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. Edwin A. Abbott's novella Flatland is a social satire, set in a two-dimensional Universe, where being an equilateral object means everything, and where the number of angles in your figure determines your place on the social ladder, with women, being straight lines on the bottom, and the priests, being circles, or polygons with a very large number of angles, at the top. "When I call them Priests, let me not be understood as meaning no more than the term denotes with you. With us, our Priests, are Administrators of all Business, Art and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineer...

  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...

  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."

  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 ...

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. First of all, my latest post - Top Ten Futuristic Worlds I Want to Live in - got six likes on Google+. I don't think I ever had this many likes in the short time that I've been running this blog, so I'm a little surprised, but also grateful. A big thanks to you guys :) Back to the meme... Orange is the New Black is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. While writing about her experience as inmate at a women's prison, Piper Kerman tackles some very serious issues about American judicial system and the treatment of inmates. The book is sad and disturbing on a multitude of levels. But at the same time, there is a lot of humour and...

Welcome to Thursday Quotables,  a weekly meme hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book 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 going to share with you one of my favourite quotes by my favourite stand-up comedian, George Carlin. It's not a book quote, but what fun are rules if you can't break them? When I see schools trying to force books down children's throats, I can't help but think about what old buddy George had to say about the importance of teaching children to read. "Not important to get children to read. Children who wanna read are gonna read. Kids who wanna learn to read are gonna learn to read. Much more important to teach children to question what they read. Children should be taught to question everything. To question everything they read, everything...

  Welcome to Thursday Quotables which is a weekly feature hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book 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. Now Before we get to the quote, I have a little announcement to make. Recently, I have gotten an account at NetGalley . It's a website that allows "professional readers", a.k.a. book reviewers, journalists, book bloggers and librarians to request and read books for free, some of which have yet to be released. I first read about NetGalley in a discussion thread on Goodreads, and now I have an account there. I'm very excited, since it will give me  the opportunity to read some of the latest releases and review them for you guys. So excited I got that I downloaded two books on my tablet. So right now I'm reading So...

 Welcome to the first Thursday Quotables here at this page! It's a weekly feature hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies , and it's all about sharing your favourite quote or passage from a book you're currently Reading. It can be funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Right now, I'm reading Felicia Day's memoirs, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). Before she became an actress and a geek icon, Day double-majored in mathematics and violin. She has always been very good at math, but when she took Group Theory in the summer semester, she hit a speed bump. She failed the exam the first time, and her professor told her to try and get a "B". A "B"? That was not an option. Determined to get an A, Day spent her whole summer studying Group Theory. And she crushed it with 100 out of 100.   She wanted to be the best, to get the perfect score, and that's something most of us can relate to. To not s...