Thursday, December 31, 2015

2015 in twenties and fifteens

music
  1. Twenty One Pilots
  2. One Direction
  3. All Time Low
  4. 5 Seconds of Summer
  5. Panic! At the Disco
  6. Marianas Trench
  7. Years & Years
  8. Little Mix
  9. My Chemical Romance
  10. McBusted (feat. McFly and Busted)
  11. Melanie Martinez
  12. Halsey
  13. Troye Sivan
  14. William Beckett
  15. Fall Out Boy
  16. Good Charlotte
  17. DNCE
  18. frnkiero andthe cellabration
  19. Red Velvet
  20. Ellie Goulding
bonus: october; november; december; end of year

books
  1. I Shall Wear Midnight: hands down the best book I've read in a long, long while. I laughed, I cried, and I loved it so, so much.
  2. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances : took me two weeks to read this tiny thing, but I absolutely loved it! The Sleeper and the Spindle was just ugh, so good, so-so good! Overall, probably my favorite Gaiman so far
  3. The Book Thief : I bought this book in 2013, and have been putting it off forever. So glad I picked it up, it was beautiful, and heart-wrenching, and just amazing
  4. The Final Empire : I only read the first book of the trilogy this year, but it was awesome and I will definitely continue on with the series as soon as I have enough money to buy the rest of the books
  5. The Sword of Summer : a classic Riordan. Loved it. Especially after the fail that is Heroes of Olympus
  6. The Knife of Never Letting Go : I initially bought it because of gooooorgeous covers, and was very surprised to find out that it's about a 13-year-old boy, and aliens, and all that jazz. Spent the entirety of the first to book screaming internally, because SO. GOOD. Now I'm reading book three, though, and I'm afraid I'm not gonna like it even half as much. However, as far as trilogies go, this one is really, really good
  7. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe : a spur of the moment buy because COVER, but dang this book!
  8. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda : CUTE.
  9. Ask the Passengers
  10. Queen of Shadows : who cares about all them Mary Sue's, this book was amazing.
  11. Carry On
  12. The Martian
  13. American Gods 
  14. Small Gods
  15. The Truth

movies & tv
  1. Birdman
  2. Whiplash
  3. Kingsman
  4. Mad Max
  5. Pitch Perfect 2
  6. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
  7. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  8. The Martian
  9. Teen Wolf

everything
    10. green tea
    11. ao3
    12. #негрхункофа ♥
    13. Яблоня >.<'
    14. spotify
    15. bandom (sometimes rediscoveries are wonderful)


Sunday, July 26, 2015

2015 #BookTubeAThon~~



It's that time of the year again and I couldn't be more excited! BookTube-A-Thon 2015 aka that-time-i-decided-to-read-all-the-short-ones. Killing it with all the classics! I wonder how many I will actually read before I break down and indulge myself in YA. Also, all of these are in Russian except for Animal Farm and The Virgin Suicides, which are e-books and in English.

TBR//challenges:

1// Read a book with blue on the cover:
Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam | 112 pages

2// Read a book by an author who shares the same first letter of your last name:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | 121 pages
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 277 pages

3// Read someone else's favourite book:

Animal Farm by George Orwell | 102 pages (thanks Ariel haha)

4// Read the last book you acquired:

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | 224 pages

5// Finish a book without letting go of it:

The Martian by Andy Weir | 369 pages

6// Read a book you really want to read:

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides | 249 pages

7// Read seven books:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 277 pages



TBR total: 1454 pages (over a thousand pages less than last year: maybe this year I will complete all the challenges)

Monday, June 29, 2015

2015 reading challenge!

So I saw this beautiful thing and yes. I'm just gonna list everything here and I'm gonna be crossing things out (well, make them bold but whatever) as I read books!

  1. a book with more than 500 pages #5, #18, #37
  2. a classic romance
  3. a book that became a movie #5, #7, #24
  4. a book published this year #11, #21, #29
  5. a book with a number in the title #3
  6. a book written by someone under 30 #5, #29
  7. a book with nonhuman characters #12, #17
  8. a funny book #2 (it was totally funny ok i cried laughing)
  9. a book by a female author #1, #4, #11, #35
  10. a mystery or a thriller #2, #29, #35
  11. a book with a one-word title #9, #24, #27
  12. a book of short stories
  13. a book set in a different country #1, #2, #3...
  14. a nonfiction book
  15. a popular autor's first book #30
  16. a book from an author you love that you haven't read yet #7, #9, #10, #12, #17
  17. a book a friend recommended #4 (booktube is a friend ok)
  18. a Pulitzer Prize-winning book
  19. a book based on a true story
  20. a book at the bottom of your to-read list #8, #24
  21. a book your mom loves
  22. a book that scares you
  23. a book more than 100 years old
  24. a book based entirely on its cover #1, #4
  25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
  26. a memoir
  27. a book you can finish in a day #2, #8, #16, #23
  28. a book with antonyms in the title #3
  29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit #7, #9
  30. a book that came out the year you were born
  31. a book with bad reviews #26
  32. a trilogy
  33. a book from your childhood
  34. a book with a love triangle #26 (more like love polygon)
  35. a book set in the future #26
  36. a book set in high school #2
  37. a bok with a color in the title #11
  38. a book that made you cry #5
  39. a book with magic #7, #11, #23, #25
  40. a graphic novel #25
  41. a book by an author you've never read before #1, #4, #5, #8
  42. a book you own but have never read #2, #5
  43. a book that takes place in your hometown
  44. a book that was originally written in a different language (all of them pretty much)
  45. a book set during Christmas
  46. a book written by an author with your same initials
  47. a play
  48. a banned book
  49. a book based on or turned into a TV show
  50. a book you started but never finished #6, #35

