speak. It was a cold and gray and rainy day when we were there and it felt entirely appropriate - can't imagine being in a place like that if the sun was shining. And yes, it was quite overwhelming. It still amazes me that there is still a town with that name to this day. Why they wouldn't want to change the name, to avoid or distance themselves with association with such a horrific place in their history, is beyond me.

264streamsong
huhtikuu 19, 2018, 2:09 pm

Hi Anita:

I'm sorry the visit with your mom was rough. It sounds like she is well settled in there, though.

I like your comments on On Tyranny. I haven't quite finished it yet, but hope to do so today although it's a busy day for me.

I don't know if I could visit Dachau. Reading about it is heart rending. Are you sensitive when strong emotions are imprinted on a place?

265FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 19, 2018, 4:08 pm

>262 thornton37814: So sorry, Lori, you are upset about what happens in your community. Some paralels with the 1930s are frightning...

>263 jessibud2: It felt very strange, Shelley, as we went to Dachau by train. In a way it was where the terror and tyranny started. It was a sunny day, but it felt cold. I was irritated by the religious communities who felt the neeed to "claim" a place there. I know many of the prisoners there were religious, but I thought one memorial should have been enough...

>264 streamsong: Thank you, Janet. Yes my mom has settled well, the care is better. She has absolutely no short term memory left, so with all of her belongings around again, she settled soon.
I think On Tyranny is an important read for everyone.
It was not easy visiting Dachau. I knew a lot about it, but it is different when you are physicly there. I can be very sensititive to emotions of present and past. This is also related to my thyroid levels, when I am at the right dose of thyroid medication I still feel emotions, but they tend to be less overwhelming.

266Berly
huhtikuu 21, 2018, 12:27 am

Glad the transition for your mom is paying off. Love the photos with Lucy's book -- I read it and loved it! Which reminds me I better write a review sometime this weekend. ; ) Glad your knee is feeling great and the stress is going down. Yay!

267PaulCranswick
huhtikuu 21, 2018, 7:43 am

>261 FAMeulstee: I visited Auschwitz and was undeniably cold on a warm summer's day. I visited the Anne Frank huis in Amsterdam and the place upset me. I have wandered the Killing Fields of Cambodia and seen their notorious torture places and was physically ill. I am a sensitive soul when it comes to places where great evil and brutality or sadness has occurred. I don't want to repeat my experiences but I do think that every father owes it to mankind in general and his children in particular to take them to such places and know that their hearts are touched and that they will never contribute to such acts themselves.

Have a lovely weekend, Anita.

268jessibud2
huhtikuu 21, 2018, 8:03 am

>267 PaulCranswick: - I don't want to repeat my experiences but I do think that every father owes it to mankind in general and his children in particular to take them to such places and know that their hearts are touched and that they will never contribute to such acts themselves.

Amen to that, Paul.

269charl08
huhtikuu 21, 2018, 8:03 am

Hi Anita, Dachau sounds like a harrowing trip for anyone, but the thyroid issues must have made it very difficult. Hope that the rest of your holiday is easier for you.

270karenmarie
huhtikuu 21, 2018, 9:19 am

Hi Anita!

I love the picture of you and Nathalie and Lucy's book! I loved my ER copy of The Hounds of Spring and recommend it wholeheartedly.

271FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 22, 2018, 4:49 pm

We are back home :-)
More tomorrow, now we need some sleep!

272Deern
huhtikuu 23, 2018, 10:59 am

Good to read you're safely back. Have a good rest! :)

273figsfromthistle
huhtikuu 23, 2018, 10:14 pm

Welcome back!

274FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 6:43 am

>272 Deern: Thank you, Nathalie, we needed a good and long sleep.
We traveled back in 12 hours (including long stops for lunch and diner). When we were just back in the Netherlands the wheather turned and we went through some heavy weather with lots of rain. There was even a few cm of water on the highway! Luckely it was only for a short time.

>273 figsfromthistle: Thank you, Anita!

275FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 27, 2018, 2:42 am

I read some books while we were away:


book 130: De omgekeerde man by Fred Vargas
from the library, e-book, translated French, English translation Seeking Whom He May Devour, 285 pages
TIOLI Challenge #12 Read a book that's in the library of another 2018 TIOLI challenger

Second Commissaire Adamsberg book, good read


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book 131: Operatie Napoleon by Arnaldur Indriðason
from the library, e-book, translated Icelandic, English translation Operation Napoleon, 350 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book the fits the "You Keep Missing the Target" Challenge

I love everything Indriðason writes. An aircraft crashed in Iceland shortly after WWII. People get killed to hide the existance of this aircraft...


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book 132: Ronja de roversdochter by Astrid Lindgren
own, translated Swedish, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1983, English translation Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, 175 pages
TIOLI Challenge #10: Read a book tagged both family and magic

A lovely tale of a robber's daughter and a robbers son, who are not allowed to see eachother.
This book is in my Astrid Lindgren top 3, together with Pippi Longstocking and The brothers Lionheart.


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book 133: De vergeten hacienda by Sven Wernström
own, translated Swedish, awarded, Zilveren Griffel 1977, no English translation, 126 pages
TIOLI Challenge #14: Read a book by an author who was born, or died, in April

Abuses of workers in Mexico. Mateo is send to a remote part of the country, to find out what happened to the teacher who was send there. Turns out the workers are abused by a rich landowner, who does not like them being educated.


276Sakerfalcon
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 7:24 am

>275 FAMeulstee: I don't read many mystery series, but a friend recommended Fred Vargas to me and I love her books! The characters are so interesting and the plots unusual.

277FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 27, 2018, 2:42 am


book 134: Een vrouw op 1000 graden by Hallgrimur Helgason
from the library, e-book, translated Icelandic, English translation Woman at 1000 degrees, 541 pages
TIOLI Challenge #6: Read a book whose LT average rating is more than 4.0

In the last weeks before her death, an Icelandic woman tells the story of her life.
Herbjörg Maria (Herra) Björnsson is 80 years old and living in Reykjavík: "I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It’s pretty cozy." Born in Iceland, she happened to be in Danmark when WWII started, eventually leaping her into the depths of the war. Her life led her to Germany, Argentinia, France and a lot of other places. Her story is told frankly larded with a lot of dark humor.
Recommended!

278FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 7:31 am

>276 Sakerfalcon: I only started reading mysteries two years ago, Claire.
Besides the Fred Vargas books, I loved the Elendur books by Indriðason and the Nic Costa books by David Hewston. And a few others I can't remember right now ;-)

279FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 7:37 am

I am busy sorting out the pictures I took during our vacation. The first days are on FB now. When all is done I will start a new thread, probably later today.

280FAMeulstee
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 27, 2018, 2:43 am


book 135: Liefde, enz by Julian Barnes
from the library, translated, original title Love, etc., 222 pages
TIOLI Challenge #8: Read a book by an award-winning author, written before the award-winning book

Sequel to Talking it over, Stuart, Oliver and Gillian ten years later.


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book 136: De avonturen van Alice in Wonderland & Achter de spiegel en wat Alice daar aantrof by Lewis Carroll
1001 books, own, translated, original title Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 244 pages
TIOLI Challenge #10: Read a book tagged both family and magic

I never read these books before. Wasn't overly impressed, but can see what people might like in the story. Beautiful illustrations by John Tenniel.


281charl08
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 9:15 am

>277 FAMeulstee: I liked this one too Anita. Your cover reminds me of my aunt who was a bit of a rebel herself.

282kidzdoc
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 10:08 am

It sounds as though you and Frank had a very memorable vacation, Anita! I love the photos of the two of you with Nathalie in Merano.

283ronincats
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 12:23 pm

Welcome home, Anita!!

284Caroline_McElwee
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 2:01 pm

>277 FAMeulstee: you hit me with a bullet Anita.

Glad you had a good holiday, looking forward to tales of.

285FAMeulstee
huhtikuu 24, 2018, 5:16 pm

>281 charl08: I think I originally found it on your thread, Charlotte, so Thank You!

>282 kidzdoc: Thanks, Darryl, we had a very good time. Both in Merano and in Munich. We did a lot, and need at least a week to recuperate ;-)

>283 ronincats: Thank you, Roni!

>284 Caroline_McElwee: It is a very good read, Caroline, I hope you like it as much as I did.
Working on it, nearly all pictures are sorted out. Only one day to go. I will start my new thread with pictures & stories of the vacation.
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