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"Not a shred of evidence exists in favour of the idea that life is serious."

If you like any of the books on my AVL shelf, please feel free to contact me! If you would like to surprise me with a book from my wishlist, I am on RABCK.com! :D

Let me introduce myself:
I am a young teacher from Belgium. I can teach Dutch, English and History, although I'm currently teaching Dutch, English, History and Technology ... don't ask.
I have very few hobbies apart from reading and travelling! And even those hobbies I can't practise as much as I would like to. Teaching does tend to take up a lot of your time and energy. :D I also love music. I like a lot of different music, but my favourite kinds of music are rock and metal.
I live together with my boyfriend in my hometown of Antwerp. I am usually a rather upbeat and optimistic person, except once a month I become slightly evil ... (So I've been told!) ;)

What do I read?
Well, basically anything that I find interesting. I like all things magical, so you can always please me with some fantasy. I'm also a big history fan, so any historic novel is good. Books that contain a certain amount of humour are always a big hit with me! But in trying to define what you like to read, you always exclude what you don't like. (D'uh) And I try to exclude as little as possible. (Except chicklit/womens fiction ... I'm not a fan of that at all!)
Most books I have at home will never be registered. (So that is why my shelf doesn't really reflect my taste.) But on the other hand I will never keep a BC book, if I like it so much that I actually want to own it, I'll put it on my Christmas or Birthday list.

My permanent collection
The books that are listed in my permanent collection are books for in my classroom. I have a small classroom library with which I hope to get my pupils interested in books and reading. The aim is to create the automatic response to grab a book when they are finished with their work or test. And with many of them it seems to work! If you have any Dutch novels for teens (ages 12 to 16) I would be very interested in them.

My 'extra' bookshelf:
Less important information like which challenges I'm participating in, which books I've read in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, lists of caught and found books can be found on what I call my 'extra' bookshelf. In order to declutter this one. You can find it here.

Books I read in 2012: (Books indicated with * are rings/rays.)
1. Het middernachtspaleis door Carlos Ruiz Zafon *
2. Viking: Odinn's Child by Tim Severin
3. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
4. The Whaleboat House by Mark Mills
5. Raven: Blood Eye by Giles Kristian
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
7. The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman
8. The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone
9. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
10. All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses and Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
11. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
12. Creatures of the Night by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli *
13. Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol door Dimitri Verhulst
14. Eldest by Christopher Paolini
15. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
16. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
17. De kunstgreep door Iain Pears --> Reading now
17. The collected short stories of Roald Dahl --> Reading now

Rings/Rays I started: (If you want to join in, please feel free to PM me!)
- De Trein der Traagheid door Johan Daisne [Ring: Closed]
- De ordening door Kees van Beijnum [Ring: Closed]
- Psychics and Swords: The Amazing and Totally Plausible Adventures of Steve Walton by J.M. Naydol [Ray]
- Huppel en Sy Maats by W.O. Kuhne [Ray]