Tag: Sofia

Sofia Today

~ Veselin ~ 3 Comments

I walked to the Book Fair today (well, skipped a few bus stops, but mostly walked). I was under the impression that I’d taken some pretty cool photos on the way there. After all, I crossed the city center. This is what I actually found later in my camera roll.

Three photos in total.

A colorful building on Lyuben Karavelov street. I twist my neck every time I pass by because the people who restored it painted outside ACs. I don’t know why but I find it cool.

Sticker graffiti with USA’94 near the Romanian embassy. It’s ironic because I ordered a gamebook called USA’94 a few days ago. After seeing the photo, I googled the book to see if there’s any resemblance – none. Whoever does these stickers is unrelated to the gamebook community.

And a Twingo 1. Renault is about to revive the Twingo 1 car (1993-2007) as Twingo E-Tech. The concept car has eyelashes by design. I owned a similar car when I was younger. It’s great for parking.

This particular unit is the facelift version from around 2001-2006.

Christmas Book Fair

~ Veselin ~ 6 Comments

I like visiting the book fairs in Sofia. We usually have two per year, one in December, and one in May. I would often go 3-4 times, slowly navigating through the landscape, buying 1-2 books at a time.

I went there with the goal to buy the new book by Nicci French and maybe return for another round over the next 3-4 days. Came back to the office with 8. That’s a bit too many. This means I’m not returning to the fair as I exceeded the reasonable maximum of new books for the month 🙂 Anything else will have to wait.

Highlights:

  • The Dungeon Crawler Carl – I have to admit I made a purchase decision based on the fact that this book has a hole in the cover. It also has a very high score on Goodreads but that wouldn’t have been enough to buy it.
  • The Devils by Joe Abercrombie – you can say by the beautiful print that Joe Abercrombie has a new publisher for Bulgaria. The last one only did paperbacks.
  • The Last Days of Kira Mullan – Maud O’Conner’s part 1 was quite interesting I hope this book lives up to the expectations. That would likely be the next book I’ll start (currently reading two other). I like Nicci French.