New impressions

In preparation for my knitting orgy in the two weeks before the first Noel, I rented a couple of audiobooks and DVDs.  As I might have written, I like to listen to something while I knit.

This time I rented some books I don't usually choose:
The Cherry Garden, by Anton Tschechov
The Voyage in the Moonlight by Antal Szerb             and
Miss MacKenzies Courage to love by someone I can't remember right now.
And Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin.

Also some Martha Grimes-Stories and Arabelly by Georgette Heyer

I am not so very big in to eastern european or russian literature, but I thought I'd give it a try and I wasn't disapointed. The story by Antal Szerb was very well written and read and
timeless. It must have taken place bevor 1945, because that was, when the hungarian Author was killed, but it could have taken place in my place just as well.
It was a strange world to me and yet there was something in it, that seemed familiar. So I can really recommend it.

Also The book by Boris Akunin - so far as I got at least. Well written and well read. I am  curious as to the Cherry garden or should it be orchard? I have heard of it. I guess I chose that, because in book of the week on BBC Radio 4 last week, they talked about Russias former people, those being the nobles of Russia, who have  been thouroughly eliminated. This is not a judgment, it is a statement. I don't see it as my job to judge other countries deeds, because I do  not know enough about them. But there are no more Nobles notable in Russia.

At any rate: in combination with this book of the week, I felt it a good idea to emerge myself into another world. Maybe I shall read some more of Russias or Hungaries literature . I was a bit disheartened after Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago and the beginning of Oblomow. But there are sure to be other good authors and I'll find them...