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@Sarah-h – Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is about Nathaniel Bowditch’s (a real person) journey from his modest beginnings, to his first sea voyage, to his rigorous self-education, to the triumphs of his fine-tuned mastery of navigation and eventual publication of his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailor’s Bible”).…[Read more]

@Sarah-h huh. I guess I’ve never looked for it. 🙂

@kate-flournoy – Yes lunch. (Which I have had now. It is actually 12:54pm) And if it was 8pm over here I’d be heading to bed. Which sounds nice cause I had a late night (got to bed at 1am) cause my sister had her engagement party. But no, I still have the whole afternoon ahead of me.
@daeus – You’ll probably find that you skim read it cause you…[Read more]

Shadow Hawk, by Andre Norton. Hittite Warrior and God King by Joanne Williamson.

Lunch @bluejay! It’s 8:00 pm here! 😛

Oops sorry @daeus. (My fingers are way toooo fast for my brain and I’m hungry for lunch so my head isn’t focused.) 😛

You were right @writefury. It is the fear of long words. (Thank you Google. 🙂 ) I like your idea too @deaus

If that’s what it is, I definitely have it!

YES. All of the above. 😀

Oh good grief, you guys make me shudder! Where do you find these terrible tongue twisters?!?! 😛 😛 😛

Yes! Yes! Yes! Normally I hate maths (I have a soon to be brother-in-law who can’t understand how I can dislike it) but Nat makes me wish that I had a better brain and I sometimes feel like learning Latin and Greek too. 🙂

I have no idea what they do as I’m Australian not New Zealand. I found it in a book and loved it ever since. 😛

And there’s nothing like that sort of story to make math exciting. I always finish and I’m like “Ah! Now where’s my algebra book?” XD

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – what a word! What does it mean? 🙂

I believe it’s the irrational fear of large words. Obviously invented by some cruel person. XD
And that hill name… wow. I got lost halfway through. You guys have some sort of nickname for it, right?

It’s a great book. It is written so well that it is interesting and yet it still has a great lot of history in it.

@gretald Glad to be of help. 😛 I’d take into consideration one of @kate-flournoy‘s points as well when your starting out. The bit about contradictions is definitely something to work with. Usually having a fish-out-of-water concept to work with starts off the inspiration quite a bit.
Cressida Cowell came up with Hiccup as “The Viking Who Was…[Read more]

@gretad Glad to be of help. 😛 I’d take into consideration one of @kate-flournoy‘s points as well when your starting out. The bit about contradictions is definitely something to work with. Usually having a fish-out-of-water concept to work with starts off the inspiration quite a bit.
Cressida Cowell came up with Hiccup as “The Viking Who Was…[Read more]

By the way, this is the name of a hill in New Zealand. Have fun trying to say it –
taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu 😀 And for another interesting name, a town in France has the shortest name – Y. 😛

YES! I totally forgot Carry on Mr. Bowditch. That one is amazing. I’ve reread it like 3 times. 😛

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – what a word! What does it mean? 🙂