Dinara Tengri

And it is yet another Top Ten Tuesday! 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.   Yesterday, I went into an SF bookstore, and bought Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park . Published in 1990 it became a #1 bestseller, and three years later, Steven Spielberg made a movie adaptation that became a successful franchise we all know and love. I saw the movie for the first time in the late 90's and it was only about a decade later that I found out it was based on a book.   This soon became a trend for me - realising that some of my favourite movies are actually big screen adaptations of bestselling novels and short stories. So to honour the literary works behind some of our most bel...

Okay, so I finally finished the entire A Dance of Dragons book series, and these will be my final thoughts on it. Make sure to check out the first part of my review , where I also explain why I split the review in two parts in the first place. The best part about reading a series, is when you get to come back to your favourite world, to the characters you've got to know and - in most cases - like. It also means you don't have to make an extra effort to get used to the writing style of the author, or learn the characters' names. It's a lazy book reader's dream. Seriously, finding myself back in the fictional Universe that I enjoy always has me like, Before I get on with the review, I should list all the books in the series in the correct order, so we all now what the hell I'm talking about. The Golden Cage (#0.5) The Shadow Soul (#1) The Silver Key (#1.5) The Spirit Heir (#2) The Bronze Knight (#2.5) The Pheonix Born (#3) ...

  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. So far, I'm only about seventy pages in The Silent Steppe , and already there are so many quotes and passages that I think are memorable and very telling about the story that unfolds on these pages. But of all the passages that tell about the now extinct lifestyle of the Kazakh nomads and their persecution by the Communist state, I chose this one quote from the very first chapter. It's beautiful in its simplicity as the author lets us in on the little moments in the everyday life of the Nomadic people.  "Each move was like a festival, especially for us children; everyone was happy, and dressed up for the occasion. The caravan was headed by the mo...

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. And here's my list of ten books that will make you laugh out loud or at least produce a small chuckle now and then. Enjoy! 1. The Martian , by Andy Weir   2. You're Never Weird on the Internet , by Felicia Day     3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , by Douglas Adams     4. Holy Cow , by David Duchovny     5. Fantastic Voyage , by Isaac Asimov     6. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World , by Vicky Myron     7. The Master and Margarita , by Mikhail Bulgakov...

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. When it comes to books, I'm mostly an omnivore. But one genre that will always have a special place on my menu (sorry for the bad pun) is good old classic science fiction. Here are my picks for ten books that I think every fan of classic SF should read. 1. The Martian Chronicles , by Ray Bradbury   No science fiction book list is complete without Bradbury's story about the Red Planet and man's desire to conquer it.    2. Caves of Steel , by Isaac Asimov   The first book in the epic Robot/Foundation series that consists of fifteen books (correct me if ...

Title: School of Deaths (The Scythe Wielder's Secret #1) Author: Christopher Mannino Year of publishing: 2014 Publisher: Muse it up Publishing I received this book from Book Publicity Services in exchange for an honest review. Thrust into a world of men, can a timid girl find bravery as the first female Death? Thirteen-year-old Suzie Sarnio always believed the Grim Reaper was a fairy tale image of a skeleton with a scythe. Now, forced to enter the College of Deaths, she finds herself training to bring souls from the Living World to the Hereafter. The task is demanding enough, but as the only female in the all-male College, she quickly becomes a target. Attacked by both classmates and strangers, Suzie is alone in a world where even her teachers want her to fail. Scythes hungry for souls, Deaths who subjugate a race of mysterious magicians, and echoes of an ancient war with Dragons. As her year progresses, Suzie suspects her presence isn't an accident. She uncovers a pl...

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. Lately, I've been watching a lot of Booktube videos, especially book haul videos, because, well,  I have no life. So here I've listed seven of the Booktube channels that I'm following, plus one really great channel where you can find blogging and Photoshop tutorials. Ps. None of these people know that I'm mentioning them on my blog. 1. Rebecka @ WhyMermaids     2. Ashley @ Bookish Realm     3. Lainey @ gingerreadslainey     4. Connor @ Connor O'Brien     5. Sanaa @ InkBonesBooks   ...