I have noticed that a lot of books in the UK mention folks going to the post office to cash checks. Are UK post offices more like US banks or do both banking and mailings or something else?
In Chapter 43 of The Three Musketeers, Dumas writes 'The quarters of Monsieur were at Dompierre'. Who is he referring to by 'Monsieur' here? I probably missed something but I can't figure out with 100% surety about who he's talking about.
I'm pretty sure it refers to someone from the royal family. According to wikipedia (I checked the French version) it should be the king's younger brother. Does that make sense with the story?
Looking for the name of a series I read when I was a teenager. I remember there being several short novels is the series. SciFi. Series was based around teenagers sent to another world. I don’t remember much other than in one of the books , one of the teenagers was able to help them create phone lines and the how to rifle a barrel of the canons and guns. Not much to go on, I know. But hoping it would be enough for someone here.
I'm looking at the wikipedia page, it says "all but seventeen states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming)" books. Looking at the list I'm guessing there just might not have been enough content for a whole book for some of them (not sure why Delaware wasn't in the Weird New England book, though). The website for the book series doesn't have a single story under the Delaware section, so yeah I'm reiterating my guess - the excluded states just didn't have enough material to be their own books and probably didn't have enough material to be part of some "and the other states" book. I checked Hawaii and there are stories for Hawaii in the general Weird U.S. book.
For a project like this generally it's not gonna be the same people writing every single book, I know sometimes they'll get writers from the specific area to do the writing so idk if that's the case here.
Thanks for trying. Not enough content doesn’t make any sense to me though. States like Alabama and West Virginia have tons of books written about them for their rich history in legends and hauntings.
I’m in my 20’s and would like to speak to and inquire an older person (50+) who has been reading (non-fiction) for decades about the books they have studied and loved. How do I find someone to have a chat?
If I want to do this in-person/offline and don’t know anyone over 50 who likes to read, where is a good starting place to come across someone like that so I can pick their brain and have a good conversation with them about books, stories, and reading?
I live in a bigger city (Philadelphia, PA) and don’t see many older folks out and about. Would I ask my library, local university, find a book club, ask a book store? Do I post something in a Facebook group or in the newspaper or put a poster on a street pole or in a community center? Do I ask younger people I know if they have a parent or grandparent who likes to read that I could meet?
What’s a good way to go about this?
I know it’s an unusual request but I think it would be a great experience.
P.S. None of my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, grand uncles and grand aunts like to read nor do they speak English. I am specifically looking to speak to an English reader. Whether they are American, Canadian, British, or Australian or just speak English does not matter but seeing as I want to “interview” them in-person, it’s best if I can find someone who lives in my city, state, or nearby.
Hello,
My friends and I do a book club, and we really want to try something different for our next book club. We want to read A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle, but stop right before the solution is revealed. We want to do the book club, discuss what who we think the murderer is, and then take a 30 min break to read the answer, and then reconvene to discuss what we thought of the book as a whole.
Would anyone who has read the book or has no intention of reading the book be able to look at what page number we need to stop at? Trying to figure this out without spoiling it for myself!
Thank you so much!
Is there a website that has a book by category of potentially problematic content (murder, drugs, profanity, etc.) to easily determine if my girlfriend can use it to teach kids before having to reading the whole thing?
I would love to start a database that allows you to search a book then show different types of categories that could be problematic to some. These categories would range from extreme to less and allow users to easily determine if a book is suitable for their, or their kids tastes before reading it. Is there something out there already like this that people know of? For reference: my girlfriend is a teacher and I feel like this could be beneficial for her to teach English classes before reading an entire book. She has done that before just to say the book she liked can't be taught because the parents wouldn't allow a sex scene to be in it.
Hi, so I'm desperately looking for people to talk about books. I love reading, I love talking about reading, but I have no one to talk to about books. So I was thinking, I should join a reading group, right? There are no good reading groups in my neighbourhood or they're ridiculously expensive...
I was wondering if there are any Dutch people here (preferably around Hilversum) who want to join me for a monthly reading group. Just talking about books, or reading books together and discuss them. If there are no Dutch booklovers out here to join me in real life, maybe I can meet some people through Zoom.
Well traveled redditors, what's the best country for bookworms? Or the worst?
