2013 Reading Challenge

Hi! This year I've decided to enter reading challenges hosted by book bloggers. Those challenges are :

Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge, hosted by bookmarktoblog.

I'm so excited since its my first :D
The challenge is to read a book which title contains one of these keywords :

[Review] Taste Buds - Yunus Kuntawi Aji & Kinsia Eyusa Merry

Title of Book:  Taste Buds

Author:  Yunus Kuntawi Aji & Kinsia Eyusa Merry

Publisher:  PT Wahyu Media

―HEADLINE―

Radityo, wartawan tercepat dalam melaporkan kasus pembunuhan. Rekor tercepatnya adalah sepuluh detik. Tepat setelah sang pembunuh melibas leher korban, ia berada di sana. Saat itu, ia melihat pembunuhnya lari sambil membawa harta benda korban.

Motif standar pembunuhan adalan masalah ekonomi. Tugasnya sebagai wartawan adalah meliput kasus pembunuhan. Ia justru berharap korban segera mati meskipun meronta-ronta meminta diselamatkan olehnya.

―JENUH―

"Oh tidak, tidak. Manda, kayaknya kita mulai garing deh pake bahasa kayak gini, hahaha. Ehem, oke.

Keinginan saya adalah sekiranya Anda tidak keberatan, apakah Anda bersedia bangun pagi melihat saya lagi? Makan pagi bersama saya lagi. Pulang kantor yang nongol muka saya lagi. Shalat berjamaah imamnya saya lagi. Menerima kado ulang tahun dari saya lagi. Mengurus anak bersama saya lagi. Memasak bersama chef andal, yaitu saya lagi. Sampai tua, duduk di kursi goyang, ditemani saya lagi. Saya lagi dan saya lagi.

[Review] The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks

Title of Book:  The Wedding

Author:  Nicholas Sparks

Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing

After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Wilson is sure of one thing--his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. Now, with the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.

[Review] The Rainmaker - John Grisham

Title of Book:  The Rainmaker

Author:  John Grisham

Publisher:  Random House Publishing Group

Grisham's sixth spellbinding novel of legal intrigue and corporate greed displays all of the intricate plotting, fast-paced action, humor, and suspense that have made him the most popular author of our time. In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In hs final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen -- and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys -- and powerful industries -- in America.

[Review] Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

Title of Book:  Hannibal Rising

Author:  Thomas Harris

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS

IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL

IS REVEALED.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. 

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.

Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.

But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.

He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.