Dinara Tengri

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.   There are a few genres I never delve into, like erotica and romance with shirtless guys on the cover. Then there are genres that I'm not very familiar with. For instance, classics, sword and sorcery, and poetry. Every once in a while, I do like to make an exception, and sometimes I find real literary gems.   Here are five books that I found outside of my usual reading comfort zone that turned out to be pretty great.     1. The first and only Gothic romance I have read so far is Jane Eyre . Click on the picture and find out why I loved this book so much.   2. Tooth and Claw   Romance and etiquette among dragons. Not my usual cop of tea. But this book was a pleasant surprise (link to the re...

The year is not over yet, but I wanted to get the worst books out of the way before I get to the very best. Luckily, I haven't read enough bad books this year for a full Top Ten list. So here are five worst books I've read this year.   5. The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury   It hurts me to put Bradbury in this list, but I have to be honest with myself and with you. It just wasn't good.     4. Who Goes There?, by John W. Campbell   John Carpenter's The Thing is one of my favourite movies, and I had high hopes for the book that it was based on. What a shame! The premise is fantastically interesting, but the writing is just bad. The book is dull and boring, and someone should have told Campbell that the story doesn't get better if you pump it with adjectives.     3. The old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway   This was the first book I read th...