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Anita (FAMeulstee) still goes where the books take her in 2022 (10)

1FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:04 am

Welcome to my tenth thread in 2022!

I am Anita Meulstee (59), married with Frank (60) since 1984. We live in Lelystad, the Netherlands. We both love modern art, books and walking.

At our last visit to the Floriade the dahlia's were in full bloom:


I have been hanging around in this group a few months after finding LibraryThing in March 2008. I skipped one year (2013), when my reading dropped to almost nothing. This was a side effect of taking Paxil. In 2015 I was able to wean off Paxil, and a year later my reading skyrocketed. The last two years it is slowing down, my initial "reading hunger" has waned a bit.

I read (almost) everything, from childrens and YA books to more serious literature, mysteries, historical fiction, fantasy, and I try not to forget to throw some non-fiction into the mix.

2FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2022, 6:25 am

total books read in 2022: 271
55 own / 216 library

total pages read in 2022: 85.471

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currently reading:
De vertellingen van duizend-en-één-nacht 3 translated by Richard van Leeuwen
e-book: De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin, 2160 pages, TIOLI #14

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books read in October 2022 (25 books, 6.860 pages, 2 own / 22 library)
book 247: De ruwe weg (Lean on Pete) by Willy Vlautin, translated by Rob van Erkelens, 271 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 64)
book 248: Reinhold Messner: Das Leben eines Extrembergsteigers by Michele Petrucci, translated by Anja Kootz, 88 pages (msg 65)
book 249: Babbitt (Babbitt) by Sinclair Lewis, translated by Paul Bruijn, 387 pages, TIOLI #1 (msg 66)
book 250: Zonder titel by Erna Sassen, 253 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 67)
book 251: Aan de voet van de gletsjer (Under the Glacier) by Halldór Laxness, translated by Marcel Otten, 222 pages, TIOLI #3 (msg 68)
book 252: De kinderkaravaan (Children on the Oregon Trail) by An Rutgers van der Loeff, 183 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 69)
book 253: Films die nergens draaien by Yorick Goldewijk, 246 pages, TIOLI #9 (msg 82)
book 254: Avonturen van de dappere ridster by Janneke Schotveld, 87 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 83)
book 255: Het fortuin van de Rougons (The Fortune of the Rougons) by Émile Zola, translated by Martine Delfos, 275 pages, TIOLI #4 (msg 84)
book 256: De meisjes : zeven sprookjes by Annet Schaap, 251 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 86)
book 257: Buit maken (The Kill) by Émile Zola, translated by Martine Delfos, 253 pages, TIOLI #14 (msg 88)
book 258: Uiteengescheurd (They Were Divided) by Miklós Bánffy, translated by Rebekka Hermán Mostert, 330 pages, TIOLI #4 (msg 89)
book 259: Honger (Hunger) by Knut Hamsun, translated by Adriaan van der Hoeven and Edith Koenders, 272 pages, TIOLI #4 (msg 90)
book 260: Zazie in de metro (Zazie in the Metro) by Raymond Queneau, translated by Jenny Tuin, 206 pages, TIOLI #6 (msg 125)
book 261: De sympathisant (The Sympathizer) by Viet Thanh Nguyen, translated by Paul Bruijn and Jetty Huisman, 429 pages, TIOLI #4 (msg 126)
book 262: Wildernis (Force of Nature) by Jane Harper, translated by Catalien and Willem van Paassen, 368 pages (msg 127)
book 263: Diego en Frida by J.M.G. Le Clézio, translated by Maria Noordman, 220 pages, TIOLI #5 (msg 159)
book 264: De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Karol Lesman, 920 pages, TIOLI #12 (msg 160)
book 265: Achtste-groepers huilen niet by Jacques Vriens, 175 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 176)
book 266: Een zijden haar (The Potter's Field; Cadfael 17) by Ellis Peters, translated by Pieter Janssens, 211 pages, TIOLI #4 (msg 177)
book 267: Dubbelspel (Double Play) by Frank Martinus Arion, 365 pages, TIOLI #11 (msg 178)
book 268: Wonderbos by Jan Paul Schutten, 75 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 179)
book 269: Over de gekte van een vrouw by Astrid Roemer, 221 pages, TIOLI #5 (msg 186)
book 270: Rode liefde (Red Love) by Maxim Leo, translated by Lilian Caris, 269 pages, TIOLI #13 (msg 187)
book 271: Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren (editor), 280 pages (msg 188)

3FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 30, 2022, 7:01 pm

October 2022 reading plans
still reading De vertellingen van duizend-en-één-nacht 3 translated by Richard van Leeuwen
and De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin, 2160 pages (part 2 of 4 in October)

TIOLI October 2022
#1: Read a book whose title words only start with the letters A, B, C, X, Y and/or Z
- Babbitt (Babbitt) - Sinclair Lewis, 387 pages (e-library)
#2: Read a Scary Book
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#3: Read a book for the Grady Girls rolling challenge
- Aan de voet van de gletsjer (Under the Glacier) - Halldór Laxness, 222 pages (library)
#4: Read a book tagged "historical" or "historical fiction"
- Het fortuin van de Rougons (The Fortune of the Rougons) - Émile Zola, 275 pages (library)
- Honger (Hunger) - Knut Hamsun, 272 pages (library)
- De sympathisant (The Sympathizer) - Viet Thanh Nguyen, 429 pages (e-library)
- Uiteengescheurd (They Were Divided) - Miklós Bánffy, 330 pages (library)
- Een zijden haar (The Potter's Field; Cadfael 17) - Ellis Peters (library)
#5: Read a book with a cover image in which a woman's face is important
- Diego en Frida - J.M.G. Le Clézio, 220 pages (library)
- Over de gekte van een vrouw - Astrid Roemer, 221 pages (e-library)
#6 Read a book with the word “teeth” in the title or the image of teeth somewhere on the cover
- Zazie in de metro (Zazie in the Metro) - Raymond Queneau, 206 pages (library)
#7: Read a book in a language that is not your mother tongue
- Reinhold Messner: Das Leben eines Extrembergsteigers - Michele Petrucci, 88 pages
#8: The “Murder She Wrote” Challenge: Read a murder mystery, solved or unsolved, written by a woman author (NF only, please)
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#9: Read a book with a fall color (Red, Orange, Yellow, Brown) predominate on the cover or with one of the color names in the title or author name
- Films die nergens draaien - Yorick Goldewijk, 246 pages (e-library)
#10: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, about the British royal family
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#11: Read a book written by someone who uses three names
- Dubbelspel (Double Play) - Frank Martinus Arion, 365 pages
#12: Read a book whose title identifies what kind of narrative it purports to be
- De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) - Olga Tokarczuk, 920 pages (library)
#13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages
- Achtste-groepers huilen niet - Jacques Vriens, 175 pages (e-library)
- Avonturen van de dappere ridster - Janneke Schotveld, 87 pages (e-library)
- De kinderkaravaan (Children on the Oregon Trail) An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, 183 pages (e-library)
- De meisjes : zeven sprookjes - Annet Schaap, 251 pages (e-library)
- Rode liefde (Red Love) - Maxim Leo, 269 pages (e-library)
- De ruwe weg (Lean on Pete) - Willy Vlautin, 271 pages (library)
- Wonderbos - Jan Paul Schutten, 75 pages (library)
- Zonder titel - Erna Sassen, 253 pages (e-library)
#14: Read a book with a verb used as a noun in the title
- Buit maken (The Kill) - Émile Zola, 275 pages (e-library)
#15: Read a book with a 4th quarter month in the title
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#16: Read a book by an author who teaches writing
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#17: Read a book by an author sharing the name of a Post-War British Prime Minister or a book by or about a Post War British PM
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#18: read a book in honour of Queen Elizabeth II
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Other books for October not in TIOLI:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren, 280 pages
Wildernis (Force of Nature) - Jane Harper, 368 pages (e-library)

4FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 30, 2022, 4:29 am

Reserved for TIOLI November 2022 plans

TIOLI November 2022
#1: Read a book by one of your favorite authors
- Gebroken wit - Astrid Roemer, 342 pages
#2: Read a book where one of the author's names starts with a vowel
- Dit is geen dagboek - Erna Sassen, 165 pages (e-library 12/11)
- Het Franse testament (Le Testament Francais) - Andreï Makine, 253 pages (library 15/11)
- Ik ben weg (I'm gone) - Jean Echenoz, 190 pages (library 15/11)
- De veger (Sweep) - Jonathan Auxier, 383 pages (library)
- De zweetvoetenman - Annet Huizing, 247 pages (library 17/11)
#3: Read a book whose title is considered a "cliché"
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#4: Read a book with the word "Tradition" in the title
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#5: Read a book with Edward in the title or author's name
- Wat je moet doen als je over een nijlpaard struikelt - Edward van de Vendel, 69 pages (library)
#6: Read a book with a silhouette of a person or object on the cover
- Jij mag alles zijn - Griet Op de Beeck, 207 pages (library 17/11)
- De jongen en de hond (The Boy and the Dog) - Seishu Hase, 285 pages (library 8/11)
#7: Read a book Rolling Challenge - E L T O N & B E R N I E
- Ik ben Krik, Krik ben ik - Hanna Kraan, 163 pages (library)
- Ik geef je de zon (I'll Give You the Sun) - Jandy Nelson, 364 pages (e-library 12/11)
- Lepelsnijder - Marjolijn Hof, 294 pages (e-library 12/11)
- Morrigan Crow en het Wondergenootschap (Nevermoor) - Jessica Townsend, 383 pages (e-library)
- De uitzichtlozen (And Their Children After Them) - Nicolas Mathieu, 413 pages (library 15/11)
#8: Read a book by an author whose name has different spelling variations
- De Gorgels - Jochem Myjer, 132 pages (library 17/11)
- Polleke - Guus Kuijer, 486 pages (e-library 17/11)
#9: Read a book you've been putting off
- De god van kleine dingen (The God of Small Things) - Arundhati Roy, 337 pages
- De terroristen (The Terrorists) - Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, 391 pages (library)
#10: Read a book set in or about Malaya (Malaysia) or the Malay Archipelago
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#11: Read a book whose title is not unique (list another book that shares the title)
- Dromer - Mark Jansen, 32 pages (library)
- Koningskind - Selma Noort, 251 pages (e-library 17/11)
#12: Read a book where the title completes the phrase "I am thankful for..."
- Het ministerie van oplossingen - Sanne Rooseboom, 176 pages (e-library 12/11)
- Nederland (Holland) - Charlotte Dematons, 54 pages (library 17/11)
#13: Read a book with a title 5 words long or longer not including subtitle
- Lennox en de gouden sikkel - Zindzi Zevenbergen, 108 pages (library)
- De mensen leven niet allemaal op dezelfde manier (Not Everybody Lives the Same Way) - Jean Paul Dubois, 237 pages (library 15/11)
- Het verlangen van de prins - Marco Kunst, 239 pages (e-library)
#14: Read a book with the numbers 1 and 3, or 2 and 5 in the ISBN
- Alfabet - Charlotte Dematons, 62 pages (library 17/11)
- Alle verhalen van Kikker en Pad (Frog and Toad Quartet) - Arnold Lobel, 256 pages (library)
- Gozert - Pieter Koolwijk, 253 pages
- Hier is de boze heks - Hanna Kraan, 177 pages (library 17/11)
- Luna - Pieter Koolwijk, 246 pages (library)
#15: Read a book about voting or with the word vote in the title
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5FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:09 am

books read in January 2022
book 1: Pippi Langkous gaat aan boord (Pippi Goes on Board) by Astrid Lindgren, translated by Lisbeth Zuiderveen Borgesius-Wildschut
book 2: De onderstroom (The Offing) by Benjamin Myers, translated by Anneke Bok
book 3: Pippi Langkous in Taka-Tukaland (Pippi in the South Seas) by Astrid Lindgren, translated by Saskia Ferwerda
book 4: Het vierde offer (Borkmann's Point; Van Veeteren 2) by Håkan Nesser, translated by Clementine Luijten
book 5: De terugkeer (The Return; Van Veeteren 3) by Håkan Nesser, translated by Edith Sybesma
book 6: Drie sterke vrouwen (Three Strong Women) by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jeanne Holierhoek
book 7: De grote angst in de bergen (Terror on the Mountain) by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, translated by Rokus Hofstede
book 8: 10 minuten 38 seconden in deze vreemde wereld (10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World) by Elif Shafak, translated by Manon Smits
book 9: Sjakie en de grote glazen lift (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) by Roald Dahl, translated by Harriët Freezer
book 10: De lijst van dingen die niet zullen veranderen (The List of Things That Will Not Change) by Rebecca Stead, translated by Jenny de Jonge
book 11: Dochters van een nieuwe tijd by Carmen Korn, translated by Olga Groenewoud
book 12: Tijd om opnieuw te beginnen by Carmen Korn, translated by Olga Groenewoud
book 13: De tijden veranderen by Carmen Korn, translated by Olga Groenewoud
book 14: De lange weg naar huis (The Book of Eels) by Patrick Svensson, translated by Geri de Boer
book 15: Dankzij de dingen by Rutger Kopland
book 16: De Godden broers (The great Godden) by Meg Rosoff, translated by Jenny de Jonge
book 17: Hotel New Hampshire (The Hotel New Hampshire) by John Irving, translated by C.A.G. van den Broek
book 18: Laurier en leeuwerik (The Lark and the Laurel; Mantlemass 1) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen
book 19: De Cock en de dood van de Helende Meesters (De Cock 58) by A.C. Baantjer
book 20: De loot van de brem (The Sprig of Broom; Mantlemass 2) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen
book 21: De witte vesting (The White Castle) by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Veronica Divendal
book 22: De moeder van Nicolien by J.J. Voskuil
book 23: Avontuur Amerika by Cees Nooteboom
book 24: Teleurstellen vergt lef (Dare to Disappoint) by Özge Samanci, translated by Sigge Stegeman
book 25: De overlevenden (The Survivors) by Alex Schulman, translated by Angélique Kroon
book 26: Witte onschuld (White Innocence) by Gloria Wekker, translated by Menno Grootveld
book 27: Viersprong van de schemer (Crossroads of twilight; Wheel of Time 10) by Robert Jordan, translated by Lia Belt and Johan-Martijn Flaton
book 28: De onzichtbaren (The Unseen) by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Paula Stevens
book 29: Petersburg (Petersburg) by Andrej Bely, translated by Charles B. Timmer
book 30: De voorspelling (Pawn of Prophecy; Belgariad 1) by David Eddings, translated by Johan-Martijn Flaton
book 31: Benedenwereld (Underland: A Deep Time Journey) by Robert Macfarlane, translated by Nico Groen and Jan Willem Reitsma
book 32: Een koude wind (A Cold Wind Blowing; Mantlemass 3) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen
book 33: De oudste zoon (The Eldest Son; Mantlemass 4) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen

