suggested reading?

[fiachasorcha.livejournal.com]

I'm looking for something to keep up my russian over the summer. I'll be starting my third year of russian in september and I'd like to not completely lose everything that I've learned, but I'm still fairly limited. I don't mind struggling through something with a dictionary, but I would rather it not be completely impossible. Perhaps poetry or short stories.

thanks!

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

www.lib.ru is an endless source of everything.

Try any story by Yury Koval': http://www.lib.ru/KOWAL/
His language is the simplest and most beautiful I have ever seen. He's nominally a kids' author but makes delightful reading for adults, too.

[ex-metsakis.livejournal.com]

Russian classic and USSR SF writers...

[wire-shock.livejournal.com]

Late Chekhov?
Late Pushkin?

[ilya1.livejournal.com]

I second the Pushkin recommendation, although I can't really suggest any specific works. My university has a first-year Russian course based on reading Pushkin, so someone who's studied the language for two years (which is also my situation) should be able to read him alone.

[hrisanta.livejournal.com]

http://jkin.livejournal.com/677.html - list of free online-libraries.

[shellesie.livejournal.com]

Nikolay Nosov, "Fantazyori" (http://lib.fictionbook.ru/ru/author/nosov_nikolayi_nikolaevich/fantazeriy/) - a book of short stories for junior school, simple and funny, as I think

[anton-y-k.livejournal.com]

М-да, а я вот уже английский начал забывать потихоньку. Может пообщаемся (голосом) по skype или icq: я вспомню английский, а ты русский подтянешь?