I read GRATITUDE by Oliver Sacks (50 pp) in less than half an hour. It was Sacks's last book, a collection of essays. He was terminally ill at that time. He used elements of periodic table to measure his years. I'm about to become technetium (nr. 43). What about you?

My #bookreview of BOYS IN ZINC (or ZINKY BOYS) by Svetlana Alexievich is below 👇 Please, be civil if you disagree with my opinion of the book #history

I didn't expect a backlash after posting my positive review of BOYS IN ZINC (or ZINKY BOYS) by Svetlana Alexievich in a Russian-language FB group. Most commentators accuse Alexievich of distorting true stories, writing a politically biased book,or just outright lying. Have you read it?

#Currentlyreading DETECTIVE by Arthur Hailey in Russian

My #bookreview of ECLIPSED by Dominic Holland is below 👇 #memoir

My new #books (+1 audiobook about the Vietnam war didn't fit in). The book in Russian is a textbook of writing dialogues in novels, screenplays, and dramas

My #bookreview of NUREMBERG: THE TRANSLATOR'S TALE by Helen Fry is below 👇 #holocaust #history

My #book purchases, all new. Have you read any of these?

#Currentlyreading ECLIPSED by Dominic Holland (a father of Tom Holland the actor)

My #bookreview of SOUTHERN STORM: THE TRAGEDY OF FLIGHT 242 by Samme Chittum is below 👇 #disasters #planecrash

New #book purchases:

My #bookreview of IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover is below 👇 #romance

New book purchases: 3 books by Sasha Filipenko and 1 book by Svetlana Aleksievich about the Afghan war

I asked AI to create images of my beloved characters. Geo's been with me since I was 10. It was my almighty imaginary friend. It's like the ocean in Lem's 'Solaris.' Geo at the top At the bottom from right to left: Tom, 28, a British doctor Wolf Constantine Zar - 3 Geo's servants, former humans

My mind can't stop functioning at a survival mode, which triggers anxiety. I want to read and can't read. I'm #currentlyreading 4 books: three on the photo 👇 and 1 audiobook about a Concorde crush in 2000

Book purchases: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (top left) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (top right) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Memoirs of Boris Vasilyev about the encirclement of Russian forces near Smolensk in 1941 (discount from 22.47 € to 0.99 €)

My 50th #book of 2026 is THE SIEGE by Ben Macintyre. My #bookreview is below 👇

#Currentlyreading THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William L.Shirer. It'll take a while: the book is more than 1100 pages long #history

#Currentlyreading these 3 books. Any of them can become my 50th book of 2026 2 memoirs, 1 history book

My #bookreview of THE FIFTH SALLY by Daniel Keyes is below 👇

#Currentlyreading THE FIFTH SALLY by Daniel Keyes. If everything goes according to my plan, I'll finish reading it tonight

My new and new used #books 1 #history books, 2 #memoirs, 1 #classics

My #bookreview of LOVE, MOM by Iliana Xander is below 👇 I managed to sell my copy on the same day when I finished reading it, aka today #thriller

My #bookreview of THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah is below 👇

#Currentlyreading THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah. I was not impressed and even repulsed by the first few chapters that depict intimate scenes. They look out of place in a historical fiction book, unless they play a crucial part in the narrative. I can't imagine that crucial part...

My #bookreview of RASPUTIN: THE DOWNFALL OF THE ROMANOVS by Antony Beevor is below 👇

#Currentlyreading LOVE, MOM by Iliana Xander. My Russian edition looks promising

It was a rather short book. My short #bookreview of HICKORY DICKORY DOCK is below 👇

#Currentlyreading HICKORY DICKORY DOCK by Agatha Christie #AgathaChristie

My #bookreview of RA by Thor Heyerdahl is below 👇 #travel #nonfiction