So basically since the beginning of the year I read 7 books - three of them rereads of Monica Ferris's needlework mysteries, one of them a reread of Diana Wynne Jones's Deep Secret, two were started in the past year and one a novella (the last Peter Grant), so it's not that much ( Read more... )

As always, Thursday totally counts as Wednesday, so ( Read more... )

I have been reading and rereading the latest poem by Dmitry Bykov (and reading it out loud to myself). The one about the Malaysian airliner, except that it's not. I kinda regret that it's an English-language blog that I am having here and I can't post it here too ( Read more... )

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What I have just finished reading: on Dec31 I read a Russian fantasy novel (not translated) about a random guy who ends up in a body of young Border Guards officer in the late 19th century and uses his technical knowledge (he's a gun nut and supposedly just generally good at technology) to get himself a fortune as a manufacturer (at the same time ( Read more... )

Maybe there should be a law about never reading fantasy based on your own culture. Because really, the _Grisha_? How dumb is that?

... maybe it's strange that the Takarazuka versions of Russian classics don't turn me off, I dunno.

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I love books where people read books. It feels like I can fit in there somehow. But I guess I am a very inattentive reader, since I am at the middle of Fire and Hemlock and only now I have guessed what kind of name Thomas Lynn is ( Read more... )