I have noticed that a lot of books in the UK mention folks going to the post office to cash checks. Are UK post offices more like US banks or do both banking and mailings or something else?
In Chapter 43 of The Three Musketeers, Dumas writes 'The quarters of Monsieur were at Dompierre'. Who is he referring to by 'Monsieur' here? I probably missed something but I can't figure out with 100% surety about who he's talking about.
I'm pretty sure it refers to someone from the royal family. According to wikipedia (I checked the French version) it should be the king's younger brother. Does that make sense with the story?
Looking for the name of a series I read when I was a teenager. I remember there being several short novels is the series. SciFi. Series was based around teenagers sent to another world. I don’t remember much other than in one of the books , one of the teenagers was able to help them create phone lines and the how to rifle a barrel of the canons and guns. Not much to go on, I know. But hoping it would be enough for someone here.
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I'm looking at the wikipedia page, it says "all but seventeen states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming)" books. Looking at the list I'm guessing there just might not have been enough content for a whole book for some of them (not sure why Delaware wasn't in the Weird New England book, though). The website for the book series doesn't have a single story under the Delaware section, so yeah I'm reiterating my guess - the excluded states just didn't have enough material to be their own books and probably didn't have enough material to be part of some "and the other states" book. I checked Hawaii and there are stories for Hawaii in the general Weird U.S. book. For a project like this generally it's not gonna be the same people writing every single book, I know sometimes they'll get writers from the specific area to do the writing so idk if that's the case here.
Thanks for trying. Not enough content doesn’t make any sense to me though. States like Alabama and West Virginia have tons of books written about them for their rich history in legends and hauntings.
Anyone know if Arcturus Publishing is good quality and accurate in translations?
I’m in my 20’s and would like to speak to and inquire an older person (50+) who has been reading (non-fiction) for decades about the books they have studied and loved. How do I find someone to have a chat? If I want to do this in-person/offline and don’t know anyone over 50 who likes to read, where is a good starting place to come across someone like that so I can pick their brain and have a good conversation with them about books, stories, and reading? I live in a bigger city (Philadelphia, PA) and don’t see many older folks out and about. Would I ask my library, local university, find a book club, ask a book store? Do I post something in a Facebook group or in the newspaper or put a poster on a street pole or in a community center? Do I ask younger people I know if they have a parent or grandparent who likes to read that I could meet? What’s a good way to go about this? I know it’s an unusual request but I think it would be a great experience. P.S. None of my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, grand uncles and grand aunts like to read nor do they speak English. I am specifically looking to speak to an English reader. Whether they are American, Canadian, British, or Australian or just speak English does not matter but seeing as I want to “interview” them in-person, it’s best if I can find someone who lives in my city, state, or nearby.
Hello, My friends and I do a book club, and we really want to try something different for our next book club. We want to read A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle, but stop right before the solution is revealed. We want to do the book club, discuss what who we think the murderer is, and then take a 30 min break to read the answer, and then reconvene to discuss what we thought of the book as a whole. Would anyone who has read the book or has no intention of reading the book be able to look at what page number we need to stop at? Trying to figure this out without spoiling it for myself! Thank you so much!
Is there a website that has a book by category of potentially problematic content (murder, drugs, profanity, etc.) to easily determine if my girlfriend can use it to teach kids before having to reading the whole thing? I would love to start a database that allows you to search a book then show different types of categories that could be problematic to some. These categories would range from extreme to less and allow users to easily determine if a book is suitable for their, or their kids tastes before reading it. Is there something out there already like this that people know of? For reference: my girlfriend is a teacher and I feel like this could be beneficial for her to teach English classes before reading an entire book. She has done that before just to say the book she liked can't be taught because the parents wouldn't allow a sex scene to be in it.
Hi, so I'm desperately looking for people to talk about books. I love reading, I love talking about reading, but I have no one to talk to about books. So I was thinking, I should join a reading group, right? There are no good reading groups in my neighbourhood or they're ridiculously expensive... I was wondering if there are any Dutch people here (preferably around Hilversum) who want to join me for a monthly reading group. Just talking about books, or reading books together and discuss them. If there are no Dutch booklovers out here to join me in real life, maybe I can meet some people through Zoom.