Hello everyone! Today, I'd like to talk about the books I've read and series I've watched this month, as the last video of the year.
This month was too fast for me. It was like accelerated time.
This month, I lie heavy on the frequency of the videos as you may see.
It meant renunciation of my own time. Thus, I could not read as much as I'd like to, this month especially.
I plan to upload 5-6 videos per month next year.
You already know that I do everything by myself, editing etc.
I work really hard on some videos, especially for the skincare videos.
So, you may watch the video in 15-20 minutes, but there is at least 1 week research and preparation time.
Moreover, I have a professional life, thus, this is the best that I can do for now.
This is how I can respond the the comments wanting me to publish more videos.
I would like videos on my channel less in number but having more quality content. I hope you will appreciate this.
I am gonna start with the series I've watched this month.
The first series was the 3rd season of Start-Up.
Start-Up is one of the favorite series of Berkant and me.
When we start to watch, we lock ourselves in the home and watch all the season in all weekend.  It is that kinda series for us.
If you are interested in technology, entrepreneurship, etc, I guess you've already heard about it.
But if you are not, I think you definitely should take a look.
I love the acting, general topic, actions, and everything really.
The bonus of the series for me is Adrian Brody, indeed. Some of you might remember him from The O.C. series.
He was acting the character Seth who is my favorite in that series. I even was in love with the character Seth in high school.
That's why Adrien Brody has a special place in my heart.
By the way, Adrien Brody is also the producer of this series and I think he did a great job. Start-Up is definitely one of my fav series this year.
Let's pass to The Protector. How harsh it was criticized! I could not understand, indeed, why it was criticized so severely.
Actually, I like it. Of course, there were parts that I did not like.
but, in general, I liked the series. It was not that bad to be criticized such harshly, I think.
I am looking forward to the second season, I am gonna watch in next to no time.
The series had a lot of points that I did not like, of course. In my opinion, the scenario was very weak. They definitely should change the scriptwriter next season.
The dialogues were weak, some points of the story was not filled well. Why are there immortals?
Why are they seven? or... Why are there loyals? These questions are remained throughout the series.
I think the acting in general is weak too. Only, the acting of Okan Yalabık, who acts Faysal, was very good.I did not like the others, indeed.
Maybe the acting was not that bad but the scenario was so bad that I might not like the acting due to that.
As I mentioned, I found that series weak in these points, but does it make you to watch? Yes, Absolutely. So, we watched.
I think the topic is good, actually. I already like the fantastic movies-series. Thus, I liked this, as well.
Does it refer to the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter? I think yes, it refers.
There was ring, not cloak but shirt, talismanic shirt, not baton but dagger, etc.
That was kinda like they were looking for deathly hallows, that was funny, indeed.
Aren't all the topics of fantastic movies-series similar to each other? So, I am not gonna criticize in that part.
In my opinion, as the first Turkish Netflix series, it was good.
I think, the second season will be better, if they take the criticism and comments into account.
The fav part of the series, İstanbul was reflected such beautiful a beautiful way. I think they reflect our culture in a good perspective.
Besides, the music were good, as well. We discovered new songs and artists thanks to the series. I like this point, too.
Let's pass to the movies.
The first movie I've watched this month was the Crazy Rich Asians. This movie broke the rating records.
There are only Asian actors and actresses in the movie.
I guess, that's why in each countries that it is shown, the reyting records were broke by the Asians.
It is the first Hollywood movie in which there are only Asian actors and actresses, by the way.
That's why it catched my attention. My expectations were not that high, I knew it is a soap kinda movie.
There is a typical rich man-poor girl issue.
but, is that romantic? Yes, romantic. Funny? Yes, very much, I think.
I liked to watch it, if you are looking for a soap comedy movie, you can watch this one.
Incredibles 2... This is one of my fav animation movies. It is already known as one of the best animations ever.
It is hard to say "bad" to anything that is produced by Pixar.
I adore almost all of the animations of Pixar. I have a positive prejudice to them.
The best fact in the movie is the starring who is the female character "Elastigirl", the mother of the family.
Despite they received a lot of comments such as they were influenced by the feminism, I strongly liked it.
There were lots of references made, especially to other movies, to other superheroes. They made it a lot.
The other fav part of mine is to watch the baby of the family, Jack Jack, discovers his own superpower.
On my side, the best scenes of movie are Jack Jack scenes. I laughed a lot, in especially his scenes, I laughed very so much.
I think this movie can take the best animation Oscar.
Alpha... Alpha was a movie that I had prejudice but watched with teary eyes.
The story takes place 20.000 years ago. We witness the lives of people back then.
The language of the movie was not English which is such a good detail, it made the movie very realistic, I think.
The topic of the movie is taming of the first wolf. We even can say it shows the evolution of the wolves to the dogs.
