🌺 My outdoor reading space 🌺
Silent conversations with nature and myself are what summer time can offer.
Being absorbed in a book while surrounded by nature isn’t just relaxing; it’s life-changing. Think of outdoor reading as a refreshing infusion of fresh air into your daily routine.
It’s like a mental spa, where every page you turn helps scrub away the mental clutter left by daily stresses and an intensive scholastic year.
🌻 I'm completely sure that here in my small community there are like-minded people who also try incorporating outdoor reading into their daily routines. Summer can embrace all of us ,with books or without.
P.S. Книга Фрасуазы Саган читается с наслаждением и мы скоро обсудим ее в литературном клубе Bedlam .
Let us feel summer ☀️
The photos are from Pavlovsk,a huge gorgeous park-museum ( no airbrushing or filters )
Have a sunny week !
Love,
Yulia ❤️
#Pavlovsk
#outdoorreading
#Франсуазасаган
Silent conversations with nature and myself are what summer time can offer.
Being absorbed in a book while surrounded by nature isn’t just relaxing; it’s life-changing. Think of outdoor reading as a refreshing infusion of fresh air into your daily routine.
It’s like a mental spa, where every page you turn helps scrub away the mental clutter left by daily stresses and an intensive scholastic year.
🌻 I'm completely sure that here in my small community there are like-minded people who also try incorporating outdoor reading into their daily routines. Summer can embrace all of us ,with books or without.
P.S. Книга Фрасуазы Саган читается с наслаждением и мы скоро обсудим ее в литературном клубе Bedlam .
Let us feel summer ☀️
The photos are from Pavlovsk,a huge gorgeous park-museum ( no airbrushing or filters )
Have a sunny week !
Love,
Yulia ❤️
#Pavlovsk
#outdoorreading
#Франсуазасаган
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🫠Bringing back fond memories.....
2 years had already seamlessly passed since we had our Book Club meeting back in 2024 and we were talking about Oscar Wilde and his short fiction. I miss our talks....
Oscar Wilde never gives you a chance to pretend. He demands clarity and direct conversations.
His prose juggles sharp but yet aristocratic humor, wit, lyrisism, love and polemic.
His symbolism could not be more explicit and it is the way only Oscar Wilde was able to do.
What I want to share here with you is a pdf worksheet created by me with care and enormous love .
Inside of it, you'll find
👉a short biography
👉the link to the documentary about life and art of Oscar Wilde
👉full guide how to lead a meaningful discussion on two short stories by Oscar Wilde ( 100% learner-friendly for the levels B2 up to C1 )
See comments 👇
P.S. Leave a + and I'll send the book to you on your email.
P.S.S. If anybody happens to be in SPB in July, let me know 😉Why not catching up and spending time together?
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2 years had already seamlessly passed since we had our Book Club meeting back in 2024 and we were talking about Oscar Wilde and his short fiction. I miss our talks....
Oscar Wilde never gives you a chance to pretend. He demands clarity and direct conversations.
His prose juggles sharp but yet aristocratic humor, wit, lyrisism, love and polemic.
His symbolism could not be more explicit and it is the way only Oscar Wilde was able to do.
What I want to share here with you is a pdf worksheet created by me with care and enormous love .
Inside of it, you'll find
👉a short biography
👉the link to the documentary about life and art of Oscar Wilde
👉full guide how to lead a meaningful discussion on two short stories by Oscar Wilde ( 100% learner-friendly for the levels B2 up to C1 )
See comments 👇
P.S. Leave a + and I'll send the book to you on your email.
P.S.S. If anybody happens to be in SPB in July, let me know 😉Why not catching up and spending time together?
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📌 Pulitzer Prize- winning biography 📌
Published in 1980
Pages: 934
Author: Robert K.Massie
If you love sprawling, immersive biographies filled with vivid characters and epic historical drama,Robert K. Massie's "Peter the Great" is for you.
Massie brings this larger-than-life Tsar to the page with novelistic flair, making 17th-18th century Russia feel thrilling and approachable.History buffs, fans of royal intrigue, anyone curious about how our country Russia became a European power, or readers wanting to get lost in a page-turning true story will feel right at home.
It is translated into Russian under the title "Петр Великий"
First,I got interested in the series of podcasts 👇
https://youtu.be/wvoKFtQjUQU?si=gd9Mn6FLFb7bywU7
Wonderfully done, absolute go-to series , which definitely broaden our historical horizons.
Secondly, I uploaded the book as I like following trustworthy recommendations 😉
The writer is an American journalist and historian who wrote best-selling books on Romanov's dynastie.
