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Hi, it just occurred to me a couple days ago that a community like this might exist within the world of lj...lucky me, it does. ;)

I may be a little ahead of myself, here, but I'm finishing my second year of Russian and want something to read (in the original Russian) besides the short stories about soldiers we've been translating in our reader. Something vaguely recent would be awesome; I'm a picky reader and the classics like Anna Karenina haven't really done it for me. (Sacrilege, I know. I read the English translation last year; that might be part of the problem, but even English classics don't really hold my attention anymore.) I don't mind reading with my hand on a dictionary the whole time, but I'm having trouble finding stories that make me want to keep reading.

Any suggestions? :/