I think it has a really interesting topic and also the end of movie was impressive.
This is the type of movie that I can say everyone should watch this.
Ahlat Ağacı is known as the last masterpiece of Nuri Bilge Ceylan. As you may guess, our expectation was also very high.
The movie was good but it was so long. 3 hours is extremely long.
It would be cool if it would be 2 hours, I would probably watch it without getting bored and distracted.
But because it was 3 hours, we give breaks during the movie. Thus, I lost attention from the movie, sometimes.
the topic was not worth 3 hours, I think it could be shot in 2 hours.
I think it was great to see the topics are interpreted very well.
This is the story of a young man who tries to find money to publish his book.
Besides, he is dealing with the problems that his father created.
I think the best part of the movie was the cinematography.
You should watch it. It is a masterpiece.
It makes you to think on life.
I think everyone can find something relatable.
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-Come, come, come..
Nope, I'm not :D Thank you. show your beautiful face
Thank youuuu
I did not understand what this giant spoon is  doing here? Whatever..
Burning... My expectations were so high on this and I can say that it met my expectations.
This is a spin off from a story of Haruki Murakami.
We watch how three people came together and rupture relations. This is how I can summarize the movie.
I really liked the leading men. I already like and follow Yoo Ah-in. They both did a great job.
There is meaning in each scene even looks like the most meaningless.
You understand everything about it at the end of the movie.
I think the movie as a great cinematography. Besides, there is only one music is used. It was very compatible with the scenes.
I also liked this part. It was full of metaphors. I would suggest you to watch the movie by taking this into consideration, if you are gonna watch.
Some of you might find it boring but I liked very much.
Madame... It is one of my fav movies this month.
It is actually a soap movie but I can say this is a qualified soap movie.
The details of the movie was so good.
and the topic was about a luxury dinner invitation of a rich American couple, who has a rocky marriage, in their house in Paris.
However, the Madame, who is the lady of the house, decides to add one more people to the dinner table
because of her step-son, who came in the last minute, makes the number of people in the table 13 which is a cursed number
Because of this, she decided to choose the most trustworthy maid in the house as 14th guest and then one thing leads to another.
There are very good actors and actresses. Especially Toni Colette acted very good.
But I think the star of the movie was Rossie de Palma
You might know her from the Almodovar movies. She has a fascinating beauty.I think she is very charismatic.
I found the movie very entertaining but actually we can say that the movie has a big criticism on system.
It criticise the status difference caused by money.
The movie finishes in a realistic way. I also liked this.
Yes, now I can mention the books. I realized this month I read the least number of books ever. I am only gonna talk about 5 books.
The first book is Roverandom / J.R.R Tolkien.
I realized that, I've read LOTR for 3-4 times at high school and university, I haven't read it for long time and wanted to read other books, too.
Story of this book is very interesting, there is a long explanation in the beginning.
You can find details about the facts about the story of the book.
The youngest of family Tolkien, Mike, loses his toy dog during the holiday in 1925.
His dad writes a story on this. A story about a dog that is lost.
I think he should had so much fun while writing this story.
Especially, you see that he makes the story very detailed at the end. Thus, it was very good.
Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp / Osamu Dazai. A Japanese writer, as you can understand by the name.
I was interested in the writer before but this is the fist book I read from the writer. Very interesting personality, indeed.
Despite the writer belongs to one of the richest families of Japan, his life passed out full of despondence and eventually, he killed himself.
This book looks like a novel, but not actually. We can say a travel book that has autobiographical side to it.
You often read the details of Dazai, his opinions, the environment he was born and raised. I cannot say it is easily read, but still I liked a lot. I'd like to read other books, too.
Neverwhere / Neil Gaiman...
Actually, this was translated in Turkish as "Yokyer" but I could not find the Turkish version. It was seemed like the publishment stopped.
I bought the English because I could not find Turkish one. Actually I am happy to have done this because this is a special edition, I realized it after I bought.
The parts that were taken out of the other books were added into this book.
So, the book was published how the writer wished it to be. I actually guessed I would like this book because I like fantastic novels.
Neil Gaiman is a loved writer, and this is one of the best-seller books of him.
Richard is the main character who has a normal life. One day he encounters a girl on the floor in street.
After he takes care of her, his life becomes upside down. He discovers an underground city full of monsters, chevaliers, angels under London.
There is adorable details about London and I was affected while reading because I lived in London for 4 years.
These parts, especially, made me very happy.
I definitely suggest this to whom is looking for a fantastic novel.
I read the first book of Foundation Series
It is already one of the legendary sci-fiction series.
and Asimov is one of the well-known writers in this field.
The book met my expectations and I think the topic is also interesting
Hari Seldon, the founder of psychohistory, foresees the ending of Galactic Empire which ruled for 12.000 years.
