Dinara Tengri

Title: Love: The Dinosaur Authors:  Federico Bertolucci, Frédéric Brrémaud (Illustrator) Year of publishing: 2015 Publisher: Ankama Source: I requested this book on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was combing though the "read now" section on NetGalley, looking for some easy reads, when I stumbled upon this comic book. The first thing that got my attention was the cover art. Obviously. I mean, look at it! I was also intrigued by the title. Why was a comic book that was evidently about dinosaurs titled "Love"? I didn't know, but I intended to find out.  Love is by far one of the most unusual books I have read. No, scratch that. It's one of the most unusual books I have seen, because you cannot technically read it: there is not one line of dialogue or any written word in it, if you don't count the info page in the beginning.  How do you create a story with no dialogue or narration? How do you create a story if all of your charact...

Full title: The Ukranian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule Author/artist: Igort Publisher: Simon and Schuster Year of publishing: 2016 This book e-book was requested by me on NetGalley *** Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Anna spoke out frequent...