#Els Beerten

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Een uitgelezen november

In november las ik 13 boeken. Van mijn topfavoriet ben ik nog altijd stil. Welke dat is, ontdek je hier.

November was niet alleen in Antwerpen boekenmaand. Er was Boektopia, Voorleesweek, de voorstelling van de nieuwe Grote Vriendelijke 100 en voor het werk mag ik ook nog een opleiding Jeugdliteratuur voor bibliotheekmedewerkers volgen. Gevolg: veel prikkels en een uitgebreide WIL-lijst om de winter mee door te komen.November, maand van de doden. En dat zal mijn boekenlijstje geweten hebben. (more…)

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still bewildered of all the in-depth summaries I could find of Allemaal WIllen We de Hemel only one mentions that Jef is not straight, and not even because of his romantic relationship with a guy.

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Allemaal willen we de hemel: Renée, 24 april 2017

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Maybe reading about running will finally get me addicted to running like so many people claim they are? A few days ago I ran for the first time this year and I'm hoping to go for a run at least once a week. We'll see, last year I had a hard time being consistent with it.

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Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. :)

Yeah!0. As a computer science student I am forever confused what index other people refer to when they say ‘first’.1. I followed a vegetarian diet for ten years.2. I’m considering to change my diet back to vegetarian.3. A couple of weeks ago I found a blog post that mentioned: “I call this the cave of marathon training, where the fatigue and frequency of training just locks you in.” It was on a tumblr that I can’t find back, which is a shame because I really really relate to it.4. I’m completely in the cave the moment. On the one hand I want to go it to be over and go outside but on the other hand, it is a silent and peaceful place and I just want to stay here forever.5. I’ve read ‘what I talk about when I talk about running’ and I did not like it at all. I thought it was self-centered and unrelatable navel-gazing.6. But I read a really good book about marathon running when I was 15. It made such an impression on me that it may or may not be the reason I wanted to run a marathon in the first place.7. The book is called ‘Lopen voor je leven’ by Els Beerten and of course it is not available in English (it’s translated to German though, I just looked it up :p).8. The previous fact was a fact about the book and not about me so I guess I just broke the rules.9. My average RHR over the past 7 days is 42 according to my Garmin.

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Top 5 Books!

1. The Strain series, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan2. Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown3. Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer4. Allemaal willen we de hemel, by Els Beerten5. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

This was kind of hard, although I love reading !Thank you for asking !

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De vaste gegevens

Auteur : Els Beerten

Titel: Lopen voor je leven

Plaats van uitgave : Den Bosch

Uitgever : Malmberg

Jaar van uitgave : 2006

Druk : Niet vermeld

Originele titel van het boek : Lopen voor je leven

Aantal bladzijden : 220

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Every year I make a goal of it to read two books a month. Every year I make a list. I usually end there, but this year I thought I’d jot down some impressions of each book and post / share the list. Here you go! (The list is in the order I read the books).

1. Sails On The Horizon -- Jay Worrall, 284 pp

* This is the first of three books by Jay Worrall in a series of Royal Navy historical fiction in the vein of Patrick O’Brian or C. F. Forester. It doesn’t measure up to either of them, but it’s a fun read nonetheless. This first of the three is the better of the two I read this year.

2. Wanderer -- Sterling Hayden, 434 pp

* Sterling Hayden was a movie star in the golden age of Hollywood. He had a self destructive urge to chuck the career and go sailing in schooners. The book is well written, entertaining, but frustrating to watch as Hayden screws up his life, marriage and family. Fascinating insight into the HUAC hearings and the red scare. Great read.

3. Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, 418 pp

* I need to read it again. There were so many deep insights in this book into how people think. Kahneman and his partner were the subjects of Michael Lewis’s most recent book, “The Undoing Project”. I haven’t read that one yet, but this one was one of the best I read this year.

4. In The Garden of Beasts -- Erik Larson, 365 pp

* Erik Larson writes good books. Years ago I read “Isaac’s Storm”, a gripping account of the worst natural disaster in US history, a hurricane that hit Galveston and killed 6000 people. This book puts you into the days leading up to the Nazis coming to power. The fascinating part is that you are in the heads of people who don’t yet know how the story is about to turn out, sort of like all of us today.

