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Re: Selective mutism? - Yesterday

I can't trace it back to any event. He just gradually said less and now he seems to make a sport of it. Which is why I'm not sure what it is, exactly. Today he mentioned he only spoke in the bathroom at school and the bathroom at the orthoptist's. (I know, I was there.) So he's very aware of it and doesn't mind sharing his boundaries with me ;-) He didn't even mind telling me all this in the l
by Lise - Tea Room

heh - 2 days ago

(though this will obviously not help if you are looking for information that could apply to a Regency based story). Heh, no :-) I figured I'd ask here, because another site I read at tends to say 'look in the archives' and I wasn't finding anything conclusive there.
by Lise - Tea Room

Re: Selective mutism? - 2 days ago

Believe me this means she is often vastly underestimated in school, particularly with new teachers. In second grade she even told her teacher, "I'm so much smarter than you think I am." That's one of my concerns. My son (now 3.5) said very little for a long while, so he had speech therapy. He improved to a normal level, whether through therapy or natural improvement. But then, he suddenly deci
by Lise - Tea Room

Selective mutism? - 2 days ago

Does anyone have any experience with selective mutism?
by Lise - Tea Room

Re: Grand Prix d'Eurovision de la Chanson - Eurovision Song Contest!! - 6 days ago

LOL I doubt I can watch. I doubt I want to, unless I watched a foreign channel. The excitement of having made the final (probably ever since semi-finals were created) is too much for our national media.
by Lise - Tea Room

chamber horse - 21 days ago

I still don't see how you could exercise on it! Just a balance thing, maybe?
by Lise - JAFF Library

Chapters 9 and 10 - 30 days ago

Is everyone still here? The story is pretty slow, isn't it? I've just read 9 and 10. Interesting how Miss Lambe is half mulatto (is that 1/2 or 1/4?) and still a desirable party, when origins were so all important. How was the black population in the West Indies viewed then? Was there a sort of gentry or even middle class? The Miss Beauforts remind me of the Miss Musgroves.
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: Persuasion Adaptation 1995 or 2007? (or others I have't seen?) - 4 weeks ago

There were things I liked better in eiter version, but on the whole I prefer the 1995.
by Lise - Tea Room

8 - 5 weeks ago

Interesting how Miss Diana Parker describes all those people in terms of their health. Or what she perceives it to be. And all these friends-of-friends-of-friends-of-friends who are very likely totally unaware of being expected at Sanditon!
by Lise - JAFF Library

7 - 5 weeks ago

I read 7 this morning while I was getting dressed, but I have yet to read 8. Now that the children are in bed, I may. Sir Edward - what an idiot. I wonder, do we have guys nowadays who read that sort of thing? But quite dangerous too, because of what he perceives himself to be. His sister - charming when there's something in it for her. Lady Denham - showed some more of her true character, too
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: In lieu of an update this week... - 5 weeks ago

Congratulations!!
by Lise - Tea Room

Re: Ready to move on? - 5 weeks ago

I haven't read the next ones yet, but last time it took me about 15 minutes... Write it down while you remember it well, I say. I'll try to read the next ones later today, if the tablet's battery hasn't run out by then (son & angry birds).
by Lise - JAFF Library

Interestingly... - 5 weeks ago

...in that book by Reginald Hill (Dalziel and Pascoe, forgot title) the Dalziel chapters are alternated with letters home from Charlotte. So there you get her POV, but I gave up the book because I disliked her writing style, ironically :-p
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: Sanditon Group Read, chs 5-6 - 6 weeks ago

Are they enormous hypochondriacs or are they really ill? They do seem to be experienced 'shoppers' of medicine. Also, Mr Parker's opinion of them seems a bit off.
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: Sanditon Group Read, Chapters 3-4 - 6 weeks ago

It clearly shows that he's not practical, because the old home was in a practical location and the new one isn't - and did anyone else think of the new one being 100 yards from the cliff edge and their having 4 small children?
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: Lady Denham - 6 weeks ago

Definitely a social climber. Or, maybe better, a financial climber. And Sanditon itself seems tiny. With no one actually there.
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: OK - 7 weeks ago

Don't most of the other books start with something about the principal protagonist's family? I read at wikipedia and the description there of Sanditon did sound like it was a different kind of project, but of course it's just one reader's opinion...
by Lise - JAFF Library

Also - 7 weeks ago

They have 14 children and to save money they don't leave home... so I assume if they want to meet with other adults, those must come to their house, apart from social visits in the neighbourhood of course. new face sstaying over for two weeks might actually be welcome -- and provide another opportunity for a child to get out in the world.
by Lise - JAFF Library

OK :-) - 7 weeks ago

I wouldn't want to be a bother, say if 9 people have to edit LDB out of their posts for only me ;-p
by Lise - JAFF Library

OK - 7 weeks ago

I thought it had a different feel to it than JA's other books. Did anyone else have that? Maybe because we're so used to equating the books with the hero(in)es, and I couldn't see any yet....
by Lise - JAFF Library

I'm not interested in vlogs, so I'm only reading because I hadn't read this one yet... - 7 weeks ago

But if I'm the only one, I'll just bow out and read on my own.
by Lise - JAFF Library

Who is Gigi Darcy? - 7 weeks ago

Can you, if you are referring to some story we will not all have read, clarify this??? I have no idea who you are talking about.
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: You are def not alone. - 7 weeks ago

I don't feel creative or inspired. Or rather, I don't feel I have the energy to sit down and make a story go somewhere.
by Lise - Tea Room

I've downloaded Sanditon to my tablet - 7 weeks ago

Monday we have a brunch at S-I-L's, perfect time to read some....
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: Sanditon Group-Read - Organisation & Questions - 7 weeks ago

Not long ago I got a Dalziel and Pascoe book from the library and there were connections to Sanditon. I didn't finish it, because it alternated the narrative with letters written semi-phonetically and unparagraphed. After two of such chapters I gave up. I found them highly irritating to read.
by Lise - JAFF Library

Re: ahhhhh - 2 months ago

But would it be faults, per se? I was thinking more along the lines of my mood - or intelligence - influencing my answers. Or.... You can pretty much predict which corner you'll end up in if the questions are for example on how sociable you are, and they are all extreme answers. Sometimes in the way the questions are phrased you can sense how negatively or positively the final judgement of you
by Lise - Tea Room

ahhhhh - 2 months ago

Psychology class in highschool... We don't have those. Might explain why nobody here does the tests or knows their type. I attach no value to personality tests myself, because you can steer the outcome :-)
by Lise - Tea Room

American thing? - 2 months ago

It's a very American thing, I think, to divide people up that way! I never see it happening here (Netherlands). I've never even heard someone use the words to describe themselves. Not that they don't know them; they just don't apply them to label everyone and I think they would interpret them a lot more flexibly. The same goes for people knowing which combination of 4 letters they are. INTSFJ an
by Lise - Tea Room

? - 4 months ago

What are you saying?
by Lise - Tea Room

Jane Austen Death Squad ~ 10 - 4 months ago

Chapter Ten Eventually Julia finished the letter. She had no idea if her phrasing was authentic, but at least Sergio thought it was. "Are you sure your GP won't give you a referral to a psychiatrist?" she wondered as she read it over. An outsider might think they were crazy. The situation definitely was. He smiled sweetly. "I'm only accompanying you." "I'm not her patient. This is a del
by Lise - A Novel Idea
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