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BOOK 01 : HUMAN ACTS BY HAN KANG   This year, you would like to try something different, I said to myself. I had always underestimated 'a year of reading challenges' because I would hate it if I gave myself a deadline for doing what I like, like reading a book, for example. It was merely because I didn't want to put pressure on myself. But I'd like to try something different, as I said, hence: Book 01 in 2026, Human Acts by Han Kang, translated into English from Korean by Deborah Smith. I picked up and bought Human Acts from this independent bookstore in Canggu Street, Bali, called Wonder Bookstore . I really like the place, it's relatively small but have great collection of international books. They also have a cafe area indoors and on the verandah, which looked so cozy. Back to the book review. I feel like this was one of the fastest I finished a book. I read it in a week, and honestly, it would be faster without my 9-to-5 work every day. (I know some of you spee...

    Yesterday I just finished re-reading this anthology entitled 'Wajah Terakhir' by Mona Sylviana. I'm the type of people who read their books more than once. Maybe because I always have a newly found fascinating fact that I wasn't aware of on my first time reading them. Or maybe I'm just that nerd..? Anyway, back to Wajah Terakhir. This is maybe the only book that I like but never had the courage to re-reading it. Because there was always something that held me back every time I'm about to pick this book. You guys must be wondering why one had to have a courage to just simply read a book. But it's true. It's not just an ordinary fiction I tell you. It filled with realities with made up names and characters. But it clearly is a collection of stories about our decaying typical urban issues and irony. It's about women.     Many faces of women with dark facts on their fingertips. Honestly, I can't stand how the stories were written. They are writte...

Last week, I finished this one novel by Mitch Albom. First impression, it's surprised me how the plot of the story flowed exactly like the title representation. I thought that this title will just be a metaphor to a reality that the main character played. But turned out it's a semi-superstitious story that aligning realities of life as the main structure. I'm not good at writing a book review, but I'd like to write about what I feel throughout my reading. First thing, this story had touched me in a way that I always share a soft part in. A story about feeling worthless and sad and surrendering as a human being. About what to do when your life didn't work out as planned. About many things in our past, we hope we could change. Decisions that we regret. People that we wished we never had known and words that we wished we never had said. The purpose of every person that Eddie encounter in his newly days in Heaven are to make sense of his yesterday. It written: "Thi...

Tadi siang saya menemani mama ke rumah sakit, dokternya wanita, memberi beberapa diagnosis yang bisa dilewati tapi harus dengan kuat dan tidak takut. Lalu melihat wajah mama dan merasa sedih juga. Saya jadi mengingat pepatah 'we're busy growing up and forget that our parents also growing old' saya punya banyak mimpi- mimpi. Mau jadi ini itu, mau kesana kemari. Selalu saya ceritakan semua sama orang tua tunggal saya ini, lalu tadi siang tersadar tidak ada satupun mimpi kaki gatal saya yang melibatkan si Ibu. Saya jadi sedih. berapa jauh selama ini saya menyedihkan hatinya? mengingat yang telah pergi dan melupakan yang ada di sisi. atau mungkin karena selalu ada Ibu saya disini. Harus juga saya melakukan sesuatu untuk yang selalu ada. Tapi apa? saya tidak mau janji manis. Sembari menunggu proses dari konsultasi sampai ke farmasi saya menghabiskan satu buku karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer yang judulnya Calon Arang. bukunya tipis, isinya dongeng. Yang tidak putih pink kuning dan te...

I KNOW BOOK REVIEW is plainly uninteresting and I can't so much write a review without spoil something I shouldn't, so I would just do the quick write about what I'm feeling now. Right after I finished the fault in our stars. I know T.Rex is just not the right music background but I listened to electric warrior couple of times in repeat while I was read the copy anyway.      So, my feel. quoting other book character: 'I'm feeling infinite'      but of course some infinite are bigger than other infinite (quoting Van Houten) so, I didn't mean to tell you these are anything important. but still. First of, I think everyone basically need their Augustus Waters, maybe not in those blue eyes and gorgeous crooked smile, and hope not the one-leg one but everyone need that kind of teenage love. or maybe that kind of love at their teenage. miraculous. I'm saying that if someone ever got this kind of mutual relationship like Hazel and Gus then it would be miraculou...