Darya Silman
@daryasilman.bsky.social
A reader obsessed with history (mostly WW2 and time after it) and classics 📚 languages: Russian/English/Estonian (plus rudimentary Bulgarian, German, Turkish and Finnish) 📗 occasional writer
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Darya Silman
@daryasilman.bsky.social
· May 11
It is the duty of the writer to report a terrible truth, and the duty of the reader to learn it. Anyone who turns away, closses his eyes and passes by, violates the memory of the murdered. - Wassili Grossman #Holocaust #WWII #history
My #bookreview of DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz is below 👇
February 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
My #bookreview of DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz is below 👇
I decided to minimize my suffering of choosing the next read. I'll choose books once a month. So this is my TBR pile for February+1 audiobook+1 ARC (if I get an approval)
The book in Russian is THE TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING by Bronnie Ware
The book in Russian is THE TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING by Bronnie Ware
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 AM
I decided to minimize my suffering of choosing the next read. I'll choose books once a month. So this is my TBR pile for February+1 audiobook+1 ARC (if I get an approval)
The book in Russian is THE TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING by Bronnie Ware
The book in Russian is THE TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING by Bronnie Ware
My new used #books
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
My Name Is Red; The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
My Name Is Red; The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 AM
My new used #books
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
My Name Is Red; The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
My Name Is Red; The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
I'm #currentlyreading DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz. I'm loving it from the first pages. So relatable! Now it's a movie
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 AM
I'm #currentlyreading DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz. I'm loving it from the first pages. So relatable! Now it's a movie
My #bookreview of IF YOU TELL by Gregg Olsen is 👇. True crime, real story: a couple tortured their 3 daughters and a nephew for years and killed 2 people, who decided to stay at the couple's house. The husband killed a nephew to stop him from reporting the abuse to authorities
February 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
My #bookreview of IF YOU TELL by Gregg Olsen is 👇. True crime, real story: a couple tortured their 3 daughters and a nephew for years and killed 2 people, who decided to stay at the couple's house. The husband killed a nephew to stop him from reporting the abuse to authorities
My new #audiobook is NO MORE TEARS by Gardiner Harris
February 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
My new #audiobook is NO MORE TEARS by Gardiner Harris
My short #bookreview (or, rather, an audiobook review) of ELEVATION by Stephen King
February 2, 2026 at 11:35 AM
My short #bookreview (or, rather, an audiobook review) of ELEVATION by Stephen King
My #bookreview of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by Thomas Hardy is below. I want to read more of his novels, especially in English. The diversity/beauty of the language disappeared in translation, as I can see after reading this novel in English and 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' in Russian
January 31, 2026 at 5:37 PM
My #bookreview of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by Thomas Hardy is below. I want to read more of his novels, especially in English. The diversity/beauty of the language disappeared in translation, as I can see after reading this novel in English and 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' in Russian
My new used #books:
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
Margaret Thatcher by Jean-Lovis Thieriot
Collection of short stories about Maigret by Georges Simenon
3 novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
Margaret Thatcher by Jean-Lovis Thieriot
Collection of short stories about Maigret by Georges Simenon
3 novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
January 29, 2026 at 7:59 AM
My new used #books:
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
Margaret Thatcher by Jean-Lovis Thieriot
Collection of short stories about Maigret by Georges Simenon
3 novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
Margaret Thatcher by Jean-Lovis Thieriot
Collection of short stories about Maigret by Georges Simenon
3 novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
My short #bookreview of INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 AM
My short #bookreview of INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer
#Currentlyreading Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 AM
#Currentlyreading Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1 new (Die Hard, Love by Ariana Harwicz) and 3 used books:
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Billy Summers by Stephen King
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Billy Summers by Stephen King
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
January 24, 2026 at 10:13 AM
1 new (Die Hard, Love by Ariana Harwicz) and 3 used books:
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Billy Summers by Stephen King
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Billy Summers by Stephen King
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
New used books 👇 Thomas Hardy's books smell of old paper. The smell brings me back to my youth when books in English were scarce, and they all, except textbooks, were old. I don't remember any new books in English from that era
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 AM
New used books 👇 Thomas Hardy's books smell of old paper. The smell brings me back to my youth when books in English were scarce, and they all, except textbooks, were old. I don't remember any new books in English from that era
#Currentlyreading DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC!: NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT THAT SPLIT THE SIXTIES by Elijah Wald.
