Everyone knows the Mad Hatter from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and though I am not implying that you can potentially be as magnificently mad as that fictional character straight out of Lewis Carroll’s…
This post is my attempt at journaling online. And it feels different. Nevertheless, I am willing to try and since I have some things to say, I sincerely hope that this post will be something interesting to read. Let me…
First, I learned to read, and then I started learning to live, or something like that. But really, what can be more beneficial for your life than a good, wisdom-ish friend in the pocket of your jeans or bag? Especially for an introvert-minded person. Books are the best…
Today is a very special day on my blog; I am officially in book reviewing and sharing my experience with the works of the best authors in the world. My first blog post in this category I am honored to dedicate to a…
Habit is what makes all people wear clothes. But what about the habit of daily reading? I used to be an avid reader. English literature and urban fiction writers made it easy for me to merge with the idea of daily…
Who would think that staying at home can be so challenging and tough?! I’m sure, most of us dreamed of a week or better a month off work. But now when we have it, it doesn't feel as satisfying as we imagined it would…
Those who have a natural attraction to reading, are indeed lucky! But not all of us, lucky bookworms, are being productive in our reading. Quite often, this very attraction turns us into blind puppies that can easily consume book after book and yet struggle to form a good…
When it comes to learning languages, motivation is not just a fancy word but a riverbed in which your language learning progress flows. It is one of the most important inner resources that helps us, language learners…
Singular ‘they,’ yes or no? It has been one of the main dilemmas in my translation work this year. Especially considering the difference between how gender is used in Russian and English languages. For some, old-fashioned sexists (pardon my French), this question in its…
For me, machine translation and human translation are things of two different worlds. It does not mean that something is generally better than the other. Both have its pros and cons but people started more and more…
As a literary translator, I have a quite interesting hobby, which is to read the same book first in the source language (for me it is English) and then in the target language (for me it is Russian), bit by bit…
Hello December and hello my lovely reader – let’s have a heartful conversation today. Honestly, it took me some time to come up with the title for today’s blog post. I wanted the title to be the bridge between writing and general life, because recently I have come to a quite…
In Daoism, life is presented as a road which we have to follow. Sounds reasonable and kind of easy, does not it? But the older I get, the less visible this road of life appears to me. It has been a week since I wrote…
