Sci Fi Authors Naomi Novik, who took the Nebula Award for the novel “Moved” in 2016, the fantasy of a girl who was torn out of her beloved community to sacrifice to the dragon, feels different. Her rhetoric of “Sad Puppies” seems like a destructive, thoughtless manipulation of a strong fandom. “I’m glad to loudly trumpet my contempt for what happened,” Novik says in an interview with HuffPost. – I really hope that this year Hugo will go on changing…
10 Most Popular Books in the World The Huffington Post blog was created by Kenneth Lehrer, Andrew Breitbart, Jonah Peretti and Arianna Huffington. New content regularly appears on the blog covering a wide range of topics: politics, business, the environment, entertainment, technology and much more. The concept of the blog was invented in May 2005, and the project itself was launched just a few days later, a year later one of large banks invested $ 5 million in the project,…
The Best Books of Modern Literature Despite the high rates of technological progress, the development of the film industry and animation, books will always occupy the leading positions in terms of fascination and interest. And modern literature is no exception! In this section you can familiarize yourself with the very latest creations of authors from different countries, and choose a novel that has already become a bestseller and has gone down in history. This genre includes a variety of novels…
100 Best Artworks MOSCOW, Aug 1 – RIA News. At the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg State University (SPbU) organized an online voting on the selection of the 100 best books that would be recommended to students for extracurricular reading. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin came up with the idea of creating such a list. In his pre-election article on the national issue, he proposed a survey and a list of…
Most Popular Fantastic Books So that my selection would not be too subjective, I took several book ratings of 2013, removed children’s literature from there – it does not correspond to the format of the article, removed popular action films and detective stories, about which there is nothing to write about (and it is not necessary). Also, I had to remove what I did not like and what I did not read. Thus, this review has two features: Based on…
Popular Contemporary Writers Every foreigner knows Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. What about modern authors? ReadRate found out what relevant writers foreigners are reading right now. You know, we definitely have someone to be proud of! Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky. The legacy of Russian literature that is popular abroad is still being read, but time is running out … Who do foreigners read with the same rapture as we, in turn, Julian Barnes, Chuck Palahniuk, Michel Welbeck, David Nichols…
Russian writers When sociologists asked the Russians to name the greatest writers of Russia, they called the classics. According to the study, during which the Levada Center interviewed 1,600 respondents, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Pushkin are quite predictable. This is, in general, normal. British respondents at times show similar conservatism. If you read the list of names, you will find that, as expected, almost all authors are men, and in the top ten there is not a single living writer….
Books of Love Worth Reading It’s interesting to follow the ups and downs of love not only on the laptop screen, but also on the pages of books! We have collected 10 works by classical and contemporary authors, which will help to better understand the nature of love. 1. JOHN GREEN – “GUILT STARS” It seems to us that here you can not even comment. Although this is not a classic of the 19th century, the story of Augustus and…
Modern Books about Love Knockout – Madi Skyla Olivia James was always a good girl until she met her impudent and sexy fighter in the gym of his father.Set Mark. He caused an incredible storm of emotions, beckoned with such force that it became ill. Olivia did not hope to impress him. He was in the city recently, and his name was already on everyone’s lips. He is one of those guys whose mothers warn their daughters against communicating with…
Interesting Life Books At the end of the last century, they had no idea about the traffic rules in the capital: they didn’t recognize the right or left side, they drove as they wanted, grappled, tumbling … There was an unceasing noise all day and night. This story is from the book of Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky "Moscow and Muscovites", where he tells interesting stories about Moscow, about the life of people, in these stories you can find out the very…