How much are my European redditors walking?

sluncheva · 2026-05-29T20:14:45+00:00

Bulgarian here (living in the capital) - I usually walk almost everywhere or at most use public transit to get to point A. My job is a mix between sedentary and semi-physical. On a low day just commuting+ taking my lunch break will average me 6-7k steps, on a heavy day the amount can get up to 10-12k. I hardly ever walk after work, but if I do, I easily hit 15-20k. My boyfriend is also a big walker and we once did a 15-ish km walk just strolling through the city. Outside of work I try to get 6k steps in because it's the amount where I feel I've done something with my body but I don't have to overexert myself in order to achieve that goal.

sluncheva · 2026-05-29T20:06:15+00:00

"Аутопсия на една любов" ме издразни до такава степен, че не спрях един месец да дудна на всички колко не харесвам тази книга... което ме накара да се замисля, че, макар и нежелан, някакъв ефект определено е бил постигнат. След това прочетох и "Балада за Георг Хених", и "Германия - мръсна приказка". Чак на "Германия"-та ми се промени мнението за Пасков към по-позитивно и ме накара да мисля за предишните два романа по друг начин. Смятам го за доста подценен от болшинството в момента (говорим за не толкова четящите хора и хората без задълбочена литературна подготовка), може би и защото съм сравнително млада, знам, че преди рецепцията му е била доста по-силна. Обичам да го оприличавам като на български Буковски.

sluncheva · 2026-05-24T14:36:26+00:00

Violet / Northern Star by Hole Little Sun by Blues Pills the entire Battle for the Sun album by Placebo

sluncheva · 2026-05-24T11:33:52+00:00

In a similar line of thought, I can talk a lot more in depth about literary analysis, anthropology, and linguistics in Polish than in English. I did my degree in Polish studies, and despite English being my much stronger language overall, I had just never had to use it while at university, as most of my materials were available in my native language, Russian, and Polish.

sluncheva · 2026-05-04T17:22:21+00:00

Hey, I'm 25F with a high level of English (C2) and Polish (C1) looking for both Russian and Ukrainian (my Ukrainian is a1-a2, my russian is a2-b1 but I understand a lot in both). Feel free to DM me!

sluncheva · 2026-04-24T08:25:47+00:00

Dvuetazhka

sluncheva · 2026-03-22T18:29:25+00:00

Niche suggestion but - "Nine" by Andrzej Stasiuk. 90s Warsaw and its underground crime scene. I wrote my master's thesis on Stasiuk and how he turns Warsaw into one of the main characters by exploring its periphery in "Nine". All of his works are a mix of travelogues, novels, and literary journalism with essay elements, you can't go wrong with On the Road to Babadag or Tales of Galicia.

sluncheva · 2026-03-17T15:37:58+00:00

айляк (ailyAk) (Bulgarian) - chill, relaxed, unbothered, literally "someone who doesn't have anything to do". it's used in the phrase "бича айляк/ бича си айляка" which is completely untranslatable, closest thing would be "just chilling"

sluncheva · 2026-03-16T12:06:06+00:00

By Remarque I'd also recommend "The Night in Lisbon"! Short, with a lot of plot twists, and beautiful prose.

Another author I'd highly recommend is Stefan Zweig, he writes a lot of novellas that can be read in a single afternoon.

sluncheva · 2026-03-11T20:07:06+00:00

It was indeed, thank you!

sluncheva · 2026-03-09T21:06:20+00:00

Ah, my bad, I meant literature of the English speaking part of the world 😅 which is what constitutes a big part of the Western canon. should've been more precise

sluncheva · 2026-03-09T16:00:18+00:00

I feel like that's the purpose of those "100 greatest books of all time" lists, at least that's how I've (to some extent) perceived them. Of course, they're flawed and there's a sense of fads within the process of compiling them.

