Review: A Dead Djinn in Cairo

Hello dear reader(s) and welcome back to the blog. In today’s short & sweet instalment of Nessa reads books and writes reviews (NRBWR) I’m introducing you to P. Djeli Clark’s fascinating steampunk urban fantasy novelette A Dead Djinn in Cairo. Moreover, you can read it for free on Tor.com, so there’s absolutely no excuse for anyone not to read some untraditional fantasy!

 

Review: Heart-Shaped Box

Hello dear reader(s) and welcome to another instalment of Nessa reads books and writes reviews (NRBWR). I’m writing this review ahead of my biweekly book club where we’ll discuss Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box, the book we chose to read and talk about. Furthermore, I managed to finish the book 4 days ahead of schedule which is a miracle in and of itself. 😀 I usually finish it the day before ‘cause you know I have 2 weeks to read the book… Holly shit how is it Sunday before the book club already and I’m only halfway through! 😀

 

Recenzija: Atharon – početak

Pozdrav dragi štioci! Svih 10-ak vas koji se trudite pročitati ove moje recenzije 🙂 Danas imamo malo drugačiju verzija serijala Nessa čita knjige i piše recenzije 🙂 jer kao što vidite ovaj tekst je na hrvatskom jeziku. Za to postoji jedan jako jednostavan i meni sasvim logičan razlog: knjigu koju vam danas predstavljam Atharon – početak napisao je mladi Novosađanin pod pseudonimom Argent Hellion. Više o njemu i svijetu o kojem priča ova knjiga možete pronaći ovdje. Atharon – početak, knjiga sa zbilja prekrasnom naslovnicom i divnim ilustracijama, je dio novoformirane knjižnice za članove splitske Udruge za fantastiku, igre i znanstvenu fantastiku F&ST. Kad ju je Marko donio s Rikona u Split, prisvojila sam je za čitanje i pisanje recenzije. I eto sad je ista napokon tu, pa krenimo. 🙂

 

Review: David Attenborough’s Life on Air

Greetings and salutations dear reader(s)! I hope the New Year started well for you, and if it hasn’t I hope it will get better. 🙂 Today’s review, if all goes as planned, is the first of many more book reviews to come on the blog. I’m not a person who makes New Year’s resolutions, but this year I decided to make one regarding reading. Last year while I was reading Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, which took me quite a while to read, I noticed that during the gaps in reading I forgot what I read a few chapters earlier. Since I was reading for the pure joy of reading I wasn’t making any notes; neither did I anticipate that I would be reading that book for such a long time. Those damn endnotes will be the death of me. 🙂 So this year I decided to do a more focused reading – keeping a reading journal where I’ll make notes about the reading material etc. I also decided to do a book review on the blog about the books that I read this year, or a book series review if that’s what I’m reading. Keep your fingers crossed that I manage to do this and wish me luck. 🙂

 

Reviewing Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! Today I’m attempting to write another review of a book (shock and awe for that) that unexpectedly became very important to me. I believe that everyone has some sort List of important books where all those special, very dear to your heart, life changing, or just special because of reasons books go. Those books can special because you read them at a very difficult time in your life and helped you get through that period, and because of this that particular book will always have a place in your heart. Or perhaps that book helped you change or form an opinion on a particular subject, or a whole genre of literature, or influenced and inspired you to do something you thought you couldn’t do.