books read in February 2022
book 34: Ilyas by Ernest van der Kwast
book 35: Inham (Cove) by Cynan Jones, translated by Jona Hoek
book 36: De rode prins (The Red Prince) by Timothy Snyder, translated by Corrie van den Berg and Carola Kloos
book 37: Gekraakt (Come to Grief) by Dick Francis, translated by Nelleke van Maaren
book 38: De harde kern boek 1 by Frida Vogels
book 39: Mes van dromen (Knife of Dreams; Wheel of Time 11) by Robert Jordan, translated by Lia Belt
book 40: Over het doppen van bonen (A Treatise on Shelling Beans) by Wiesław Myśliwski, translated by Karol Lesman
book 41: De Sparsholt-affaire (The Sparsholt Affair) by Alan Hollinghurst, translated by Ton Heuvelmans
book 42: De rode anjer (The Red Carnation) by Elio Vittorini, translated by Emilia Menkveld
book 43: De laatste eer (The Confession of Brother Haluin; Cadfael 15) by Ellis Peters, translated by Pieter Janssens
book 44: Het rode korenveld (Red Sorghum) by Mo Yan, translated by Jan de Meyer
book 45: De jongen, de mol, de vos en het paard (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse) by Charlie Mackesy, translated by Arthur Japin
book 46: Als Beale Street kon praten (If Beale Street Could Talk) by James Baldwin, translated by Harm Damsma
book 47: Hoe ik nu leef (How I live now) by Meg Rosoff, translated by Jenny de Jonge
book 48: Selma by Carolijn Visser
book 49: De magische koningin (Queen of Sorcery; Belgariad 2) by David Eddings, translated by Johan-Martijn Flaton
book 50: Binnen de muren (Within the Walls) by Giorgio Bassani, translated by Jan van der Haar
book 51: Het woud der verwachting (In a Dark Wood Wandering) by Hella Haasse
book 52: Langs de IJssel by Kester Freriks
book 53: Maangloed (Moonglow) by Michael Chabon, translated by Gerda Baardman, Jan de Nijs and Tjadine Stheeman
book 54: De preek over de val van Rome (The Sermon on the Fall of Rome) by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Reintje Ghoos and Jan Pieter van der Sterre
book 55: Hersenschimmen (Out of Mind) by J. Bernlef
book 56: De ijzeren lelie (The Iron Lily; Mantlemass 5) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen

6FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:10 am

books read in March 2022
book 57: De gouden bril (The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles; Ferrara 2) by Giorgio Bassani, translated by Jan van der Haar
book 58: Opgewekt naar de eindstreep by Hendrik Groen
book 59: De harde kern boek 2 by Frida Vogels
book 60: De troonopvolger (Unto Us a Son Is Given; Brunetti 28) by Donna Leon, translated by Lilian Schreuder
book 61: Vijftien namen by Levie de Lange
book 62: Het uur u by Martinus Nijhoff
book 63: De naderende storm (The Gathering Storm; Wheel of Time 12) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, translated by Lia Belt
book 64: Van steen en been by Bérengère Cournut, translated by
book 65: Verduistering (Don't turn out the lights; Martin Servaz 3) by Bernard Minier, translated by Félice Portier and Aniek Njiokiktjien
book 66: De groef by Maartje Wortel
book 67: Tovenaarsgambiet (Magician's Gambit; Belgariad 3) by David Eddings, translated by Johan-Martijn Flaton
book 68: De grootsheid van het al by Raoul de Jong
book 69: Pieterpad deel II: Vorden-Maastricht by Toos Goorhuis-Tjalsma & Bertje Jens
book 70: Wat er werkelijk is by Nelleke Noordervliet
book 71: De dood van Achilles (The Death of Achilles; Fandorin 4) by Boris Akoenin, translated by Arie van der Ent
book 72: De Bommellegende by Marten Toonder
book 73: Generaal zonder leger by Özcan Akyol
book 74: De vergelder by Marten Toonder
book 75: De laatste rituelen (Burial Rites) by Hannah Kent, translated by Martine Vosmaer and Karina van Santen
book 76: Een verhaal met een angel (A sting in the tale) by Dave Goulson, translated by Nico Groen
book 77: Herfst (Autumn) by Karl Ove Knausgård, translated by Marin Mars
book 78: Misverstand in Moskou by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Jan Versteeg
book 79: Een vlucht zwanen (A Flight of Swans; Mantlemass 6) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen
book 80: Gods wegen by Marijke Schermer
book 81: Dodelijk web (Under Orders) by Dick Francis, translated by Auke Leistra
book 82: Surrogaten voor Murk Tuinstra by Simon Vestdijk
book 83: De om by Willem Jan Otten
book 84: Wedervaring by Bodo Kirchhoff, translated by Josephine Rijnaarts
book 85: Lezen als geschenk (The Gifts of Reading) by Robert Macfarlane, translated by Nico Groen
book 86: De droogte (The Dry) by Jane Harper, translated by Catalien van Paassen and Willem van Paassen
book 87: Zaaien en oogsten (Harrow and Harvest; Mantlemass 7) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen

books read in April 2022
book 88: Het einde van Mantlemass (The keys of Mantlemass; Mantlemass 8) by Barbara Willard, translated by Piet Verhagen
book 89: Luitenant-kolonel de Maumort (Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort) by Roger Martin du Gard, translated by Anneke Alderlieste
book 90: De gesloten kamer (The Locked Room; Martin Beck 8) by May Sjöwall & Per Walöö, translated by Ulla Jansz
book 91: Tot ziens daarboven (The Great Swindle) by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Liesbeth van Nes
book 92: Zeldzame aarden by Sandro Veronesi, translated by Rob Gerritsen
book 93: De kleuren van de brand (All human wisdom) by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Liesbeth van Nes
book 94: Out of Africa (Out of Africa) by Karen Blixen, translated by Ruth Wolf and Meike van Beek
book 95: De honderd dagen (One hundred days) by Joseph Roth, translated by Wilfred Oranje
book 96: Achter de deur (Behind the door; Ferrara 4) by Giorgio Bassani, translated by Tineke van Dijk
book 97: De spiegel van ons verdriet (Mirror of our sorrows) by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Andreas Dijkzeul
book 98: Vrouw of vos (Lady into Fox) by David Garnett, translated by Irwan Droog
book 99: Weigering (Refusal) by Felix Francis, translated by Waldemar Noë
book 100: De woestijn van de Tartaren (The Tartar Steppe) by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anthonie Kee
book 101: Het geluk van de wolf by Paolo Cognetti, translated by Yond Boeke and Patty Krone
book 102: De hemel is altijd paars by Sholeh Rezazadeh
book 103: Herinneringen van een engelbewaarder (A Guardian Angel Recalls) by W.F. Hermans
book 104: Soms zou ik de wind willen zijn by Franco Faggiani, translated by Saskia Peterzon-Kotte
book 105: Dit soort kleinigheden (Small Things Like These) by Claire Keegan, translated by Harm Damsma and Niek Miedema
book 106: Het lied van de Orbus (Castle of Wizardry; Belgariad 4) by David Eddings, translated by Johan-Martijn Flaton
book 107: De grutto by Albert Beintema
book 108: Witte zee (White Shadow) by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Paula Stevens
book 109: Het evangelie van O. Dapper Dapper by W.F. Hermans
book 110: De slag om Europa by Thomas Piketty, translated by Manik Sarkar
book 111: Uitnodiging voor een onthoofding (Invitation to a Beheading) by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by M. and L. Coutinho
book 112: De man die twee keer dood ging (The man who died twice) by Richard Osman, translated by Reintje Ghoos and Jan Pieter van der Sterre
book 113: IJzerkop (Ironhead) by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem
book 114: Voetsporen in de sneeuw (A Murder Of Quality; George Smiley 2) by John le Carré, translated by H. Tromp
book 115: Op de planken by Gerrit Komrij
book 116: De ombrenger by Marten Toonder
book 117: Buitenpost (Outpost) by Dan Richards, translated by Wybrand Scheffer
book 118: De God Denkbaar, Denkbaar de God by W.F. Hermans
book 119: De vader van Artenio by Frida Vogels
book 120: Huis voor de dag, huis voor de nacht (House of Day, House of Night) by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Karol Lesman
book 121: Terug tot Ina Damman by Simon Vestdijk

7FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:10 am

books read in May 2022
book 122: De vrolijke verrader: Een KGB-spion uit Rotterdam (Spies, Lies, and Exile) by Simon Kuper, translated by Liesbeth Rijnierse
book 123: De wilde stilte (The Wild Silence) by Raynor Winn, translated by Annemie de Vries and Anne-Marie Vervelde
book 124: De kauw by Achilles Cools
book 125: Kleine helden by Almudena Grandes, translated by Mia Buursma
book 126: De torens van middernacht (Towers of Midnight; Wheel of Time 13) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, translated by Lia Belt
book 127: De Titanic by Martin van Neck
book 128: De tweeling (The Twins) by Tessa de Loo
book 129: Liraël (Lirael; Old Kingdom 2) by Garth Nix, translated by Erica Feberwee
book 130: Abhorsen (Abhorsen; Old Kingdom 3) by Garth Nix, translated by Erica Feberwee
book 131: Sapiens (Sapiens) by Yuval Noah Harari, translated by Inge Pieters
book 132: Eindspel (Enchanters' End Game; Belgariad 5) by David Eddings, translated by Johan-Martijn Flaton
book 133: Fado Alexandrino (Fado Alexandrino) by António Lobo Antunes, translated by Harrie Lemmens
book 134: Voor het verdwijnt en daarna by Rutger Kopland
book 135: De reiger (The Heron; Ferrara 5) by Giorgio Bassani, translated by Tineke van Dijk
book 136: Twee vrouwen (Two women) by Harry Mulisch
book 137: Limonov (Limonov) by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by Katelijne De Vuyst and Katrien Vandenberghe
book 138: Koningin Eenoog by W.F. Hermans
book 139: Middernachtbibliotheek (The Midnight Library) by Matt Haig, translated by Monique ter Berg
book 140: De andere school (Anton Wachter 4) by Simon Vestdijk
book 141: De beker van de min (Anton Wachter 5) by Simon Vestdijk
book 142: De vliegeraar (The Kite Runner) by Khaled Hosseini, translated by Miebeth van Horn
book 143: De geur van hooi (The Smell of Hay; Ferrara 6) by Giorgio Bassani, translated by Tineke van Dijk
book 144: Inktzwart (Blackout; Dark Iceland 2) by Ragnar Jónasson, translated by Willemien Werkman
book 145: De wateraap by Mariken Heitman
book 146: Wormmaan by Mariken Heitman
book 147: Voor al uw geschenken by Jean Rouaud, translated by Marianne Kaas
book 148: Vos & ik (Fox & I) by Catherine Raven, translated by Henny Corver
book 149: Spijt! by Carry Slee
book 150: Het eiland van het tweede gezicht (The Island of Second Sight) by Albert Vigoleis Thelen, translated by Wil Boesten

books read in June 2022
book 151: Mannen die vrouwen haten (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Millennium 1) by Stieg Larsson, translated by Tineke Jorissen-Wedzinga
book 152: Anomalie (The Anomaly) by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Andreas Dijkzeul
book 153: De engel van Venetië (The Garden of Angels) by David Hewson, translated by Ans van der Graaff and David Orthel
book 154: Dubbele Lotje (Lisa and Lottie) by Erich Kästner, translated by Elly Schippers
book 155: Onder de korenmaat by Maarten 't Hart
book 156: Zomerhuis (Will and Testament) by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Neeltje Wiersma
book 157: Zalm by Lars Kvamme, translated by Angélique de Kroon
book 158: Centaur by Chris Polanen
book 159: De laatste zomer in de stad (Last Summer in the City) by Gianfranco Calligarich, translated by Els van der Pluijm
book 160: Spoedgeval (Dr Dark and Far-Too Delicious and Secrets of a Career Girl) by Carol Marinelli, translated by Jannigje Bolk and Thea de Graaf
book 161: Baron by Theun de Vries
book 162: Briefjes voor Pelle by Marlies Segers
book 163: Scheepsberichten (The Shipping News) by E. Annie Proulx, translated by Regina Willemse
book 164: De vrije vogel en zijn kooien (Anton Wachter 6) by Simon Vestdijk
book 165: De vrouw die met vuur speelde (The Girl Who Played with Fire; Millennium 2) by Stieg Larsson, translated by Tineke Jorissen-Wedzinga
book 166: Het Opritsjnik-orkest (The Set-Up) by Vladimir Volkoff, translated by Jef Geeraerts
book 167: Duister water (Trace Elements; Brunetti 29) by Donna Leon, translated by Lilian Schreuder
book 168: Het landgoed Ulloa (The House of Ulloa) by Emilia Pardo Bazán, translated by Elly de Vries-Bovée
book 169: Outlaws (Outlaws) by Javier Cercas, translated by Jos den Bekker
book 170: Bittere tijden (Harsh Times) by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Eugenie Schoolderman and Arie van der Wal
book 171: Jaguarman by Raoul de Jong
book 172: Het woeden der gehele wereld (The raging of the whole world) by Maarten 't Hart

