Dinara Tengri

This is week is Mystery and Thriller week. I love me some mysteries and nail-biting thrillers so here are seven books and book series that I'm pretty sure will quench your "whodunnit" thirst. Happy reading! 1. Sherlock Holmes  And by that I mean all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. To this day my favourite novel is The Hound of the Baskervilles . Read it a thousand times and it still gives me the chills. 2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union Alternate history, political intrigue and chess. This books by Michael Chabon is a thought-provocing crime drama with great humanity underneath all the grit and grime. 3. The Robot Series How can I not include this book series on my recommendations list? This is Isaac Asimov at his best when he combines exciting murder mystery, futuristic politics and a friendship between human and robot that is better than most romances.  4. The Man in the High Castle Another alternat...

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...