Chava’s Comments (group member since Dec 19, 2013)

Chava’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Andy wrote: ""

I would love a bed like that!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I have books that were my grandmothers and so are getting close to 100 years old. I don't know what to do with them so I just store them 😮"

Wow! Do the books have her handwriting in them? I love those old dedications people used to put in the front.

At our synagogue, we found 3 prayer books from the late 1700s and 1800s, originally from Austria or Germany. Someone must have taken them to Australia at some point and probably donated them or just left them in the bookcase when they didn't need them anymore or upgraded. They were just among other general books. They're being restored now as the paper is so brittle.
I love old books!!

Jean wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Hi Team! We've had a lovely update from the Gamekeepers!

Hunger Game Buddy Reads

Informal buddy reads will be held for the original trilogy of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. ..."

We did a big house clean in the last month and that included the massive bookcase that is double deep (as in 2 books behind each other on each shelf). We got rid of a few books, which we put in a bag to one day be taken to a Free Little library. It's been a month, the books are still in the bag. My daughter has already gone through the bag again and taken a few out to read, then put them back after she was done. We really struggle to get rid of books!!

Andy wrote: "Anouschka wrote: "It does add a bit of extra flair to the matter, so definitely worth considering haha.
To what part in Italy are you guys going?"

Naples area
4 days Ischia island
4 days on mainl..."

What a dream trip!!

Andy wrote: "I'm loving all the introductions and very impressed with the breadth of languages here

I really only speak English with any degree of confidence

have a reasonable level of rusty Irish
did have so..."

Mortifying our children is an important job as a parent! How can one call themselves a parent if they don't embarrass their kids?! I'm at the level that just me existing is embarrassing to my kids. I love it

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Brittany wrote: "I used to be able to speak Mandarin fluently, but I'm super rusty now"

That is a language I should probably learn as more than 80% of the people in my area have Mandarin or Canton..."

I hear you. Lots of Mandarin speakers here in Melbourne too!! It would definitely ease things up with the International students we see from China. That's one language I just won't even attempt though, too difficult.
I've been wanting to learn Auslan (Australian sign language) but haven't gotten myself to signing up yet.

Brittany wrote: "I used to be able to speak Mandarin fluently, but I'm super rusty now"

Whoah! That's super hard because it's a tonal language. You easily say a different word just by changing the tone of the word. Amazing!! What made you learn Mandarin?

Cass☀️ wrote: "Chava wrote: "Danish is such an interesting language. Not a lot of people will choose to learn that unless it's for a specific reason, like in your case. I can read English, Dutch and German with r..."

In those regions, they often won't even give you the chance to talk in their language. They're so excited to speak English and the kids start speaking English at such a young age!! All their TV programs are in English so they grow up with the language around them.

How awesome you're going to Denmark!! I have visited the country when I still lived in Europe. It's beautiful

Danish is such an interesting language. Not a lot of people will choose to learn that unless it's for a specific reason, like in your case. I can read English, Dutch and German with reasonable ease, but I'm definitely the fastest in English. If I get some time to puzzle things out, then I can make my way through French, Italian and Spanish. My daughter is learning Dutch at the moment on Duolingo, an online language app. She keeps coming to me with random things like "Ik wil boterham met kaas" (I want a cheese sandwich). She's got the pronunciation pretty spot on though.
Over the COVID lockdowns, my husband did Spanish on Duolingo. I'd hear him on the toilet talking to a Spanish lady LOL, turned out to be Duolingo.

Cass☀️ wrote: "Hello Everyone!

My name is Cass! I live in Oregon. I have spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest sans my few years in Phoenix, AZ for my undergrad. I teach high school language arts and a..."

Hey Cass! wow, 15-20 books a month, I am impressed!!

Mods, this is my bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Chava wrote: "I will read anything to win..."


Said like a true NBRC challenge junkie 😂"

oh yeah! Truly. I remember the first time I was introduced to space/fantasy/monsters smut (it was so bad!!)...that was years ago and I will still bring that up as the worst and best experience ever in a NBRC challenge LOL

Hi team!

I am a bit late to the intros, sorry. I have been unwell and getting towards the end of it now, just in time for Book Games.

I am Chava from Melbourne in Australia, but I was born in the Netherlands, so, hoi hoi Anouschka! :)
I am a wife and mum of 4 (1 girl, 3 boys). I work full-time as a social worker and psychotherapist in a specialist sexual assault & trauma service. So, hi to Brigia my fellow psychotherapist :). Congrats on the baby!!
Hi to Lisa, Eldarwen, & Karen, so nice to play with you again!!
I look forward to getting to know the others who I haven't met yet!

I've played Uno, Towers, Wheel, and probably a few others. I've been out of the big games for a bit but now I'm back as I started a new job in March that has me drive an hour each way. An hour is perfect to get through an audiobook at double speed!
Favourite colour: purple, pink and azure blue

Train travel: I used the train all the time living in the Netherlands (I left 25+ yrs ago though). My train story is I took the train from Sydney to Brisbane as my then-boyfriend wanted to save money. The seats were super hard, it was a trip of 13 or so hours and I had broken my tailbone a few weeks before falling down the stairs. It was total torture and I've never taken a long train trip again :)

My favourite genres to read are mystery/thriller. I will read anything to win

Look forward to playing with you all

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Chava wrote: "I still haven't recovered from a Towers where I took one for the team and read alien smut.... yuck"

Haha, space smut is about the only smut I read. It's so ridiculous and over the to..."

I'll keep you to that!!

I still haven't recovered from a Towers where I took one for the team and read alien smut.... yuck

- 172 pages

Current total: 234,259

Updating the last few weeks of books

- 80
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- 200
Pages read: 1454

CURRENT TOTAL: 230,261

- 464 pages

current total: 12,976

Happy 2024!! It's been 2024 for 11 hours already here in Australia. I just finished my first book

01/01/2024 - 384 pages

Total: 384

Giving this a go as well

Itinerary 1:
1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO)
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month
Ghost 19 - published 4 Oct 2022
Start:
Finished: