Dinara Tengri

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week's topic is books we could re-read forever. There are a number of books that I never tire of coming back to. Some books work on many levels and you can discover something new with each re-read. Other books are just so good and comforting and make you feel good about yourself. 1. The Caves of Steel It's no surprise that I love Isaac Asimov's Robots series (my e-mail address gives that away pretty well). I love everything about these books, especially the friendship between the robophobic cop Elijah Baley and his robot partner, Daneel Olivaw. 2. Anything by Ray Bradbury This one is a no-brainer. 3. The Shining I've read this book at least four times, and every time I discover something new. Stephen King may not be my favourite author, but The Shining just may be my favourite book. 4. Sherlock Holmes stories There is something about the original Sherlock Holmes sh...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl . This week's topic is books that we're no longer interested in. While preparing this list, I combed through my TBR list on Goodreads, and did some early spring cleaning. There were a lot of books and book series that I had to remove, not because I have anything against them, but because I know I'll never make the time to read them all.  1. Shadowhunters series by Cassandra Clare 2. Divergent series by Veronica Roth 3. The Clockwork Century  series by Cherie Priest I did read one of the books in this series, Clementine   (coincidentally, my first review on this blog), but to read the whole series is a commitment I don't want to make.  4. Star Wars - the new canon books There is a lot I want to say about how Disney is treating this cash cow franchise, but not here. Let's just say that I won't be running to buy any novelisations of the sequels any time soon. 5. City of Cro...

It's Valentine's Day, so I'll hold my thoughts about commercialism to myself, and instead talk about what it is I love about being a bibliophile. Reading is not just a hobby, it's a passion. It's also a lifestyle of sorts, and there are plenty of things to love about this lifestyle.  1. Books that transcend the reading experience  Most books that I like provide me with a fun reading experience. They take me on a journey, but then that journey ends. Some books, however, give me something more than just a great reading experience. They stick with me long after I have finished them; the stories linger in my mind like perfume. I don't really know what it is about these books that makes them so special. It could be the dreamy poetic language; it could be the eerie relatability of the characters, the way they act like real people would in their situations; it could also be the scale of the worlds that these characters inhabit, the richness of those worlds. It cou...

It seems that my release schedule for the  X-Files  season eleven reviews has been derailed by my being sick. So, without further ado, here's "Ghouli".  This time, I decided to write a longer synopsis, so if you've already seen the episode, you can skip right to the part that says "Jackson".  "Ghouli" Written and directed by the show veteran James Wong, “Ghouli" may be the most important episode of the season so far. In fact, as far as our characters are concerned, this may be the most significant episode since the season nine tearjerker that was "William". The episode opens in Norfolk, Virginia. It's late night, and two teenage girls are sneaking around in a decommissioned boat, cryptically named "Chimera". The girls are looking for the Ghouli - the latest in the long row of Creepypasta monsters. When the girls see each other, they both mistake the other one for the Ghouli, and start knifing each ...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week, Im going with my topic (again), so here are ten books I recently added to my Goodreads TBR. 1. Shop Cats of New York Written by Tamar Arslanian and feautirng amazing photos by famous cat photographer Andrew Martilla, this book is a must-have for all cat people.  2. Stormbringer  This book by Michael Moorcock is fatured heavily in the X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos. Naturally, I got curious. 3. Innan Snön Faller (Before the Snowfall)  I got this book recommended to me by a friend. Helena Kubicek Boye wrote this crime novel that centres around a clinic for criminally insane. 4. The Minds of Billy Milligan  This non-fiction novel by Daniel Keyes tells the story of Billy Milligan who had multiple personality disroder. He was said to have twenty four different personalities. I found out about this book after having watched the movie Split by M. Night Shyamalan.  ...

January is (finally) over, so how about a quick recap of all the bookish stuff I've done this past month?  Just a couple of days ago I had the pleasure of attending a book release party at the Science Fiction Bookhandeln in Malmö. Novellix is a Swedish publishing house that specializes on publishing short stories. This is their first venture into science fiction, with four of the biggest names in the genre. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury The New Atlantis by Ursula Le Guin The Defenders by Philip K. Dick The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells I'm always happy to see science fiction get the love it deserves, and I really dig the choices Novellix made. Coincidentally, A Sound of Thunder is one of my favourite short stories. You can either buy individual stories, or a whole box set. I bought the box set (of course).  The book store also had a quiz about all these authors, and I came in third! Now I need to go back there and collect my prize. Speaking...

"The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" is the fourth episode of the eleventh season of The X-Files . Written and directed by Darin Morgan, it’s the first comedy of this season, and in a typical Darin Morgan fashion, it's deep, existential, and very, very funny. The episode centers around Reggie Something, a mysterious man who reaches out to Scully and Mulder claiming that he was once part of the X-files, and that the three of them used to be partners. The reason the agents don't remember any of it is because their memories have been tampered with by the mysterious Doctor They. Reggie claims that this Cold War scientist is behind the so-called Mandela Effect, and is responsible for people remembering certain parts of history wrong. But now that Reggie has uncovered this conspiracy, They has retaliated by erasing everyone's memories of Reggie, making him a walking example of the Mandela Effect. His proof? The first episode of The Twilight Zone that Mulder ever s...