What was the last book you read? Did you enjoy it?
My answer:
Village School by Miss Read. I’d been wanting for the longest time to read something from this author, particularly Miss Clare Remembers and No Holly For Miss Quinn, which are two books in her Fairacre series which inspired Enya (one of my faza people) to compose two pieces of music with the same names. Just listening to those songs I always thought that if they have book equivalents, they must be great, and reading their synopses made me think they were right up my alley, but there was no Polish translation, or at least I couldn’t find any, and it’s fairly recently, some two years ago I guess, that I’ve seriously started reading English-language books of all sorts more regularly and casually, that is not solely for learning the language and new vocabulary. GoodReads must have also figured that it would be right up my alley, because recently I’ve found the first book from this series (the aforementioned Village School) in my recommendations on there, and since now I have access to different places where I can get English books and I read them regularly, I figured I really need to give this series a go now. It took me some time to get into it properly, but I really did enjoy this book and I felt really at home in it by the time I finished. It was really sweet and charming and I absolutely loved her way of describing characters, I love authors whose characters I can actually imagine and who seem life-like, her way of describing things in general is amazing, and I liked her sense of humour.
At more or less the same time I happened to learn that a guy I used to follow quite regularly some years ago, who teaches Swedish online and is a Swede himself and generally seems quite crazy about languages, has written a handbook for Swedish learners, called A Lagom Guide To Swedish. I figured I could really use some good Swedish offline resource that I wouldn’t need to scan or anything, so I bought the ebook right away. And while it’s a handbook, so generally not something you’d just read like from cover to cover, that was precisely what I ended up doing, in just a few sittings. 😀 I was quite curious how much of the things in this book I would have already known, so I started just skimming through it, but then got positively surprised that I actually know SO much of the stuff he covered in it, and even more surprised and happy whenever I came across something I didn’t know or realise, that I just didn’t want to put it aside. It really boosted my self-esteem in terms of Swedish, because ever since my English has leapt so much forward, I’ve been feeling less confident about my Swedish than I was before, even despite I managed with it quite well in Stockholm and I can get along with people just fine, I always have an impression that my Swedish, compared with my English, feels kind of clunky and it’s not as easy for me to express everything in it as it is in English, even though there was a time when my Swedish was waay better than my English. So I’m really glad I came across that book, even for this one reason. And it’ll definitely still be useful in different situations.
How about you? 🙂
My Inner MishMash 
I read a book by a channelled higher being called “Reclaiming the Shadow Self” and it was so helpful for me!! I put it on my shelf of special books that usually doesn’t get new additions. It was exactly what I needed to read while I read it. Granted, the chapter about the reality of alien abductions was rather disconcerting. 😀 I could’ve done without that knowledge.
I also added some Christopher Pike reprints to the shelf, and I’m glad his books are being republished! I’ve read two of the four of them, one standalone (“The Midnight Club”) and one that starts a trilogy (“Remember Me”). I want to read the whole trilogy, so I might reread “Remember Me” and then keep going. I also bought “Chain Letter”, also republished, and I intend to reread both of its volumes as well. (Its sequel is included in the republished edition as an omnibus.)
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It’s such a fab feeling when you come across such such rare, special books, and also when you read something exactly at the time when you read it, I love when it happens and it can be so helpful!
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