To the mind that's still, the whole universe surrenders. Steve Ross

write app reviews and get paid: truth or scam?

This week I decided to check some programs. First programs got my interests are the review programs because I love writing. So I wanted to check the following program: writeappreviews.com This is an online platform where you can get paid writing reviews for the common apps and programs that you use on your phone. Basically …

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Do not blame the baby!

Yes life is a competition or a game. You are loosing it. You are too slow. Not energetic enough. Or too busy to do important things that you have always wanted to do. Leave it, you are a looser. Drown in daily schedules, meals, unfinished duties or unrealized dreams. Leave it to others who rise …

The Atlas of Misty Continents

I finished this novel last week. What a shame! Considering it was published in 1992. I try to follow Turkish literature closely but I have this personal problem. When everybody is talking about a book, recommending or suggesting, I develop this enemity against the book. I hardly get it and read it. I have been …

Küçük Şeylerin Tanrısı

İnsanlık Hâlİ

Oh! Yoga hakkında söyleyeceklerimi döktüm. Şimdi kaldığımız yerden devam edebiliriz.

Foto: Aisha Harley

Aramıza yeni katılanlara hatırlatalım:

Bir kitaptan bahsediyorduk. Ne olmuş yani, diyorduk. Ne olmuş biz kendimizi zincirlerimizden kurtardı isek?  Dünyada haksızlık, işkence, ızdırap bitecek mi? Beni bir kara bulut sarmıştı ki o kitabı hatırladım.

Hani nasıl zannederdik sanki dünya bizim etrafımızda dönüyor. Sanırdık ki biz sorumluyuz olan bitenden. Büyüklerin karışık kafalarının, o çok dolu hayatlarının kurbanı idik aslında.  Ağır çekim zamanlarda yaşanan o korku dolu, duygu dolu, şüphe dolu büyülü dönem:  Çocukluk.

İşte o kitap küçük şeylerden sorumlu bir tanrının umursamazlığında varlıkları örselenen çocukların hikayesi…

Ya da tarihin kendisinin.

Küçük Şeylerin Tanrısı. (evet doğru bilen dikkatli okuyucularımızı buradan kutluyorum. YYA: Kitabın kindle versiyonu kazandınız. )

Arundhati Roy’un yegane romanı Küçük Şeylerin Tanrısı’nda hayata dair herşey var. Ve romanın malzemelerinin bir araya gelişinde benim sorduğum soruların kendisi de, onların cevabı da var. Büyük acıların sahne aldığı bir dünyada…

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How to write your final paper?

Writing a final paper or essay might be frightening for most of you. In this piece I will try to summarize how you can make writing an essay easier. This piece is a simplified introduction for beginners intended to help my students for a specific class. So different parts of this piece might be irrelevant …

When is the Summer coming?

Wow! WordPress told me that it has been 3 months since I upload my blog. Normally I write everyday to my notebooks. But when it comes to updating a blog sometimes you feel like it is such an extra work. Anyway, there is one topic I want to share with you. Actually it is a …

Revenant Movie: Should Oscar go to Bear or Leo?

I saw the movie last night. It is beautifully shot and story is touching. ---------Includes some spoilers----------- Details are amazing. When we were watching the movie we made jokes that Leonardo Di Caprio did everything possible in this movie to get the Oscar. Of course this is a joke. Tom Hardy's performance as the supporting …

Elena Ferrante: My Brillant Friend

Reading new authors makes me excited every time. It is like first date: Is she/he going to like me? Am I going to like her /him? I started reading Ferrante's novel with these feelings. I am sympathetic to Italian life. I have the feeling that they are kinda close to our Turkish living. Cosy kitchens, …

romantic autumn pics from Vilnius

When I reviewed my previous posts I remembered that I promised to update my blog with romantic autumn pics from Vilnius. And I realised that I see a white beautiful snowy winter from my window near Neris. However, as I guessed, autumn was like reading a beautiful story in Vilno. It was yellow, red, dark …