8FAMeulstee
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books read in July 2022
book 173: De vlamberken (The Sixteen Trees of the Somme) by Lars Mytting, translated by Paula Stevens
book 174: Quo vadis? (Quo Vadis) by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by H. Pyttersen and Theo Kars
book 175: Waterjager by Chris Polanen
book 176: De vlucht uit Falaise (Escape from Falaise; Rangers Apprentice 16) by John Flanagan, translated by Wybrand Scheffer
book 177: Gerechtigheid (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; Millennium 3) by Stieg Larsson, translated by Tineke Jorissen-Wedzinga
book 178: La Superba (La Superba) by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
book 179: De politiemoordenaar (Cop Killer; Martin Beck 9) by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, translated by Froukje Hoekstra
book 180: Congo (Congo) by David Van Reybrouck
book 181: De rimpels van Esther Ornstein (Anton Wachter 7) by Simon Vestdijk
book 182: Rupsje Nooitgenoeg (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) by Eric Carle, translated by ?
book 183: De goddelijke komedie (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri, translated by Frans van Dooren
book 184: Anna, Hanna en Johanna (Hanna's Daughters) by Marianne Fredriksson, translated by Janny Middelbeek-Oortgiesen
book 185: Vertrouwelijke zaken (Blood from a Stone; Brunetti 14) by Donna Leon, translated by Renée Milders Dowden
book 186: De kunst van het oorlogvoeren (The Art of War) by Sun Tzu, translated by Anders Pieterse
book 187: Vlucht (Migrations) by Charlotte McConaghy, translated by Erik de Vries
book 188: Leven en wandel van Zorbás de Griek (Zorba the Greek) by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Hero Hokwerda
book 189: Het ijzig hart (The Frozen Heart) by Almudena Grandes, translated by Mia Buursma and Ans van Kersbergen
book 190: De tuinen van Dorr (The Gardens of Dorr) by Paul Biegel
book 191: De harde kern 3 by Frida Vogels
book 192: De vrouw met de moedervlek (Woman with Birthmark; Van Veeteren 4) by Håkan Nesser, translated by Clementine Luijten
book 193: De tunnel by Anna Woltz, 231 pages
book 194: Bijzondere opdrachten (Special Assignments; Erast Fandorin 5) by Boris Akoenin, translated by Arie van der Ent
book 195: Ogen van de Rigel (Eyes of the Rigel) by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Paula Stevens
book 196: De reparatie van de wereld by Slobodan Šnajder, translated by Roel Schuyt
book 197: Requiem voor een vriend by J.J. Voskuil

books read in August 2022
book 198: 365 dagen Nederlander by Naeeda Aurangzeb
book 199: De laatste kans (Anton Wachtercyclus 8) by Simon Vestdijk
book 200: Max en de Maximonsters (Where the Wild Things Are) by Maurice Sendak, translated by L.M. Niskos
book 201: De goddelijke komedie (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri, translated by Ike Cialona and Peter Verstegen
book 202: De Kapellekensbaan (Chapel Road) by Louis Paul Boon
book 203: De kathedraal van de zee (Cathedral of the Sea) by Ildefonso Falcones, translated by Marleen Eijgenraam
book 204: De weg naar Oxiana (The Road to Oxiana) by Robert Byron, translated by Tinke Davids
book 205: De vijand van mijn vader by Almudena Grandes, translated by Mia Buursma
book 206: Waar ik nu ben (Whereabouts) by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Manon Smits
book 207: Flush (Flush) by Virginia Woolf, translated by Gerardine Franken
book 208: Het licht van weleer (A Memory of Light; Wheel of Time 14) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, translated by Lia Belt
book 209: Het vertrek van de mier by Toon Tellegen
book 210: Staatsraad (The State Counsellor; Erast Fandorin 6) by Boris Akoenin, translated by Arie van der Ent
book 211: Een revolverschot by Virginie Loveling
book 212: Na de Amazone by Redmond O'Hanlon, translated by Tinke Davids
book 213: De vallei der verschrikking (The Valley of Fear) by Arthur Conan Doyle, translated by ?
book 214: De hond van de Baskervilles (The Hound of The Baskervilles) by Arthur Conan Doyle, translated by ?
book 215: De krokodillen van Yamoussoukro (The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro) by V.S. Naipaul, translated by Tinke Davids
book 216: De plantenjager uit Leningrad by Louise O. Fresco
book 217: Tortilla Flat (Tortilla Flat) by John Steinbeck, translated by Apie Prins
book 218: Gloed (Embers) by Sándor Márai, translated by Mari Alföldy
book 219: Een geschiedenis van de wereld in 10½ hoofdstuk (A History of the World in 10½ Chapters) by Julian Barnes, translated by Else Hoog
book 220: Het purperen land (So Big) by Edna Ferber, translated by Lisette Graswinckel
book 221: Kafka op het strand (Kafka on the Shore) by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jacques Westerhoven
book 222: Poolnacht (Rupture; Dark Iceland 3) by Ragnar Jónasson, translated by Willemien Werkman
book 223: De zevende functie van taal (The Seventh Function of Language) by Laurent Binet, translated by Liesbeth van Nes
book 224: De witte tijger (The White Tiger) by Aravind Adiga, translated by Arjaan van Nimwegen
book 225: Kruisende lijnen (Quicksand) by Junichirô Tanizaki, translated by Jacques Westerhoven
book 226: 1795 by Niklas Natt och Dag, translated by Lammie Post-Oostenbrink

9FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:11 am

books read in September 2022
book 227: Geteld, geteld (They Were Counted) by Miklós Bánffy, translated by Rebekka Hermán Mostert
book 228: Te licht bevonden (They Were Found Wanting) by Miklós Bánffy, translated by Rebekka Hermán Mostert
book 229: De man zonder eigenschappen: deel 1 by Robert Musil, translated by Ingeborg Lesener
book 230: Waarom schurken pech hebben en helden geluk by Jurriën Hamer
book 231: De man zonder eigenschappen: deel 2 by Robert Musil, translated by Ingeborg Lesener
book 232: Charlotte (Charlotte) by David Foenkinos, translated by Marianne Kaas
book 233: Zondagen in augustus (Sundays in August) by Patrick Modiano, translated by Edu Borger
book 234: De man zonder eigenschappen - deel 3 by Robert Musil, translated by Ingeborg Lesener
book 235: Nachtronde (The Night Watch) by Patrick Modiano, translated by Edu Borger
book 236: Daar op het plein is niemand by Dolores Prato, translated by Jan van der Haar
book 237: De ringboulevards (Ring Roads) by Patrick Modiano, translated by Edu Borger
book 238: De man zonder eigenschappen - deel 4 by Robert Musil, translated by Hans Hom
book 239: De drie bruiloften van Manolita by Almudena Grandes, translated by Mia Buursma and Rikkie Degenaar
book 240: De avant-gardisten by Sjeng Scheijen
book 241: Het teken van de vier (The Sign of Four; Sherlock Holmes 4) by Arthur Conan Doyle, translator unknown
book 242: Ademschommel (The Hunger Angel) by Herta Müller, translated by Ria van Hengel
book 243: Mungo (Young Mungo) by Douglas Stuart, translated by Kitty Pouwels and Josephine Ruitenberg
book 244: Nek aan nek (Dead heat) by Dick & Felix Francis, translated by Pon Ruiter
book 245: Verloren illusies (Lost Illusions) by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Jan Versteeg
book 246: De meester van het Go-spel (The Master of Go) by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Annemarie van Frankenhuysen

10FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:11 am

Reading plans in 2022
Reading books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list
Read some big tomes (1000+ pages)
Read books by Nobel Prize for Literature winners

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

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Some big tomes I might read in 2022:
Ideeën (1-7) by Multatuli, 3846 pages
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin, 2160 pages
✔Man zonder eigenschappen (The man without qualities) by Robert Musil, 1785 pages
De razende Roeland (Orlando furioso) by Ludovico Ariosto, 1783 pages
De kracht van Atlantis (Atlas shrugged) by Ayn Rand, 1373 pages
✔ Luitenant-kolonel de Maumort (Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort) by Roger Martin du Gard, 1077 pages
De vertellingen van duizend-en-één-nacht deel 3 translated by Richard van Leeuwen, 1047 pages
Baron by Theun de Vries, 1016 pages

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Some other books I want to read in 2022:
✔ De goddelijke komedie (The Divine Comedy) - Dante Alighieri, 599 pages
✔ Binnen de muren (Within the Walls) - Giorgio Bassani, 207 pages
✔ Petersburg (Petersburg) - Andrei Bely, 429 pages
Anatomie van een moment (The Anatomy of a Moment) - Javier Cercas, 539 pages
Jean-Paul Sartre : zijn biografie (Sartre: A Life) - Annie Cohen-Solal, 610 pages
✔ Het ijzig hart (The Frozen Heart) - Almudena Grandes, 854 pages
✔ Sapiens : Een kleine geschiedenis van de mensheid (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind) - Yuval Noah Harari, 461 pages
Duitse les (The German Lesson) - Siegfried Lenz, 511 pages
Een beloofd land (A promised land) - Barack Obama, 896 pages
✔ Het eiland van het tweede gezicht (The Island of Second Sight) - Albert Vigoleis Thelen, 994 pages
Aarde der mensen (This Earth of Mankind) - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 457 pages
✔ De wilde stilte (The wild silence) - Raynor Winn, 318 pages

11FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:12 am

Tickers

2022 totals





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Totals since 2008:




12FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:12 am

Monthly statistics
January: 33 books / 9.366 pages
February: 23 books / 7.869 pages
March: 31 books / 7.429 pages
April: 34 books / 9.531 pages
May: 29 books / 9.276 pages
June: 22 books / 7.901 pages
July: 25 books / 9.331 pages
August: 29 books / 9.723 pages
September: 20 books / 8.186 pages

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Previous threads in 2021
book 1 - 28: thread 1
book 29 - 56: thread 2
book 57 - 87 : thread 3
book 88 - 121 : thread 4
book 122 - 150 : thread 5
book 151 - 172 : thread 6
book 173 - 197 : thread 7
book 198 - 226 : thread 8
book 227 - 246 : thread 9

13FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:13 am

The new "Charts and Graphs" is fun to use, my readings since 2008:


My reading in previous years in text
2008: 130 books -   35.152 pages   (96,0 ppd)
2009:   78 books -   21.470 pages   (58,8 ppd)
2010: 121 books -   38.209 pages (104,7 ppd)
2011:   84 books -   30.256 pages   (82,9 ppd)
2012:   53 books -   18.779 pages   (51,3 ppd)
2013:   13 books -     3.692 pages   (10,1 ppd)
2014:   17 books -     3.700 pages   (10,1 ppd)
2015:   29 books -   10.080 pages   (27,6 ppd)
2016: 253 books -   72.391 pages (197,8 ppd)
2017: 453 books - 110.222 pages (302,0 ppd)
2018: 534 books - 111.906 pages (306,6 ppd)
2019: 413 books - 110.873 pages (303,8 ppd)
2020: 226 books -   79.216 pages (216,4 ppd)
2021: 288 books -   94.339 pages (258,5 ppd)

15FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2022, 10:47 am

Series I read, a list to keep track

Alan Banks by Peter Robinson (re-read 4/20)
1 Stille blik; 2 Nachtlicht; 3 Tegenstroom; 4 Zondeval; 5 Schijnbeeld; 6 Woensdagkind; 7 Zwanenzang; 8 Innocent Graves (not translated); 9 Dead Right (not translated); 10 Verdronken verleden; 11 Kil als het graf; 12 Nasleep; 13 Onvoltooide zomer; 14 Vuurspel; 15 Drijfzand; 16 Hartzeer; 17 Duivelsgebroed; 18 Overmacht; 19 Uitschot; 20 Dwaalspoor; 21 Dankbare dood; 22 Slachthuisblues

Anton Wachtercyclus by Simon Vestdijk 8/8
1 Sint Sebastiaan; 2 Surrogaten voor Murk Tuinstra; 3 Terug tot Ina Damman; 4 De andere school; 5 De beker van de min; 6 De vrije vogel en zijn kooien; 7 De rimpels van Esther Ornstein; 8 De laatste kans

Ari Thór Arason (Dark Iceland) by Ragnar Jónasson 3/4
1 Sneeuwblind; 2 Inktzwart; 3 Poolnacht; 4 Ademloos

Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc 0/6
1 Arsène Lupin, gentleman inbreker; 2 Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes; 3: De holle naald; 4 Het dubbelleven van Arsène Lupin; 5 De drie misdaden van Arsène Lupin; 6 De kristallen stop

The Belgariad by David Eddings 5/5
1 De voorspelling; 2 De magische koningin; 3 Tovenaarsgambiet; 4 Het lied van de Orbus; 5 Eindspel

Bernie Gunther by Philip Kerr 7/12
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; 13 Vergeven en vergeten; 14 Metropolis

Broeder Cadfael by Ellis Peters 17/20
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 58/71

Erast Fandorin by Boris Akoenin 6/7
1 Fandorin; 2 Turks gambiet; 3 Leviathan; 4 De dood van Achilles; 5 Bijzondere opdrachten; 6 Staatsraad; 7 De kroning

Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani 6/6
1 Binnen de muren; 2 De gouden bril; 3 De tuin van de Finzi-Contini's; 4 Achter de deur; 5 De reiger; 6 De geur van hooi

George Smiley by John Le Carré 5/9
1 Telefoon voor de dode; 2 Voetsporen in de sneeuw; 3 Spion aan de muur; 4 Spion verspeeld; 5 Edelman, bedelman, schutter, spion; 6 Spion van nobel bloed; 7 Smiley's prooi; 8 De laatste spion; 9 Een erfenis van spionnen

Guido Brunetti by Donna Leon 29/30
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; 26 Wat niet verdwijnt; 27 Vergiffenis; 28 De troonopvolger; 29 Duister water; 30 Vluchtig verlangen

John Rebus by Ian Rankin 3/18
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;

Konráð by Arnaldur Indridason 3/3
1 Smeltend ijs; 2 Boven water; 3 Smeulend vuur; 4 Vallende stenen (Þagnarmúr)

Konrad Sejer by Karin Fossum 5/14
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 Veenbrand; 12 De fluisteraar; 13 De verduistering; 14 Zwanenzang

Martin Beck by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö 9/10
1 De vrouw in het Götakanaal; 2 De man die in rook opging; 3 De man op het balkon; 4 De lachende politieman; 5 De brandweerauto die verdween; 6 De man die even wilde afrekenen; 7 De verschrikkelijke man uit Säffle; 8 De gesloten kamer; 9 De politiemoordenaar; 10 De terroristen

Martin Servaz by Bernard Minier 3/7
1 Een kille rilling; 2 Huivering; 3 Verduistering; 4 Schemering; 5 Weerzin; 6 Afdaling; 7 Afrekening

Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 4/8
1 Een studie in rood; 2 De vallei der verschrikking; 3 De hond van de Baskervilles; 4 Het teken van de vier; 5 Het laatste probleem; 6 Het avontuur van de duivelsklauw; 7 Zijn laatste buiging; 8 De onbekende avonturen van Sherlock Holmes

Het rad des tijds (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson) 15/15
0 Een nieuw begin; 1 Het oog van de wereld; 2 De grote jacht; 3 De herrezen draak; 4 De komst van de schaduw; 5 Vuur uit de hemel; 6 Heer van chaos; 7 Een kroon van zwaarden; 8 Het pad der dolken; 9 Hart van de Winter; 10 Viersprong van de schemer; 11 Mes van Dromen; 12 De naderende storm; 13 De torens van middernacht; 14 Het licht van weleer

De Rougons-Macquarts (The Rougon-Macquarts) by Émile Zola 2/20
1 Het fortuin der Rougons; 2 De buit; 3 De buik van Parijs; 4 De verovering van Plassans; 5 De misstap van pastoor Mouret; 6 Zijne excellentie Eugène Rougon; 7 De nekslag; 8 Liefde; 9 Nana; 10 In troebel water; 11 In het paradijs voor de vrouw; 12 Levensvreugde; 13 De mijn; 14 Het werk; 15 Het land; 16 De droom; 17 Het beest in de mens; 18 Het geld; 19 De ondergang; 20 Dokter Pascal

De tandeloze tijd by A.F.Th. van der Heijden 0/11
0 De slag om de Blauwbrug; 1 Vallende ouders; 2 De gevarendriehoek; 2.1 Weerborstels; 3.1 Het hof van barmhartigheid; 3.2 Onder het plaveisel het moeras; 3.4 Doodverf; 4 Advocaat van de hanen; 5 De helleveeg; 6 Kwaadschiks; 8 Stemvorken

Van Veeteren by Håkan Nesser 4/11
1 Het grofmazige net; 2 Het vierde offer; 3 De terugkeer; 4 De vrouw met de moedervlek; 5 De commissaris en het zwijgen; 6 De zaak van Münster; 7 Carambole; 8 De dode op het strand; 9 De zwaluw, de kat, de roos en de dood; 10 Van Veeteren en de zaak-G; 11 De vereniging van linkshandigen

16FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 15, 2022, 2:23 pm

Books acquired in 2022: 28

January
Verdriet is het ding met veren - Max Porter
Morgen - Walter Kappacher
De droom van de rode kamer - Cao Xueqin (e-book)
Lezen als geschenk - Robert Macfarlane (e-book)

February
De wand - Marlen Haushofer
Terug naar Reims - Didier Eribon
De Sparsholt-affaire - Alan Hollinghurst
Kind van een vreemde - Alan Hollinghurst

April
Voetsporen in de sneeuw - John Le Carré
Edelman, bedelman, schutter, spion - John Le Carré
De laatste spion - John Le Carré
Monterosso mon amour - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Veranderen: methode - Édouard Louis

Juni
Zuid-zuid-west - Albert Helman
Doctor Vlimmen - A. Roothaert
Vlimmen contra Vlimmen - A. Roothaert
Vlimmens tweede jeugd - A. Roothaert
Het eiland van het tweede gezicht - Albert Vigoleis Thelen
Mefisto - Klaus Mann
Hebben en zijn - Dimitri Verhulst
Onder de Drachenwand - Arno Geiger
Zonnegloren - Matthijs van Nieuwkerk
Biljarten om half tien - Heinrich Böll

July
Jaguarman - Raoul de Jong

August
Lijfrente - Vrouwkje Tuinman
De vijand van mijn vader by Almudena Grandes

September
Ademschommel - Herta Müller

October
Het ritsloze nummer - Erica Jong
Regeneration : De klimaatcrisis opgelost in één generatie - Paul Hawken

17FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:14 am

Welcome!

18Berly
Bewerkt: okt 2, 2022, 2:14 am

Hello there! Happy new thread!

>13 FAMeulstee: I can't believe how many books you read in a year. Wow.

19FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:18 am

>17 FAMeulstee: You are fast, Kim, welcome to my new thread!
Thanks, it helps a lot to have no kids and no work to distract me from reading ;-)

20quondame
okt 2, 2022, 2:19 am

Happy new thread Anita!

>1 FAMeulstee: Lovely. I remember an SF story where newly discovered dahlia varieties saved humanity.

21FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:22 am

>20 quondame: Thank you, Susan.

I like the idea, but can't imagine how dahlia's could do that.

22PaulCranswick
okt 2, 2022, 2:23 am

I am in great company this weekend with some of my besties Kimmers, RD, you, Susan and Jeff all making new threads.

Happy new one, Anita. xx

23FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 2:29 am

>22 PaulCranswick: Indeed, Paul, the start of the month is a good time to start a new thread.

24SirThomas
okt 2, 2022, 5:19 am

Happy new thread Anita!
>20 quondame: Interesting topic - do you know the title of the book?

25FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 5:55 am

>24 SirThomas: Thank you, Thomas!

>24 SirThomas: >20 quondame: I would also like to know that, Susan.

26figsfromthistle
okt 2, 2022, 7:42 am

Happy new thread!

>1 FAMeulstee: I love the dahlia's. I still have to plant a few at my place.

27charl08
okt 2, 2022, 7:49 am

Happy new thread. The dahlias are beautiful. Only one book acquired in September: impressive!

28msf59
okt 2, 2022, 8:46 am

Happy Sunday, Anita. Happy New Thread! Lovely toppers.

29FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 8:56 am

>26 figsfromthistle: Thank you, Anita!
I used to have some, but forgot to take the bulbs inside one winter...

>25 FAMeulstee: Thank you, Charlotte.
Second month to achieve so, and none in March! The first October book came yesterday, when we walked along a free little library. Stopped to see what was inside, and only took one book ;-)

30BLBera
okt 2, 2022, 9:42 am

Happy new thread, Anita. What beautiful photos you have at the top!

31jessibud2
okt 2, 2022, 10:59 am

Happy new thread, Anita. I also love dahlias. Beautiful toppers!

32drneutron
okt 2, 2022, 11:47 am

Happy new thread, Anita!

33AMQS
okt 2, 2022, 11:53 am

Happy new thread, Anita! Those dahlias are just stunning! What's the weather like where you are this time of year?

34ArlieS
okt 2, 2022, 12:05 pm

Happy new thread, Anita.

35FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 1:23 pm

>32 drneutron: Thank you, Jim!

>33 AMQS: Thank you, Anne.
We should have max. day temperatures between 10 and 14°C in October, with a fair lot of rain, but this year it is on the warm side, and still rather dry. It looks like we will hit 20°C later this week.

>34 ArlieS: Thank you, Arlie.

36FAMeulstee
okt 2, 2022, 1:25 pm

Read, not yet reviewed:
#247: De ruwe weg (Lean on Pete) by Willy Vlautin

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Babbitt (Babbitt) by Sinclair Lewis
Aan de voet van de gletsjer (Under the Glacier) by Halldór Laxness

37curioussquared
okt 2, 2022, 2:01 pm

Happy new thread, Anita!

38RebaRelishesReading
okt 2, 2022, 5:16 pm

Happy new thread, Anita. I'm always stunned by how much you read!

39quondame
okt 2, 2022, 5:33 pm

>24 SirThomas: >25 FAMeulstee: Alas, the name of the book has slipped my mind, like so much else. What I remember is varieties were discovered/created in the Andes (maybe?) with edible roots and made people behave better as well. Possibly they even ate pollution. I only read the book once, probably in the 70s or earlier. Maybe as much as a decade later.

40banjo123
okt 2, 2022, 6:00 pm

happy new thread!!

41bell7
okt 2, 2022, 6:13 pm

Happy new thread, Anita!

42FAMeulstee
okt 3, 2022, 3:15 am

>37 curioussquared: Thank you, Natalie!

>38 RebaRelishesReading: Thank you, Reba. So am I :-)

43FAMeulstee
okt 3, 2022, 3:18 am

>39 quondame: Thanks for trying, Susan. Dahlia's were originally grown to eat the roots, and originate in South-America, so that is a plausable plot.

>40 banjo123: Thank you, Rhonda!

>41 bell7: Thank you, Mary!

44SirThomas
okt 3, 2022, 3:57 am

>39 quondame: Thank you Susan - it may be a topic for the name that book group?

45FAMeulstee
okt 3, 2022, 10:33 am

Read, not yet reviewed:
#247: De ruwe weg (Lean on Pete) by Willy Vlautin
#248: Reinhold Messner: Das Leben eines Extrembergsteigers by Michele Petrucci
#249: Babbitt (Babbitt) by Sinclair Lewis

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Aan de voet van de gletsjer (Under the Glacier) by Halldór Laxness
Zonder titel by Erna Sassen

46RebaRelishesReading
okt 3, 2022, 12:40 pm

>45 FAMeulstee: I read a lot of Sinclair Lewis when I was in school and soon thereafter. He was a favorite of mine. I should put him on my list again.

47hredwards
okt 3, 2022, 1:50 pm

Happy New One!!!

48quondame
okt 3, 2022, 5:17 pm

>43 FAMeulstee: >44 SirThomas: I thought of that, but not very long or seriously.

49FAMeulstee
okt 3, 2022, 5:40 pm

>47 hredwards: Thank you, Harold!

>48 quondame: Neither did I, Susan, I don't expect there is a Dutch translation ;-)

50Whisper1
okt 3, 2022, 11:47 pm

Anita, congratulations on reading so many books thus far this year. You are amazing!

51WhiteRaven.17
okt 4, 2022, 3:14 am

Happy New Thread Anita! :)

52FAMeulstee
okt 4, 2022, 6:29 am

>50 Whisper1: Thank you, Linda. So are you!

>51 WhiteRaven.17: Thank you, Kro!

53EllaTim
okt 4, 2022, 12:05 pm

Happy new thread, Anita!

>1 FAMeulstee: Lovely pictures! So colourful.

I don’t have any dahlia’s in my allotment garden, as the snails love them. They seem to know about those edible roots. But my neighbour does manage to grow them each year, so maybe try again?

54johnsimpson
okt 4, 2022, 4:24 pm

Hi Anita my dear, Happy New Thread dear friend.

55FAMeulstee
okt 5, 2022, 2:42 am

>53 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella.
You could plant dahlia's for the snails ;-)
Can you ask your neigbour how he keeps them, maybe some varieties are less attractive to snails.

>54 johnsimpson: Thank you, dear John.

56scaifea
okt 5, 2022, 4:32 pm

Hi, Anita! Happy new thread!

57FAMeulstee
okt 5, 2022, 5:53 pm

>56 scaifea: Thank you, Amber!

