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...

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.   This week it's all about books that we love but that we haven't talked about very much. Here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to list ten fantastic books that I haven't had the chance to review on my blog yet.     I'm not including anything by Bradbury or Asimov or any of the grandfathers of science fiction who fostered my love for reading, because they'd end up taking up the whole list.   So here we go:   1. Feed , by M.T. Anderson   Feed is one of those books that will get under your skin. And not just because it's about IT being implanted directly into your brain. This book highlights everything that is wrong with our technological society and takes it to a whole new level. In a way, this book is like...

Title: Jane Eyre Author: Charlotte Brontё Year of publishing: 1847 I read: the 2003 edition by CRW Publishing Limited Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed Let me just say that I am absolutely in love with Jane Eyre . The blurb I stole from Goodreads doesn't do the book justice. Then again, it's difficult to summarise it in just a few paragraphs. The scenes with Jane and Mr. Rochester are my favourite parts. They're masterfully written, with so much tension and emotion behind the dialogue. Though the love story is not the only s...

By Ray Bradbury The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of the calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes... and the stuff of nightmare. SWTWC is one of my favourite books. I've read it three times now. It's about two boys - Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway - who fight a supernatural carnival that has come to their town. They will have to save their town and, also, their own souls.   This book is part of the Green Town series, together with Dandelion Wine and Farewell Summer , But it has nothing in common with either of these books, except that they all t...