After visiting such a beautiful exhibition I remembered that I have this book about the history of ballet at home. It seems the time has come 🧡 #readinginspiration

Country reading 🔥

I love Wagner's epic operas from the Ring of the Nibelungs cicle, but I never got to read the original saga. And here is the new prose retelling. The story is less focused on fantasy and adventures, but more on vengeance and machinations. Same old virtues, vices and misunderstandings plus a bit of medieval everyday life in its festive garments. A compelling read despite all those centuries between us and them #readin2023

Finally got these beauties in my collection
❤️🧡🖤 #bookhaul #homelibrary

Fast read with interesting plot twists. I wasn't too impressed with setting and sci-fi ideas, aliens weren't alien at all, featuring human ambitions. Characters are well-written, but bounded by prejudices expected rather from sci-fi of the golden age than from 27th century by a modern author in 2013. Can't get rid of the feeling that I expected something stranger and more brain-breaking from SF about aliens, religion and mushrooms #readin2023

Starting 2023 with Thomas Pynchon 📕
#readin2023 #homelibrary #whatacover

This book is disturbing. I couldn't put it away - it goes from fascinating thriller to deeply thought-out reflection on sociopathy, difficult family relationships, crime and responsibility for actions. Or the absence of it. It was not easy to read, and it left behind a feeling of wrongness, but it gave a lot to think about. And the bloody fit cover was made by Russian publishers 😖 #SouthKorea #thriller #psychological

A small #nonfiction #bookhaul from my favourite St.-Peterburg publisher Ivan Limbakh 😍❤️📚

Starting a reread 💙💚🖤
#classics #beautifulcovers #Dumas

Life by Georges Perec got two editions in russian, and those were nowhere to be found. I fell in love with the author immediately after I read A Void, and now I am finally holding this third edition in my hands! Oh that wonderful feeling 🤩 One of the best birthday presents from my favourite publisher! 💛 Reading time!🥳

Wow! I loved it soooo much! 💛🧡💛 The drawing is so detailed I couldn't stop scrutinizing each frame, the fantasy part is a perfect depiction of 13-year-old's flow of imagination (as I can remember it😁) - somewhat erratic and wild, but lively (and oh those allusions 😍). The 'reallife' part got me on the edge of my seat, worryed terribly about the main character. Overall, it's an exciting and magnificently drawn story!✨

This book is amazing! It makes me laugh so hard and at the same time I'm getting so into the characters - they are all impossibly cute, even when they are supposed to be repulsive or stupid! 😍
The 1988th movie is gorgeous, the cast is perfect. Malkovich and Glenn Close have so much chemistry between them ❤️ Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman are so young and lovely 💔

Finally got to rereading #LOTR, such an amazing story! 💛 So many details I didn't remember! Absolute delight 😍

5⭐It's an intricate retelling of the Arthurian legend - with medieval setting, mythological creatures and the Britons against the Saxons conflict, though Arthur himself is long gone. It's also an insightful story about memory, asking important questions whether it's better to remember old sorrows and grudges, letting the vicious circle of hatred and grief spin further, or resort to oblivion and forget what you once have been...Beautiful writing 💜

I knew nothing about eels and looked forward to some new and interesting info. And I got what I wanted! First half of the book seemed a bit boring because of personal stories, repetitive and insufficient facts. But the more Svensson focused on the eels and their amazing nature, the more I got into it. Eels are awesome creatures, seriously! And the book is a 4⭐ #Booked2020 #LiveAndLearn @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

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To the door of an inn in the provincial town of N. there drew up a smart britchka—a light spring-carriage of the sort affected by bachelors, retired lieutenant-colonels, staff-captains, land-owners possessed of about a hundred souls, and, in short, all persons who rank as gentlemen of the intermediate category. 🐎 #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

These are my #top6reads of 2020 so far - 4,5 and 5⭐ reads. Thanks for the tag, @Erofan, yours is much more colorful 😁

Nothing better than a bit of outdoor reading ☀️🌳🌼 And what a gorgeous cover! 💚 #Byatt #bookclubreads

I did like this book and really got into it, but after a short while I need to struggle to remember anything apart from an opening scene and a few other moments. Atmosphere and setting are great, characters are enigmatic, and there is an interesting bit of Indonesian culture. But it's overwhelming with all the happenings, and to the end turns into a blur 🙄 #Booked2020 #PanAsianAuthor @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

This certainly was a #CoverCrush! I knew I need physical version of The Starless Sea the moment I first saw its magnificent cover. And I wasn't disappointed - the story is beautiful and engaging, perfect 5🌟💙💛🖤 #Booked2020 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Started this beauty today. Such a wonderful writing! ❤️ #PaulAuster #currentread

Funny pick for #Booked2020 #HeadCoveringOnCover 😁 As for the book, I like Abercrombie's series, but it seems that his every other novel differs very little from previous ones. There are new heroes in A Little Hatred, but they are just like his old characters, and old ones are the same as before. The world is evolving though, scenes of social upheavals are the most interesting moments of the book. @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

The abyss should shut you up.

