#I bought recently additional book for management of corporate finances and I've been really into it...

[path-of-my-childhood]

It's a personal ask but still..What are your favourite books? Have you read anything from foreign literature like English, Asian or Russian? Did you like it? Answer if you don't mind)

I used to be a much bigger reader, nowadays I don’t so much. But that’s mostly because I still haven’t finished my studies (economics) so I still have to go through few books there, maybe after I’m done with it all and I’ve had like a one year period where I didn’t have to touch any book - maybe then I’ll get back into reading. 😂

But I’ve been an avid reader when I was younger. I actually learned to write and read very young, I was around 4-ish at the time. Around the time I started elementary (around 7 years old), I would take random novels from shelves of my grandparent’s homes, because they were the ones who mostly took care of my brother and I while we were kids and parents were working, and I would read them. I was pretty good, could read a decent sized novel in few days. Of course, had no idea what I was reading cause I was a literal child 😂 it was pretty funny when I re-read those same novels later on in life and was like, ‘Ahh, so that’s what this book is about.’ But it was good mental exercise at the time and I’m really glad grown-ups around me encouraged me to keep at it.

Throughout elementary school (in my country from age 7-15) and high school (15-19) we always had Serbian language and grammar and that subject includes obligatory reading of course. In my country the program includes a lot of domestic writers, and then as you are getting older a lot of Russian classics and classics of Western literature. So I read a lot of those… Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Ivo Andric, Hemingway, Dante, Shakespeare, Homer - and much more, if it’s something that is often referred to in conversation around the world - we’ve had to read it.

As far as my reading taste nowadays go - I really, really love biographies. I love reading about real people and real things. For example, some years ago I’ve read a biography of Abraham Lincoln and it absolutely fascinated me. Also, biographies of Sir Alex Ferguson, former manager of Manchester United - those were a must-read for me as a life long fan. Then there’s this writer Edward Rutherfurd that writes books about cities and their development throughout history and it’s sooo good. Series about London is probably my favorite, but New York one was great too. It’s like biographies of cities.

For some lighter reading my go-to are thrillers, so anything by Dan Brown and Steve Berry will do, but if I had to pick favorites it would probably be “The Da Vinci Code”, or “The List of Seven” by Mark Frost. I’m a huge fan of Arthur Conan Doyle and I absolutely love every S.Holmes story he’s ever written. Also, I still think “The Hobbit” is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. Then there are some books that I consider essential reading for everyone because they were so formative in my life, like “The Catcher in the Rye”, “Crime and Punishment”, “The Little Prince”, “We Children of Zoo Station”, “In Desert and Wilderness”, “The Call of the Wild”, there’s more but I’ll stop there.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, nowadays the time that I do have for reading I usually spend reading about business management, practices in HR, financial strategies etc. And the worst part is that I actually really enjoy studying and researching those subjects. I guess that is… adulting. And yes, I am thoroughly disappointed in myself as I’m writing this 😄