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Bryn wrote: "Margaret's a head-banger -- hang on, are you doing that to music?"No. Not at the moment.... :p
I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to practice my rusty German from h.s. and college days many years ago. Thank you.
Terri wrote: "I have spent up to $100 (the same as US dollars, give or take a dollar or two) on cookbooks. Novels, never more than about $35. I can't justify anymore than that even for my favourite authors.
At ..."
I get books only from the library or ILL, then only buy one if I feel it's top-notch and I know I'll reread sometime.
Jane wrote: "I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to practice my rust..."Have you tried Amazon com? They often have books in translation.
Jane wrote: "I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to practice my rust..."check out Abebooks. They have a lot of German books. I bought a couple from them. No, I don't speak it unfortunately.
Margaret wrote: "Jane wrote: "I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to pra..."I tried Amazon. There were only a few translations -- only in Romance languages.
Anne wrote: "Jane wrote: "I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to pra..."I tried all the clearinghouses: abebooks, alibris, biblio and bookfinder. There were only translations into Romance languages. In addition, biblio.com listed a Greek translation.
Hi Jane,I am afraid you may have exhausted all the channels already in searching for a Eagle in the Snow translation.
I searched the German Amazon site for you and they only have the English. No German translation.
Terri wrote: "Hey Leslie,I went back and forth with my hair styles, but I did sport a lopsided blonde haircut like this for a year or so before growing my hair into a chin level bob like Madonna in vogue. :-) ...."
I wore my hair very similar to this for a few years, especially my early year in the Navy. My hair was more brown and had less of the long bangs, though.
http://sengook.com/blonde-hair-very-s...
I also had it like this for a couple years before and a few years after the haircut above.
http://www.greatestlook.com/veryshort...
I cannot wait to finish losing all of my excess weight so that I can look good in short hair again. I just love it!
I'm the opposite. I love my long hair and will always have it now. Through school my mum would not let me have long hair. By 16 she let me grow it to the jawline, but no longer. After I left school and moved out of home, I spent a couple years with the blonde bob, then rebelled completely and grew it out to the length it is today. Hard to believe that my most rebellious hair is my long hair. :-)
I adore both of Darla's link pics. I am a fan of Very Short. Me, I haven't had the curly-girly hair since I got out of my mother's clutches.
Terri wrote: "Hi Jane,I am afraid you may have exhausted all the channels already in searching for a Eagle in the Snow translation.
I searched the German Amazon site for you and they only have the English. No ..."
Thank you; so did I. Maybe it was never translated into German.
Leslie wrote: "And if you don't want to click the link....just think A flock of seagulls (the band ya'll the band)"Wow! I had the "Flock of Seagulls" hair too! :)
Mom made me keep my hair short when I was small, until my dad agreed to look after it if I grew it. He did the manes and tails of the horses for shows ... lets just say I had the best, most intricate braids growing up, although I may have occasionally resembled a horse's rear end. After my brief flirtation with odd 80's hair, I too am back to long, and will stay that way, even with the increasing population of Arctic Blonde highlights showing up. Miss my dad's braids though.
@TerriVery nice. I'll picture that now when I imagine you out working with your cows. LOL
Oo Ooo OO tell me you mohawked that bad boy from time to time! :D
@Kat
Hair is hair. Maybe the horses thought it was weird that their rear end looked like your head. :D
I can't believe how vain I was about my hair back then. And my swatch watches. Good lord did I have a bunch of swatch watches. Was that a trend in any other countries? Wearing multiple swatch watches at once?
Now I use my phone to tell the time and my hair pretty much lays where it lays. What? I brush it!
all 4 books came today, so i am all set for the read.
I found the firefox button on ASUS. It may come in handy.
Jane wrote: "I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to practice my rust..."I checked here on Goodreads and there seems to only be a Spanish translation available. Perhaps not definitive, but I do know GR lists loads of German books. I also checked on Chapters.Indigo for you, but nothing there either.
D wrote: "Jane wrote: "I have a quick question: my favorite read ever is Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Would anyone know of a translation into German, and if so, where I might get it? I'd like to pra..."Thank you.
