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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My new #books: Notes from an Unwritten Novel by Jerome K. Jerome The Heart of a Surgeon by Fyodor Uglov (a memoir of a Soviet doctor) The Birth of the Stainless Steel Rat. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My collection of classics from one Russian publisher. I read 3-5 books out of these 50 volumes

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My short #bookreview of THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD by Agatha Christie is below #mystery

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My new #books: Laura by Vera Caspary Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. All books are from Vintage Classics Brief Encounters collection

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My short #bookreview of POIROT INVESTIGATES by Agatha Christie is below www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Currentlyreading (my 2nd attempt) THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William Shirer #history

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My new #books: Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse Mikhail Bulgakov's 2 autobiographical novellas Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Trevor Noah's memoir

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My short #bookreview of BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS by Agatha Christie is below www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My #bookreview of I AM LEGEND and THE SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson (two novels in one book) is below 👇 #dystopia

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I pre-ordered a book so in advance that I totally forgot about it. A new release in #WW2 #history: WARSAW: A CITY AT WAR, 1939-1945 by @dienekes.bsky.social & Lottie Taylor

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sorry, no mood to write reviews lately. Both DARKNESS AT NOON (1939 view of Soviet show trials) by Arthur Koestler and HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (the Spanish civil war) by George Orwell are 5 stars. If you have questions about these books, ask me #classics #reading

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#Currentlyreading ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren. It's weekend! What will you read?

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My #bookreview of PASSING by Nella Larsen is below 👇 (contains spoilers) #classics www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My #bookreview of THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES by Agatha Christie is below 👇

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#Currentlyreading DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler: what 1939 Western people imagined Stalin's repressions were. Very naive look

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My #bookreview of THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathaniel West is below #classics www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#Currentlyreading THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathaniel West. I love eloquent descriptions (alas, the art of drawing a character's physical appearance has been lost!) and authentic language. Idk what I'll choose next. What are you reading on this weekend?

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My short #bookreview of PERIL AT END HOUSE by Agatha Christie is below 👇#mystery

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My #bookreview of THIS IS ME: A RECKONING by Hayden Panettiere is below 👇 #memoir

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Still #reading this memoir... poor girl! As Matthew Perry, she lost the battle

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New books (from the bottom up): Phophet Song by Paul Lynch (thanks to @maxpuffins.bsky.social ) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham That Yew Tree's Shade by Cyril Hare

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My #bookreview of DETECTIVE by Arthur Hailey is below 👇 loved it 💯!

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#Currentlyreading (aka listening to) THE NUREMBERG TRIAL by Ann Tusa and John Tusa. Almost 26 h! #history

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My short #bookreview of 35 MILES FROM SHORE by Emilio Corsetti III is below 👇 Another book about a plane crash (though, in this case, it was ditching in the Carribean sea) #catastrophe #aviation

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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?

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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?

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My #bookreview of THE EX-SON by Sasha Filipenko is below 👇 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My July 2026 reading wrapup Fiction: It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover A Happy Death by Albert Camus Nonfiction: The Siege by Ben Macintyre The Black March by Peter Neumann Southern Storm: The Tragedy of Flight 242 - and Last Days of the Concorde by Samme Chittum I may finish the 7th book

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Spider-man Brand New Day: alas, the plotline is ridiculous. As in NO WAY HOME, Peter screws up big time and tries to rectify the situation. Still a naive boy, he talks to villains to make them good. The acting's superb, except for 1 scene where we see pure Tom Holland, not Peter. 2.5/5

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My long #bookreview of A HAPPY DEATH by Albert Camus is below 👇 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I loved 'The Odyssey.' The movie follows closely a book, which was a pleasant surprise. It's def a movie for a movie theatre, not a TV screen. My fav scenes: Circe turns men into pigs; Greeks kill an Athena's priestess; Telemachus fights with a companion of Antinous #theodyssey #theodysseymovie

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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 €)

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#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

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