Dinara Tengri

Want to participate in Musing Mondays? Check out  A Daily Rhythm Well, NaNoWriMo is drawing to a close, and it looks like I won! Before I do my crazy celebratory dance, I want to thank you for being patient with me this past month. I have been a little absent from my blog, as the first draft of my novel ate up most of my free time. So thank you :)       Now that I'm done with my own, I'm happy to dive in other people's books again. I am currently working on my review for Jane Eyre ,     plus, there's a whole bunch of books I want to R&R before 2016. Some of them have been on my TBR for a long time, others I just randomly picked out at the library.   Cleo, by Helen Brown   The full title of this book is Cleo: How an Uppity Cat Helped Heal a Family . I've been wanting to read this book for a very long time.     The Man in the H...

Want to participate in Top Ten Tuesday? Go to The Broke and the Bookish 1. My family I couldn't ask for a more supportive and loving family, and I know they feel the same way about me, even though having me as a daughter and a sister can be trying sometimes. They respect me and support my every endeavour.   2. My Health Having recovered from a pretty violent flu, I am once again reminded of the fact that being and staying healthy is the most important thing of all. I'm also thankful to be living in a country that has free health care.   3. I'm thankful for the fact that I can read and write I know, that one needs clarification. To so many of us, being able to read and write is as natural as breathing and eating. But there are a lot of people out there, in the world, who don't get the chance to receive even the most basic education. Therefore I'm thankful for the education I have been given. 4. All of you guys Guys ...

If you want to take part in Musing Mondays go to A Daily Rhythm Question: What audiobook are you listening too right now? I don’t really like to listen to books. When I read a book, I know I’m in for a very personal experience. I get invested in the story, and the characters come to life with the power of my own imagination. In a way, reading is a personal interaction between the author and myself.   When I listen to some other person read the book for me, the experience loses some if its intimacy. The narrator becomes the middleman between me and the author. Not to mention I have a tendency to drift off. My thoughts take me elsewhere, and I end up missing some pretty important paragraphs. That doesn't mean I'm anti-audiobooks. I like the fact that they exist, for one. And I can make an excpetion, if I like the narrator or if the audiobook is free. Then again, if the narration is totally sub par, you couldn't pay me to listen to it. Right ...

For more Top Ten Tuesdays check out The Broke and The Bookish !  I love reading series. Every time I read a new book in a old series, I'm immersing myself in an old and familiar world where I know everybody and where I feel comfortable. And I always dread that last book. Anyway, here are ten science fiction series I'm planning on reviewing in the future.   1. Robot series , by Isaac Asimov Hands down my favourite SF series of all time. Follows the story of Detective Elijah Bailey of Earth and his unlikely friendship with Robot Daneel Olivaw from the Spacer world Aurora.     2. Newburry & Hobbs , by George Mann   Imagine  X-files  in a  Steampunk world. That's basically what the Newburry and Hobbs books are. 3. The Foundation series , by Isaac Asimov A story of galactic proportions that spans over twenty thousand years. Takes place in the same Universe as the Robot series, which...

First of all, I want to express my support to all the victims of terrorist attacks in the world. Stay strong. Musing Mondays in a weekly feature created by Jenn @ A Daily Rhythm This week I'm gonna answer my own question: What is the first book you've read by yourself? That would be A Bag Full of Apples , by Vladimir Suteev. It's about a hare who has gathered a whole bag of apples and is trying to get home to his family. He meets other forest dwellers on his way home, and they're all hungry. Being a generous young hare, our hero shares his apples with everyone, until the bag is empty. He comes home, empty-handed and ashamed. What he doesn't know is that all the animals that he has given his apples to, have come to his house with all sorts of treats and the family now has food for weeks. A Bag Full of Apples is a funny and heartwarming story that teaches children the art of sharing and giving back. What I remember the most are the colourful and h...