#1 Everybody Sees the Ants - Jan 1
#2 Paper Towns - Jan 11
#3 Discworld Diary 2015: We R Igors: First and Last Aid - mid-Jan
#4 The Winner's Curse - Feb 4
#5 The Book Thief - Mar 6
#6 Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Mar 7
#7 Going Postal - Mar 14
#8 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Mar 18
#9 The Truth - Mar 24
#10 The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable - Apr 3
#11 The Ruby Circle - Apr 12
#12 The Wee Free Men - Apr 16
#13 Small Gods - Apr 29
#14 The Assassin's Curse - Apr 30
#15 The Pirate's Wish - May 1
#16 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - May 2
#17 A Hat Full of Sky - May 5
#18 American Gods - May 9
#19 The Monarch of the Glen - May 9
#20 Anansi Boys - May 12
#21 War of the Foxes - May 12
#22 Making Money - May 17
#23 The Ocean at the End of the Land - May 18
#24 Theatre - May 29
#25 The Books of Magic - May 30
#26 The Heir - May 31
#27 Wintersmith - Jun 6
#28 I Shall Wear Midnight - June 11
#29 No Place Left to Run - Jun 22
#30 Looking for Alaska - Jun 27
#31 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Jun 28
#32 Will Grayson, Will Grayson - Jun 30
#33 Ask the Passengers - Jul 3
#34 Last Night I Sang to the Monster - Jul 5
#35 We Were Liars - Jul 16
#36 Monstrous Regiment - Jul 16
#37 The Final Empire - Jul 21

Wednesday, June 03, 2015


мне 20 и это страшно. не в том плане, что я дряхлая и это конец света и вообще, нет - просто мои 21, до которых всего пару месяцев, висят надо мной дамокловым мечом. буду считаться совершеннолетней уже во всех странах, а толку? толку нет. нигде не была, ничего не добилась. и надо бы уже с этим смириться, но не смиряется.
штука в том, что когда мне было лет 14, я думала, что за глупость, что уголовная ответственность наступает в 16/18! словно человек за сутки вырастает и становится ответственным и умным и проч. и проч.
а потом со мной именно это и произошло.
в 17 я слушала Seventeen Forever и с нетерпением ждала дня рождения.
в 18 я впервые почувствовала эту смену цифры - резко и, если честно, немного жестоко. всё, что я помню о своих восемнадцати - это постоянную усталость.
мои 19 были тяжелыми,
я пью чай из такой большой кружки, что он остывает до того, как я выпиваю половину, и мне приходится разогревать его в микроволновке - прекрасное описание всей моей жизни.

этот пост провисел в драфтах добрые полгода, упс

Saturday, January 03, 2015

2015, lütfen güzel ol

за правильность не ручаюсь -
мой турецкий всё ещё отвратителен,
серьёзно, но я работаю над этим.
i'm late to the party-- again, but what else is new, right?
я уже подвела итоги 2014 тут и все мои планы на 2015 изложены тут, по сути, но все же.

желаю себе писать больше, чаще и интересней. последнее - главное.
желаю себе заняться, наконец, турецким.
желаю себе поставить в этом блоге нормальный дизайн.
желаю себе выполнить то единственное задание на год, которое я себе дала.
желаю себе купить тот tinted moisturizer от clinique, который стоит целое состояние, но должен быть прекрасным.
желаю себе тогда уж купить бордовые тени и тёмно-вишнёвую помаду - чтобы забыть, что скоро мне 21.
желаю себе вытаскивать фотоаппарат почаще.
желаю себе выходить из дома почаще (not gonna happen).
желаю себе не тянуть до дедлайнов.
желаю себе не набирать столько дедлайнов.
желаю себе думать о себе немного поменьше.
желаю себе читать любимых авторов и ту классику, которую читать так не хочется, но так надо.
желаю себе спокойствия.
желаю себе свободы.
желаю себе найти работу, пусть даже хреновую - я люблю работать на износ, доказано, факт.
желаю себе собаку.
желаю себе отрастить волосы. не отрезать, Лиза, отрастить.
желаю себе набить, наконец, ту татуировку, что надо было набить ещё семь лет назад - семь лет назад сегодня, когда я купила My December и изменила свою жизнь.
желаю себе выбраться из этого города - я из него уже, кажется, выросла. он слишком как старый свитер - любимый, но душит.