#Cheerful_People

 #Cheerful_People

At last, we visited the Orbita book club. We tried for so long (we even read a few books from past meetings!) and finally, it happened.

Our persistence paid off; the meeting was fantastic!

We discussed Magda Szabó's book "The Door".

I'm not sure what to tell you about, whether it's the cool people we met there or the book itself.

Well, after all, people are personal, so let's talk about the book. But overall, we're glad we went. It was an incredibly pleasant meeting with intellectual people, just as you'd imagine a book club to be.

And all the new acquaintances were delightful, and it turns out Anna-Maria was there, whom we already know from various literary events at the library! And she recognized us too, saying - oh, I already know most of this group of birds of a feather flock together)))

Everyone was terribly nice. But Bulgarians, in general, are mostly nice and friendly. Yep, unlike our compatriots and those bros from the other side. But moreover, everyone was there... well, subtly intelligent, well-read, profound.

Strangely, it was one of the best meetings in recent times, and yet I've taken so long to write a post. Well, that happens to me sometimes.

It's because the approach to conducting internet narratives, I don't know what to call the chatter on the web pages now, all has changed. I miss the old approach; I liked it the most, but somehow I can't go back. And with the new one, you constantly need to tie together a bunch of things, emphasize a bunch of things, and that takes time.

Just writing like before, it's fun, but because of the information overload and the deluge of info, I just feel sorry for people because their attention is already so fragmented, and to just tug at them with trifles... on the other hand, they'll spend less time on the short stuff and absorb the information more easily than a long read. Alright, I'll think about it some more. There's also the trouble that my blog is now general, like, directly for long-reads-updates and for personal stuff, and the personal has become so thoughtfully cumbersome. Of course, one could just constantly tweet into Telegram, for example, and transfer the good stuff straight to the blog (fb isn't for it with their censorship it's not a platform for speaking out anymore)... and if Telegram dies, well, the important stuff, as I wanted, will remain in the blog.

In short, the Orbita book club is great, we'll definitely go to there again! And you, who are in Varna, come along, it's really cool))!

I'll write about the book in a separate post. With marked opinions from the meeting.