Svetlana's Reads and Views

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme # 66  Resolutions To be honest, I don't recall if I got one or two books last week. Next week I promise to reveal the book titles that I got for New Years. I was pretty much sick this week so I stayed home, tried to finish books I was reading and that's that. On 26th of December we put up our New Years Tree, (evergreen tree) in every room. One in mine, one in my mom's, my dad's and my son's. (My son's insistence) We also put some lights out in the backyard. I definitely have mixed feelings about the upcoming New Year, the 2024, year I will be 39 as my son often reminds me. I used to be on a special program...

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme # 65 December 26th For someone who doesn't celebrate christmas, my favorite day is definitely December 26th because its very close to a holiday I celebrate, Soviet Union styled New Years that is all too similar to christmas in America. (One of these days I want to find out why Soviet Union styled New Years is so oh so similar to christmas here. On 21st of December, much to mine surprise, I ended up being invited to and celebrating an Iranian holiday, Shab-e-Yelda which was fun actually :)  Other than that, just the same I suppose.  Last Week On The Blog This Week On The Blog New Arrivals At Svetlana's Reads And...

Name of Book: The Madwomen of Paris Author: Jennifer Cody Epstein  ISBN: 978-0-593-154800-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Type of book: 1880s, hysteria, France, Salpetriere asylum, hypnosis, sexual assault, Jean-Martin Charcot, imagination vs reality, love story, men vs women, lunacy ward  Year it was published: 2023  Summary: A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris’s notorious women’s asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories—and even more perilously, her sanity—in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. “I didn’t see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival would upend the already chaotic order of things at the Salpêtrière—not to mention change the course of my own life there.” When Josephine arrives at the Salpêtrière she is covered in blood and ...

  Name of Book: My Men  Author: Victoria Kielland (Damion Searls translator) ISBN: 978-1-6626-0192-7 Publisher: Astra House  Type of book: Norway, serial killers, stream of consciousness, America, 1876-1908, family, religion, god, survival, choices, literary, translation   Year it was published:2023 (2021)  Summary: Based on the true story of Norwegian maid Belle Gunness, 19th-century America’s most notorious serial killer with a body count of at least 14 men. My Men is a fictional account of one broken woman's descent into inescapable madness. My Men is a harrowing read about an enigmatic historical figure: Brynhilde Belle Gunness, a Norwegian servant girl turned serial killer after emigrating to America in the wake of a hopeless love affair at home. She thought she was following her sister to a better life, but what she found in America was a society ruled by the same rigid moral codes that oppressed her at home. Consumed by desire, and thirsty for the lo...

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme # 64 Things are going well Well good news is that things kind of straightened out and I'm not kicked out from certain company! Last week my son attended a friend's birthday party where I'm pretty sure he had a lot of fun. Quite recently he even started to talk to his friends over my cell phone (am not kidding by the way) We even got newest Cat Kid Comic Club which we read together and I even put on hold the Dog Man which will come out on March. I have bene a bit sick this week unfortunately. The mysterious package that I should have gotten back in November from UPS has disappeared.  Last Week On The Blog This Week O...