My old book friends

Whenever I have guests from Moscow I ask them, if possible, to bring some of my old books. Last time I counted my books – which was a year or two before I moved to Finland – I had ~260 books. I bought a few more after that, just a couple... Right now I managed to move about 100 of my old books, so we're far from done yet. ^^;

Here is what my father brought this time:

Vadim Panov (books 1& 2 of The Secret Town, urban fantasy series set in Moscow)

Lord Byron's poems in English and Russian

3 stories by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (Ukrainian SFF)

a book about the Sami people 

Ivan Yefremov's Razor's Edge 

(Earlier my father brought these books, and my friends brought these ones.)

It's interesting to see how much my reading preferences have changed. I still love science fiction and fantasy the most, but I read more women and mostly in English now, and I try to find books from all sorts of countries. Also I need more LGBTQIA characters in them. ^^ For example, right now I'm reading an anthology of Central-Asian women writers called Nightingale in Cage.

Pirozhok and Schenok are photobombing.