58FAMeulstee
okt 5, 2022, 5:57 pm

Read, not yet reviewed:
#247: De ruwe weg (Lean on Pete) by Willy Vlautin
#248: Reinhold Messner: Das Leben eines Extrembergsteigers by Michele Petrucci
#249: Babbitt (Babbitt) by Sinclair Lewis
#250: Zonder titel by Erna Sassen
#251: Aan de voet van de gletsjer (Under the Glacier) by Halldór Laxness
#252: De kinderkaravaan (Children on the Oregon Trail) An Rutgers van der Loeff

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Het fortuin van de Rougons (The Fortune of the Rougons) by Émile Zola
Films die nergens draaien by Yorick Goldewijk

--

I know, it is time for writing reviews.
Tomorrow we are away, going to the modern art museum in Arnhem, so the reviews have to wait at least until Friday.

59FAMeulstee
okt 5, 2022, 6:16 pm

Wordled two days in a row with only white and green:

Wordle 473 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 peony, mirth, march, marsh

Wordle 474 4/6

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 peony, mirth, cloth, sloth

60humouress
okt 6, 2022, 7:43 am

Happy new thread Anita!

>1 FAMeulstee: Nice flowers.

61The_Hibernator
okt 6, 2022, 8:57 pm

Beautiful flowers, Anita!

62FAMeulstee
okt 7, 2022, 3:51 am

>60 humouress: Thank you, Nina!

>61 The_Hibernator: Thank you, Rachel!

63FAMeulstee
okt 7, 2022, 3:58 am

So happy when I heard Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize!
I loved The Years, and have read two other books by her.

It looks like they do try to alternate between male and female writers now.

64FAMeulstee
okt 7, 2022, 4:21 am


book 247: De ruwe weg by Willy Vlautin
library, translated by Rob van Erkelens, original title Lean on Pete, 271 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Fifteen year old Charlie lives with his father, as his mother left long ago. They recently moved to Portland, where Charlie finds a job at the race track. When his father dies, he takes Lean on Pete, his favorite horse, and runs off, to find his aunt in Wyoming.

Good story, very well written. I had some trouble with the way the horses were treated. I know this happens, but to me it is hard to read. Half a star less, because of it.

Dutch title translated: The rough road

65FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 7, 2022, 4:30 am


book 248: Reinhold Messner: Das Leben eines Extrembergsteigers by Michele Petrucci
own, translated from Italian into German by Anja Kootz, no English translation, 88 pages
TIOLI Challenge #7: Read a book in a language that is not your mother tongue

Graphic novel in German about the life of Reinhold Messner, the famous mountaineer from Italy.
He was the first to get to the top of all 14 mountains above 8,000 meter without oxygen.

I got this book from Nathalie (Deern), when we visied her back in 2018. My German is still good enough to read this, I only had to look up a few words.

German title translated: Reinhold Messner : The life of an extreme mountaineer

66FAMeulstee
okt 7, 2022, 4:49 am


book 249: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
1001 books, library, e-book, Nobel Prize, translated by Paul Bruijn, original title Babbitt, 387 pages
TIOLI Challenge #1: Read a book whose title words only start with the letters A, B, C, X, Y and/or Z

Set in the 1920s. George F. Babbitt lives in Zenith, a fictional, fast growng town. A wife, two kids, and a good job owning a real estate agency. Living the good life, as a well respected member of the comunity. But middle age creeps up upon him, and Babbitt wants more from life. He goes through what we call a midlife crisis now. He is on the loose for a short time, but eventually turns back to 'normal life'.

Published exactly 100 years ago Still very recognisable, not likable.

Dutch and English title are the same

67FAMeulstee
okt 7, 2022, 5:00 am


book 250: Zonder titel by Erna Sassen
library, e-book, YA, Nienke van Hichtum prize 2021, no English translation, 253 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Joshua just went to a new school. His parents are divorced, and his best friend, Zivan, went back to Irak to be married off. He doesn't go along with the boys in his class, all he can do to cope is drawing pictures. But everyone has his own story, and the boys are nicer than he thought at first. Slowly he comes to terms with the loss of Zivan.

Winner of the Dutch Nienke van Hichtum prize, a biennal prize for a childrens or YA book, in 2021.
Beautifully illustrated by Martijn van der Linden, who makes the drawings of Joshua come to life.

Title translated: Without title

68FAMeulstee
okt 7, 2022, 5:16 am


book 251: Aan de voet van de gletsjer by Halldór Laxness
library, translated from Icelandic by Marcel Otten, Nobel Prize winner, English translation Under the Glacier, 222 pages
TIOLI Challenge #3: Read a book for the Grady Girls rolling challenge

An unnamed narrator is send to a remote part of Iceland by the bisshop of Iceland. He has to investigate what is going on with pastor John Primus and his congregation, as strange tales are told about them. The bisshop wants facts, so the narrator takes a tape recorder with him to Snæfellsjökull.
He finds lots of strange things, the church is boarded up, there are no services on Sundays, etc. But everyone talks around his questions, or has other perfectly unclear answers. The pastor is busy as horse smith, and might be married, although his wife is missing. Folk tales come alive, life is very strange in Snæfellsjökull.

I have read Laxness before, and liked both The Happy Warriors and Independent People. I could not make much of this satire on religion, I liked some parts of it. In the end it left me confused and unsatisfied.

Dutch title translated: At the foot of the glacier

69FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 7, 2022, 5:49 am


book 252: De kinderkaravaan by An Rutgers van der Loeff
1001 Children's books, library, e-book, Dutch, English translation Children on the Oregon Trail, 183 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Based on real events, the writer had read an article about the Sager family, and wrote a fictional story.
The Sager family, Henry and Naomi Sager with their children, took part in the great westward migration along the Oregon Trail. On the way their 7th child was born, but shortly after bith parents died. One of the last things Henry said to his oldes son, John, was that the baby should be baptised by Marcus Whitman in what is now Washington State. So John took it upon him to continue their journey, and took care of all his siblings.

An adventurous story, the children have a hard time in the wilderness. They almost die of hunger twice, before reaching Marcus Whitman.

I used to own this book, and have read it more than once in my youth. Recently it appeared on a best list of children's and YA books (De Grote Vriendelijke 100), and now I want all 100 books marked as "read" in my LT library. Only 35 left to go.
Also listed in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up.

Dutch title translated: The childrencaravan

70richardderus
okt 7, 2022, 10:00 am

Hi Anita, I didn't realize you'd moved house. Anyway, I'm here now. *smooch*

71FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 7, 2022, 12:56 pm

>70 richardderus: Doesn't matter, Richard dear, al that matters is that you have found your way here :-)

*smooch*

72PaulCranswick
okt 8, 2022, 2:02 am

Zipping along at close to warp speed over here in terms of reading at least, Anita.

I am going to read A Girl's Story this weekend, as Mme Ernaux has won the prize.

>63 FAMeulstee: The Nobel Prize is becoming more inclusive. Of the first 100 recipients only 9 were women. Of the last 19, 8 were ladies. Of the last 5, 3.

73FAMeulstee
okt 8, 2022, 2:35 am

>72 PaulCranswick: Thank you, Paul, I am pleased with my readings so far this year.
I hope you will enjoy A Girl's Story.
Agreed, in this century the Nobel Prize has become more inclusive. I hope they will coninue this way.

74FAMeulstee
okt 8, 2022, 6:36 am

Read, not yet reviewed:
#253: Films die nergens draaien by Yorick Goldewijk
#254: Avonturen van de dappere ridster by Janneke Schotveld
#255: Het fortuin van de Rougons (The Fortune of the Rougons) by Émile Zola

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Uiteengescheurd (They Were Divided) by Miklós Bánffy
De meisjes : zeven sprookjes by Annet Schaap

75scaifea
okt 8, 2022, 12:31 pm

>68 FAMeulstee: Aw, that's too bad that it turned out more confusing than interesting - your description makes it sound like it could have been really good!

76FAMeulstee
okt 8, 2022, 1:47 pm

>75 scaifea: That was what I hoped for, Amber.
Susan Sonntag said in the afterword that this one was very different from his other works.

77EllaTim
okt 11, 2022, 3:19 pm

>69 FAMeulstee: De grote vriendelijke 100! Wat fun, I looked them up, some I’ve certainly read, others I don’t know for sure. Like De Kinderkaravaan.
But it’s a good list to read some more from.

78FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 11, 2022, 4:25 pm

>77 EllaTim: I love to read from lists, Ella, so I couldn't resist De Grote Vriendelijke 100.

ETA: And on Hebban you can keep track of what you have read from this list, of course I do. It is an extra push to finish them all :-)

79FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 12, 2022, 3:30 am

Read, not yet reviewed:
#253: Films die nergens draaien by Yorick Goldewijk
#254: Avonturen van de dappere ridster by Janneke Schotveld
#255: Het fortuin van de Rougons (The Fortune of the Rougons) by Émile Zola
#256: De meisjes : zeven sprookjes by Annet Schaap
#257: Buit maken (The Kill) by Émile Zola
#258: Uiteengescheurd (They Were Divided) by Miklós Bánffy
#259: Honger (Hunger) by Knut Hamsun

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) by Olga Tokarczuk
De sympathisant (The Sympathizer) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

80EllaTim
okt 11, 2022, 4:51 pm

>78 FAMeulstee: Good tip Anita! It is nice to be able to keep track. I have registered with them sometime ago, just have to look it up. Off to browse my PC.

81FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 12, 2022, 4:10 am

>80 EllaTim: I hope you found it, Ella, it is hidden at the right on the Challenge page under "Meer challenges".

82FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 4:44 am


book 253: Films die nergens draaien by Yorick Goldewijk
library, e-book, Dutch, Gouden Griffel 2022, no translations, 246 pages
TIOLI Challenge #9: Read a book with a fall color (Red, Orange, Yellow, Brown) predominate on the cover or with one of the color names in the title or author name

Cato's mother died when she was born. Her father is living in his own mind. Cato only comfort comes from her pet rabbit. One day she finds a business card on the piano in the living room. Her father doesn't answer when she asks. She is curious about it, and it turns out the address is of an abandoned movie theatre. There she meets Mrs. Kano, who gives her a job at the theatre. It is an odd movie theatre, whith movies that can't be seen anywhere else. Cato notices there is only one visitor each time, and that the movies have something to do with memories. Mrs. Kano doesn't answer her questions, so Cato goes to find out herself, and gets into an adventure that will change her life.

Winner of the Gouden Griffel (Golden Pencil) this year, and in De Grote Vriendelijke 100.

Title translated: Movies that nowhere turn (literally) / Movies not shown anywhere
When a movie is shown in a theatre, we say the movie turns there, referring to the turning of the celluloid on the projector. In the same way making a movie is also referred this way. I can't find a similair English saying.

83FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 12, 2022, 12:27 pm


book 254: Avonturen van de dappere ridster by Janneke Schotveld
library, e-book, children's, Dutch, no translations, 87 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Fairytale like stories, set in present time, with the brave knightess (female knight) as main character.
She rides on her bike through the city to help people in need. She can communicate with animals, so sometimes she gets help from them. Each story ends, with some variations, with "Toen steeg de ridster op haar fiets en ging op pad, want een ridster heeft altijd wat te doen." (Then the knightess mounted her bike and went on, als a knightess has always things to do.)

Fun read, with nice illustrations by Milja Praagman.

Title translated: The adventures of the brave knightess

84FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 5:07 am


book 255: Het fortuin van de Rougons by Émile Zola
library, translated from French by Martine Delfos, English translation The Fortune of the Rougons, 275 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Read a book tagged "historical" or "historical fiction"

First book of Les Rougon-Macquart where the family members are introduced, at the time Napoleon III took power (1851).
The series follow the descentents of Adélaïde Fouque. Pierre Rougon is her only legitimate child. Ursula and Antoine Macquard have an other father.

Two years ago a Dutch publisher started the series in a new translation. The first three books were published in 2020, and then nothing. I feared this woul be it, but it looks like book 4 will come this fall. Except Germinal (that I own), most books are hard to find, so I do hope the translator an publisher keep up their good work.

English and Dutch title are the same.

85WhiteRaven.17
okt 12, 2022, 5:13 am

>82 FAMeulstee: A little disappointed this is an untranslated book as it sounds quite intriguing. Also, an interesting note on the English translation and reference to a movie 'turning' instead of 'playing' in a theatre. Makes sense, but I would have never thought to put it that way.

86FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 5:43 am


book 256: De meisjes : zeven sprookjes by Annet Schaap
library, e-book, YA, Dutch, no translations, 251 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Seven rewritten fairytales, now the girls take the stage.
Rumpelstiltskin is now R.U.M. Pelstiltskin. Little Red Riding Hood watches the wolf in the last little nature preserve. Hansel and Gretel get lost in the city. The Frog Prince will always be a frog. Bluebeard hasn't changed much. The Sleeping Beauty dies, but has a sister. In The Beauty and the Beast the girl is the beast. Sometimes it took a while before I recognised wich fairytale it was based on.

Title translated: The girls, seven fairytales

87FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 12, 2022, 5:59 am

>85 WhiteRaven.17: It was published last year, Kro, so a bit early for a translation. It won a major Dutch YA/children's book award, so it might be translated in time.
Somehow the 'turning' of a movie lasted as saying in Dutch. I hadn't thought of it as special, until I coudn't find a good translation.

88FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 6:20 am


book 257: Buit maken by Émile Zola
library, translated from French by Martine Delfos, English translation The Kill, 253 pages
TIOLI Challenge #14: Read a book with a verb used as a noun in the title

Second book of Les Rougon-Macquart where the family members are introduced, at the time Napoleon III took power (1851).
Aristide, son of Pierre Rougon, went to Paris to make his fortune. He changed his last name into Saccard. At first he has a hard time, and his first wife dies. He manages to marry a rich girl, and starts to speculate in houses. These are houses soon to be demolished, because of the renewal of Paris by Haussmann. Aristide knows ways to see the plans in advance, so he can buy the houses cheap, and sell them way more expensive.
But his wife's living standard outnumbers his gaines, so he gets in trouble after a while.

Dutch title translated: Catch making / Catching
There are more ways to translate this one, 'Catching' is closest, but 'Acquiring', 'Capturing', 'Looting', and 'Seizing' are also close.

89FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 6:41 am


book 258: Uiteengescheurd by Miklós Bánffy
library, translated from Hungarian by Rebekka Hermán Mostert, English translation They Were Divided, 330 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Read a book tagged "historical" or "historical fiction"

The last book of The Transylvanian Trilogy.
Set in Hungary early 20th century, before WWI. Back then Hungary had a much larger territory, and was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The main characters com from Transsylvania, that is now a part of Romania.

Bálint Abády keeps trying to make life better for those around him, but fails often. His mother dies, and so does Adrienne's husband, it looks like they finally can be together. Obstructing politics continue, despite the war in the Balkan. The members of parliament still don't look further than the borders of Hungary, ignoring foreign affairs.
László Gyerőffy's self destruction goes on, he dies in poverty.
In the end Adrienne ends her relationship with Bálint, and WWI starts. We say goodbye to him while he is on his way to join the army.

Dutch title translated: Divided or Ripped apart
Citation from the book of Daniel, the last word of the writing on the wall: 'mene tekel upharsin'

90FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 12, 2022, 7:16 am


book 259: Honger by Knut Hamsun
1001 books, library, translated from Norwegian by Adriaan van der Hoeven and Edith Koenders, Nobel Prize winner, English translation Hunger, 272 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Read a book tagged "historical" or "historical fiction"

In the second half of the 19th century, a writer tries to survive in desperate poverty. Once in a while he manages to sell an article to a newspaper for a few krones, but never enough. His pride keeps him from begging, and if someone is so nice to give him some money, he wastes it, or gives it away. He harrasses random people at the street, until he realises what he is doing. He looses the room where he stayed, and gets hallucinations from hunger.

The story is told in a stream of consciousness, making it an intense read.
The cover is one of the worst I have seen this year...

English and Dutch title are the same

91kidzdoc
okt 12, 2022, 7:55 am

Your comments about Hunger make me want to read it sooner rather than later, Anita.

92msf59
okt 12, 2022, 8:00 am

Happy Wednesday, Anita. Just checking in, since I finally have some free time. Are you enjoying The Sympathizer? I really liked that one and I also liked the follow-up, The Committed.

93richardderus
okt 12, 2022, 9:26 am

>90 FAMeulstee: It makes the story look like the tale of a failed pole dancer. Definitely a terrible cover!

What an astonishing book, it changed the way I read forever.

>88 FAMeulstee: I'd call it "Grabbing" or "Grasping" because it's all about greed and those are greedier words for the literal meaning.

>84 FAMeulstee: Such a great story! I really, really loved these books.

>82 FAMeulstee: "Turning" a film makes perfect sense. I immediately understand what's meant and yet wouldn't have thought to say it that way.

Happy Wednesday's reads!

94humouress
okt 12, 2022, 12:20 pm

>83 FAMeulstee: That book looks like fun.

95FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 12:34 pm

>91 kidzdoc: Well go for it, Darryl.

>92 msf59: Thank you, Mark. We are just back from the library where we picked up a Cadfael book, and returned all library books above.
I just started The Sympathiser, can't say much else than that it is promishing. The folllow-up was just published earlier this year, so I can get it at the library, if I still like The Sympathiser when finished.

96FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 12:43 pm

>93 richardderus: Thank, Richard dear, happy Wednesday!

The cover of Hunger is really bad. I hope it still sells, as it is a very good translation. It didn't have that much impact on me, but I guess you read it way earlier in life.

Yes, 'Grabbing' would be better, it is about greed. Somehow that word reminds me of donald t. :-(

After two books I can say I like the Rougon-Macquarts, not in love yet. Enough books to go to change my feelings.

Funny these diferences in language, and how it makes sense to you.

>94 humouress: Yes, it was a fun read, Nina. I love that so many diverse books for children and young adults are published these days.

97richardderus
okt 12, 2022, 2:40 pm

>96 FAMeulstee: I think I relate so well because I remember projectors very clearly as part of my daily life, home--school--theaters.

Whatever do you mean? I read Hunger last month!

...what do you mean, it's not 1982...

98FAMeulstee
okt 12, 2022, 3:08 pm

>97 richardderus: Projectors were on all those places in my life too, Richard dear.

... not even 1993....

99humouress
okt 13, 2022, 12:45 am

>98 FAMeulstee: My dad (possibly still has, tucked away somewhere if it hasn't been disposed of in my parents' downsizing) a cine projector on which he played films that he usually took when we were on holidays. Watching them was a process, setting up the projector, darkening the room and watching the silent films; sometimes there'd be a glitch and a pause while it was sorted out. All good fun. Of course, as it was silent, you'd have to remember or guess a bit but watching the films prolonged the memories.

Then came video cameras and, while they were more mobile and increasingly smaller, I don't recall sitting around as a family to watch the results :0/

100FAMeulstee
okt 13, 2022, 11:23 am

>99 humouress: So has my father, Nina. He digitalised all family films, and we all got copies. Although it is not the same as in the darkened room with the projector, I am glad he did it. I think he had a Super 8 camera. He never moved on to video.

101FAMeulstee
okt 14, 2022, 6:30 am

Still up to date with my reviews, as I read nearly nothing yesterday. I noticed a fault, and some missing data, in my LT catalogue, so did spend the rest of the day correcting and adding. I think I caught them all, until next time I see something is wrong ;-)

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
De sympathisant (The Sympathizer) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Zazie in de metro by Raymond Queneau

I have put The Books of Jacob aside for now, will continue later. It didn't work in combination with The Sympathizer, so I started Zazie in the metro instead.

102karenmarie
okt 14, 2022, 9:32 am

Hi Anita!

No chance of really getting caught up, but happy Friday to you and I wish you a great weekend.

103charl08
okt 14, 2022, 10:58 am

>101 FAMeulstee: I quite enjoy that sort of day! Hope you have some time to read soon.

104bell7
okt 14, 2022, 11:22 am

Happy Friday, Anita! I read The Sympathizer a couple of years ago and look forward to your thoughts on it.

105RebaRelishesReading
okt 14, 2022, 12:16 pm

>104 bell7: Me too

106FAMeulstee
okt 14, 2022, 5:49 pm

>102 karenmarie: Thank you, Karen, happy (what is left of your) Friday!

>103 charl08: At least I did read a bit today, Charlotte. A bit less than usual, I hope tomorrow goes back to normal reading hours again, else I get in trouble with this months reading plans.

107FAMeulstee
okt 14, 2022, 5:52 pm

>104 bell7: Thank you, Mary, happy Friday!
I am at about 1/5th into The Sympathizer, I like it so far.

>105 RebaRelishesReading: I will finish it, Reba, and write a review. It may take some time :-)

108FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 15, 2022, 4:29 am

And then I found the new LT Halloween Treasure Hunt.
Spend some time searching around, got some help at the dedicated thread.
Got them all :-)

Back to my books.

109SirThomas
okt 15, 2022, 5:24 am

Thanks for the tip - it's raining and I can't always read ;-)
Have a wonderful weekend, Anita!

110The_Hibernator
okt 15, 2022, 1:33 pm

Hi Anita! Your reading is coming along quite nicely. I wish I could read that fast, lol. But I'm trying to finish at least one a week? Not succeeding, but trying!

111FAMeulstee
okt 15, 2022, 2:43 pm

>109 SirThomas: You are welcome, Thomas.
Happy weekend, and enjoy the hunt!

>110 The_Hibernator: Thank you, Rachel.
Trying is always good. I have no children around to distract me from reading ;-)

112FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 15, 2022, 2:48 pm

Unexpected addition to our library today. Got a package by mail, turned out my nephew sended Regeneration : De klimaatcrisis opgelost in één generatie by Paul Hawken. Looks like an interesting read.

113figsfromthistle
okt 15, 2022, 4:08 pm

>108 FAMeulstee: I did not realize that is up already! I love the treasure hunts.

Happy weekend, Anita

114quondame
Bewerkt: okt 15, 2022, 5:23 pm

>108 FAMeulstee: Well, that takes care of my Saturday. One down......
OK, that was easier than usual for me and I only needed to consult with hints for 1 which is kind of like a record.

115FAMeulstee
okt 15, 2022, 5:20 pm

>113 figsfromthistle: Have fun, Anita, happy weekend!

>114 quondame: You are welcome, Susan, I am sure you will find them all.

116PaulCranswick
okt 15, 2022, 8:57 pm

>88 FAMeulstee: Probably the closest approximation of the word in English would have been "The Quarry" but I am not perhaps the most qualified to say so.

Have a great weekend, Anita.

117humouress
okt 16, 2022, 2:40 am

>108 FAMeulstee: Ooh! I came here to chat but I'm off to the hunt! Thanks for telling me; I haven't seen a banner for it.

118FAMeulstee
okt 16, 2022, 8:22 am

>116 PaulCranswick: Thank you, Paul, happy Sunday.
In a quick search I found that "quarry" means the kill in hunting with dogs, so I will keep it at Richards suggestions. But you did add a new word to my English vocabulary, so thanks :-)

>117 humouress: Good luck with the Halloween Treasure Hunt, Nina!

119richardderus
okt 16, 2022, 4:21 pm

>118 FAMeulstee: Ta-da! I came to say that very thing. The French title definitely does contain a connotation of pursuing, but the message is still all about greed so I vote for my "Grabbing" or "Grasping" over the alternatives.

120FAMeulstee
okt 16, 2022, 5:10 pm

>119 richardderus: We are in agreement about the translation of the title, Richard dear.

--
Read, not yet reviewed:
#260: Zazie in de metro (Zazie in the Metro) by Raymond Queneau
#265: De sympathisant (The Sympathizer) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) by Olga Tokarczuk

121Caroline_McElwee
okt 17, 2022, 12:10 pm

Just a wave Anita. I've been very tardy in keeping up with threads for a few week. Hope you are keeping well.

122FAMeulstee
okt 18, 2022, 4:51 am

>121 Caroline_McElwee: Thank you, Caroline, all is well in Lelystad. Except for some reorganisations at Franks work. Not hitting him personally, but some close collegues were involuntary placed elsewhere.

123ArlieS
okt 18, 2022, 9:55 am

>108 FAMeulstee: Wow - the last treasure hunt (that I noticed) was fairly straightforward. This one has me overwhelmingly baffled. I guess I just don't read the relevant genres.

124FAMeulstee
okt 19, 2022, 3:15 am

>123 ArlieS: I never read scary books, Arlie, so most titles and authors were unfamiliar to me.
Searching (both LT and searching the web) words from the questions helped me finding most answers. I needed help for the last few, and found them at the 2022 Halloween Treasure Hunt thread in the Talk about LibraryThing group.

125FAMeulstee
okt 19, 2022, 4:39 am


book 260: Zazie in de metro by Raymond Queneau
library, translated from French by Jenny Tuin, English translation Zazie in the Metro, 206 pages
TIOLI Challenge #6 Read a book with the word “teeth” in the title or the image of teeth somewhere on the cover

Zazie is dropped of to her uncle Gabriel in Paris, as her mother will visit her lover for the weekend.
All Zazie wants is to take a ride in the metro, but there is a strike, so the metro does not ride. When she wakes up in the morning, her uncle and aunt are still asleep, so she goes to explore Paris on her own. It will be an eventful weekend.

Queneau plays with language (phonetic/slang) and style (a Homeric simile near the end). It is also a funny book, when Zazie has heard the word 'homosexual' used by someone talking about her uncle, she wants to know what it is. So she keeps nagging him if he is a "hormosessuel" all through the story. Her uncle does work at a nightclub, dancing the Swan Lake. This "gay" nightclub is only visited by tourists, who think they are experiencing the "real" Paris.
Misunderstandings and misconceptions all over, with tourists, a parrot, the neigbors, Zazie, and her uncle and aunt. Sometimes funny, sometimes a bit over the top.

English and Dutch title are the same

126FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 19, 2022, 4:58 am


book 261: De sympathisant by Viet Thanh Nguyen
library, e-book, translated by Paul Bruijn and Jetty Huisman, Pulitzer, original title The Sympathizer, 429 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Read a book tagged "historical" or "historical fiction"

A nameless narrator tells the story of his life to a commandant. He is the child of a French priest, and his teenage servant, and being neither French nor Vietnamese doomed to be an outsider. He supported the communists, but worked as a double agent in Saigon. Went to the USA when Saigon fell, and continued his work there.

I didn't like the book, neither the main character or the story itself could keep my interest, so it was a struggle to finish. I got a little nauseous reading about the murders. The same with the rape scenes, both the one played in the movie, as the real thing at the end, both drawn out in dispicable detail.
The life of the Vietnames refugees in the USA was the most likable part of the book

English and Dutch title are the same

127FAMeulstee
okt 19, 2022, 5:08 am


book 262: Wildernis by Jane Harper
library, ebook, translated by Catalien and Willem van Paassen, original title Force of Nature, 368 pages

Second book with Aaron Falk as main character.
Five women to into the bush, for a team building weekend. Only four of them return. The missing woman is important to Aaron Falk, as he and his collegue are investigating her boss and his family.
The story is told in alternating chapters following Aaron in the present, and the women struggling in the bush.

