Missouri in Mazury

As you might've gathered from reading other posts, we are raising B and L to be bilingual. We've also tossed around the idea of adding yet another language, as I also speak German. So far we've still been hesitant, since it complicates things a bit: when would we speak English and when would we speak German? Wouldn't it confuse them more? Eh. Today we decided to just dive in a try it out, so I began speaking only German to B, using a lot of hand gestures. At one point: B: No! Me: Nein? B: ...ten. As he was leaving, I got a "tschüß", so I'd call it a good start.

Who knew having a baby would be so time consuming and would leave so little time for reading!? Ha ha ha. My adventure with Jasper Fforde's books started last year with The Eyre Affair (highly recommend!), and because my library doesn't have any further books in that series, I started on the Last Dragonslayer series . The Eye of Zoltar is the third book in that series that revolves around Jennifer Strange. She is an orphan who runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians in a time when magic is weak and fading even more. In this book, the Mighty Shandar (the most powerful wizard ever) is back. He has a beef with Jennifer, who ruined the progress he'd made on a deal from long ago. In order to make amends, Jennifer must bring him the Eye of Zoltar. Unfortunately, the journey will be a very dangerous one into the Cambrian Empire, where their tour guide estimates their survival rate to be around 50%. If you haven't read other books by Jasper Fforde, read them....

I read this book, because everyone I know seemed to be going crazy about it. I borrowed the Polish/English version and would give a big thumbs up to the translator, who did a fantastic job.  As for my review of the original works, I wrote a poem in the style of the book to sum up my feelings on this one: if i write without capitalization and punctuation but add line breaks at random moments that don't add meaning to the actual poem did i just write a poem I enjoy poetry when it's well written, but I didn't like this book of poetry. I felt it was overrated and not original. There were definitely a few poems I liked, but it was disappointing to read essentially the same poem over and over - there were very few new ideas between each poem and also very few new ideas in the book as a whole. I was extremely disappointed in the quality of the poems themselves. I expect poems to be lyrical and to express a different idea - it may be along the sam...

Learning English, or any language, can be so funny. B: L got shot. M: L got *a* shot. B: Mama did it. Thank goodness we're not in an English-speaking country.