Dinara Tengri

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! It's a weekly meme hosted by the girls at The Broke and the Bookish So many books, so little time. Here are ten of the many books I meant to read last year but didn't get to. E-books 1. Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg  I requested this title on Netgalley, and I had read a good eighty pages before realising I would never finish it on time 2. Charmed: A Thousand Deaths  by Erica Schultz Another Netgalley request that I didn't even open (I'm going to stay away from Netgalley for a while). Physical copies As for the rest of the books on this list I'm not in a hurry. Their time will come.  3. Leviathan Wakes by James A. Corey 4. "Deny All Knowledge": Reading The X-Files by David Lavery and Angela Hauge (editors) 5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 6. Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone 7. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 8. Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine 9. Leg...

It's the last day of 2017 and I thought I'd do a little summary of my reading year, and share with you some of my goals and dreams for the next year. But first, I want to give shoutout to author Robert Eggleton, and his book, Rarity from the Hollow . It's a science fiction story about a girl who lives in an abusive home, and who has to save the Universe from an economic crisis. It's one of the strangest books I have read, and it deals with really heavy issues like child abuse, depression, and alcoholism. The author is a former  mental health psychotherapist, who worked with victims of child abuse, and this book cuts deep into that subject matter. Moreover, the author proceeds from the book go to   Chrildren's Home Society of West Virginia  which is a nonprofit organisation.  Now, I haven't read as many books as I wanted this year but I did meet my goal of thirty one books. I have tried to keep my goals simple and realistic, by only reading one book at...

I haven't done a book haul in a while, so how about an end of the year haul?  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams - this is the sequel to the surreal mystery Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency . I loved it, and it was only a matter of time before I got the sequel. Caraval by Stephanie Garber - I don't read a lot of YA fantasy but this book got a lot of positive buzz on Booktube, which made me quite curious. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - love, love, love Jane Eyre! I read the library copy years ago, and it was about time to get my own. Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov - got this as a present for my brother the last time I was in Stockholm. We both love Asimov so it seemed like the perfect choice. Alright, that was my last book haul of 2017. As you can see I didn't get a lot of books this semester, but I put a lot of thought behind every purchase.  Merry Christmas!

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, an original feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish . This week's topic is ten best books we have read in 2017.  But first, I have something to ask you. A few months ago, I started a new series, called Before They Were Blockbusters , where I review books that became the basis for popular movies. The first book in this series was The Prestige , by Christopher Priest. For my next episode, I've narrowed down the list to two books:  Who Goes There?  by John W. Campbell which was the basis for John Carpenter's The Thing , and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick which was the basis for the movie Blade Runner.   So, go to my Facebook page by clicking on  this link  and vote for the book you want me to review next. The poll will open for six more days.  Now that we have that out of the way, here are the ten best books I have read in 2017 (with links to reviews). 1. Hyperion  ...

Who else is going back to school next week? Yep, the summer is almost over, and I can barely recall what I have been doing these past three months. I've been studying, and listening to Stephen King's It . I've been going to the gym... oh, and I binge-watched Marvel's The Defenders. That's quite an accomplishment, wouldn't you say? Most importantly, I've been reading a lot. I read a total of eleven books. I wrote six book reviews, and one movie review. I'll get to the list very soon, but first, an announcement. I officially have a Bookstagram account now! It's called Books on Fire , and it's basically my personal Instagram account that I made public. I also deleted all the selfies, and other private stuff. I'm posting almost every day. Book hauls, pretty pictures of books and Star Wars coffee mugs, it's all there. You can follow me there on @dinaratengri . And now to the wrap-up! Book summer 2017 The Fall of Hyperion   by Dan...

Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a great time last night. I myself was watching Die Hard with my family. So it was a very good time had by all. Then the power went out in our neighbourhood (kind of like in the last act of Die Hard), and out came the candles.  Cozy  It's now 2017, a new year for schooling and for blogging. And I have some big plans for this baby right here. My fingers are just itching to start typing down all the ideas that have been brewing in my head for the past few weeks. Anyway, here are some of the reviews that I'm planning on posting in the not so distant future:  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks This book I finished a long time ago, and the review is already in the works.  Marvel's Black Widow Downloaded this non-fiction anthology on NetGalley. It's gonna be fun! (I hope)   Love I can't say that I read this comic book, because there are literally no words there. Just pictures....