October is over. As sad as I am to say goodbye to my birthday month, I did take away lots of things from October, aside from growing old. It has been a very enriching month in terms of books and entertainment. And that is what I want to share in this article.

Buzzfeed Videos

Remember in the summer how everyone was posting and watching why I left Buzzfeed videos? Well, I wasn’t around, so I missed that, so I am still watching and appreciating Buzzfeed videos. I have since watched all the why I left Buzzfeed videos but still choose to keep watching them because no matter what people say I still like them. It is just good and funny, sometimes moving. They are a bunch of talented people making videos for us to see. So, I am going to watch it.

Atypical

A Netflix original that was recommended by my favorite youtuber. My roommate and I started watching it and we love it very much. It is about an 18-year-old autistic kid named Sam, his family and his struggles to find love. It’s cute, funny and moving.

Limitless

I started watching limitless because I have been wanting to watch it for a very long time and it was a 70% match with White Collar. I like crime solving shows. I don’t know why they just give me so much satisfaction.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Because English is my second language, I rarely find a book that keeps me interested enough to keep reading. But I picked up this book on my way back from New York at the airport because I had lots of time to kill and the Hulu show that was based on this book is also advertised everywhere. I thought I’d check it out. It’s a great book. It’s easy, it’s interesting, the style of writing is unique. It’s kind of like reading the main character’s mind and dreams. Which is something I haven’t seen before. The book talks about this dystopian society where a religious group controls everything. The handmaids are a special kind of women who rotate around households of the powerful and try to bear their children because of the environment and pollution is so bad that the people’s birthrate has gone down so much.

The Three Body Problem Trilogy

This is a sci-fi that I have been reading while I was reading The Handmaid’s Tale. It is originally written in Chinese and translated into English. And yeah, I read it in Chinese. It is a widely renown science fiction because it has won lots of awards. This book is brilliant. It is a very intelligent work. In this novel, there are so many things that are worth talking about: the physics element, the human rights issue, inequality and aliens. It is a very well-developed world. In the beginning of the book, it is a little bit slow with laying the background of the situation, just stick to it and it will soon get interesting.