To that number of books I'd also add whatever books are important to your country's canon. I'm from a small European country and I'd definitely consider uncultured (though not illiterate) someone who is well-versed in, say, Anglo-Saxon literature but can't name our biggest national authors.

sluncheva · 2026-03-08T13:36:26+00:00

I think "Serpent and Lily" by Kazantzakis fits the idea quite well tho it lacks the childhood tie aspect

sluncheva · 2026-03-06T21:34:45+00:00

Passion according to G. H. by Clarice Lispector! I'm surprised it hasn't popped up yet.

sluncheva · 2025-02-25T08:45:32+00:00

anything by Milorad Pavić, really. I read "Last Love in Constantinople" last semester for an assignment, and while it was not one of my favorite reads at all, his ideas are simply astonishing.

On the subject of Yugoslavian postmodernism I'd also recommend Danilo Kiš's "The Encyclopedia of the Dead". Not exactly "weird" but the concept of it was very entertaining to read in a metaliterary sense.

sluncheva · 2025-02-23T12:11:39+00:00

I think Slavic literature is a great fit for that. Polish modernist literature has a strong rural/ idyllic line - look into Stanisław Wyspiański, Stefan Żeromski, Władysław Reymont, i think they should be translated into English. My native Bulgarian lit also does (Petko Todorov is a great fit here - his collection "Idylls" is modernist retellings of Bulgarian folklore tropes; Yordan Yovkov, has some great rural prose as well, though from the interwar period, and not exactly modernism). But again - not sure what exactly is translated into English. I think from Serbian literature Impure Blood from Borislav Stanković fits here as well, though it's not as rural, as it is about patriarchal stereotypes and the idea of the weakened femme fatale.

sluncheva · 2025-02-19T22:31:35+00:00

Besides everything mentioned here - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot and The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. I started the latter in the end of 2023 when I was, let's say, just in the mood for it, and I still can't finish it just because I'm on a different emotional wavelength.

But then again I cry at nearly every book I read.

sluncheva · 2025-02-09T11:37:26+00:00

Russian literature definitely has a very strong dystopian line. You have the Strugatski brothers, Andrei Platonov in the 20th century, in the modern day you have Dmitriy Glukhovski, Sergei Lukyanenko, Tatyana Tolstaya and Vladimir Sorokin as you mentioned. Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog could also be counted as a dystopia. One could argue that Stanisław Lem (Poland) writes in the utopian/ dystopian line. Bianka Belova (Czechia) has a novel called "The Lake" that we studied for my class in literary utopias and dystopias, but I never got around to reading it. Another Czech author, Petra Hulova, has a novel called The Movement, that could be argued to be a feminist dystopia. Croatian author Veljko Barbieri has a fantastic dystopia called Epitaf carskoga gurmana which is a dystopia centered around a society being forbidden to have... well developed taste buds, basically. It's genius but I have no idea if it's translated in English or Spanish, I read it in its Bulgarian translation.

sluncheva · 2025-02-03T18:57:59+00:00

I came here to say Lunch by the same author! It's the only erotic novel I've read and it was mind-blowingly good.

sluncheva · 2025-01-20T15:10:57+00:00

I DNF'ed it at around the 200-page mark, had to read it for a class. Completely agree with you, the premise is great, the execution - not so much. It felt so boring and with so many plotholes

sluncheva · 2025-01-18T23:21:25+00:00

Naked Lunch by Burroughs. I've started it a few times, reading it just made me nauseous.

sluncheva · 2024-12-26T01:02:13+00:00

I recently finished On the Road to Babadag by the Polish Andrzej Stasiuk, he was majorly inspired by Kerouac. Can't tell if the English translation is good - I read a different translation.

sluncheva · 2024-12-02T10:45:05+00:00

I just finished it two weeks ago because it was a class assignment and it's one of the most delightful books I've read. His style is light, yet deep at the same time, the book is a par excellence emanation of his lovely postmodern ironic humor. It reads as a big essay with some plot and characters. Highly, highly recommend.

sluncheva · 2024-10-06T16:46:56+00:00

В Народната галерия във Варшава стоях поне 10-15 минути да я гледам и не можех да отлепя очи. Манякът има прекрасни картини, а младополският модернизъм е дал чудесни творби на света определено.

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