5. Essential Dutch Grammar -- Henry R. Stern, 84 pp

* Essential if you want to speak Dutch.

6. Any Approaching Enemy -- Jay Worrall, 274 pp.

* See above. Not as worth it as the first in the series.

7. Storm Passage: Alone Around Cape Horn -- Webb Chiles, 248 pp

* Webb Chiles is a serial solo circumnavigator in sailboats. He’s even done it in an open double masted canoe, I think. He writes pretty well about the experiences he’s had as well, and his books are available for download from his website. He’s part of what I’d call the “Cruiser’s Cannon”. If you’re interested in long distance journeying on a sailboat, read Webb Chiles along with the Pardey’s, Hal Roth, and some others.

8. Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind -- Michael J. Bradley, 324pp

* This is less about what’s wrong with teen agers and more of a guild for how parents can adapt and adjust to the crazy emotional swings of these years. I think it helped me to read the book. It definitely pointed out many of the things I was doing wrong, some of them embarrassing and painful.

9. In het donker is het veilig -- Els Beerten, 79 pp

* My first book in Dutch! Els is Greet’s aunt, and a well known author of both young adult books and full-on adult novels (Els came in second a few years ago for the Dutch language version of the Pulitzer Prize called the Golden Owl for her book “Alemaal Willen We de Hemel”.

10. Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans -- Louis Armstrong, 240pp

* It was fun to read a book in Armstrong’s own words. His voice is strong. There’s not a super compelling narrative. It’s more like sitting at his knee and listening to him reminisce about the old days in New Orleans. The book stops before he goes on to achieve most of his fame and is more a litany of his early heroes among the marching band and jazz hall giants of the teens and twenties.

11. The Unbanking of America -- How The New Middle Class Survives -- Lisa Servon, 184 pp

* I mostly red this for work, but it was a good primer on understanding why and how banks and other traditional financial institutions are not working for about half of America. It’s a quick read. Informative.

12. Admiral Hornblower In The West Indies -- C. S. Forester, 342 pp

* The last of the Horatio Hornblower series. Wow! These books are great! Along with Patrick O’Brian, historical fiction at its best. I’m excited to go on and read other Forester books like “The African Queen”.

13. Wizard's First Rule -- Terry Goodkind, 820 pp

* I’ve hear about and seen Goodkind’s books for years in the fantasy section of bookstores. I’ve had them recommended to me. I think this was a bit too sadomasochistic for my tastes, kind of like what you might expect if Stephen Sagal took up writing about sorcerers and dragons. I won’t be reading more of his seemingly endless series of books.

14. Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life, William Finnegan, 447pp

* Finnegan’s writing can lay a great deal of claim to why we live in the Bayt Area and why I surf. He wrote an article in the early 90’s for the New Yorker called “Playing Doc’s Games” that I read and thought “I want that!” It described big wave surfing at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It painted a picture of surfing as wild and cerebral way more of a calling than I had ever expected. The book is more melancholy than I thought it would be, and Finnegan has decidedly love-hate relation with the pursuit. It was a great book. Along with “Caught Inside” by Daniel Duane, I’d rank it as my favorite surfing book.

15. The Billionaire and the Mechanic -- Julian Guthrie, 336 pp

* This is the story of Larry Ellison’s multiple America’s Cup campaigns and of the involvement of the San Francisco Yacht Club. The book was a great window into sailboat racing, the history and maneuvers around the Cup. I think I understand it now. It is also a gripping blow-by-blow of the multiple campaigns. The book even managed to humanize Ellison a little bit.

16. Hillbilly Elegy -- J. D. Vance, 261 pp

* Lots of hype about this one. It would have been hard to live up to it. Call it “Angela’s Ashes of Ohio”. Part of my ambivalence is realizing that I come partly from the same stock as Vance. I called my grandparents “Mamaw and Papaw” too.

17. Sacred Hoops -- Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, 224 pp

* Mindfulness and basketball. I ended up getting to know and liking Phil Jackson. The book wasn’t particularly well written, but it did provide a privileged perspective.

