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Logs | Books read in 2016

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  1. Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon ★★★★☆
  2. Donna Tart – The Secret History ★★★★☆
  3. Jojo Moyes – Me Before You ★★★★☆ – любовный роман об эвтаназии
  4. Terry Pratchett- Shepherd’s Crown ★★★☆☆
  5. Emmuska Orczy – Scarlet Pimpernel ★★★☆☆
  6. Colin Wilson – Criminal History of Mankind ★★★★☆
  7. James Tiptree Jr – And So On and So On ★★★★☆
  8. James Tiptree Jr – Beam Us Home ★★★★★
  9. James Tiptree Jr – Happiness is a Warm Spaceship ★★★★☆
  10. James Tiptree Jr – Houston, Houston, Do You Read ★★★★☆
  11. James Tiptree Jr – Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death ★★★★☆
  12. James Tiptree Jr – Only Neat Thing to Do, The ★★★★☆
  13. James Tiptree Jr – Second Going ★★★★☆
  14. James Tiptree Jr – Yanqui Doodle ★★★★★
  15. James Tiptree Jr – Your Haploid Heart ★★★★☆
  16. James Tiptree, Jr – The Color of Neanderthal Eyes ★★★★☆
  17. James Tiptree, Jr – TheWomen Men Don’t See ★★★★☆
  18. James Tiptree, Jr – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home (short story collection) ★★★★★

Logs | Books read in 2013

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  1. Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South ★★★★☆
  2. Roger Zelazny – Nine Princes in Amber ★★★☆☆
  3. Михаил Веллер – Легенды Арбата ★★☆☆☆
  4. John le Carré – Tailor of Panama ★★★★☆
  5. William Gibson – Neuromancer ★★★★☆
  6. Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle ★★★★☆
  7. Isaac Asimov – The Naked Sun ★★★☆☆
  8. Isaac Asimov – The Robots of Dawn ★★★★☆
  9. Isaac Asimov – Robots and Empire ★★★☆☆
  10. Isaac Asimov – Foundation ★★★★☆
  11. Isaac Asimov – Foundation and Empire ★★★★☆
  12. Isaac Asimov – Second Foundation ★★★★☆
  13. Suelette Dreyfus – Underground ★★★★☆
  14. Isaac Asimov – Foundation’s Edge ★★★☆☆
  15. Terry Pratchett – Raising Steam ★★☆☆☆ – bleak
  16. Isaac Asimov – Foundation and Earth ★★★☆☆

sipping through

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I took Lorna’s hand and kissed it.
“You know the wonder, Lorna,” I said.
“What’s the wonder?”
“I don’t know, just the wonderful elliptical, mysterious stuff that we’re never going to know completely”.

One of my all-time-favourite sources of wonder is a idea of fiction sipping through into our world.
It becomes real inside our minds as we nurture it by believing in stories we read, by shedding tears and caring.
I wonder if it makes them really REAL, more real than our usual reality – just imagine an energy of belief poured by many readers into select storylines!
Some of them won’t ever experience anything so intense in their own “lives”.

I collect not just “nearly perfect moments“, but also instances of events reenacted (deliberately or unconsciously) in real life.
Like Bloomsday, or Towel Day/Anniversary of the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May or THIS:

На складе Почты России сгорели недоставленные письма

Neither rain nor snow nor glom of nit can stay these mesengers abot their duty.