New Moon ~ New Release

Twilight-mania has been on its way with the rest of the series including New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn…Purching all of them and consuming them to the end, being jelous of Bella, stucking between Edward and James, and even sometimes tending towards Jacob, even i lost myself in the exciting adventures of Twilight series by [...]

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Aşk by Elif Şafak…

I am a big fan of Elif Şafak. I read almost all of her books till now but when i saw her recent novel “Aşk” (Love) on the shelves of bookstores, i was a bit disappointed and felt reluctant to read it because just assessing the title and the book cover (all in pink with [...]

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Breaking Dawn…

It was such a sunny day today and unfortunately i missed the quarter of it waking up almost at noon as i slept quite late last night losing myself in Breaking Dawn. As soon as i opened my eyes in the morning (i mean at noon ), not minding my starving innerself, i attempted [...]

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Travels in the Scriptorium

A small room with a window, a table with a chair, a bed, a lamb, some papers, some photographs…This is the place where an old man, with a blank mind except a few memories, is kept…
It starts with a simple, plain story about this old man. Then other characters come on the scene and the story gets [...]

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The Red Notebook…

 Do you believe in coincidences? Well i do…at least I started to do after reading this short but rich-in-content book!
The Red Notebook consists of 4 sections which are 1)The Red Notebook 2)Why Write? 3)Accident Report 4) It Don’t Mean a Thing and all telling about the coincidences in life which are frequently ignored or not [...]

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The Music of Chance – Paul Auster

What would you give away to gain your freedom back?!
It is the story of a man, his stand to life, his approach to his family, his point of view about the happenings and his patience with the series of events that he is exposed to…
Nasha looks like a lonely man being left by his wife [...]

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Sunday at Tiffany’s

As of today, i would like to share my favourite book covers with you…i have various reasons to be caught by a book cover and with each cover i want to mention my reason as well…here we go with the first book cover of the week…

Reason: First of all i love snow under any condition, [...]

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The Book of General Ignorance

Name: The Book of General Ignorance (Cahillikler Kitabı).
Writers: John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
Translators (into Turkish): Cihan Aslı Filiz & Emre Ergüven
Publisher: NTV publications.
Page: 278 pages
About: The things we do not know at all and the things about which we have the wrong information.
My view: First of all i read the book in Turkish. It is [...]

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Twilight-The Book…

After such a long time, i finished a 400-page book in just one and half day…i had the taste of reading once more without even breathing, forgetting myself totally…And that is all due to this book or the main character of the book Edward Cullen
The book is the first one of the Twilight [...]

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Bollywood-The Wonderland

“Bollywood films are ‘feel-good’ films which are conerned with how to be happy and to lead a good life. Our cinema productions have a fixed structure: they are at least three hours or more -and thus longer than ‘Titanic’. As a rule they have six song-and-dance number, and deal with subjects with focus on societal [...]

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Book Club…

I forgat to share a lovely news with you. I just joined in (indeed established) a book club last week. We are less in number for now (just 4 people) but we hope to enlarge soon. The name of the book club is a bit funny (which intends to cheer us up), which is “Pseudo Jane [...]

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MASUMİYET MÜZESİ

 The new book of Orhan Pamuk at last took its place on the shelves. “Masumiyet Müzesi” (Museum of Innocence–literally) is often categorized as a novel of romance but the writer states it is more than that. It is not only about love but also, human relations, friendship, marriage, passion and many other humanly feelings.
Here i [...]

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