Dutch title translated: Wilderness

128PaulCranswick
okt 19, 2022, 6:06 am

>127 FAMeulstee: First time around, I failed to finish this one, Anita. I was so disappointed with it considering that the first in the series was simply excellent.

129FAMeulstee
okt 19, 2022, 6:32 am

>128 PaulCranswick: Sorry it disappointed you at first try, Paul. Did you finish it? As you didn't rate it.
I liked both The Dry and Force of Nature the same, not great, but nice to spend some time with. I was just looking at other books by Jane Harper available at the e-library. I am waiting in anticipation for the third Aaron Falk.

130richardderus
okt 19, 2022, 9:18 am

>126 FAMeulstee: Oh, yes, the scenes you mention are repugnant and revolting indeed. In my reading of the book, they were precisely adjusted to be that much outside anyone, even a jaded reader's, comfort zone. Author Nguyen needed it to serve as a brutalization of the reader, as much as a scene in a horrifyingly cruel story.

I stay away from scenes of rape in my fiction because I don't want that imagery in my head. I read this book with some fear, and it was reasonable, that it would disturb me. It did...and I felt I learned so much from it that I was willing, if not glad, to be disturbed.

That said, it makes perfect sense to me that you couldn't get past the violence and viciousness as primary take-aways!

>125 FAMeulstee: I loved this book long ago when I read it. Zazie and her...verve!...bowled me over. Because I dated film students, I saw the 1960 French film, and it was a laugh riot to 23-year-old Richard.

I do not want to read it again because the memories were delightful and I'd like them to stay that way. I wish it had grabbed you more, but humor particularly is like that: deeply inarguably personal.

Humpday hugs!

131FAMeulstee
okt 19, 2022, 6:06 pm

>130 richardderus: I can understand you felt different about those scenes, Richard dear. It was to much for me, he could have made his point in less pages... This was not as bad as the cruel scene in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, that image kept going through my mind for a long time.

Probably for the best not to read Zazie again, keep the memories. I probably would have liked it more when I had read it earlier in life. I recognised my way younger self in Zazie's nagging, wanting a serious answer to her question.
I do want to read more by Queneau, looking out for Exercises in Style, and The Blue Flowers.

132quondame
okt 20, 2022, 12:04 am

>124 FAMeulstee: (>123 ArlieS:) I mostly avoid scary books as well, but google worked excellently with the clues for all but one - I would never rhyme the answer with "weapon", so even though I thought of the word I wouldn't have expected it as the answer at all if it weren't for the clue as to which page to look for it.

133FAMeulstee
okt 20, 2022, 3:36 am

>132 quondame: I needed help there too, Susan. When I found that answer, I remembered I had seen it on one of the threads.
It was a fun hunt, and I got all answers fairly quick. Some previous hunts took way longer.

134karenmarie
okt 20, 2022, 8:25 am

Hi Anita! Happy Thursday to you.

>126 FAMeulstee: streamsong sent this book to me aeons ago, and I haven’t read it yet. The violence doesn’t put me off, though.

135richardderus
okt 20, 2022, 8:41 am

>131 FAMeulstee: Ooohhh...is The Last Days in Dutch? I think you would *love* Alfred the waiter, and get a kick out of the evocation of the 1920s in Paris.

Happy-Thursday *smooch*

136FAMeulstee
okt 20, 2022, 9:19 am

>134 karenmarie: How nice that Janet sent The Sympathizer to you, Karen. You might like it better than I did.
It won the Pulitzer Prize, so it was on my list of books I might read. Better known as MountTBR, my present work in progress at LT.

>135 richardderus: Sadly I can't find a Dutch translation of The Last Days, Richard dear.
Of fifteen translated titles, ten were (re)published in this century. So there might be hope for this one.

137richardderus
okt 20, 2022, 10:19 am

>136 FAMeulstee: Drat the luck. I hope they get around to it this decade, at least.

138FAMeulstee
okt 20, 2022, 3:25 pm

>137 richardderus: Indeed, this decade would be nice :-)

139FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 20, 2022, 6:53 pm

Read, not yet reviewed:
#263: Diego en Frida by J.M.G. Le Clézio

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) by Olga Tokarczuk
Dubbelspel (Double Play) by Frank Martinus Arion

140SirThomas
okt 21, 2022, 5:52 am

Just popping in to wish you a wonderful weekend, Anita.
And thank you again for your help with the hunt...

141FAMeulstee
okt 21, 2022, 6:53 pm

>140 SirThomas: Thank you, Thomas, happy weekend to you.
And again, you were very welcome :-)

142Whisper1
okt 21, 2022, 8:25 pm

>140 SirThomas: Like Thomas, I am simply stopping in to say have a good weekend.

143figsfromthistle
okt 21, 2022, 8:25 pm

>126 FAMeulstee: That one did not work for me either when I read it.

Happy weekend reads!

144FAMeulstee
okt 22, 2022, 6:28 am

>142 Whisper1: Thank you, Linda, the same to you.

>143 figsfromthistle: Glad I am not the only one, Anita, and for letting me know.
Happy weekend!

145msf59
okt 22, 2022, 8:06 am

Happy Saturday, Anita. Sorry The Sympathizer didn't work for you. It is a tough, brutal book. Funny, you are reading The Books of Jacob and I am finishing up The Book of Jonas. Have a good weekend.

146RoyLawmr2
okt 22, 2022, 8:26 am

Deze gebruiker is verwijderd als spam.

147RebaRelishesReading
okt 22, 2022, 11:40 am

>126 FAMeulstee: Generally like the winners of the Pulitzer better than winners of some other prizes but The Sympathizer didn't work for me either. Always nice not to feel alone :)

148FAMeulstee
okt 22, 2022, 1:58 pm

>147 RebaRelishesReading: I have liked, and have been disappointed, by all kind of prize winners, Reba.
Up until now I have liked all winners of the Europese Literatuurprijs, a Dutch prize for translated books from Europe.

149EllaTim
okt 22, 2022, 4:02 pm

Have a nice weekend Anita!

I am still working on the Halloween Hunt! I did manage to find number two, which was a fun surprise.

150PaulCranswick
okt 22, 2022, 11:03 pm

>148 FAMeulstee: That is an interesting list, Anita, but the editing of what is written or translated into English needs some work. Room by Emma Donoghue not in English?

Have a splendid weekend.

151FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 23, 2022, 6:48 am

>145 msf59: Sorry, Mark, I forgot to answer you yesterday. I blame it on the spammer ;-)
Indeed, The Sympathiser is brutal, something I don't cope well with.
I am at 2/3rd in The Books of Jacob, it took some time to get into the story. I hope you like your The Book of Jonas.

>149 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella, the same to you.
I hope you enjoy the Haloween Hunt. If you have trouble finding some answers, you can look for hints at the dedicated thread.

>150 PaulCranswick: The mentioning 'not in English Common Knowledge' only means that this award for Room isn't listed in the English LibraryThing, Paul. Of course it is translated, else it could not get a Dutch award for translated books. I added this award through the Dutch LT, as it is a Dutch prize.

ETA: To see wich books are available in a certain language, you have to log in in LT in that language, for Dutch that would be www.librarything.nl. If a book has been entered in Dutch translation, the Dutch title will show. Other way around works the same, if a title shows up in English, it is the English title for the book, so should be available for you.

Happy weekend!

152PaulCranswick
okt 23, 2022, 7:48 am

>151 FAMeulstee: I figured that the translation prize is translation into Dutch, Anita, not English.

153FAMeulstee
okt 23, 2022, 7:58 am

>152 PaulCranswick: I knew you would, Paul :-)
On my LT-wiki is a complete list, with mention of the English title, if available: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/User:FAMeulstee/Nederlandse_literatuurpr...

154richardderus
okt 23, 2022, 10:34 am

The entire topic of translation is so very fraught...the number of translations that make it into American English is never large but with data-driven decision-making ruling publishing ever more iron-fistedly, I don't see a way for that to change.

155FAMeulstee
okt 23, 2022, 10:52 am

>154 richardderus: That is sad, Richard dear, there are so many important books witten in other languages...
Dutch is only a small language, so without translations there would be less than half left in the bookstores.

156FAMeulstee
okt 24, 2022, 7:01 pm

Read, not yet reviewed:
#263: Diego en Frida by J.M.G. Le Clézio
#264: De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) by Olga Tokarczuk

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Dubbelspel (Double Play) by Frank Martinus Arion
De jongen en de hond (The Boy and the Dog) by Seishu Hase

157humouress
okt 25, 2022, 1:50 am

How are you enjoying Worldle these days Anita? Do you get the new bonus rounds now too? Yesterdays (I think) was the UK and the bonus rounds were neighbouring countries, the flag and the capital city. I managed them all (thank goodness).

158FAMeulstee
okt 25, 2022, 3:48 am

>157 humouress: At first the new bonus round did't work for the Dutch names of countries, Nina, but now it does.
I had them all, both yesterday and all 8 today.

159FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 25, 2022, 3:57 am


book 263: Diego en Frida by J.M.G. Le Clézio
library, translated from French by Maria Noordman, Nobel Prize, no English translation, 220 pages
TIOLI Challenge #5: Read a book with a cover image in which a woman's face is important

Biography of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo by Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio.

Dutch title translated: Diego and Frida

160FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 26, 2022, 5:35 am


book 264: De Jacobsboeken by Olga Tokarczuk
library, translated from Polish by Karol Lesman, Nobel Prize, English translation The Books of Jacob, 920 pages
TIOLI Challenge #12: Read a book whose title identifies what kind of narrative it purports to be

Full title: The Books of Jacob, or: A Fantastic Journey Across Seven Borders, Five Languages, and Three Major Religions, Not Counting the Minor Sects. Told by the Dead, Supplemented by the Author, Drawing from a Range of Books, and Aided by Imagination, the Which Being the Greatest Natural Gift of Any Person. That the Wise Might Have It for a Record, That My Compatriots Reflect, Laypersons Gain Some Understanding, and Melancholy Souls Obtain Some Slight Enjoyment

Born in 18th century Poland (a part that is now in Ukrain) a Jewish man, named Jacob Leibowicz, claims to be the Messiah. He wants to unite the three monotheistic religions (Jusaism, Christanity, Islam) in his own cult. On his travels through the Ottoman Empire, he converts to Islam. Later back in Poland he and his followers are baptised and take new names. Now known as Jacob Frank he gets in trouble with the inquisition, and is prisoned in a monastery. When he is freed by the Russians, he goes to Vienna, and finally ins up in Germany.

The story is told by Nachman, who comes from the same vilage as Jacob, and first meets him in Nikopol, and by Jenta, and old woman who is between life and death, she can see all what is happening.

It is impossible to give an overall picture of all characters and storylines. Besides Jacob and his followers, Polish and Jewish characters play an important role. Even Casanova comes by briefly :-)

An overwhelming book that I enjoyed immensely.

English and Dutch title are the same

161PaulCranswick
okt 25, 2022, 5:27 am

>160 FAMeulstee: I am considering whether to have this book as a companion in December as I am likely to hit my 2x75 next month but not be close enough to 200 books that I need to go for that.

162FAMeulstee
okt 25, 2022, 6:03 am

>161 PaulCranswick: It will take most of your reading time, Paul. So if you aim for 200, you better start it after you got to your goal ;-)
It took me ten days to get through, with only a few other books beside it. To me it was well worth the effort.

163richardderus
okt 25, 2022, 11:30 am

>160 FAMeulstee: Wow...can't fault Olga Tokarczuk for any lack of courage or imagination. What an ambitious story to set out telling!

Happy reading week, Anita.

164klobrien2
okt 25, 2022, 12:15 pm

>160 FAMeulstee: You hit me, squarely, with a “book bullet” (The Books of Jacob)! Thanks!

Karen O

165RebaRelishesReading
okt 25, 2022, 12:17 pm

>159 FAMeulstee: There recently was an exhibit of their art work at the Portland Art Museum. They're very popular in the SW so I was pretty familiar with their work but this exhibit took a somewhat different slant and was very interesting. What a pair and what lives they lived!!

166charl08
okt 25, 2022, 1:47 pm

>162 FAMeulstee: Maybe I'll follow your suggestion to Paul and aim to read this one as book 201. If I get there!

167FAMeulstee
okt 25, 2022, 2:04 pm

>163 richardderus: Indeed, Richard dear, it was a very ambitious story, based on real events. She did a lot of research, and in some way the full title says it all.

>164 klobrien2: You are welcome, Karen. I previously enjoyed other books by Olga Tokarczuk, and this was her best imho.

168FAMeulstee
okt 25, 2022, 2:09 pm

>165 RebaRelishesReading: We saw an exhibition of their work in Amstelveen a few years back, Reba. Besides paintings of them both, there were also life size copies of Rivera's murals. So this biograpy spoke to me. I also added a Nobel Prize winner to my list with this book ;-)

>166 charl08: Might be a good idea, Charlotte. It is a book that needs some time, both in reading time and time to digest.

169EllaTim
okt 25, 2022, 6:10 pm

>160 FAMeulstee: A five star read! Congratulations. The subtitle made me smile.

