what’s your favorite book? :D
aaaaaand thank you for the first ever question since my years on tumblr! :D
this is the hard one, so i got to sleep overnight about it because i didnt want to give most obvious answer ever
but
actually i started to track books i read just in 2019 so i have no idea what happened before that and just remember stuff occasionally and write it down.
i can say - actually im huge fan of Fedor Dostoevsky and enjoy his writing a lot
im not kind of person like OMG THATS IT but here are some, unfortunately some of them are only available in russian, but i read also in english, german and dutch
i thought before my favourite book was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, but i dont feel it ATM
and i also reread sometimes the series of The Labytinths of Echo by Max Frei
✨ top of tracked years✨
2019
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
2020
actually the best book was one by the russian biologist Nikolay Kukushkin who works at NYU but for some reasons he published it only in russian and i’m waiting for his original translation so that i can show this amazing thing to my non speaking russian friends - „Хлопок одной ладонью: как неживая природа породила человеческий разум“ (One palm clap: How inanimate nature gave birth to the human mind)
ok there are some more i cant choose between because they all three shook me AF and i may read them once again
Marina Abramović - Walk through walls (this was a present for end of the year by my mentees and they got the point!)
Jack Spenser - Diary of a malpractice lawsuit (a pathologist‘s MUST READ) TW this thing hurts even more than one by Abramovich
aaaaaand this was just amazing start into lockdown:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
2021
so far is the best one
collection of esseys by Milorad Pavić (in russian the book called „scary love stories“ but i cant find this collection in any other language, just the texts one by one)
thanks for the question once again and i hope you enjoy the answer!
