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#meetthebookstagrammer Finally I'm doing one! So many people told me to do one, and @whatsallyreadnext tagged me a couple of months ago to one. 😱 Oops . Hi, I'm Helena. I love in Northern Ireland, but was born in The Netherlands. I'm a full-time Mum to six kids: Five boys and a baby girl. . Here ten facts about me: 📚 Even though I've always been a bookworm, I only read my first classic as an adult. 📚 I'm half Dutch, half Finnish. I grew up bilingual. 📚 All my kids are being homeschooled. 📚 I'm the most introverted of introverts. 📚 We're total health freaks and eat as much organically as we can get our hands on. 📚 My husband and I got married when I was 20, and he 22. Ten months later we had our first child. 📚 I have chronic pain, and that's the reason I don't post every day. Those days I keep the little energy I have for my kids and my husband. 📚 My favourite authors are The Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, and Edith Wharton 📚 I have moved house 18 times. I don't recommend it. 😉 📚 Herbal tea is my go-to drink. At all times I have at least 20 different kinds in my tea cupboard. . . . . . . . #bookstagrammer #motherculture #litlover #momofmany #homeschoolmom #readingmom #momreads #bookmom #literature #booksofinstagram #readersofig #readingtheclassics #momofboys #alwaysreading

I'm thoroughly enjoying reading with #ayearwithchristie2019 through some new to me Agatha Christie books. Last month I read The Mysterious Affairs at Styles, and I'm about to start The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. If you want to join, @thewrittenwordandtea and @abibliophilesstyle are the hosts. . I love these editions, but I dislike the lack of capitalisation on the front cover. 🙈 What are some things you like or dislike when it comes to certain editions? . . . . . . . #agathachristie #themurderofrogerackroyd #mysterynovel #mysterybooks #amblesideonline #charlottemason #readingtheclassics #readinfebruary #readalong #bookclub #bookcover #bookeditions #readmorebooks #lovetoread #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookwormsunite

We're still unpacking, and most of my books life on the floor or in boxes. No shelfies anytime soon. . . . . . #booksofinstagram #booksofig #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookstagrammer #bookworm #readersofinstagram #booklove #readersofig #bookstacks #bookstack #bookpile #lotsofbooks #charlottemason #bookwormproblems #literature

I'm reading Sir Nigel, and The White Company to my big boys. Well...we started with The White Company and will then move on to Sir Nigel. I absolutely love Arthur Conan Doyle's writing. This is my third book that I have ever read by him. The other ones are The Study in Scarlet, and The Lost World. Both fantastic reads! . Have you got a favourite by him? And have you read one of these books? . . . . #sirarthurconandoyle #literature #arthurconandoyle #bookish #amblesideonline #bookcover #charlottemason #booknerd #charlottemasonliving #litlover #motherculture #bookhoarder #readingtheclassics #bookphoto #bookphotography #classicbook #bookstagram #sherlockholmes #unitedbookstagram #readabook

My kids have been ill, I have been ill, and I missed every opportunity to take a photo during daylight, so here's a photo I already shared once before (when I started my bookstagram) of my favourite book, in my favourite edition. . What are some of your favourite editions? . . . . . #bookstagram #prideandprejudice #booksofinstagram #bibliophile #janeausten #arcturusbooks @arcturusbooks #bookworn #bookcover #bookish #beautifulbook #beautifulbooks #booknerd #charlottemason #booklove #bookhoarder #bookcollector #bookcollection #readersofinstagram #readersofig

"And Jane all her life would be interested in ordinary, unexceptional girls and what might happen to them. Her quietest heroine of all, Fanny Price, had ‘no glow of complexion, nor any other striking beauty’, while Catherine Morland had ‘nothing heroic’ about her, and was ‘occasionally stupid’. Jane’s great achievement would be to let even the ordinary, flawed, human girls who read her books think that they might be heroines too." Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home . I'm enjoying this biography a lot, and really want to read some others. Last week I spotted an interesting book about Emile Zola at my library, that I might checkout. I'm hoping to read Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë later this year as part of #elizabethgaskell2019 and I might throw in one about Edith Wharton as we're planning to visit her home in Southern France this year. . . . . . #janeaustenathome #janeausten #lucyworsley #edithwharton #elizabethgaskell #bookish #charlottebronte #emilezola #bookstagram #biography #biographies #booksofinstagram #booksofig #charlottemason #motherculture #bookworm #alwaysreading #bookcover

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