Dinara Tengri

  Welcome to Thursday Quotables,  a weekly meme hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book that you're currently reading. It can be meaningful, funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Click on the link above if you want to learn more. This week I'm reading School of Deaths , by Christopher Mannino. It's a YA fantasy novel about a girl who is trained to be a grim reaper at a College of Deaths. As if being a Death isn't hard enough, she also has to deal with being the only girl in a world that despises women. And , there are some mysteries to be solved about this world. "Suzie took the book and left the library. She couldn't deal with these mysteries by herself. She closed the bookcase behind her and walked through the empty house, toward the door.   A pair of green eyes watched her leave."

It's that time of the month again. Time to do the virtual inventory. This month, I have made an amazing discovery that I know will forever change my reading life - graphic novels . I also read and reviewed a fantastically crazy sci fi novel that was sent to me by the author. Then, I was vastly disappointed by another sci fi novel, that I myself requested at NetGalley. And most importantly, I got to watch a whole new season of the X-files .    5 stars     3 stars   1 star allstars        Thank you for yet another month. And I will se you again soon. 

And it is yet another Top Ten Tuesday! If you don't know what that is, it's a weekly meme hosted by the creative girls behind  The Broke and the Bookish . Every week, you get to post your own top ten list, based on their suggestions. I tend to break that rule sometimes, and come up with my own topics, but for the most part I stay true to the theme.   This week I'm listing ten books I have given a 5 star rating since I started this blog, and even before that. So here they are, in no particular order.      1. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos , by Brian Greene     2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union , by Michael Chabon     3. Voices from Chernobyl: the Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster , by Svetlana Alexievich     4. The October Country , by Ray Bradbury     5. 1984 , by George Orwell...

Title: Hurricane Moon (Aeon's Legacy #1) Author: Alexis Glynn Latner Publisher: Avendis Press Year of publishing: 2014 I requested this book at NetGalley in exchange for an honest review In the late 21st century, Earth is wracked by political and ecological crises. The Aeon Foundation launches a starship to find a new world and found a new civilization, with all the advances of science and without the mistakes made on Earth. However for these settlers a new world brings with it new problems. First of all, when I downloaded this book on my e-reader, I had very high expectations. With a premise this interesting, and the cover this gorgeous, Hurricane Moon has no choice but be a great, mind-boggling book, right? Well, not really. The fact is - and I'm going to be one hundred percent honest with you - this book made me angry. It made me angry for reasons I will explain later. But I guess I was mostly angry with myself for not DNF-ing when I first realised this book ...

Welcome to another round of Top Ten Tuesday - a weekly feature hosted by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish . Each week you can post a new fun list. Click on the link above if you want to learn more.   This week it's all about books that we love but that we haven't talked about very much. Here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to list ten fantastic books that I haven't had the chance to review on my blog yet.     I'm not including anything by Bradbury or Asimov or any of the grandfathers of science fiction who fostered my love for reading, because they'd end up taking up the whole list.   So here we go:   1. Feed , by M.T. Anderson   Feed is one of those books that will get under your skin. And not just because it's about IT being implanted directly into your brain. This book highlights everything that is wrong with our technological society and takes it to a whole new level. In a way, this book is like...

Full title: The Ukranian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule Author/artist: Igort Publisher: Simon and Schuster Year of publishing: 2016 This book e-book was requested by me on NetGalley *** Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Anna spoke out frequent...

  Welcome to Thursday Quotables,  a weekly meme hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book that you're currently reading. It can be meaningful, funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Click on the link above if you want to learn more. And we're moving on. From mind-boggling science fiction to heart-breaking reality. I had a dubious pleasure of reading The Ukranian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule , a non-fiction graphic novel by the Italian artist Igort. It's a collection of stories told by survivors of Holodomor (the government-sanctioned famine) and the Communist oppression in Ukraine, as well as those who lived through the second Chechen war. The first story is that of Serafima Andreyevna, a woman who survived Holodomor when she was just a little girl: "... And there were some kids I played with there Yura, Misha and Kostya. They died one ...

Author: Robert Eggleton Published in 2012/2016 Publisher: Dog Horn Publishing This book was sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review. Author proceeds have been donated to a child abuse prevention program operated by Children’s Home Society of West Virginia Edit: this review was updated on August 26th 2017 with a new blurb, a word from the author, and new purchase links.  " Lacy Dawn's father relives the Gulf War, her mother's teeth are rotting out, and her best friend is murdered by the meanest daddy on Earth. Life in the hollow is hard. She has one advantage -- an android was inserted into her life and is working with her to cure her parents. But, he wants something in exchange. It's up to her to save the Universe. Lacy Dawn doesn't mind saving the universe, but her family and friends come first" *** Rarity from the Hollow  is a science fiction/fantasy book about Lacy Dawn - a twelve year old girl who is very smart and v...

  Welcome to another round of Top Ten Tuesday - a weekly feature hosted by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish . Each week you can post a new fun list. Click on the link above if you want to learn more.   This week's list is actually a TBR. The objective is very simple: list ten books you're planning on reading this spring. Which is perfect, because I have big plans for the upcoming two and a half months.       1. The School of Deaths   by Christopher Mannino   Starting off at number one is a request I got from the Book Publicity Services. It's a YA fantasy with what is supposed to be a strong female lead.       2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions   by Edwin A. Abbot   This is a classic I've been wanting to get my hands on for a very long time.         3. The rest of the Dance of Dragons series   by Kaitlyn Davis ...

  Welcome to Thursday Quotables,  a weekly meme hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book that you're currently reading. It can be meaningful, funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Click on the link above if you want to learn more. I now finished reading Rarity from the Hollow , and I thought I'd share one more quote, Before I sit down to review this mostly unusual book. This quote really speaks for itself: “Let’s get to work. After beating up on that Welfare Woman, I feel like I could conquer the world. I mean the universe.”