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Golden Son (The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 2) | Brown, Pierce

Totally just went to the library for ONE book only! Need to get the 2nd book of the series just in case, but somehow all the other books wanted to come home with me too!! 😆🙈 Don‘t ask me how did that happen? 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄 #NotMyFault
BTW, didn‘t know #ThePoppyWar is that Big & not #YA?😅
Cont 👇🏼👇🏼

#librarybooks #bookhaul #TBR #newbooks #bookworm #booknerd #SciFi #fantasy #Murder #Mystery #AussieReader #Funko

BooknerdsLife I‘m not sure yet, but saw it in the library on my way out, so Maybe I‘ll do a reread ?

Of Mice and Men

Reggie Omg this is how Litsy is for me, last week some day I added 10 books to my TBR and i was like when the hell am I gonna read those. That was just one day!!! Lol 5y

BooknerdsLife @Reggie HAHAAAAA IKR! 🤣🤣 We are helpless when it comes to book and Litsy definitely not helping! At least nice to know that we will Never run out of books to read 😅🙌🏼📚📚📚 5y

JulietReads Do not worry. It's perfectly normal. 😁 5y

BooknerdsLife @JulietBooks 😆💗 5y

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GingerAntics

My Kingdom for a Horse: The War of the Roses | Ed West

So much going on here with this, @Texreader. I think I had to read this 4 or 5 times to take it all in. No wonder I sucked at spelling as a kid.
#EdWest #MyKingdomForAHorse #history #englishhistory #snarkyhistory #spelling #notmyfault

julesG That German example is wrong. It's "ich bin, du bist, er ist". 5y

GingerAntics @julesG I thought that last of the three looked funny. I thought I‘d just gotten my French and my German mixed up. Maybe that‘s what it was back in the 1400‘s? 🤷🏼‍♀️ 5y

julesG In the 1400s Middle High German was spoken. The verb "sein" (to be) was "sîn" back then. In it's Indikative form, it was "ich bin, dû bist, er ist". In the Konjunktiv form it was "ich sî, dû sîst, er sî". BUT I'm not an expert on this topic. 5y

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GingerAntics @julesG I‘m nodding with that glazed look in my eyes now. lol You‘re lucky I remember any modern German as it is. I definitely never knew High German. lol 5y

julesG High German is German. We call it "High" to distinguish it from the lots of dialects (Bavarian, Saxonian,...) and regional variations (Swiss German, Austrian German,...). It's the "purest" version of German that hardly anyone speaks. It is a bit like Received Pronounciation in Britain. Proper German, the unblemished language (I'm rolling my eyes here), is supposed to be spoken in the area between Bremen and Hanover. Everyone else speaks dialect.? 5y

GingerAntics @julesG oh for the love of all that‘s holy. 🙄 What is children‘s programming in? We used to watch cartoons and learn to play German games in German. I‘m going to guess education stuff is all “proper” German? Because certainly German that other Germans can understand isn‘t good enough. 🙄🤣😂🤣 5y

julesG Yes, education, TV programmes, radio is "High German", although regional accents(!) are allowed. Heaven forbid dialect. Just another reason why I love to watch films in their original version; in the dubbed versions all characters speak High German - so many facets are missing. Just imagine Outlander where EVERY single character speaks Received Pronounciation and you get an idea how much torture dubbed versions are for me. 5y

julesG BTW, there are regional variations, dialects, and even accents that are hard to understand even for a German. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG okay dubbed sounds like absolute torture. That would just be obnoxious. Absolutely not. Okay, so I guess the bits and pieces I know are high German. I can‘t spell in German any better than I can in English, though. 5y

julesG 😂😂😂 5y

GingerAntics @julesG for example, why one earth are their so many letters in Auf Wiedersehen?! I can never keep them all straight. How many E‘s? Don‘t for the get H or the I. Half the time I want to make the S, a Z. I‘m practically German illiterate!!! Although, there was a time I read it better than I spoke it. Go figure. 5y

julesG My daughter just learned about the diphtongs and when to add an H for a long sounding vowel. It's tricky, but contrary to English, what you see is what you get. German spelling is rather literal (no pun intended). The way it's spelled is how it's pronounced. Long 'iiiiii' sound? Use either 'ie' or 'ih'. Short vowel sound? Often followed by a double consonant... 5y

GingerAntics @julesG I actually never knew any of those things. Yeah, English is messed up. You can basically have w silent any letter as long as it‘s accepted spelling. It‘s madness. Yacht - who in the bloody hell has heard of a silent ch?! 5y

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JacintaMCarter

Speed Reading For Dummies | Richard Sutz

I had to take a certification test for work today. My boss said it would take 90 minutes. I finished in 25 minutes and scored a 93% on it. I think he might be a little bit afraid of me now. #NotMyFault #SpeedReader

LauraBeth Wow - I'M a little afraid of you now! Congrats 🎉 7y

mcipher Nice!!! 7y

Robothugs That's awesome!! 😊 7y

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Lcsmcat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y

Wife Bam 💥! 7y

LauraBrook Awesome! (Also, this is always me with tests. I hate having to wait for everyone else to finish and not being allowed to read in the meantime.) 7y

Jcarter295 Anyone with a brain is a little bit afraid of you... 7y

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Loretta

The Sign of the Four | Arthur Conan Doyle

This is why I can't do anything but lie around and read today. #notmyfault #catspajamas #catsoflitsy

Eyelit 👍 pajamas 😻 8y

rubyslippersreads I need those PJs! 😻😻😻 8y

Loretta @rubyslippersreads @Eyelit They're just Old Navy. Got them before the holidays for about $10. 👍🏻 8y

DebinHawaii Love the pjs and the cute kitty! 🐱❤️ 8y

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