Dinara Tengri

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish . This week's topic is ten best books I read in 2017 so far. But, since I only read fourteen books this year so far, and three of them were medical books, my list is going to be a little shorter. And while we're at it, I'm also going to share with you my summer TBR. Best of 2017 so far (in no particular order) 1. D irk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency , by Douglas Adams 2. Hyperion , by Dan Simmons 3. The Fall of Hyperion , by Dan Simmons (review is in the works) 4. The End of Eternity , by Isaac Asimov 5. Bite Me!: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slaye r, by Nikki Strafford (review will be in the works) 6. The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher Summer of 2017 TBR I highly doubt that I'll read all these books in the two remaining months of summer, but this list is more a of guide than a goal. 1. Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone ...

On April 21st 2017, I went to a party dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This account of that very special night was written under the assumption that the reader is familiar with the world of Buffy and its many awesome characters. If you haven't seen Buffy, I posted a few links for you as well so that you can take your time and catch up on this pop culture powerhouse. I mean, seriously, you should watch Buffy. This account was written with the help of No Time for Us , who organised the whole thing, and whose photos I will be using here. A special thanks to Too Cute to Puke , as well as to Babel , the nightclub that hosted the event. As someone who had only discovered Buffy a year ago, I didn't even imagine that I would be a part of something as amazing, and inclusive as the Buffy fandom. Imagine then my reaction when, as I was scrolling down my Facebook feed I saw this A Buffy fan party? A dress-up Buffy fan party? And within walking dis...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish . I know that I'm super late with this post, but as I am writing this sentence, it's still Tuesday for exactly four more minutes, so I'm going to make this list anyway. This week's topic is top ten series that I've been meaning to start but haven't. Because there's just way too many book series out there. And a lot of them look very interesting and tempting, and you keep adding them to your TBR on Goodreads, knowing perfectly well that the chances of you starting any of those series deminish with each new added book. But it doesn't mean we have to stop trying. So here are ten book series that I've been meaning to start but haven't: 1. The Expanse , by James A. Corey As I wrote in my latest book haul , I bought the first book in the series, Leviathan Wakes after a raving review by Lisa from Bookshelf Fantasies , and the whole thing just sounds so exciting...

Welcome to Weekly Small Talk, an original feature where I talk about anything that's even remotely related to books and popular culture. Ever since my Bokrean book haul , I didn't buy that many books, but enough to write a whole post about it. A book haul wouldn't be a book haul without at least one book by Ray Bradbury. This time, I have three. Dandelion Wine is his a highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in Bradbury's fictionalised hometown, Green Town. Farewell Summer is the sequel. The third book was a present from my brother. Zen in the Art of Writing is a collection of essays that is not exactly a manual to aspiring writers, but it's supposed to be filled with helpful and inspirational tips by the Grandmaster of fantasy himself. 2061: Odyssey Three is the third book in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C Clarke. I only read the first two books and so far I'm okay with them, so I'm hoping that the third book will be better. Levi...

Hello my fellow book lovers! I'm back. The finals are over, and last night, I went to see Wonder Woman with a bunch of girls from my class. And how can I not share my thoughts on this movie? Wonder Woman is, of course, the highly anticipated superhero movie set in the DCEU. It was written by Allan Heinberg, directed by Patty Jenkins, and stars Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Chris Pine as Captain Steve Trevor. The movie tells the origin story of Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman starting from her upbringing in the amazon kingdom of Themyscira, and her going to fight the Germans in World War I. By her side is the rogue spy and soon-to-be love interest, Steve Trevor. So, did I like it? Yes. Yes, I did. Sure, the plot is formulaic and, at times predictable; the imagery and the visuals, though stunning, look very familiar from the countless superhero movies I have seen in recent years; the third act is very CGI-heavy, and the main villain is unfortunately bland. However, between...