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@mc Oh gods, I remember that one. :D

I've finished reading 3 Dutch books in the past bunch of weeks, trying to figure out now what to read next.

What I've read:

- Huize Volverve (House Volverve) by Monique van Roosmalen. Reasonably entertaining story about an elderly home where you see the flashbacks of those old people and how they interact with each other and how connected they are after all from the past. And no, this was not a murder mystery, heh.

- Het huis met de rode luiken (The house with the red shutters) by Marja Visscher. A historical fiction. A few people have actually existed, and this story is partly based on history, about when the Dutchies were trying to decide whether they wanted to support royalty or become a republic instead. And later a bit about the colonisation of Indonesia. But that's not the focus, just the backstory. The focus is a woman married to Herman Willem Daendels, about how she experienced her life with this unpredictable man. Not bad.

- De atlas van overal (The atlas of everywhere) by Deniz Kuypers. About the writer who's half Dutch and half Turkish. He's not understanding his own feelings and his relationship with his Turkish father very well, and tries to write this off (this book basically) in order to try to understand. There's a lot of (made up) stories about his father. Interesting mixed memories.

So yeah, that's some variety there. Other books I tried but dropped were:

- De Zwarte Wolvin (The black she-wolf, Loba Negra) by Juan Gomez-Jurado, the Dutch translation was awfully dry and felt out of place. A shame because the premise wasn't bad.
- Perfecte moord (Perfect Kill) by Helen Fields, I might actually read this someday but it is NOT recommended for reading before bed... Way too intense in the first chapter already.
- Ik zal je nooit meer (I will never you...) by Tatjana Almuli, totally not interested in this topic. Writing style's not fully to my liking either.
- Herinneringen aan hem (Reminders of him) by Colleen Hoover, still undecided, might try it a bit further but I want to read something completely different.

Maybe I want to read a StarTrek book now, or some other scifi. Time to search my library I guess.
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@peterdrake Bummer. Glad it'll be rebuilt though. Tiny Libraries are cool.

@peterdrake How'd it catch fire?

@2ck Avatar is da bomb.

I'm still pleased as fuck that I found out a few days ago that I do have a thermos teapot after all. It'll be pretty useful the coming months.

@Teryl_Pacieco Damn, that's a cool mall.

@peterdrake Such a terrible, terrible pun!

@ClaudetteK Hu? Ik lees toch in het nieuws dat RIVM een start ziet van een najaarsgolf?

Whoopitidoo, that was a fire alarm test. Thankfully it's nice and sunny today.

@freemo Heh... reinforcing Asian stereotypes. XD

@lydiaconwell Heh. Competing with the coffee machine at my job, I'd lose. :D

Whelp, theme at my job today is 'GIGA GREEN'. I've got a somewhat greenish tshirt and and a dark green cardigan... Thankfully I've got bright green Xmas socks, wearing them now. :P

@2ck That is such a silly idea... heh.

@Amikke Does not make me love it less. :D

@academicalnerd I was wondering how you were faring. Glad to read that you're probably able to keep out of the draft. It's a death sentence in there I'm certain.

I love regular expressions.

@Pat Doesn't it do that every day for everybody?

@epilys I guess I really don't want to see the directory after all!

@dosnostalgic Grats!