Published in 1980
Pages: 934
Author: Robert K.Massie
If you love sprawling, immersive biographies filled with vivid characters and epic historical drama,Robert K. Massie's "Peter the Great" is for you.
Massie brings this larger-than-life Tsar to the page with novelistic flair, making 17th-18th century Russia feel thrilling and approachable.History buffs, fans of royal intrigue, anyone curious about how our country Russia became a European power, or readers wanting to get lost in a page-turning true story will feel right at home.
It is translated into Russian under the title "Петр Великий"
First,I got interested in the series of podcasts 👇
https://youtu.be/wvoKFtQjUQU?si=gd9Mn6FLFb7bywU7
Wonderfully done, absolute go-to series , which definitely broaden our historical horizons.
Secondly, I uploaded the book as I like following trustworthy recommendations 😉
The writer is an American journalist and historian who wrote best-selling books on Romanov's dynastie.
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Может,почитаем что-нибудь на английском в июле-августе с последующим смакованием деталей в zoom / толк в виде 1 встречи " для желающих"?
Anonymous Poll
100%
Да,с удовольствием!
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Мне лень читать летом на английском ))
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Я читаю только на русском
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Walking past bookshops in SPb is dangerous for me ☺️
Inside , wrapped in beautiful paper , there is my new July read . Guess who is the writer ??
I'll come back soon with some reading suggestions for those of you who feel like reading in English together ❤️
Have a sunny week inside and outside!
#желтыйдвор
#mynewreadjuly
Inside , wrapped in beautiful paper , there is my new July read . Guess who is the writer ??
I'll come back soon with some reading suggestions for those of you who feel like reading in English together ❤️
Have a sunny week inside and outside!
#желтыйдвор
#mynewreadjuly
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☀️My Reading in progress ...☀️
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’sDust Child ( 2025 ) is a sweeping saga of family secrets, shifting perspectives and the search for forgiveness. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, the novel follows two sisters who work in Saigon’s bars, earning money by spending time with American soldiers. Some of those soldiers father children who are later left behind. Decades later, the past and present collide in a story of a veteran seeking redemption and an Amerasian man searching for a sense of belonging.
It's my first book by a Vietnamese writer.
473 pages in Russian translation
Dust Child is a She Reads Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction and an Indie Next List Great Read.
https://nguyenphanquemai.com/
#nguyenphanquemai
#readinginprogress
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s
It's my first book by a Vietnamese writer.
473 pages in Russian translation
Dust Child is a She Reads Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction and an Indie Next List Great Read.
https://nguyenphanquemai.com/
#nguyenphanquemai
#readinginprogress
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✨First Summer Reading option ✨
🌻When: in August,23rd
🌻Free of charge
We pick the book (among 3 options) and read it at our own speed ,then 1 meeting online to speak about it.
The Midnight Library by Matt Heig (2020)
Matt Haig is the internationally bestselling author of the novels.
His work has been translated into over 50 languages!
Between life and death there is a library.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right.Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret.She feels she has let everyone down, including herself.But things are about to change.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently.With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life.But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.She must answer the ultimate question:what is the best way to live?
🌻When: in August,23rd
🌻Free of charge
We pick the book (among 3 options) and read it at our own speed ,then 1 meeting online to speak about it.
The Midnight Library by Matt Heig (2020)
Matt Haig is the internationally bestselling author of the novels.
His work has been translated into over 50 languages!
Between life and death there is a library.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right.Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret.She feels she has let everyone down, including herself.But things are about to change.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently.With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life.But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.She must answer the ultimate question:what is the best way to live?
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✨Second Summer Reading option✨
Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Parker (2025)
Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for four decades. They've raised two children in their sleepy Connecticut town and have weathered the inevitable ups and downs of a long life spent together. But eight years after Claire was diagnosed with cancer, the end is near, and it's time to gather loved ones and prepare for the inevitable.
Over the years of Claire's illness, Eliot has willingly—lovingly—shifted into the role of a caregiver. But as he focuses on settling into what will be their last days and weeks together, Claire makes an unexpected request that leaves him reeling. In a moment, his carefully constructed world is shattered.
What if your partner's dying wish broke your heart? How well do we know the deepest desires of those we love?
As Eliot is confronted with this profound turning point in his marriage and his life, he grapples with the man and husband he's been, and with the unknowns of Claire's last days.
Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Parker (2025)
Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for four decades. They've raised two children in their sleepy Connecticut town and have weathered the inevitable ups and downs of a long life spent together. But eight years after Claire was diagnosed with cancer, the end is near, and it's time to gather loved ones and prepare for the inevitable.
Over the years of Claire's illness, Eliot has willingly—lovingly—shifted into the role of a caregiver. But as he focuses on settling into what will be their last days and weeks together, Claire makes an unexpected request that leaves him reeling. In a moment, his carefully constructed world is shattered.