18. Body of Lies -- David Ignatius, 349 pp

* This is a great spy novel. At a company offsite this year we had Hank Crumpton, former head of counter terrorism under Bush 2 and bona fide spy for many years come speak with us. Someone asked which portrayal of spies in popular media comes closest to reality. He said David Ignatius.

19. A People's History of the United States --Howard Zinn, 688 pp

* The history of the US told from the perspective of women, slaves, Native Americans and the working class. It turns out we suck in many, many ways. There are high ideals on which the country was founded, but we’ve spent the majority of our history not nearly living up to those ideals. We’re still not today. This was a bear of a book to get through, but it felt important and edifying the whole time. Glad I read it. I wish we could do better as a country.

20. Around the World in Eighty Days -- Jules Verne, 297 pp

* It’s a classic! It still holds up to reading. The classics are classics for good reason.

21. Hyperion — Dan Simmons, 482 pp

* How did I go so long without knowing about this series from Dan Simmons!? Some of the best science fiction I’ve ever read, right up there with Asimov’s Foundation series or Ender’s Game, but with a deep injection of classic literature (Chaucer!!) and poetry (Keats and Yeats!!).

22. Single & Single — John Le Carré, 345 pp

* I love Le Carré. It is spy fiction, but quietly, masterfully and elegantly written. Read anything by him.

23. The Fall off Hyperion — Dan Simmons, 517 pp

* See above. The first book in the series is really the set up. This is the payoff. There are others, but these first two books provide a complete story arc.

24. Sad Cypress — Agatha Christie, 191 pp

* Timeless popcorn.

25. Stormy Weather — Carl Hiaasen, 400 pp

* Present-day popcorn. Hiaasen is a columnist at the Miami Herald. He pulls many of his story ideas from the actual news. His books are a riot, filled with whacky characters on crazy capers with antiheroes and the backdrop of swamps and gators.

26. Doctor No — Ian Fleming, 232 pp

* I’ve never read a Bond novel. I wanted to see where the movies came from. It was interesting from a historical perspective, but dated, racist, mysogenistgic, and contrived. The funny thing is that the movies seem to do better by taking it all further and taking it less seriously.

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Titel: Allemaal willen we de hemel

Auteur: Els Beerten

Uitgever en plaats: Querido, Amsterdam

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De Tirannie

Schets het verhaal. Je woont in Limburg en je hebt een muzikale familie, je vader komt plots te overlijden en alles verandert. Je broer gaat ergens anders wonen en jij moet proberen met de tirannie van je moeder te leven. Na de dood van je zusje is de emmer vol en er gebeurt iets waardoor jij samen met je broer besluiten elders te gaan wonen. Dat overkomt Juliette in het boek ‘Eén mens is genoeg’ geschreven door Els Beerten. Het boek is door de schrijver op een vervelende manier geschreven.

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Lopen voor je leven

Auteur : Els Beerten

Titel : Lopen voor je leven

Plaats van uitgave : Malmberg

Uitgever : Den Bosch

Jaar van uitgave : 2006

Druk : Niet vermeld

Originele titel van het boek : Lopen voor je leven

Aantal bladzijden : 220

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Lopen voor je leven

Auteur: Els Beerten

Titel: Lopen voor je leven

Plaats van uitgave: Wommelgem

Uitgever: Van In

Jaar van uitgave: 2003

Druk: niet vermeld

Originele titel van het boek: Lopen voor je leven

Aantal bladzijden: 220

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Anneke Beerten estrena youtube con Specialized

Anneke Beerten estrena youtube con Specialized

En la entrada de hace unos días te comentaba que la holandesa Anneke Beerten volvía a Specialized. En su presentación comentaba que además de carreas también se centraría en tareas como embajadora de la marca y del mountainbike femenino. Acaba de publicar una entrevista en Pinkbike en que la que comenta además que por problemas de financiación este año no podrá hacer el circuito completo de la…

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Els Beerten wint Cultuurprijs voor Jeugdliteratuur met haar boek 'Allemaal willen we de hemel'.

Heb jij dit bejubelde boek al gelezen? Het boek won in het verleden ook de Boekenleeuw, de Gouden Uil Prijs van de Jonge Lezer, de Gouden Lijst, de Nienke van Hichtumprijs en de Lavki-prijs. Zeker een aanrader!