That's a lot of fantasy

Today is the Sweet Day, aka getting the books I ordered from post. Pirozhok the Raccoon helped carry them.

Oh my pretty babies, you are home now. Enjoy our bookshelves.

Note to self: Must buy more bookshelves.

Books I read in August

Hello, ten readers of this blog! ^.^ It's my monthly reading post again. In August I read an Egyptian author for the first time, lots of Korean and Japanese manga and some other things.

The books are presented to you by the Softy Dinosaurs!

Music Teleport Into Asian Landscapes

How about some travelling with me? Let's teleport through the musical gates of these wonderful Asian bands to their motherlands. How many horses will you hear in their songs? ;-)

Hanggai (Beijing, China) – folk rock

(Saw them in Helsinki in 2013 – pure awesomeness!)

Tengger Cavalry (Beijing, China) – folk metal, black metal

Bookworm Problems

I had a great time in the library today. Usually there aren't many people there in the evenings, so I had a whole sofa for myself. I got four books: The Silkworm (finally! I loved The Cuckoo's Calling, now I can read its sequel), two books about Japan for research and a historical mystery novel by Boris Akunin.

In search of a song

My husband hummed a familiar tune the other day. Something I heard in an old Soviet cartoon that he didn't watch. I said, “How do you know this Russian song?” But he swore it wasn't Russian and played me this:

But! That's what I heard in the cartoon “Nu, pogodi” (jump to 2:33) in childhood:

Books I read in July

I want to read books from all sorts of countries, not just Europe (so far it's mostly been Finland, UK and Russia), USA and Japan, so from now on I'll be paying attention to where the author is from. In July I read Caribbean, Irish and Korean writers for the first time!

This month, the books are introduced to you by the Trio of Curious Lizards!

My July Reading

A Very Asian Day

Somehow today was very Asian. First, we had a lunch in a Chinese restaurant.

Mandarin Palace in Sello

Then I returned these books to the library: