Favorite books Christina Yatkovsky, chief editor of the "Alpina. media »
Books / / December 19, 2019
Christina Yatkovsky
Chief Editor "Alpina. media"Writer and artist.
1. Do you have a favorite author? What his book you recommend to read?
When I think about the most favorite, the first always comes to mind Oscar Wilde. Of all his books I choose, perhaps not the most obvious - "Letters." His life itself is an art in itself literature, and he wrote to a friend so that the take and the public. How, in general, it happened.
2. With a book from childhood you have associated with the most fond memories?
With "Deniskina stories"! The most important part of my cognitive base. Antipyretic no better than "Deniskiny stories». Every time you are sick (and when you're small, you constantly sick), you lie, you burn, you read about Deniska and Mishka, about porridge, Singapore and about the dog, about twenty years under the bed. And whatever you may be, you laugh and made easier.
Probably in the same category for my book "Nevezuchka». These are the stories about the boy's bones, which for seven years. He was not lucky. For example, he was born on February 29th. Grandmother read to me these stories, when I still she did not know how to read (this is a wonderful time when he could not read and depend on senior). About Nevezuchku I could listen to over and over again, endlessly.
3. What book are you re-read often and with pleasure?
Over time, I come to the fact that life is too fast to even re-read what you love. I would like to catch more and this and that, and the new and long-standing, right. Therefore, to read out holes only children. All adult books that deeply touched me, I go back mentally.
I think the last thing just took in hand and re-read, he was "Harry Potter». I'm just a man of that generation that grew up with these books simultaneously. We waited for each following with such furious greed, and they had so much comfort, so much the feeling of home, this internal Hogwarts. It is very autumn story and very winter, the warming. Repel Dementors like nothing else.
It's funny, but by the will of fate, I somehow re-read his book with stories several times - "Cheese». Last year, I had to read the pieces of it on the radio "Culture", but this year my friends asked her to write down the audio to listen to in the car, and I read aloud for an hour. An interesting experience.
4. Which book is the most inspired you to some action?
Books likely inspire me to inaction. Lie down and read!
5. Was the book from which you could not break away until you have read to the end?
There are many, I drunken reader! I can not tear myself away from anything that says José Saramago, my mind flies through his lines faster cheetah. His texts are almost without the paragraphs, with a kind of punctuation - to me they are somehow very easy to go to, they are very natural for me.
Acquaintance with his work, I would recommend "Disruptions in death», «counterpart" or "The Gospel of Jesus». I myself started with "blindness"But it's right off the bat.
6. What book should be read by every man and why?
I know a boy who, when he was already quite an adult and do not read anything, almost any book and began to read "Lolita." I think this is enough to understand the depth of the idea of literature as a whole, and the beauty of the language.
But the people, of course, very different. And even the Bible do not all unite, what is already here Tower of Babel - we all have different languages, we do not understand each other.
I guess if that's the need to read each, again something childish, some fairy tale of Moomins. Or "Adventures of Tom Sawyer».
And I at every opportunity and would recommend strongly advocating a series of diaries Adrian Mole, They wrote Sue Townsend. This is one of the funniest and exciting books in my life.
7. Which book has been helpful to you professionally? Why?
Here I am, of course, lucky, because a person who works in publishing, this cobbler with boots. I have the good fortune and opportunity to read everything that publishes "Alpina". And when I retrained from the PR-director in the chief editor of the site, it really helped me to re-read with new eyes "Write, reduces"Maxim Ilyahova and Lyudmila Sarychev.
And after their new book "New rules for business correspondence"I stopped writing people" Thanks in advance "(this is a vile manipulation) and removed from the signature" Yours "(because respect must be in deed and not in words).
More recently I was very inspired by the book of John Edson "Design Lessons from Apple». It would seem that the book is already quite old, but it is incredibly urgent. After reading it, you realize that the design - it is not only the beauty of this approach to design in a broad sense. And business processes in general, and food in particular. One can hardly find a better example than the Apple.
Although this book in 2013, and much water has flowed, and left so many new phones, watches, laptops, approaches to work do not change. This book wants to give all the captains. We are now publishing just taught me, thinking about the strategy of development of the site and application "Alpina", and I was all too soon. And gives ideas and forces.
8. What is a good book you read on the advice of another person?
Often something good read on the advice of people who trust you. Now just finished reading a biography Astrid Lindgren. She has an amazing cover, well, under the cover of not less interesting. Things like that you recognize! For example, what Pippi Longstocking was written during the Second World War as a reaction to what is happening. This is a great rebellion against all military sadness. There's even a chapter with an allusion to Hitler (Adolf athlete is in the story of the circus).
9. What do you prefer: paper, electronic, audio books? Why?
I hunker and enjoy only on paper. Aurally perceive badly, and the screen, and so I read more than my eyes can bear.
Paper books - it's like vinyl records, how to print pictures as vivid pictures instead of reproductions.
To me it is important to touch, to smell. A lot of years of experience in publishing profdeformirovali my tactile nature to such a degree that I already know what a headband, stamping, cutting, that these all mean things. Ribbon. Different paper. All this is terribly exciting.
I love paper books to such an extent that, as in the song "In my backpack fat, and matches, and eight volumes of Turgenev." For example, on a trip to St. Petersburg for three days, half of my small backpack held the book "A life"Keith Richards.
The same volume of the book Michael Zygar "Empire must die"I, too, bravely dragged along. Well, just can not be all these kids leave home. The only exception was "Ulysses"I've read from the phone in line at the clinic, his haul at the time I had no strength.
10. Do use special applications for reading? What?
Use application "Alpina. Books ", because I work with him. And yet I glance at what makes Bookmate. They are amazing people, and I like to watch them work. But, as I said, I read the old fashioned way, leaf through pages manually.
11. Do you make a note if quotes are preserved, whether write reviews?
Sometimes a piece of photograph pages with the quote, sometimes copying itself somewhere. You'll laugh: quote on Twitter!
Sometimes write reviews on OZON.ru, because I know that there are reviews of books to help sales. On the books of friends and acquaintances try to write detailed ratings herself as a writer, I understand how important and valuable, any word about your text, do not even need praise. In the words of Morpheus: Is it not necessary for the fight?
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