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This newest book by Dmitry Glukhovsky is not in the database, so I just tagged his most famous novel. Even though this one is not a novel, but a collection of his essays about Russia and the war in the Ukraine. We also learn how the author openly speaks up against this war and therefore can't return to his home. All texts are accompanied by a short overview that explains the background of the main text, which is more than helpful.

Snowpiercer meets Roadside Picnic meets The Hike. Don‘t think I will continue the series, but this was delightfully tense and weird and claustrophobic.

This book is amazing but certainly a heavy read. Most books have one or two ideas/philosophies to it. This book, on the other hand, seems to discuss a different philosophy every chapter.
Poor Artyom suffers through so many intense things. I do recommend this book if youre looking for somerhing a bit more thought provoking but with an overall plot and amazing world .

Too much for right now, will return in the future.

Wenn ich Metro 2033 bis 2035 besitze, lohnt es sich dann die Triologie zu kaufen?

I admit that on 2 occasions I wasn‘t sure if this re-read is a “Pick” again – but: It is. The end is just so heartbreaking 💔. 😢 And I am still trying to figure out from which book that part is that I am sure to remember happening in here – but it never does. I‘d love to know which stories I mix up.

I once again fell for the world building. But I appreciated the philosophical parts about fate and sense of life now more than when I read it first.

“The library breathed calmly for itself and rustled barely audibly with millions of pages.” (p. 488/489)

⬆️⬆️⬆️ ❤️❤️❤️

👉🏼 https://bit.ly/3eIa7UU

Not in the end notes but on the Internet. The statue of the man in the armchair in front of the Russian State Library (p. 473) is Fjodor Dostoyevsky.

https://bit.ly/36WhFRh

I think these might be the 4 skyscrapers described in the endnote about the “Kalinin-Prospekt”/“Nowy Arbat”.

I think that‘s where chapter 11 takes place, @Jari-chan but that‘s just a guess – I did not – yet – turn back pages.

But I noticed that there is a slight difference between the map in my book and that online map whose link I posted earlier. The map behind that link says the marked station is “Poljanka”.

And my online research shows that the online map might be right: https://bit.ly/3eF2nEb. So it seems, I‘m now right where I began. 😂

Gosh, what made me forget how much I love(d) the second part of that chapter. ❤️

Even though – like the first time round – I completely lost track at which station 🚉 this piece of plot takes place. @Jari-chan Any clue or do I need to go back to quite the beginning and/or to Michail Pofirjewitsch and Wanetschka to find out❓

Making good progress in here although I didn‘t manage to pick it up yesterday.

It‘s Pentecost Monday tomorrow, so if I make a haste today, I might finish this one tomorrow. 😄

@Jari-chan I was surprised that I had _completely_ forgotten about that 4.-Reich-episode, that execution and that Che-brigade. But as it all returned I remembered that already the first time round I didn‘t like that part much. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I am pretty sure it‘s fake news but today felt like the first day in ages (🤥), okay in weeks, where I really had the time to unwind _and_ read.

I‘m happy to be back into the story. And into the Russian 🇷🇺. (I struggled.)
It‘s still nicely dark but not as creepy and threatening as it was when I read it for the first time. But: What to expect if I read in spring-daylight instead of autumn-afternoon❓🤷🏽‍♀️
Anyway: I “re-love” my re-read. 🖤

Hey @RamsFan1963 – nice to meet someone else who‘s barely watching TV. 👋🏼

So, thanks @DannyHattan for this #WhatWouldYouDo.

1) Books. Watching TV more seldom than Netflix. And I rarely stream.

2) Coffee. ☕️ Always.

3) Both❓ I always start with chocolate and then when the evening passes by I might turn to savoury snacks and a beer or a long drink – or to red wine and cheese.

4) Tagging @Enchantedbibliophile @ju.ca.no @Soff @bromeliad

Converting #Two4Tuesday into Two4Friday, ‘kay ❓😊 @TheSpineView

1️⃣ Looking forward to nice warm sunny time period to enjoy some days off together with my significant other. 🍹

2️⃣ Uhm, excuse me, I‘m surely the owner of the act/habit of outside reading. 😂 I‘m only going back in for • the loo • cool drinks • food (sometimes) and • night sleep.

Perfect tag from @RamsFan1963 – passing the baton on to @DaveGreen7777 @bibliophilea @ameliashley

Sorry for being late @MariaW and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘m taking this as opportunity to announce that throughout the next weeks my visits will still be regular but less frequent – for reasons. ?

So 3 of my book-#favs … ? (Trying not to mention my usual suspects.)

• Mängelexemplar by Sarah Kuttner
• The Time-Traveller‘s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky (the obvious choice, I know, but ?)

👉🏼 https://metro2033.org/popup/map_metro2033_overview.html

Chunkster-reader‘s delight – a map 🗺‼️🥰

👉🏼 https://litsy.com/p/bGZwZEt1dnli

@Jari-chan As I said … 😇

Quoting @Jari-chan :
I‘m going all in.💰
I‘m doing it.

I‘m S T A R T I N G this re-read within the next minutes. The biggest re-read I‘ve ever done – 764 pages. Did I mention yet that actually I‘m no re-reading person❓🤔😉

The screenshot above shall flag where I started.

@Litsy Have you ever considered implementing a feature to mark re-reads or to implement a kind of “re-read-counter”❓ I‘m sure some of us would love/appreciate that.

Years ago, I knew pretty soon that I‘d want to re-read “Metro 2033” before continuing with the rest. Well now, “Metro 2034” is already sitting for quite a while on my shelf – unread. And _I_am_ curious how Artjom‘s story will continue. I loved the first book so much. The world building 🚇. 😍

So the best time is _now_‼️

But you know … The thing is: If I only were a re-reader – at least to a certain degree … 🙈

Sehr gut und spannend 👍

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 2

@JessClark78 , I know you have many beautiful covers! 😁

I heard quite a lot about this series. Some time ago I finally bought book one and now i read it...
And I LOOOVE it.
If I hadn't so many books on my tbr pile, I would run to the next book store and buy all the other books in the series amd metroverse.
Buuuut now it has to wait at least til november... 😥

I love #audible
Audiobooks are just sooooo practical ☺
7 hours in the book and I enjoy it a lot!

#augusttbr #metro2033 #audiobook

Do you plan your monthly reading?
I love writing lists! 😍
I still have to finish one of my books for this month. Let's see if my ducklings allow it 😅

While a slow read metro 2033 is a frightening imagination the post apocalypse not often seen in western writing brought to life by Glukovskys phenomenal world building and atmosphere.

1069 pages of my beautiful, illustrated, hard cover edition. Pure joy.

Metro 2033 is post-apocalyptic goodness! I listened to the audio book and narrator Rupert Degas did a fantastic job with all the different voices and varying Russian accents. He perfectly sets the mood and differentiates the characters. Most of the action takes place in the Russian Metro subway after a war leaves the surface unlivable. It helped me to print a map of it to follow the journey of the protagonist Artyom.

I'm not sure what I feel about this book. The translation is a little clunky but the narrative can be a bit info dumpy as well. Combined means there are entire chunks of just really boring passages. That said I can see why they made a video game out of it and how that video game is popular. #russianscifi #dystopian #barelyapick

Being friends with a bookworm means all my friends are getting books for Christmas 😁📚🎅

Ugh, all big Russian novels turn into slow reads for me... and my Kindle keeps losing the current location in this one, so that hardly helps! #slowread #readjanuary

Finally organised my shelves, unfortunately couldn't fit everything in them

#ReadingGoals Tackle the bedside table TBR

I enjoyed the story, but in the Italian version there were several problems with translation; that made the reading less fluent and pleasant

Eight day of the #photoadaychallenge for #AllHallowsRead --today is #recommendsday.
It's hard to choose just one book... So I've picked two.
The most famous one is Stephen King's The Shining; the other is a Russian sci-fi book I loved when I read it earlier this year, set in a future where the population of Moscow lives underground inside the city's metro tunnels and stations because the surface has become too dangerous for human life.

My new reading view from the sofa in our new house. I've finally settled down enough to read a bit!

Caturday reading 😻#catsoflitsy #petsoflitsy #russian #russianlit

This book is actually creepy, way more creepy than some books that pass as "horror", so I think this one is also a part of #scaretober! Also, look at the length of this thing!

I've been looking forward to reading this for a while now, at the same time being a bit reluctant since 1) this is LONG and 2) my reading speed in Russian is that of a five year old, but it seems very promising! It really helps being familiar with the Moscow and St Petersburg metro systems since especially the Scandinavian but also most European ones just can't be compared to them, neither in depth nor fanciness.

These bad boys #somethingforseptember