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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 · 26/09/2026

My #bookreview of THE CHRYSALIDS by John Wyndham is below 👇 #dystopia #scifi

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

It's not just Russian lit. It's the world classics in Russian. If you need recommendations, I can give some

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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 · 19/09/2026

I recommend 'A Young Doctor's Notebook'/ 'A Country Doctor's Notebook' collection

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A 1100- page book about The Third Reich. I'm on page 110 😒

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Darya Silman @daryasilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Master and Margarita, imho, is on a more higher level than Darkness. In the first, all historical details, the atmosphere are accurate. In 'Darkness,' physical details like conditions in a Soviet jail are all wrong, while the breakdown of Rubashov is right

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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

It was oddly translated into 'Long live the Ficus!' Ficus is a common home plant in Russia :)

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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 · 14/09/2026

I don't have courage to read her other books rn

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

It is better, with more details, more imagination. I'd compare it to Stephen King's 'Gerald's Game' because both have one main hero, a driving force, and other characters appear only in recollections

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

I'd go for 'Wild People Quiet' (just read Nella Larsen's classical novel 'Passing' on the same topic) and 'The Small Ones' (I know nothing about Iran-Iraq war)

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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

Yes! It's quite different from "1984" or "Animal Farm" but in a good way. It's a journalistic reportage that covers Orwell's and his wife's stay in Spain in 1936-37. Pure political chapters were harder to digest for me: I know nothing about the civil war

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

Yes. I forget characters and plot details very quickly. I remember my mood after finishing a book, the book's vibes and the circumstances of reading it

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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

they throw a tantrum, and we as polite people want them to be quiet

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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

The collection looks gorgeous 👏 I understand the need for cleansing the palate. I do it with romance or detective stories

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

Is it as funny as google says it should be? I haven't heard of the book before

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

I read about imaginary horrors or realistic horrors in a fictional wrapping... Just finished The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, about hollowness of Hollywood dream

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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

I didn't recommend the books 😅

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

I just finished 'Peril at End House' by Agatha Christie. I'll return back to 'The Day of the Locust' by Nathaniel West, which I'm not enjoying as much as I should. It's classics

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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

I saw the mother's messages... in Russian tradition,"Either say good things or nothing about the dead"

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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

I have a TBR pile higher than Eiffel Tower. It can take years - or days - until I get to it

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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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