İpekFebruary Suggestion List
If you don't know what to read, watch, or listen to, you can feel free to consider our suggestions for you. Here is our suggestion list made just for you.
Welcome to our blog newbies. This is our first blog about books, movies, series, & songs; we would like to inform you a little.
We all have those moments when we can't find anything to watch, read, or listen to. At those moments we search for ideas but they don't always turn out how we want them to be.
So we are here to make some suggestions that, we hope, will make these choices easier for you. We will be trying to give you as many options as we can and every time there will be 2 options from different genres.
Well, let us begin then!
on this list, you can find dystopian romans, movies, series, and breakup/sad songs
BOOKS
'Blindness' by José Saramago
* This is one of Saramago's most famous novels, it also made him receive the Nobel Prize (1998).
2nd book: Seeing
Genre: Post-apocalyptic, Dystopia
Page: 288
Publication Date: 1997
Summary: A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorized by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilized society are snapped. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness.
‘Multiversum’ by Leonardo Patrignani
* It's the first book of the series 'Multiversum Saga'.
2nd Book: Memoria
3rd Book: Utopia
Genre: Young Adult/Dystopia/Fantasy
Page: 320
Publication Date: 2014
Summary: Alex and Jenny are sixteen. He lives in Milan; she, in Melbourne. For the past four years, they have glimpsed each other at random moments, while they are both unconscious — a telepathic communication that occurs without warning.
During one of these episodes, they manage to arrange a meeting. But on the day, though they are standing in the same place at the same time, each of them cannot see the other. This leads them to a startling discovery: they live in different dimensions. In Jenny’s world, Alex is someone else. And in Alex’s world, Jenny died at the age of six.
As they try to find each other, the Multiverse threatens to implode and disappear, but Jenny and Alex must meet — the future of the Earth depends on it.
MOVIES
City Of Ember
Based on the book written by Jeanne Duprau
Genre: Sci-Fi, Post-apocalyptic, Dystopia
Runtime: 95 minutes
Production year: 2008
IMDB Score: 6.5/10
The city of Ember takes place in a dystopian future where people live in underground cities. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.
You can watch the trailer from this link:
The Giver
Based on the book by Lois Lowry
(The winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Post-apocalyptic, Dystopia
Runtime: 100 minutes
Production year: 2014
IMDB Score: 6.5/10
The haunting story of The Giver centers on Jonas, a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. With this newfound power of knowledge, he realizes that the stakes are higher than imagined - a matter of life and death for himself and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all - a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
You can watch the trailer from this link:
SERIES
The Rain
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Post-apocalyptic, Dystopia
Country of production: Denmark
Number of seasons (2020 Feb): 2
Starting year: 2018
IMDB Score: 7.3/10
After the rain spreads a deadly disease with catastrophic consequences, a group of survivors and two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety and attempts to escape the mysterious enemies stalking them.
You can watch the trailer from this link:
The Society
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Post-apocalyptic, Dystopia
Country of production: America
Number of seasons (2020 Feb): 1
Starting year: 2019
IMDB Score: 7.6/10
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
You can watch the trailer from this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MMEQA2UgXQ
Music
Since it is easier to put a playlist here than writing down all of the songs I am leaving the link of the playlist here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6MeEOLtxA9oXN4A7YFkAiY?si=u-YaEPcWS5a0mKsMWPMwFQ