Still, he doesn't lose his hope for the future and making plans to save the empire.
The plan is to recruit the best brains in the empire and to set up a foundation in another far planet
Of course, the foundation finds itself in many harsh conditions in further years and you read these, indeed.
I read some parts out of breath. I liked it very much, it is a very escapist book.
I am gonna read the other books in this year.
I think the series of it is gonna be published next year, and I read that the copyrights were purchased by Apple.
It is gonna be one of the productions I am awaiting impatiently.
M Train / Patti Smith...
As I know it was translated in Turkish as "M Treni" I still bought the English version.
As you know, I read the book of Patti Smith's "Just Kids" with teary eyes. This book is its follow-up, indeed.
It is a book with autobiographical side to it. I've read half of the book, not finished yet. I don't wanna finish it, I liked so much.
Firstly, I found the book very emotional. Especially, She told about the things she lost in time, throughout the book.
I was self-disciplined not to finish the book immediately. I think whether I read another book and turn back to this one later, because I want to relish it page by page.
I am crazy about this woman's writing style. I am very happy to buy the English version because there are some parts that may be lost in translation
Patti Smith is one of the women I'm most inspired by.
Thus, I don't think I would not like a book of her.
I commented the same way for previous book of her.
Whether you watch the interviews, the documentaries, none of them is as impressive as the book she wrote.
You can see the how her brain works in this book.
I would strongly suggest you the English version to read.
I hope I've talked about the books, series, movies that you might wonder in this video.
I am gonna talk about the movies and series I watched and books I read at the end of that month in 2019 but the only difference will be
As you know I put cosmetics favs in these videos too, but I plan to decrease the number of cosmetic fav videos one in every 3 months.
but books, movies, series favs are gonna continue each month. If you ask why,
I feel like I lead and affect people to over consume.
I don't want this. I want less but effective  products to be on this channel.
I would like to talk about the products that really makes a difference.
Now, do not think like "so, the products in your favs videos were not the favs, indeed?" No. I still have all of them and I finished almost most of them.
For makeup favs, some of them are finished, there are some that I repurchased, even.
But I don't want to put cosmetics on each video only because I need something to talk about.
Thus, I decided to make it in every 3 months, for now.
I am gonna continue to brand reviews because you liked that series very much.
There are so many questions like "What do you think about this brand"
Almost all of the brands are asked to me are the ones that are not cruelty-free.
Thus, I do not like to give a place on my channel, especially to non-cruelty free brands.
You will see some different brands, that are cruelty free and when I try them, you will see them on this channel.
Finally, I would like to talk about something different that makes me feel exciting
which is Book Club.
I've already talked about it on Instagram and YouTube and I got very good feedback. Thank you very much
to everyone who send messages and comments.
You encouraged me to do this.
For the ones who hasn't heard about it,
I plan to make a Book Club in 2019. We are gonna decide 12 books. 1 book for each month.
At the end of each month, we are gonna review a book.
If you would read that book until that time, we will meet in the comments.
Actually, I would like to use live chat feature for that video. Thus, we can talk only about book.
There are many voices came out and some said we decide 12 books together but I think I am gonna decide for a good 12 book list from the beginning.
and I am gonna share the books with you
I guess if you follow my Instagram account, it would be easier
For the ones who does not have Instagram account, I will let you know and publish it as Community Post
I haven't decided for all the books yet but only one for January.
I am definitely gonna be careful about, I can promise, there will be different types of books and there will be 6 men and 6 women writers
and I am gonna be careful about to choose from the world literature.
There are not gonna be 6 Turkish and 6 international but the internationals will be weighted more than Turkish.
I am planning to choose the ones that I haven't read and novel-weighted books.
Because I think majority of people stopped reading novels. I don't wanna read self-help books etc, but wanna read novels.
I hope you also wanna read novels. I think we need to read more novels rather than self-help books and non-fiction ones, we need to read fiction.
Thus, the books are gonna more likely to be novels.
I will share the first book for January now.
I think this decision will make many people happy.
Ursula K. Le Guin - Earthsea Series
Do not afraid by looking at this. This series is a 6-books series.
And they collected all 6 books here.
We are gonna read only the first book which is only this much, around 130 pages which I think it can be read in 1 month, no need to worry.
There is an edition that includes all the books, if you are interested to read all.
or you can buy the single one.
It is from Metis Publishing House.
Good luck with our first book
I hope you will join me in January.
Finally, I owe your thanks, you made 2018 unforgettable for me. One of the best things that 2018 gave me was you.
I hope 2019 will be a great year, too, for all of us.
I wish everyone a year inspiring and full of happiness
I am not gonna say "See you next year" but "See you on the next video!" Bye!