I watched the movie and wasn't as impressed by it as the American viewers. The book offers a broad overview of the 1960s. Let's see how it goes #acompleteunknown
I watched the movie and wasn't as impressed by it as the American viewers. The book offers a broad overview of the 1960s. Let's see how it goes #acompleteunknown
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM
#Currentlyreading DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC!: NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT THAT SPLIT THE SIXTIES by Elijah Wald.
I watched the movie and wasn't as impressed by it as the American viewers. The book offers a broad overview of the 1960s. Let's see how it goes #acompleteunknown
I watched the movie and wasn't as impressed by it as the American viewers. The book offers a broad overview of the 1960s. Let's see how it goes #acompleteunknown
January 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Short #bookreview of MIGRAINE by Oliver Sacks (neurologist)
January 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Short #bookreview of MIGRAINE by Oliver Sacks (neurologist)
My new used books, all for €1-2
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
My new used books, all for €1-2
#Currentlyreading MIGRAINE by Oliver Sacks
January 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
#Currentlyreading MIGRAINE by Oliver Sacks
I finished reading GUEST HOUSE FOR YOUNG WIDOWS by Azadeh Moaveni. 4 stars. The author tells stories of different women and teens who joined ISIS. The author illuminates individual choices to join as desperate attempts to find safety from structural oppression and poverty
January 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I finished reading GUEST HOUSE FOR YOUNG WIDOWS by Azadeh Moaveni. 4 stars. The author tells stories of different women and teens who joined ISIS. The author illuminates individual choices to join as desperate attempts to find safety from structural oppression and poverty
My new #books:
MIGRAINE; THE MIND'S EYE; HALLUCINATIONS by Oliver Sacks
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H.P.Lovecraft
CHILDHOOD'S END by Arthur C. Clarke
THE MAN IN THE QUEUE by Josephine Tey
Can you guess a book by its cover?
MIGRAINE; THE MIND'S EYE; HALLUCINATIONS by Oliver Sacks
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H.P.Lovecraft
CHILDHOOD'S END by Arthur C. Clarke
THE MAN IN THE QUEUE by Josephine Tey
Can you guess a book by its cover?
January 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
My new #books:
MIGRAINE; THE MIND'S EYE; HALLUCINATIONS by Oliver Sacks
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H.P.Lovecraft
CHILDHOOD'S END by Arthur C. Clarke
THE MAN IN THE QUEUE by Josephine Tey
Can you guess a book by its cover?
MIGRAINE; THE MIND'S EYE; HALLUCINATIONS by Oliver Sacks
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H.P.Lovecraft
CHILDHOOD'S END by Arthur C. Clarke
THE MAN IN THE QUEUE by Josephine Tey
Can you guess a book by its cover?
I finished reading EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS by John Green (I hadn't realized it was THAT John Green until he mentioned his other books). 4 stars for highlighting how inequality, not a disease per se - kills millions a year
January 8, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I finished reading EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS by John Green (I hadn't realized it was THAT John Green until he mentioned his other books). 4 stars for highlighting how inequality, not a disease per se - kills millions a year
The 1st book of 2026 is finished. It was okay.
It is a #memoir of a (now) famous TV show hostess whose famous (then) partner dumped her while she was pregnant with their third child. She was dependant on him financially, and he had been threatening to cut her off if she refused his control
It is a #memoir of a (now) famous TV show hostess whose famous (then) partner dumped her while she was pregnant with their third child. She was dependant on him financially, and he had been threatening to cut her off if she refused his control
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The 1st book of 2026 is finished. It was okay.
It is a #memoir of a (now) famous TV show hostess whose famous (then) partner dumped her while she was pregnant with their third child. She was dependant on him financially, and he had been threatening to cut her off if she refused his control
It is a #memoir of a (now) famous TV show hostess whose famous (then) partner dumped her while she was pregnant with their third child. She was dependant on him financially, and he had been threatening to cut her off if she refused his control
I bought new books for a change. 3 books of neurologist Oliver Sacks, and one book each of Arthur Clark, Josephine Tey and H.P.Lovecraft
December 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I bought new books for a change. 3 books of neurologist Oliver Sacks, and one book each of Arthur Clark, Josephine Tey and H.P.Lovecraft
My short #bookreview of AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS by Oliver Sacks (7 neurological cases connected either with brain damage or brain's congenital abnormalities). 5 stars!
December 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My short #bookreview of AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS by Oliver Sacks (7 neurological cases connected either with brain damage or brain's congenital abnormalities). 5 stars!