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Ildar Daminov

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Ildar Daminov is a Tatar Kazakhstani social scientist and creative writer based in Vienna, Austria. In his free time from research, Ildar writes novels and short stories in English and Russia, engages in community service, and does podcasting. Ildar's first novella, "Breakfast Buddies" was published by NineStarPress in 2022. Ever since Ildar has been working hard on improving his writing skills - also through formal such as the 2023 Alpbach Creative Writing Seminar. Currently, he is working on a Central Asia-themed LGBTQ+ romance novel project, "A Hundred Rainbows of the Steppe". ...more

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"『BREAKFAST BUDDIES REVIEW』

"We, humans, are spectacularly bad at understanding our own emotions."

Title : Breakfast Buddies
Author : Ildar Daminov
Publishing Date : 1 Nov, 2022
Pages : 107 pages

Breakfast Buddies is a story about a socially conservati" Read more of this review »
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“The Rise of Digital Repression” is a worthwhile read for anyone, who is interested in the topic of the political effects of technological development.

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In the last two decades, since the fundamental works of Barbara Geddes, Lucan Way, and Steven Levitsky, the political science literature on developing a new approach to classifying and distinguishing between dictatorships has stagnated. That is exact ...more
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A book that made me feel awfully conflicted: an utterly slow and dull pace with hidden meanings...

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“There are hundreds of ways that we distract ourselves from self-reflection, from asking those fundamental questions that really matter – movies, podcasts, games, social media. An endless stream of information you have to digest that does not allow you to spend any time alone with yourself. When you have nothing to do for a long-long time, that is when your mind starts to itch. It is then that you experience the unbearable heaviness of being. I think it happens to you too. Your most random thoughts intermingle in a chaotic descent into your own mental maelstrom, producing the strangest conclusions, as your brain explores the deepest corners of your mind.”
Ildar Daminov, Breakfast Buddies

“We humans are spectacularly bad at understanding our own emotions.”
Ildar Daminov, Breakfast Buddies

“So many people and so many diaries. Some are full of trite details of daily routines, while others diligently guard what our past selves thought to be our dearest and most important memories. Some become deeply cherished heirlooms passed down from generation to generation, while others are consumed by the insatiable quicksand of history, the names of those who wrote them vanishing like the final gentle whisper of the early autumn wind. Yet every diary—no matter how boring or gripping it is—tells a story and creates meaning where there was none. If used wisely, that meaning helps us to better understand this ridiculously complicated world through the stories of ourselves and others.”
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“We humans are spectacularly bad at understanding our own emotions.”
Ildar Daminov, Breakfast Buddies

“There are hundreds of ways that we distract ourselves from self-reflection, from asking those fundamental questions that really matter – movies, podcasts, games, social media. An endless stream of information you have to digest that does not allow you to spend any time alone with yourself. When you have nothing to do for a long-long time, that is when your mind starts to itch. It is then that you experience the unbearable heaviness of being. I think it happens to you too. Your most random thoughts intermingle in a chaotic descent into your own mental maelstrom, producing the strangest conclusions, as your brain explores the deepest corners of your mind.”
Ildar Daminov, Breakfast Buddies

“So many people and so many diaries. Some are full of trite details of daily routines, while others diligently guard what our past selves thought to be our dearest and most important memories. Some become deeply cherished heirlooms passed down from generation to generation, while others are consumed by the insatiable quicksand of history, the names of those who wrote them vanishing like the final gentle whisper of the early autumn wind. Yet every diary—no matter how boring or gripping it is—tells a story and creates meaning where there was none. If used wisely, that meaning helps us to better understand this ridiculously complicated world through the stories of ourselves and others.”
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