Category: Books

Book reviews, recommendations, and reading plans.

  • Ukrainian literature: Add this to your diverse reading TBR right now

    When I had my old blog, I was quite proud to be, at the time, the only space on the internet with a comprehensive reading list of Ukrainian classic literature. There was even an entire story behind how I’ve decided to do it, pretty much on a whim, after an interesting discussion with a certain publisher about the ‘illiterate youth’.

    Then, for a while I had a thread on X where I would add all kinds of Ukrainian literature available in English on Amazon. The thread wasn’t very long and after a while I unpinned it and replaced it with a kitten charity.

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  • Reading one hundred books in a year

    We’re barely halfway through the year, and I’ve already accomplished my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2025. That’s after bumping up my initial goal of 50 books. I’m fairly certain I’ll be changing my goal to 100. There’s no saying what it will be by the time this year comes to an end.

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