So I hesitated, wondering that if I could cope with it because I don't like to give up on books in the middle if just because I don't like them. For me the book is really difficult and sometimes it's exhausting. When I am going somewhere on public transport in one hand I hold the e-book in one hand and in the another hand I hold a my cell phone where (OR: "so") I can look up unknown words in a dictionary. For In almost a month I have managed to read about 20 % of the book. I think that's not bad. In Russian I read quickly. I would have already finished it if I had read it in Russian. Here In English I need to think about almost every sentence and somehow construct meanings in my head and I also spend time trying to find an unknown words and match it them to the sentence if it they have many different meanings. The novel is about Iran when there where was a revolution (OR: "during the revolution") in at the end of the 1970-s of XX century. The main characters are British people who worked for a company connected with helicopters (OR: "British nationals working for a company connected to helicopter production/renting) in Iran and in that period of time they where in danger because in the country was going through an insurrection: Iran was changing from a secular country into an Islamic state, with people accused blaming foreigners in for their problems and so on. Even though it's not easy to read I understand the general meaning so I think I'll finish it somehow in two or three months.

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What I read

I like to read books. Usually I read some classic novels. Since I've started learning English I have tried to read somethings in English because it helps me to improve my language skills and pick up new words. Adapted books are quite easy for me but I feel that they are a bit unnatural as if they lost their soul. Last year I started to read original books. I think the first was Orwell's book ''Animal Farm''. I like this book very much and Orwell in general. Also I have also read in English Oscar Wilde's fairy tales in English, and I liked them too. Now I'm reading ''Whirlwind'' by James Clavell. This (OR: "He") is one of my favourite writers. I have read almost all his books. He is well known as the author of ''Shogun'', the novel about Japan and samurais. In December I decided to read his novel ''Whirlwind''. It had already been downloaded it on my e-book reader (in what language?), but then I found it in English (OR: "the English version") and I considered figured that it would be great to read the novel in English. It wasn't an easy decision because although ''Animal Farm'' and Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are thin books and I finished them quite easily, in comparison with them ''Whirlwind'' contains about one thousand pages (OR: "is about a thousand pages long").