Quite gloomy, but the book is a hard sci-fi about modified people living and working at the station at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

This is a wonderful little book! Why didn't I get to read it when I was little? Most of my friends criticize its simplicity and obviousness, but I think it's perfectly OK when children's book presents its ideas clearly. And those ideas aren't childish at all. My ebook had beautiful photos of seagulls, and I spent a lovely evening with it! 🕊️ #booked2020 #finishinaday @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

I haven't read romances in a while, and I totally ❤️ this one. It's hilarious (I laughed out loud) and uplifting. The story is a page-turner, and it raises important questions, though the author gives simple and light-hearted answers. I was annoyed with the characters at first, but I got into their personalities to the end of the book. This is a perfect spring read🌺#booked2020 #makesyoulol @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

#7days7covers Thanks for a tag, @Erofan, though I'm a bit slow 😉 When I think about books that have had an enduring impact on my life, #Earthsea comes to mind immediately. I didn't have a chance to read it during my childhood, but when I finally did - it was such a fulfilling book! With an exciting plot, deep sense of human nature, and perfectly beautiful 😍 I've reread it countless times ever since...

I was tagged by @Erofan to spy for a corgi cover, so here it is! 🐶 I bought this one for my mother, because she loves both detectives and corgies, and she liked the book!✨ I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking forward to ☺️
#ispy #corgicover
Thanks for a tag, @Erofan 😘

The book was disturbing, because I couldn't feel for its characters, except for their school days. And it was really captivating, with Sally Rooney's perfect ability to describe different emotional states. The language is beautiful, and Normal People was the gread read for this rainy and gray winter. #Booked2020 #MillenialAuthor @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

I loved this book! 💕 It was such a hilarious and deeply touching read. It seemed unrealistic sometimes, but I felt so empathic for Eleanor and how she deals with her everyday life, that I didn't have any problems with it

Finally got to choose my fall #booked2019 books😎
🍁About addiction - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
🍂Soldier's story - Birdsong
🍁New in 2019 - Ninth House
🍂PoC MC Paranormal - Three Parts Dead
🍁Public Domain - The Brothers Karamazov
🍂Political Intrigue - All the King's Men

And to catch up with previous seasons... 😅
@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Starting this one for my #bookclub (another choice was Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but it's really boring so far). The cover is epic 🌁 and there are some postmodernist peculiarities with the text layout, which I love. The book has been on my TBR for almost 8 years! 😅

And last for today, but not the least - the Diablo III bestiary beautifully designed. As a longtime fan I couldn't pass by it 🥰 #diabloiii #artbook

A little #bookhaul that came with Providence:

another volume of Strugatsky brothers' collected works, sci-fi from my favorite fantasy writer #StevenErikson, Robert Young's stories and postmodernist Russian novel about Sakhalin Island. All #TBR

Oh, just look at this beauty! 💜💜💜 I was hesitant to buy it in Russian because we sometimes have problems with comics, but this is just a pick! They even made 'handwritten' text look like one 😍 Gorgeous! More than 500 pages of pure enjoyment! ❤️ #AlanMoore #comicbooks #graphicnovels #providence

I ❤️ this collection of short stories. Although there are ghosts, undead and quite a bit of brutal murders, the overall impression is rather melancholic. The atmosphere of medieval Japan is conveyed greatly. Just the perfect way to plunge into the world of noble samurais and mythical creatures, and try to solve each story's puzzle, which isn't always obvious 🎎

So disappointed that the book I'd picked as an October spooky read about an old house and some kind of a monster in it turned out to be one of lovecraftian stories that has one and only value -it's a fast read.🤦‍♀️
Otherwise it's just a clone of all those stories of Yog-Sothoth&Co trying to get back to Earth with an inept ecological context. It doesn't even add new details to the world Lovecraft created. I feel like I just wasted my time with it.

I've been trying to get along with this book for quite some time, but after dragging through half of it I just want to move on 😐 It's a mix of space opera, detective and political intrigues, which sounds really interesting and it is! But it uses lots of clichés, and all the promising ideas are deploying too slowly to get me into them. Maybe I'll give it another chance someday 🙄 #UnpopularOpinion

I loved beautiful marsh descriptions and was deeply moved with the story. 💙 The atmosphere of the book is so immersive I just couldn't put it away before finishing. The main intrigue keeps the reader interested too, although since the second half began, the solution was kinda obvious. 4⭐(court scenes and finale weren't as elaborate as the rest of the book), but I enjoyed the story greatly, even if it broke my heart a little in the beginning!

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I could hardly imagine this novel becoming such an enthralling and creepy thriller about obsession. I love McEwan's writing style, when he gets from main character's reflections to the scenes full of suspense and then to scientific pieces, and all these become a cohesive story. I was impressed with the book and watched the movie immediately. Craig is 😍 and the adaptation is decent, though there are some changes from the original

I don't like manipulative books, and this is definitely one of those. You can see clearly where the author wants you to laugh or cry your eyes out 😒 However, Oh, boy! is not so bad. It's a fast read with vivid characters, lots of comical situations and quite a load of social problems (though the solution to them is often dubious). In the pic - two Russian editions, and the right one has white cover to protect children from opening it. ⬇️

The first novel was good, but I never expected the second to be such a page-turner! 🤩 Two nights I've spent with this roller-coaster of intrigues, betrayals and epic disasters, unable to put the book away. I totally love McDonald's world, alien but at the same time so detailed it could be real. The only failure is wasted romantic line, the book would've been perfect without it. Can't wait to see how the trilogy ends!! #wolfmoon #McDonald

#wolfmoon #McDonald