I decided that I’ll just show you some of my favourite book pictures that I took for the blog. Looking at pictures is always easier than reading a text, especially on days when you just want to relax.

Here are the photos. If you click the titles you’ll get to my reviews of the books.

1. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

(There are more photos of Usyaka and the book.)

2. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

3. Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller

4. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

There’s no review because I haven’t read the book yet. (And taking into account my unfortunate experiment with reading fantasy, I’m not sure how soon I will read this one). There’s still this nice wintery photo

5. The Birds and other stories by Daphne du Maurier

Here’s the review of The Birds.

And here are the reviews of the other stories.

6. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

7. Melmoth by Sarah Perry

8. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

9. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

10. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

This book will be one of my first reads in 2019, so come back soon to read the review!

Here are my answers.

1. Favourite Book of All Time

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

I haven’t yet met a book more alive and real than this one. I envy anybody who hasn’t read it yet. Here’s my review of A Moveable Feast.

2. Favourite Book Five Years Ago

Five years ago I was still very much into popular psychology, especially the books that looked into personality disorders. What a fascinating topic! It’s hard to name one book, there were so many of them. Who’s Pulling Your Strings? for example, is very good. It discusses a wide range of arsenal a manipulator uses. I think all people could benefit from reading it.

3. Favourite Duology/Trilogy/Series

I haven’t read series since childhood. Back then I loved Dumas’ books but I’m not sure I’d like them as much now.

Speaking of Dumas, I’ll remind you that his works are in public domain now, as many other books that were published a long time ago. In most countries books become public domain on the 1st January, 70 years after the death of the author. In the US any book written prior to 1923 is in public domain. It means that you can find Dumas and many other authors on Project Gutenberg site. It’s not pirating, it’s absolutely legal.

4. Last book You Read

This will sound awesome, check it out: the last book I read was The Last!

I wrote about this book in my October roundup post. I will post my review of it later later.

5. Last Book of Poetry I’ve Read

I haven’t read poetry for years. In my defence I can say that I know almost all of Anna Akhmatova by heart (original, not translated).

6. What Book most influenced your life

From the most recent ones I would name Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic. I loved the book so much I had to share the love, so I started my book blog!  The review of Miss Ex-Yugoslavia became the first post on my blog.

7. Book That Made You Ugly Cry

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It’s a masterpiece that brings on incomparable grief.

8. Book That Made You Laugh

The non-fiction What if? Whenever I need a laugh I just open a random page of it and laugh.

9. Character You’d Like to Be For A Day

Poirot, or Holmes, or Miss Marple. They all seem to have exciting lives.

10. Book You DNFed

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. I couldn’t finish it. I’m still surprised how something so full of adventures can turn out to be so boring.

11. What Book are You Excited to Read

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Everybody calls it an amazing novel but I have never read it!

Here are the bloggers that I love talking to and I’m tagging them for the post:

1. Sarah’s blog
2. CJ’s blog
3. Claudia’s blog
4. Stephen’s blog
5. Norrie’s blog
6. Herding Cats blog
7. Babbage and Sweetcorn blog
8. NS Ford blog
9. Ova’s blog
10. Umut’s blog
11. Evelina’s blog

Dear tagged bloggers, there’s no pressure to take part in this book tag, but if you do post your answers let me know, so I can read them.

After the deep but complicated book, reading something entertaining is even more exciting than it usually is. I’m now happy and quick like a puppy in an autumn forest.

Here are my entertaining books.

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Umut praised The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in her review, and once again it was a good decision to follow her recommendation.

The book is absolutely amazing! It’s such an interesting, attractive read. I keep thinking about it and I can’t wait to go back to reading it. (An update: You can now read my review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)

2. The Searcher by Simon Toyne

I’m enjoying how fast-paced The Searcher is, although it’s a bit confusing to be following so many characters especially when the protagonist is confused himself having lost all his memory. The reason I’ve started reading The Searcher is the following book.

3. The Boy Who Saw by Simon Toyne

My husband recently visited a country where books are sold even in pharmacies! Can you imagine that?! I can’t. He sent me a quick message with a photo of a book stall and told me I had five minutes to choose. After hasty googling I chose The Boy Who Saw.

It’s the second book in Solomon Creed series, so I started reading The Searcher first.

I hope I’ll wrap them all up before my treasures start arriving 

Have you read any of them? What did you think (spoiler-free speaking)?