Dinara Tengri

Welcome to Weekly Small Talk, a new feature that I started because I'm both too swamped and too lazy to come up with fresh and original material. This is where I talk about books movies and other cultural stuff that I've consumed in the past week. This week I want to talk about Youtube, and some of the channels that make you happy that you have wifi. There are so many Youtube channels dedicated to movie reviews, book reviews, and just pop culture in general, that sometimes you need to seep through a lot of material to find the channel that really speaks to you. Here are some that speak to me in particular, and I want to share them with you. The Nerdwriter is the most popular channel on this list. I only discovered it a few months ago, but its creator, Evan Puschak has been making videos for years now. What makes The Nerdwriter stand out in the crowd is that Puschak isn't just making videos, he's making video essays . Now, he's far from the only video essayist ou...

And it is yet another Top Ten Tuesday! If you don't know what that is, it's a weekly meme hosted by the creative girls behind  The Broke and the Bookish . Every week, you get to post your own top ten list, based on their suggestions. I tend to break that rule sometimes, and come up with my own topics, but for the most part I stay true to the theme. Lately, I've been watching a lot of Booktube videos, especially book haul videos, because, well,  I have no life. So here I've listed seven of the Booktube channels that I'm following, plus one really great channel where you can find blogging and Photoshop tutorials. Ps. None of these people know that I'm mentioning them on my blog. 1. Rebecka @ WhyMermaids     2. Ashley @ Bookish Realm     3. Lainey @ gingerreadslainey     4. Connor @ Connor O'Brien     5. Sanaa @ InkBonesBooks   ...