What if your partner's dying wish broke your heart? How well do we know the deepest desires of those we love?
As Eliot is confronted with this profound turning point in his marriage and his life, he grapples with the man and husband he's been, and with the unknowns of Claire's last days.
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✨Third Summer reading option ✨
Us by David Nicholls (2015)
Translated into 37 different languages!
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen-year-old son, Albie; then Connie tells him that she wants a divorce.
The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family. Douglas is convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage and might even help him bond with Albie.
Narrated from Douglas’s honest, slyly witty point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves and learning how to get closer to a son.
Us by David Nicholls (2015)
Translated into 37 different languages!
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen-year-old son, Albie; then Connie tells him that she wants a divorce.
The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family. Douglas is convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage and might even help him bond with Albie.
Narrated from Douglas’s honest, slyly witty point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves and learning how to get closer to a son.
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Выбираем книгу вместе!
Голосуем до 15.07
Чтение на английском не тренд,а образ жизни📚 Описания книг есть в закрепе 📎
Голосуем до 15.07
Чтение на английском не тренд,а образ жизни📚 Описания книг есть в закрепе 📎
Final Results
50%
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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Us by David Nicholls
50%
Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer
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🔥Читаем Midnight Library и встречаемся для обсуждения в конце лета
(Присоединиться может любой желающий)
Let's dim the light, pour some tea and create our own cozy corner of the Midnight Library right on the screen.
Somewhere between midnight and dawn lies a library with infinite shelves. Each book holds a different version of your life. Nora Seed found this place, and now we invite you to step inside it with us.
We will explore together :
✨Regrets vs. New beginnings: what weighs more?
✨The idea of quantum mechanics and infinite possibilities in our everyday choices.
✨What is your "perfect" life, and does it exist at all
✨Favorite alternative lives of Nora - which one broke your heart the most.
📌Entry ticket: One interesting thought or a question about the book that has been on your mind.
There will be other updates later. Don't miss!
👇The e-version of the book is available below
#MidnightLibrary
#читаемвавгусте
(Присоединиться может любой желающий)
Let's dim the light, pour some tea and create our own cozy corner of the Midnight Library right on the screen.
Somewhere between midnight and dawn lies a library with infinite shelves. Each book holds a different version of your life. Nora Seed found this place, and now we invite you to step inside it with us.
We will explore together :
✨Regrets vs. New beginnings: what weighs more?
✨The idea of quantum mechanics and infinite possibilities in our everyday choices.
✨What is your "perfect" life, and does it exist at all
✨Favorite alternative lives of Nora - which one broke your heart the most.
📌Entry ticket: One interesting thought or a question about the book that has been on your mind.
There will be other updates later. Don't miss!
👇The e-version of the book is available below
#MidnightLibrary
#читаемвавгусте
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✍ Немного об авторе книги,которую будем обсуждать в августе ( я ее заказала все-таки пошуршать страничками😁)
Matt Haig
is a contemporary fiction and nonfiction writer. Born in Sheffield, UK in 1975, he grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
He spent a great deal of time at the movies and in the library, which he saw as his safe space; he told The Guardian, “Free from the well-intended prescription of teachers, books became a source of joy, comfort and friendship, rather than something to do me good, in the library I could experience the magic paradox of books: that they were a place of escape and return. That by being taken to another world, you could find yourself.”
💡He went on to study at Hull University and Leeds University. He ran his own online marketing company for a number of years before shifting his primary focus to writing. He is married to Andrea Semple and has two children.
💡When he was 24 years old he suffered a mental breakdown.
👇👇continue in the comments
#Matthaig
#Themidnightlibrary
Matt Haig
is a contemporary fiction and nonfiction writer. Born in Sheffield, UK in 1975, he grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
He spent a great deal of time at the movies and in the library, which he saw as his safe space; he told The Guardian, “Free from the well-intended prescription of teachers, books became a source of joy, comfort and friendship, rather than something to do me good, in the library I could experience the magic paradox of books: that they were a place of escape and return. That by being taken to another world, you could find yourself.”
💡He went on to study at Hull University and Leeds University. He ran his own online marketing company for a number of years before shifting his primary focus to writing. He is married to Andrea Semple and has two children.
💡When he was 24 years old he suffered a mental breakdown.
