Ustam ve Ben, Elif Şafak

The story begins with an elephant sitter guy's getting into the Ottoman Palace and being one of the apprentice of Sinan, one of the biggest architects of Ottoman Empire. Even if I got to the end hard by forcing myself to end it, reading this was more enjoyable than Efsane, which was about a time of Ottomon Empire's navy. The story gave me the taste of known fantasy point of view to the Ottomon Empire that used a lot in books or movies.

Bit Palas, Elif Şafak

Laf kalabalığı... cram of words what I thought while reading Bit Palas. An apartment building with 10 residents. The analysis of the characters which you know very well in life, the description of events, the story telling is filled with a lot of words. It is nice but at the same time boring to continue reading it. So in the middle of the book as the chapters got smaller I began to hve a hard time to keep reading after all those long parts in the beginning.
10 stereotype characters came together in an apartment building with no common thing but the awful smell of the garbage and bugs that surrounded the building.



As long as you ignore to be a part of this living concept at some points you find yourselves related with your neighbours.