170FAMeulstee
okt 26, 2022, 5:35 am

>169 EllaTim: Thank you, Ella, it was great.
The subtitle is also very true :-)

171The_Hibernator
okt 26, 2022, 12:43 pm

Hi Anita! Keep on reading!

172FAMeulstee
okt 27, 2022, 3:10 am

>171 The_Hibernator: Thank you, Rachel, I will :-)

173karenmarie
okt 27, 2022, 7:35 am

Hi Anita! Happy Thursday to you.

>159 FAMeulstee: I have always been fascinated by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and probably should read more about them sometime.

174richardderus
okt 27, 2022, 11:33 am

Thursday orisons, Anita! *smooch*

175FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 27, 2022, 2:02 pm

>173 karenmarie: Thank you, Karen, happy Thursday!
This book about Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo was written in a loving way, sadly I could not find an English translation at LT. But there are plenty of other books about them.

>174 richardderus: Thank you, Richard, happy Thursday.
I am just back from the library. I was a little nervous as I saw on their website that my "extra" membership no longer allowed to have 20 items on lend. With the four books I wanted to pick up, I would go over the new limit of 10. I was glad to hear it was a typo, and took seven books home :-)

176FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 29, 2022, 3:44 am


book 265: Achtste-groepers huilen niet by Jacques Vriens
library, e-book, Dutch, YA, no English translation, 175 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Akkie is in her last year of primary school, group eight. She also loves soccer, but some boys in her class think girls can't play it. Her teacher, Ina, is very good in solving these kind of conflicts. But then Akkie gets ill, leukemia. She has to stay in hospital and misses her classmates. This is something her teacher can't solve. The class grows more together, they all care about Akkie.

Despite the hefty subject, there is also fun and humor, which makes the story bearable. Jacques Vriens is a teacher, and this story is based on real events. He got permission of those involved, still it took a long time before he could turn it into fiction.

Title translated: Eight-groupers don't cry

177FAMeulstee
okt 29, 2022, 3:58 am


book 266: Een zijden haar by Ellis Peters
library, translated by Pieter Janssens, original title The Potter's Field, 211 pages
TIOLI Challenge #4: Read a book tagged "historical" or "historical fiction"

Brother Cadfael book 17
The abbey got a new field, that was owned by an other abbey. When the field is plowed before planting crops, a female body is found. There is nothing to identify her, but most think is it from the former potter who lived there.
Brother Cadfael and Hugh Beringar try to find out who she was, and what happened to her.

Not the best entry in the series, still good for a few hours of diversion.

Dutch title translated: A silk hair

178FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 29, 2022, 7:31 am


book 267: Dubbelspel by Frank Martinus Arion
1001 books, own, Dutch, Dutch Canon, Engish translation Double Play, 365 pages
TIOLI Challenge #11: Read a book written by someone who uses three names

Curaçao, on a Sunday afternoon four men come together to play domino, like they do every Sunday.
Two of them are married, and don't know their opponents are having an affair with their wives. They talk about the island, the past, the future. Meanwhile the game is getting disastrous for the two married man, they loose again and again.

Great look into life and history at the Dutch Antilles. Although the story is told by four men from Curaçao (actually one is originally from Saba), the way the Dutch still treat the inhabitants shines through. Not much changed after slavery was banned.

English and Dutch title are the same

179FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 29, 2022, 5:02 pm


book 268: Wonderbos by Jan Paul Schutten, illustrated by Medy Oberendorff
library, Dutch, non-fiction, children's, no Engish translation, 75 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Eleven two page drawings of scenes in the woods. On the next four pages more information about the plants and animals at the drawing, and how all these are connected. Some animals are present on all drawings.

Nice introduction on biology and ecology of woods for children.

Title translated: Miraclewood

180FAMeulstee
okt 29, 2022, 7:14 am

Read, not yet reviewed:
#269: Over de gekte van een vrouw by Astrid Roemer

Reading now:
Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren
De droom van de rode kamer (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Rode liefde (Red Love) by Maxim Leo

181richardderus
okt 29, 2022, 9:18 am

>179 FAMeulstee: That looks very pretty, Anita! I looked up his art...

...and was very impressed.

>178 FAMeulstee: Drat the luck! My county's library system has a tree-book of it but I can't read those anymore! *sigh*

>177 FAMeulstee: I ate that whole series up when it came out, and remember a few of them well. This isn't one of those.

>176 FAMeulstee: In my teens, we had a TV series on ABC called "The After-School Movie" that told stories like that one. Parents loved it, teachers assigned the films for extra-credit reports, and there were precisely NO kids who liked them.

So I kind of avoid those stories even now.

Happy weekend's reads!

182charl08
okt 29, 2022, 9:37 am

>175 FAMeulstee: Your comment re the special membership reminded me of the shock I've had every three years when an auto message comes on my library account that it has "expired". It's happened twice, and just needs a click from the member of staff the next time I'm in the library, to confirm they've got the right contact details, but each time...

183FAMeulstee
okt 29, 2022, 5:21 pm

>181 richardderus:
- 179: The lovely illustration of jellyfish you found is by Floor Rieder. Jan Paul Schutten is the author. I have added the illustrator in >179 FAMeulstee:, Medy Oberendorff. I will try to remember to add the illustrator in the future :-)

- 178: Drat, I hope for an e-book publication for you.

- 177: I think the Cadfael books became a bit less further on in the series, I have now three left to go.

- 176: In this case it is the other way around, right after publication it won the "Prijs van de Kinderjury", the yearly prize awarded by children themselves. The grown up juries, who give all other children/YA bookawards, never awarded this writer.
On the other hand, if a story like this isn't handled well by an autor, you get a book that is avoided by kids, and loved by grownups.

Happy weekend and happy reading, Richard dear!

>182 charl08: Oh, that is also shocking, Charlotte, especially when it happens every three years. That is just so long that you forget, and get shocked again when it happens.

184ArlieS
okt 30, 2022, 1:16 pm

>182 charl08: It's even more "fun" when they don't tell you, and you find out when the automatic checkout machine sends you to the library desk - or worse, when you try to renew books at home, and aren't permitted to do so without seeing a librarian in person.

Fortunately memberships here last more than one year - I'm not sure how long - so this doesn't happen often.

185FAMeulstee
okt 30, 2022, 6:59 pm

>184 ArlieS: That might cause major panick to me, Arlie. That is why I reserve most books I want to read, and send my husband to pick them up. Last week I had a fairly good day, so I dared to go myself, despite the nerves over the number of books I could take.

Luckely I haven't experienced any of those. I had once that a book had not 'taken' at the automatic checkout, and that awfull beep went of when I wanted to leave. Luckely my husband was with me that time, so he could sort it out at the desk.

186FAMeulstee
okt 31, 2022, 5:33 am


book 269: Over de gekte van een vrouw by Astrid Roemer
library, e-book, Dutch, no Engish translation, 221 pages
TIOLI Challenge #5: Read a book with a cover image in which a woman's face is important

Suriname, Paramaribo. Noenka is a black woman, the youngest of five children. She is a teacher, and marries Louis. Nine days after the marriage she runs away. The whole (white) schoolboard decides she has to leave her job, if she doesn't return to her husband. Noenka refuses, and goes to family in Nickerie, where she grew up, to teach there. She gets an affair with a childhood friend, but that doesn't work out either. The only one who supports her is Gabrielle, a woman of partly native descent. Meanwhile Louis is working with help of a psychiatrist to declare Noenka insane, to force her return to him.

An English translation will be published next year with the title On a Woman's Madness.

Title translated: About the insanity of a woman

187FAMeulstee
okt 31, 2022, 6:12 am


book 270: Rode liefde by Maxim Leo
library, e-book, translated from German Lilian Caris, Engish translation Red Love, 269 pages
TIOLI Challenge #13: Read a book with an uneven number of pages

Maxim Leo writes about his family history through three generations, and draws this way a history of life in East Germany.
His grandfathers, the generation that founded the GDR, were determined to keep fascism out for ever. One stayed in Germany during the war, the other lived in France as a Jewish refugee in the 1930s, and joined the Resistance. In the GDR all they wanted was to create a perfect state for all.
His parents, who grew up in the GDR, were in favour of the ideals of their parents and the state, but also felt the repression getting stronger. Especially his mother hoped in the 1980s that some ideals might be saved in a new Eastern Germany.
Maxim Leo himself, who was 18 when the Wall came down, never felt much for the GDR, and was glad to get some freedom after the two German states merged.

An interesting read, it clearly shows how the GDR started with good intentions and evolved into totalitarianism, and how this affected the population.

English and Dutch title are the same

188FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2022, 6:23 am


book 271: Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren (editor)
own, non-fiction, translated from Russian into Dutch and English, 280 pages

Catalog of the Malevich exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1989. In cooperation with the Russian Museum in Leningrad and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow.

I love to look at the pictures of the paintings by Malevich, and enjoyed the essays about him and his work, and the exerpts from Malevich own writings.

189FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2022, 10:58 am

October 2022 in numbers
  (Totals for the year between brackets)

25 books read, 6.860 pages, 221,3 pages a day
  (271 books read, 85.471 pages, 281,2 pages a day)

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books:

own books: 3 (55)
from the library: 22 (216)

male author: 17 (194)
female author: 8 (77)

male translator: 9 (83)
female translator: 8 (105)
unknown translator: 0 (7)

originally written in Dutch: 9 (77)
translated into Dutch: 17 (195)
- original language:
  Chinese: 0 (2)
  Croatian: 0 (1)
  Danish: 0 (1)
  English: 5 (82)
  French: 4 (25)
  German: 1 (13)
  Greek: 0 (1)
  Hebrew: 0 (1)
  Hungarian 1 (4)
  Icelandic: 1 (3)
  Italian: 1 (16)
  Japanese 0 (3)
  Norwegian: 1 (8)
  Polish: 1 (4)
  Portuguese: 0 (1)
  Russian: 1 (5)
  Spanish: 0 (8)
  Swedish: 0 (14)
  Turkish: 0 (1)

fiction: 20 (228)
non-fiction: 5 (43)

paper books: 13 (160)
e-books: 12 (111)

mystery/police procedural: 2 (33)
childrens/YA: 7 (39)
1001 books: 3 (23)
  Total 1001 books since 2008: 251
Dutch Canon: 1 (7)
  Total Dutch Canon since 2008: 42 of 125

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pages:

0 - 100 pages: 3 (24)
101 - 200 pages: 2 (52)
201 - 300 pages: 14 (74)
301 - 400 pages: 4 (62)
401 - 500 pages: 1 (26)
501 - 999 pages: 1 (30)
1000+ pages: 0 (3)

longest book 920 pages (1077 pages)
shortest book 75 pages (28 pages)
average book 274 pages (315 pages)

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own books read are on the shelf since:

before 2008: 2 (42)
2010: 0 (2)
2016: 0 (1)
2017: 0 (1)
2018: 1 (2)
2020: 0 (3)
2021: 0 (2)
2022: 0 (2)

--
date first published:

5th century BC: 0 (1)
14th century: 0 (2)
19th century: 3 (6)

20th century
1900s: 0 (2)
1910s: 0 (3)
1920s: 1 (4)
1930s: 0 (14)
1940s: 2 (12)
1950s: 1 (10)
1960s: 1 (10)
1970s: 1 (21)
1980s: 3 (28)
1990s: 2 (22)

21st century
2000s: 0 (23)
2010s: 6 (70)
2020s: 5 (43)

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ratings:

1 (6)
1 (21)
10 (105)
10 (92)
3 (45)
0 (2)

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Best books in October


De Jacobsboeken (The Books of Jacob) by Olga Tokarczuk


Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 by W.A.L. Beeren (editor)

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walking in October: walked 28 days, 153,0 km; average 5,46 km/day
  (228 days, 1220,0 km; average 5,33 km/day)

e-biking in October: biked 3 days, 73,3 km; average 24,43 km/day
  (75 days, 1511,5 km; 20,15 km/day)

190streamsong
okt 31, 2022, 1:31 pm

Great statistics, Anita! I like some of your ideas well enough that I may add them to my statistics in 2023 - specifically having the year to date in parenthesis besides the monthly number.

I have one more book I hope to finish for October before the day is over. I also hope to do another review or two today.

My main memory of The Sympathizer was how the North Koreans who had endured a multi-year famine disbelieved that there were factories that processed food for cats and dogs in the U.S. A small detail that has remained stuck in my mind.

191richardderus
okt 31, 2022, 1:39 pm

>189 FAMeulstee: As always, an impressive array of detail that tells such a deep story. See you in next month's thread!

192FAMeulstee
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2022, 5:53 pm

>190 streamsong: Thank you, Janet.
That is part of the fun looking at the statistics, finding interesting parts to add to your own.

All reviews are done, I only have 30 pages to go in part 2 of Dream of the Red Chamber, to keep on track to finish it at the end of December.

Indeed that is a detail that sticks, it must be so unreal to those in parts of the world where famine is a regular part of life.

>191 richardderus: Thank you, Richard dear.
It is always fun to gather and check all numbers. Turns out it was my worst reading month this year in number of pages read. One of the books was a 5 star read, so it was a great month anyway :-)

193figsfromthistle
okt 31, 2022, 8:34 pm

>189 FAMeulstee: Excellent stats! I enjoy seeing your reading, walking and biking stats. Always impressive :)

194FAMeulstee
nov 1, 2022, 3:38 am

>193 figsfromthistle: Thank you, Anita!
Always fun to make them at the end of each month.