Dinara Tengri

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday , a weekly meme hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl . First, I want to say that my review for the latest  X-Files  episode will be delayed. I will probably be posting it by the end of the week. This week's TTT theme is "Ten Books I Can't Believe I Read" but once again I'm putting my own spin on it, so here are ten books I can't believe I still haven't read. Fiction  1. The Story of My Life  by Helen Keller 2.  The Selfish Gene  by Richard Dawkins 3.  A Streetcat Named Bob  by James Bowen 4.  The Path of Abai  by Mukhtar Auezov 5.  Cancer Schmancer  by Fran Drescher Non-fiction  6. Contact b y Carl Sagan 7. Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp 8. Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov 9. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke 10. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien So that was my list. Most of these books have been on...

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl . This week's topic is "Ten books I liked but can't remember much about". Going through my four and five star reads, I realised that I have a pretty good memory when it comes to books that I like.  Instead, I came up with my own list, comprised of ten books that I didn't like on the first reading, but that I wanted to give a second chance, A sort of book amnesty, so to speak.  1. Who Goes There?   This sci fi novella by John Campbell is a classic and it spawned one of the best horror movies ever made - The Thing . I barely even finished the book because of Campbell's "unusual" writing style, but my love for the movie finally made me reconsider this book.  2. The Harry Potter Series  It's been over a decade since I read J. K. Rowling's fantasy series. I got tired of it after book five. Now, I want to re-read the entire series, hopefully to di...

It's Monday, and we continue with our series of reviews, where we talk about the latest season of The X-Files . This week, we're reviewing the third episode, titled "Plus One". As always, there are SPOILERS! "Plus One" is the third episode in the eleventh season of The X-Files . Written by Chris Carter, and directed by the show newcomer Kevin Hooks, the episode explores the duality of the human condition, and our self-destructiveness. Also, Mulder and Scully have sex. In a little town in Virginia, people are being haunted by their doppelgängers, and shortly after that they kill themselves. The sole survivor of this mass phenomenon claims that it was his doppelgänger that tried to kill him. Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. What they find is a town that is paralyzed by fear, and a pair of fraternal twins who appear to have a mystical malevolent power over the people. Judy Poundstone is a mental patient, and her brother Chucky ...

Welcome back to my new series of reviews, where I talk about the new episodes of my favourite TV-show, The X-Files . Last week.  This week, I'm reviewing the second episode in the eleventh season, titled "This."  As always, there will be SPOILERS. If "My Struggle III" still suffered from some of the stiffness and clumsiness of the warm up session that was season ten, "This" is  The X-Files ' return to fighting form. It's sharp, suspenseful, and most importantly - fun. Written and directed by the show veteran Glen Morgan, "This" is a monster-of-the-week/mythology hybrid episode. Mulder and Scully find themselves on the run from Erica Price's private army after having received a cryptic message from someone who appears to be Richard Langley - one of the members of the Lone Gunman.  A quick reminder: The Lone Gunman met their demise in the season nine episode "Jump the Shark", while saving the world f...

Welcome to another round of Top Ten Tuesday: a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl  This week's theme is ten bookish resolutions/goals for 2018. Let's list some goals then!  This year, I want to:  1.  Devote more time to reading This is as good a time as any to announce that I cancelled my subscription to Netflix (oh my!) so this should leave me with enough hours each week to sit down and read. I still have Viaplay to get my X-Files and Buffy fix. 2. Read at my own pace 3. Read one book at a time 4. Be more consistent with my reading journal 5. Loan more books at the library 6. Finish the series I'm already in the middle of before starting new series  In 2018 I also want to read more: 7. Classic sci fi 8. Non-fiction  9. Classics  Which all boils down to my ultimate 2018 reading goal: 10.  To only read books that I'm interested in.  So, what are your readin...

It's 2018, which means  The X-Files  is back for a new (and possibly final) season. For the next ten weeks I will be talking about all the new episodes, starting with the season opener, "My Struggle III". Warning: there will be spoilers not just for this episode but for the show as a whole.  My Struggle III As a season opener for what will most likely be the last season of  The X-Files , "My Struggle III" has a fair amount of pressure to succeed. The question is: is this episode up to the task? Written and directed by Chris Carter, "My Struggle III" is a mythology episode that picks up right where the season ten finale left off. It's a talky, exposition-heavy episode that has a lot more going on under the surface than you might catch on the first viewing. Carter uses some well-established "truths" and tropes from the show to play on and to subvert the audience's expectations. The episode opens with the Cigare...

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! It's a weekly meme hosted by the girls at The Broke and the Bookish So many books, so little time. Here are ten of the many books I meant to read last year but didn't get to. E-books 1. Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg  I requested this title on Netgalley, and I had read a good eighty pages before realising I would never finish it on time 2. Charmed: A Thousand Deaths  by Erica Schultz Another Netgalley request that I didn't even open (I'm going to stay away from Netgalley for a while). Physical copies As for the rest of the books on this list I'm not in a hurry. Their time will come.  3. Leviathan Wakes by James A. Corey 4. "Deny All Knowledge": Reading The X-Files by David Lavery and Angela Hauge (editors) 5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 6. Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone 7. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 8. Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine 9. Leg...