Dinara Tengri

Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a great time last night. I myself was watching Die Hard with my family. So it was a very good time had by all. Then the power went out in our neighbourhood (kind of like in the last act of Die Hard), and out came the candles.  Cozy  It's now 2017, a new year for schooling and for blogging. And I have some big plans for this baby right here. My fingers are just itching to start typing down all the ideas that have been brewing in my head for the past few weeks. Anyway, here are some of the reviews that I'm planning on posting in the not so distant future:  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks This book I finished a long time ago, and the review is already in the works.  Marvel's Black Widow Downloaded this non-fiction anthology on NetGalley. It's gonna be fun! (I hope)   Love I can't say that I read this comic book, because there are literally no words there. Just pictures....

I love Dana Scully of the X-files.  I can't help being drawn to this character like a moth to a very bright light. She's awesome . In short, this post is a loud and self-satisfying rant about the awesomeness and badassery of Dana Scully. More specifically, it's an essay about how Scully's skeptical and scientific viewpoint helps Mulder fight the supernatural. In the future, I'm going to write a more in-depth analysis of the role that Scully's science plays on the X-files. For now, I'm going to settle on listing five episodes, in which lives were saved thanks to Scully and her science. I always get so annoyed when people are saying, "Why can't Scully just believe in the paranormal? The evidence is right in front of her!" To those people I say, "What evidence?" You can loose your mind trying to count the times when Scully and Mulder fail to solve a case, and to present any substantial evidence to the FBI (somet...

It’s time for my first top ten-list on this blog. So continuing with an awesome tradition started by the girls of The Broke and the Bookish , I give my own contribution to Top Ten Tuesday . This week is all about Ten Bookish Things I Want to Quit or Have Quit.   So, here are Top 10 Authors I Quit Reading (and why) 10. Nikolaj Gogol - just want to get one thing straight: I love Gogol . The guy was a genius with words. Back when I was a nerdy teenager, I used to read Gogol all the time. But times changed, and so did I, and, frankly, I just don’t feel the urge to read him again. Still, everyone should read Gogol at least once in their life. Nikolaj Gogol     9. Anton Chekhov - same as with Gogol. Still a fan of this M.D. turned author, but I just don't feel like reading him anymore.  8. Alexander Dumas – what would my childhood be without The Three Musketeers and its sequels? However, when I tried to re-read some of these classics...