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3✨ I wasn‘t completely engaged to this story, but enjoyed the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. Read for #FoodandLit 2024 Finland

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Texreader

A Brief History of the Netherlands | Paul F. State

I love these Buzzfeed articles about what surprises people about differences between countries. I especially liked this one comparing the US and the #Netherlands

#foodandlit @Catsandbooks

ncsufoxes In Boston, most lights you can‘t turn on red (or the intersections are really odd). We moved to MD a few months ago & I‘n always sitting at a red light waiting to turn red. 1d

ImperfectCJ I would love it if we got rid of "right on red." It's so dangerous for pedestrians. 1d

jdiehr Here in Oregon, some stop signs have an additional sign that reads "except for right turn," meaning Stop Unless You're Turning Right. I couldn't believe it when we first moved here! 1d

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Read4life We‘re in the Virgin Islands so it‘s “Left Turn on Red” 🚦#KeepLeft 1d

Catsandbooks I live in a more rural area so there's not many pedestrians or bicyclists to worry about if turning right on a red 22h

LiseWorks In Canada, you stop on red, turn right if it's safe. You can't turn right in Quebec. 19h

GingerAntics @LiseWorks why can‘t you turn right in Quebec? 9h

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ as a full time pedestrian since 2016, I agree with this. It would piss odd drivers, and would quickly become the most broken traffic law, but its death defying to cross the street as a pedestrian. 9h

GingerAntics @jdiehr oh my god! How many pedestrians die in Oregon? 9h

LiseWorks @GingerAntics Quebec has a lot of laws that are not Luke the rest of Canada lol. They follow civil law, the rest of Canada follows England laws. Don't get me started with the marriage laws. 5h

GingerAntics @LiseWorks so they just make it up as they go, and everyone in Quebec is cool with it? Interesting. 4h

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Lunakay

In Search of a Name: A Novel | Marjolijn van Heemstra

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#foodandlit basically told me to go check on the neighbours, so that's what I did!😉
I enjoyed some Poffertjes (tiny sweet pancakes), traditional green pea stew and some more pancakes!
I really liked the tagged book, where a pregnant woman thinks twice before naming her son after a family hero. She starts researching the past and goes on a journey where the terms villain, hero or just a man caught in history become a whole new narrative.

Lunakay @Catsandbooks @Texreader 1d

Catsandbooks Wonderful! 🇳🇱❤️ 1d

Texreader Yay!!! This is so awesome! And yum! 😋 1d

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kspenmoll

Untitled | Unknown

A day late!
1) My high school : tested a student this week who is such fun to work with-he exudes joy!
2) my best friend for 50 + years was in town & we soent Sunday together.💖🥰
3) coffee and sickerdoodle wafels -yum! Thanks to #foodandlit & @Bookwormjillk
4)sunset
5) books my son surprised with with a, a biography of Carter & a book by Carter.

DebinHawaii

Bookwormjillk Very thoughtful of your son! 3d

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 3d

Deblovestoread Lovely week! 🩵 2d

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AnneCecilie

Nancy Drew 15: The Haunted Bridge | Carolyn Keene

#BookReport

I continued with my yearlong reads standing on the right

I continued with the monthlong reads; Lark Rise to Candleford #HashtagBrigade, Sense and Sensibility #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Hard Times #WhatTheDickens

I finished Gliff, read Wild Houses and started The Haunted Bridge

I‘m still listening to The Christmas Bookshop

I‘m also reading Anne Frank‘s Diary #Netherlands #foodandlit

Lcsmcat How are you liking Year of Wonder? I really enjoyed the Kapsberger lute piece. That one was new to both me and my husband. But we‘ve found a couple pieces where the movement numbers and names didn‘t line up with the ones on the recordings we found. It‘s not a big deal, just odd. 3d

Crinoline_Laphroaig I'm always on the lookout for yearly reads. Added this to my list to choose from next year. 3d

AnneCecilie @Lcsmcat I‘m enjoying it. Except for that I listened to everything 2 yrs ago, they are all new to me. I listen on YouTube and have absolutely no idea of knowing if what I find is accurately correct then the title says it‘s the right piece. Most of them have been quite upbeat if that‘s the right word. 2d

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Texreader

The Lord of the Rings, the Motion Picture Trilogy: Easy Piano | Dan Coates, Howard Shore