Kat wrote: "Mom made me keep my hair short..."
Seems our Mums made us have short hair for the same reasons. My Mum said I didn't brush it enough when I had long hair, so she chopped it all off when I was about 8 or 9.
Sometimes I wish i was blonde again, but I will wait until i go grey. :-) Then I may go blonde again. Easier to hide the grey roots if my hair is blonde.
Hi leslie,I did have a mohawk at one stage. Not for very long because mohawks weren't great for getting or holding jobs. :-)
Oh yes, Swatches were big in Australia too. I never had one as they were a bit expensive im my area, but I had a white and flouro yellow Casio!
O.K. I have to chip in to this hair thing with a male point of view. During the late 70s and early 80s I had long very curly hair down to my shoulders, which if straitened out would have gone about half way down my back. I frequently had girls coming up to me to bemoan the fact that they had spent a fortune to get curls like that who invariably had dead straight hair. Also some times got asked if I'd had it permed, which I hadn't. A few years later I got it cut mid length to make it easier to get a job and for years now have had it cut very short because it is so much easier to look after. If I get it cut every 4 weeks, I don't even have to comb it if I don't wan to. Would never have it long again because it takes so much work to keep tidy and I think men who have long hair to try and hid the fact that it is receding and thinning look really silly. On other people hair can look good or bad long or short it just depends what you do with it.
Lol. I have been too tall for my hair since my late teens. Short or long all the same to me.
In the 80's and 90's my hair was always long, my Mom loved it and at one point it was long enough to sit on but I chopped it off and have never had the patience to grow it past my shoulders since. It has been every colour under the sun since I cut it, my favorite combo is pink and black. Which it is right now in fact!! :)
Mark wrote: "Lol. I have been too tall for my hair since my late teens. Short or long all the same to me."Me too! except mine was my early 20's
What is sad is that my father has had more hair than I do since my college days.
IMO there is nothing worse than a bald guy with a long fringe.
Mark wrote: "The dreaded combover. Lol"LMAO. My dad had a comb over. I once told him that it looked like a badly prepared tiger trap. Not enough branches to cover the pit. :D
I tired and tried to grow long hair in me teens. But it seemed to stop atr the middle of my back. Plus my Dad was always on my back because he liked my hair short. After fighting my hair and my dad, I finally gave in to short hair. Mine was always straight as a poker too, The only was I could get curls was with a perm. As I got older-(in my 60's) it was VERY short because I did not want to mess with it. But the strangest thing happened about 5 years ago. My hair started curling. Real tight curls. I couldn't believe it. Now at 71, I have my longed for curly hair and I am still almost solid dark brown, only a few grey hairs.
It is actually fairly bad that parents made us have the hair 'they' wanted us to have.I get that when a child is little, but I think as they become a teen the parents need to compromise. Allow some of the child's own taste to develop. After all, hair is part of our identity, who we are, especially when young when we are finding our groove. Being able to express a personal style (unless your style is buttoned down for work or military) is important.
Mark wrote: "The dreaded combover. Lol"or wearing it in a pony tail. I had a professor who did that.
My father in law has a comb over. Omg..it is so unflattering and I can't believe he can't see what others see...for that matter, I always wonder why the wife didn't encourage him to be proud of his bald head instead of trying to hide it. Of course it is too late now, but there would have been a stage when they were a young couple when he began combing over and maybe she could have had input then. But then they are of the generation where men are the authority and women don't tell them what to do. :/
My parents didn't care about my hair too much. My mom preferred it long and my dad preferred it short. My first haircut was in 2nd grade, a chin-length bob. I would let it get long then cut it somewhat short every 2 to 3 years until the very short cut after high school.@Anne, my hair was bone straight until my mid to late 30s. Now it gets quite wavy. So weird.
Chris F wrote: "O.K. I have to chip in to this hair thing with a male point of view. During the late 70s and early 80s I had long very curly hair down to my shoulders, which if straitened out would have gone about..."I have trouble picturing Chris will long, long curly hair.....:D
Yeah and you won't be seeing the photographic evidence either.