So I've got some news. I have three books I'm going to read this month. 1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё A classic Gothic romance novel about a strong and independent woman that I have avoided for far too long. 2. The Handmaid's Tale , by Margaret Atwood It's a science fiction novel about a dystopian society where women only have one purpose - to breed, and if they don't they get executed. This book has been on my list ever since I read Atwood's nonfiction book In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination , the review for which you can read right here . 3. Finally, I've got a Swedish legal handbook called En Liten Bok Om Upphovsrätt För Dig Som Skriver Och Ger Ut , which basically means "a small book about copyright for authors".  I'm an author (sort of), it's good to be updated on all the legal aspects of the creative process. These are my picks for November. What are you reading?

It's time for *drumroll* Top Ten Tuesday! A meme created by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish.  This week's topic is book to movie adaptations. I have very conflicting feelings about movie adaptations. So many times they're done wrong, like The Shining . More often, the movie becomes a classic while the book falls into the shadows of our collective consciousness, like Nothing Lasts Forever , aka Die Hard . Then again, there are people in the movie industry who do care about the source material and make fantastic movies, like The Martian . That gives me hope. Anyway, here's my list of ten book to movie adaptations I still need to watch. 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four , Directed by Michael Radford, this is the second adaptation of George Orwell's classic. Richard Burton is not how I envisioned O'Brien, but overall it looks like a truthful adaptation and I really want to see it. Image source: Wikipedia 2. The Diary of Anne Frank One of the ...

  Starting off this week with another Musing Monday, a meme created by Jenn from A Daily Rhythm . This week I'm gonna answer my own question:   What have you been reading lately? So here's the thing. I haven't been at the library for a very long time. When I come home from the library, I usually have at least two books with me. This feeds my reading addiction for a week or two, and then I go back to get more books. This past week has been hell, not just because I've been sick and glued to my couch most of the time, but also because I found myself with absolutely nothing to read . Tried picking up a volume of Clifford D. Simak, only to realise that I read it a few months ago. I was getting restless. Even though I've been busy writing my next great novel, I felt my brain aching for some bookish stimulation. That's when I went online. Sites like Inkitt and Flash Fiction Online are a gold mine for lovers of the written word. So for the...

The first week of NaNo is coming to an end and I have outdone myself with over 13,000 words. Hurray for productivity! But I'm beginning to worry that this creative high I've been on is winding down. I've got the backstory for my characters covered. I've got a plan for what they're going to do. I've got the world they live in. What else is there to do but to sit your ass down and write?  Good question. The point is, with this particular project, I've come to a complete stop.   I haven't forgotten my blog, and I haven't forgotten you. Lame excuses are lame, but this entire week I have been sick with fever and a bad cough, and all the spare energy I had, I spent on NaNo. The rest of the time I spent binge-watching Gotham on Netflix. I do have plans for next week, though. There'll be the usual features - Musing Monday and Top Ten Tuesday. Plus, I'm going to list all the books I'm going to R&R next. It's a pretty long list :...

An original meme created by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish 1. When NaNo begins, you get instant inspiration that doesn't leave you until November 30th. At no time will you want to drop it all. 2. Everything will go according to you perfect little plan. All the life events will organise themselves to fit in your tight schedule. 3. That means that you WILL NOT get sick with fever, migraines and a soar throat on the first week of NaNo. 4. You will write a text that actually looks like a real book, and not some jumbled messy word puzzles. 5. All the urge to Facebook and watch Youtube videos will go dormant for thirty days. 6. You will come to every write-in with your local NaNo-buddies, and write quietly for three hours straight. 7. Your mind will be a swirling storm of creativity and fresh ideas. 8. When you tell people you're writing a novel, they give you their undivided atte...

Musing Mondays is an original meme created by A Daily Rhythm . This week's random question: Have you ever chosen a book mostly because of its cover art and then regretted it because the content didn't live up to your expectations? Three words: Pride, prejudice, zombies. I mostly read this book because of the upcoming movie adaptation, but it was the cover art that made this book stand out from all the other titles on my "maybe" list. The image of a high society zombie girl, created by Doogie Horner was basically a spoof of William Beechey's painting of Marcia Fox (thank you, Wikipedia). It's a funny and provocative artwork that promises an equally funny and provocative story. Alas, the story is boring and the humour is dull and juvenile. Image source: Wikipedia