👇👇continue in the comments
#Matthaig
#Themidnightlibrary
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Pointless choice for myself 😂as I don't have daughters and never will , but the book might be very helpful and illuminating for some of you
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (2016) 3rd edition
The parenting classic that inspired Mean Girls, now fully revised and updated with new material on gender expression, cancel culture, social media, and bullying based on feedback from today’s teenagers
More than twenty years ago, Queen Bees and Wannabes let parents inside the secret world of their adolescent daughters’ female relationships, giving us a new vocabulary for these fickle social dynamics as well as invaluable strategies for helping our daughters navigate them. Since then, nationally recognized thought leader and speaker Rosalind Wiseman has interviewed and listened to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves.
Check it out!
https://archive.org/details/queenbeeswannabe0000wise_g0t6/mode/1up
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (2016) 3rd edition
The parenting classic that inspired Mean Girls, now fully revised and updated with new material on gender expression, cancel culture, social media, and bullying based on feedback from today’s teenagers
More than twenty years ago, Queen Bees and Wannabes let parents inside the secret world of their adolescent daughters’ female relationships, giving us a new vocabulary for these fickle social dynamics as well as invaluable strategies for helping our daughters navigate them. Since then, nationally recognized thought leader and speaker Rosalind Wiseman has interviewed and listened to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves.
Check it out!
https://archive.org/details/queenbeeswannabe0000wise_g0t6/mode/1up
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✨5 недель на чтение "The Midnight Library " и мы встречаемся ,чтобы все обсудить!✨
✍Встреча 23 августа в 18.00
Живой,яркий,современный английский язык!
✨Oh, it is real, Nora Seed.But it is not quite reality as you understand it.For want of a better word,it is in-between.It is not life .It is not death.It is not the real world in a conventional sense. But nor is it a dream. It isn't one thing or another. It is,in short, the Midnight Library...
✨The regrets which were on permanent repeat in her mind .I haven't become an Olympic swimmer.I haven't become a glaciologist.I haven't become Dan's wife. I haven't become a mother. I haven't become the lead singer of the Labyrinths ...It was pathetic really ,the amount of possibilities she had squandered .
💡У каждого из нас есть своя Книга Сожалений. Нора Сид пытается разобраться в страницах своей Книги.
Сможет ли она переписать некоторые страницы? А нужно ли?
Что симоволизирует " Полночная библиотека" ?
Будем искать ответы вместе на эти и другие вопросы ❤️
✍Встреча 23 августа в 18.00
Живой,яркий,современный английский язык!
✨Oh, it is real, Nora Seed.But it is not quite reality as you understand it.For want of a better word,it is in-between.It is not life .It is not death.It is not the real world in a conventional sense. But nor is it a dream. It isn't one thing or another. It is,in short, the Midnight Library...
✨The regrets which were on permanent repeat in her mind .I haven't become an Olympic swimmer.I haven't become a glaciologist.I haven't become Dan's wife. I haven't become a mother. I haven't become the lead singer of the Labyrinths ...It was pathetic really ,the amount of possibilities she had squandered .
💡У каждого из нас есть своя Книга Сожалений. Нора Сид пытается разобраться в страницах своей Книги.
Сможет ли она переписать некоторые страницы? А нужно ли?
Что симоволизирует " Полночная библиотека" ?
Будем искать ответы вместе на эти и другие вопросы ❤️
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Hope that Matt Haig and his marvelous novel got you up to speed with who is who in the novel,and what's going on there.
Somehighlights from the midhalf of the "The Midnight Library " reading:
📌On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over ...
📌The life of a human, according to the philosopher David Hume, was no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster
📌Nora had always had a problem accepting herself. From as far back as she could remember, she'd had the sense that she wasn't enough. Her parents ,who both had their own insecurities, had encouraged that idea.
📌She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in 3 dimensions.That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalizing creatures,living on auto-pilot,who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time
Our online catch-up : 23.08 at 6 p.m.
Big discussion.Great minds.Together ❤️
Some
📌On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over ...
📌The life of a human, according to the philosopher David Hume, was no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster
📌Nora had always had a problem accepting herself. From as far back as she could remember, she'd had the sense that she wasn't enough. Her parents ,who both had their own insecurities, had encouraged that idea.
📌She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in 3 dimensions.That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalizing creatures,living on auto-pilot,who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time
Our online catch-up : 23.08 at 6 p.m.
Big discussion.Great minds.Together ❤️
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Kindness ( добро ) is one of the themes The Midnight Library explores
I'd love to share something else with you
📌How Kindness Impacts Your Health — JABA https://share.google/gOkDL8BllsygzM4gd
Enjoy! ❤️
Our online catch-up is coming soon
✍ August, 23 at 6 p.m.
Free of charge
I'd love to share something else with you
📌How Kindness Impacts Your Health — JABA https://share.google/gOkDL8BllsygzM4gd
Enjoy! ❤️
Our online catch-up is coming soon
✍ August, 23 at 6 p.m.
Free of charge
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