Hairstyle is the easiest and most effective form of rebellion! Schools (mostly in the 70s) banned boys with hair too long, then (mostly in the 80s and 90s) with hair too short or shaved. Girls mostly paid for colour (especially red or purple) as grown-up women preferred blonde for themselves.What seems very weird to me is the current obsession with hair straightening. When I was a kid (the 60s)it was made very clear to me that hair had to be curly, and I did spend nights trying to sleep with horrible prickly curlers torturing my dead straight hair.
I remember ironing my girlfriend's long hair back in the mid '60's. That straight hair Eglish beat look. When she did curl it she would use her dad's beer cans!!
I have hair to my waist, and my husband is in the military so he just shaves his head once a week. I tease him that he spends more time and maintenance on his hair than I do. Oddly enough, long hair requires far less maintenance than short, which has to be continually trimmed/shaved.
Short hair maintenance was a nuisance until I downsized my job, used that as an excuse to look homemade and cut my own. I'm not skilled, I just hate hairdressers. It takes moments of my time, and even then my mind's elsewhere. Luckily I'm going for the ragged/messy effect.
Chris F wrote: "... If I get it cut every 4 weeks, I don't even have to comb it if I don't want to..."That expresses my attitude. Keep it short enough that I can scrape it into position with my fingers 1st thing and that's that. I do not comb.
Bobby wrote: "I remember ironing my girlfriend's long hair back in the mid '60's. That straight hair Eglish beat look. When she did curl it she would use her dad's beer cans!!"She must have had to sit up all night. I can't imagine sleeping in those-LOL.
It would be an afternoon thing for us going out that night. Couldn't possibly sleep with them in. Made her head 3 times as big.
How crazy is all this! I read about Victorian corsets etc but I think the hair torture we've been through is just as bad!
Kate wrote: "I have hair to my waist, and my husband is in the military so he just shaves his head once a week. I tease him that he spends more time and maintenance on his hair than I do. Oddly enough, long h..."Absolutely. So much easier to have long hair. My hair is way passed waist at the moment, but that is only because I have been too lazy to cut it to waist length.
Like Bryn, I cut my own hair, which is a positive again of having long hair.
Easy to cut, no style cutting required. I have been cutting and layering my own hair for so many year now that i cannot stomach the expense of a hairdresser.
Jean wrote: "How crazy is all this! I read about Victorian corsets etc but I think the hair torture we've been through is just as bad!"Ain't that the truth!!
P.S Jean I tried to contact you over your Non Fiction thread (Looking for a book about..) but your profile is set up so you don't receive private messages. Sorry I had to remove that thread as we are more tailored towards fiction and we want to try not to get too heavily entangled with Non fiction threads.
I had my first permanent at the age of six(about) back in the days of those huge curcular thingyson a pole, from which hung these ugly little curlers. I was excited about it until they showed me the result. My hair stuck out all over my head in this humongous afro type of frizziness. I started bawling as soon as I saw it. After enduring the torture of those heavy curlers for which seemed to me like several days, I was horrified. So was my mother, but she was very kind about it. Me hair was cut soon after-LOL.
Haha! Funny. :) Scarred for life on curls?
Three things I've learned about the new Kindle Fire:1. Not being able to sort books into collections is annoying :(
2. The battery runs low at THE MOST inopportune times!
3. If you read in the wee hours, when its very dark, and very quiet...it's a good idea to switch off the "low battery audible alert"...Wow, did I jump! Glad I wasn't reading a thriller. ;)
Monica wrote: "Three things I've learned about the new Kindle Fire:1. Not being able to sort books into collections is annoying :(
2. The battery runs low at THE MOST inopportune times!
3. If you read in th..."
I've got the Kindle Keyboard. Fantastic battery life.
Monica, the mental picture of you jumping when the low battery alert went off caused me to chuckle out loud.
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Alright! Margaret is head banging. She must have put Meatloaf on. :D"
LOL. If I was playing Meat Loaf, at least the head banging would by rhythmic.