#5joysFriday
1) watching the 3 extended LOTR movies with the kids before my son headed back to school in Arizona
2) both kids getting 4.0 in the fall at their respective universities
3) figuring out my favorite books of 2024 thanks to #12booksofchristmas (thanks @Andrew65 )
4) sharing the joy with my cohosts and so many Littens of 3 challenges: #foodandlit and #whatthedickens and my #litsyatoz ❤️
5) this weekend at the lake with my sister
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Texreader Thanks @TheSpineView and @DebinHawaii for the tag! 3d

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 3d

TheSpineView 😘 3d

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Susanita I‘m jealous of your family LOTR watching. 😀 3d

Texreader @Susanita If we could have fit in the extended Hobbit movies we would have done those too! ❤️❤️❤️ 3d

Andrew65 Thanks, I love the extended Lord of the Rings films. 3d

Deblovestoread Fun! 2d

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Dilara

The Discomfort of Evening | Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

That was an uncomfortable read. The bleakness and feeling of unease were unrelenting. Some readers love it, but I'm a sensitive soul: it was too much for me and in the end, I just ploughed through as fast as I could to get it over with.
#Netherlands #FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Pic of a traditional Dutch farm by Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Texreader Oh dear. Don‘t think I‘d want to tackle this one. 3d

BarbaraBB I agree. It‘s such a uncomfortable read. I still remember it though, while I have forgotten about many books I read since then. 3d

Dilara @BarbaraBB That will probably be the case for me too, but I'm glad it's finished and I can move on to something less disturbing! 3d

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BarbaraBB Yes you definitely need a palate cleanser now 😀 3d

Dilara @BarbaraBB Oh yes! I've just started Eline Vere. I hope it fits the bill 😋

Eline Vere

BarbaraBB Oh that‘s so good! I loved it! I am so glad you chose that one, I know hardly anyone who read it. 3d

Larkken I recently got this from the library - yikes! I think i am a bit afraid of it 2d

Dilara @BarbaraBB It's strange that there's only 1 post about this book in Litsy, but it was warmly recommended to me by various people in my LibraryThing thread.
At this point, I'm drowning in suggestions😂😅 but I'd still be VERY interested in recommendations for classics, books about immigrants' experience in the Netherlands and books set in Dutch overseas territories or written by people from there. Preferably on the literary end of the spectrum... 2d

Catsandbooks 😬🇳🇱 2d

Dilara @Larkken On the plus side, it's heartfelt, well written, fairly propulsive (granted, the “propulsivity“ is all based on awful events) and for non-Dutch readers, full of local colour (it's set on a cheese-making farm next to a polder). I'd be interested in your opinion of it - you might come to a completely different conclusion from me 🙂 2d

BarbaraBB I‘ll get back to you. I know lots of course. And how come you do only see one review for the tagged book? I see many more! 2d

Dilara @BarbaraBB Thanks, much appreciated 😁
I see lots of posts for The Discomfort of Evening, but only one for Eline Vere - the book that you wrote you know hardly anyone who read it 😁 2d

BarbaraBB This one is about WWII and Surinam people in the Netherlands (our former colony)

The Boy Between Worlds: A Story of Love and Loss

BarbaraBB I loved this one. It‘s about colonial times in Indonesia

Country of Origin: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who First Mapped the Regions Between China and India (Original)

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BarbaraBB This one is about Amsterdam in the roaring Eighties 😀

Gimmick

BarbaraBB This one is by one of our most renowned authors

Rituals

BarbaraBB And another one by the author of Eline Vere, about Indonesian people of whom many came to live in the Netherlands (my grandparents among them!)

The Hidden Force

BarbaraBB One more about Indonesia, now set in the Japanese camps of WWII

Sunken Red

BarbaraBB Contemporary literature

Love, If That's What It Is

BarbaraBB And one more about Surinam

The Cost of Sugar

BarbaraBB About life in Holland during WWII by one of our most renowned authors again

The Assault

BarbaraBB A personal favorite

Beyond Sleep

BarbaraBB I hope this is of help. All are literary fiction, most from the 20th century. 2d

BarbaraBB And about Eline Vere, I think no one read it on Litsy 😉 except @Liz_M who has read all the classics! 2d

Liz_M @BarbaraBB 😁 @Dilara from the suggestions above, I also read and really enjoyed Rituals. I'm just over half through TDoE and I guess it doesn't get any happier? 1d

Dilara @BarbaraBB Thank you very much: this is very helpful and I appreciate that it is quite a bit of work 💐 *Off to grow my wishlist* 19h

Dilara @Liz_M Thanks for the recommendation! The Discomfort of Evening does not get any happier, sadly. The author just likes to pile it on... 19h

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Texreader

The Homecoming | Anna Enquist

I‘m starting this book tonight for #Netherlands #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

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