I've gotten much better at reading both Arabic and Swedish ... Arabic after having read the translated versions of the first three Harry Potter books, and Swedish after having read a few old, thick, word-rich Swedish books I found at the Los Angeles Library. I didn't notice I was getting that much better, because really… Continue reading Reading Arabic and Swedish
I read this book from the "American Girls" series, and I was a little skeptical. Because I'd just read another mystery book about Kit (a robbery happens at the Cincinnati theatre where she's helping out) and I hadn't really liked it. But this one was so great. First, Kit takes the train from Cincinnati to… Continue reading A little kids book with so many great messages
I've had Malala's book on my shelf for 10 years, and never read it yet! So I finally picked it up and on page 100 what did I find: Excerpt from Malala's first book Would you look at that? No one wonder the US govt doesn't complain when other highly-esteemed countries do the same thing… Continue reading Malala’s book
I wrote about Swedish books at the Los Angeles library earlier, and I wanted to write more specifically about the kids' books in Swedish that they have. They have a lot of them! These books are all housed in the children's section (as opposed to the international books section). Most are not actually on the… Continue reading Swedish books at the Los Angeles Library
I read these three books -- about the same three sisters -- repeatedly in middle-school: Journey to America books I found them again recently and re-read them all. The first book in the series is "Journey to America" and that's about a family leaving Germany right before World War II. And the two other books… Continue reading Journey to America books
Remember how I wrote that the Arabic translation of Harry Potter #1 (Sorcerer's Stone) pretty much followed the original English to the letter, baring some few slight deviations? Well, unfortunately, the translation of the second book does not. The book's font is bigger, there's far fewer sentences squeezed in per page, and it's barely longer… Continue reading Harry Potter in Arabic: The Chamber of Secrets
#1 Boxcar Children -- Henry 14, Jessie 12, Violet 10, Benny 5 (this is baldly stated by the author, something she stops doing just a few books in, which is why I have to compute their ages in other ways.) #2 Surprise Island -- Henry 15, Benny 6 (as stated by the author). Jessie and… Continue reading Boxcar Children — their ages book by book
I recently found out that many of the books that Lucy Maud Montgomery mentions reading in her journals -- obscure books from the 1800s -- can be found in the Loserville Library. When I say obscure, I mean they are obscure today. They were best-sellers back in their time. One of them is Beside the… Continue reading Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
I was reading a book called "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself", published just before the Civil War. The author is Harriet Jacobs. Harriet was born a slave in 1813 on the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina, and she spent about 10 years trying to escape. When she finally did,… Continue reading When evil overplays its hands
The Home is a book about a family in Sweden in the early 1800s. They have like 7 kids. The author is Fredrika Bremer. I got to know her through an exhibit I saw at the Swedish museum in Philadelphia. I found The Home in the Loserville Library, in Swedish. In the original Swedish, the… Continue reading The Home: a book from the year 1839 sounds like it was written today
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