This post is a little announcement on how our blog is developing. Up to now we have been buying physical copies of books and sending them using the postal services to one another, an overall pretty romantic attitude to a blog and reading in general. This method has brought us much joy - Nel has … Continue reading Kindle Transition
Edition Published: 2018, First Published: 2018 Language book read in: English Vel's Perspective Stephen Kings is an extremely prolific writer, with nearly 60 novels published to date, and I doubt there are many places in the world where people haven’t heard of him or his stories. The settings for his novels vary widely from science fiction, to today, … Continue reading The Outsider by Stephen King
Edition Published: 2018, First Published: 2018 Language book read in: English Nel's perspective I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Greek Mythology. On one hand, I’ve always been interested in stories about heroes, magical creatures, and adventures. On the other, most, if not all, of the characters in Greek mythology are all-mighty, none can be beaten, none can … Continue reading CIRCE BY MADELINE MILLER
Edition Published: 2017, First Published: 2017 Language book read in: Bulgarian Vel's perspective I received a long-awaited parcel from Nelly around 6 March, and along the treats she always sends me was Milen Ruskov’s bulky creation - Chamkoria. I started reading right away. Though many days I was unable to revisit the book due to personal engagements, I … Continue reading CHAMKORIA BY MILEN RUSKOV
Edition Published: 2014, First Published: 1984 Language book read in: English Nel’s Perspective: I braced myself for the second round of fantasy stories and it was a bit of a challenge. Robert Holdstock has a very unique way of story-telling, which was a bit difficult to follow at times. This was not because the language was … Continue reading Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
Edition Published: 2018, First Published: 1967 Language book read in: Bulgarian Vel’s Perspective: Reading Russian literature is always a bizarre experience for me, even when I know something odd will be going on, I am still amazed at just how odd things become. After reading a collection of Gogol’s short stories I thought I was ready … Continue reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Edition Published: 2018, First Published: 2018 Language book read in: Bulgarian Nel’s Perspective: Reading Sworn Virgin by Rene Karabash was a unique experience. I was only barely familiar with the concept of a sworn virgin and I honestly thought that this is not something you can access and see for yourself today. But as it turns out, … Continue reading SWORN VIRGIN BY RENE KARABASH
This year was very exciting for both of us! Despite being busy most of the time with work and big life events, we managed to steal some time for ourselves here and there and return to our favourite hobby - reading. We even created our very own Goodreads profile, where you can track our reading … Continue reading Blog Update!
Edition Published: 2013, First Published: 1980 Language book read in: Bulgarian Vel’s Perspective: I have much to say about this book, and even more left to ponder before I can formulate it into coherent sentences. Up until this point Nelly and I challenged each other with books in English, most of which in the Gothic genre. I … Continue reading BOXWOOD ASH BY IVAN TRENEV
Nel’s Perspective The short version of this review would be – I loved it! I spent the last few months reading books, which included either copious amounts of gore or dark/existential philosophical musings, and honestly, I was waiting to find a book, which embodied the classical gothic elements of story-telling without going into any extremes. … Continue reading The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
