[Review] A Dark Night's Work - Elizabeth Gaskell

Title of Book : A Dark Night’s Work
Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : eshelfbooks

A DARK NIGHT'S WORK, a short fiction novel, was written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1863.

[Review] The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks

Title of Book : The Best of Me
Author : Nicholas Sparks
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing

"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."

In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.

Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

Feature & Follow Friday (22 Nov2013)

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly meme/ feature hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

RULES :

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• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
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[Review] Oh to Grace - Abby Rosser

Title of Book : Oh to Grace
Author : Abby Rosser
Publisher : Vision Quest
Published date : 28 May 2013

Oh to Grace is a marvel-a book that will appeal to fans of many genres of fiction. Here, you'll read several love stories intertwined across the decades, some tragic and some humorous. You'll find action and suspense, as you're transported to Prohibition-era Chicago and its nefarious characters. There is the heartbreak and tenderness of a family drama, with births and deaths and complex relationships. Finally, you'll enjoy plenty of rustic flavor as you're immersed in the rural Tennessee world of the Watson family as they struggle to face life's challenges with grace. All of this is written in a fresh and exciting new voice in fiction, with page-turning readability. -Jan Ackerson, Editor

Wishful Wednesday [10]

Selamat hari Rabu! Selamat ulang tahun juga buat mbak Astrid! Buku untuk Wishful Wednesday minggu ini adalah :

WWW Wednesday (20 November 2013)

Hello! It's Wednesday again. WWW Wednesday is a bookish meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?


What are you currently reading ?

I'm reading A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Gaskell. It's a novella and short, but I get a lil bored by it.

[Review] The Last Juror (Anggota Juri Terakhir) - John Grisham

Title of Book : The Last Juror (Anggota Juri Terakhir)
Author : John Grisham
Publisher : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Pada 1970, salah satu koran mingguan Mississippi, The Ford County Times, bangkrut. Banyak orang terkejut dan cemas, karena kepemilikan koran itu diambil alih oleh Willie Traynor, mahasiswa dropout berumur 23 tahun. Masa depan koran itu kelihatannya suram, hingga ada ibu muda diperkosa dan dibunuh secara keji oleh anggota keluarga Padgitt yang terkenal.

Si tersangka, Danny Padgitt, diadili di gedung pengadilan yang penuh sesak penonton di Clanton, Mississippi. Sidang itu berakhir dengan menyentak dan dramatis ketika si tersangka mengancam akan membalas dendam pada para anggota juri jika mereka menjatuhkan hukuman padanya. Meskipun begitu, mereka menyatakan ia bersalah dan dijatuhi hukuman seumur hidup di penjara.

Namun, di Mississippi pada 1970, "seumur hidup" tidak selalu berarti "seumur hidup". Sembilan tahun kemudian Danny Padgitt berhasil mendapatkan pembebasan bersyarat. Ia kembali ke Ford County dan pembalasan dendam pun dimulai.

WWW Wednesday (13 November 2013)

Hello! It's Wednesday again. WWW Wednesday is a bookish meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?


What are you currently reading ?

I'm reading The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks. Dawson and Amanda are just ... oh, my, God. I have a few pages left, can't wait to read how it ends. 

[Mini Review] I Am Pusheen The Cat - Claire Belton

Title of Book : I Am Pusheen The Cat
Author : Claire Belton
Publisher : Touchstone
Published date : 29 October 2013

This collection of oh-so-cute kitty comics—an online cult phenomenon, now for the first time in an adorable gift book—Pusheen combines the online reach of The Oatmeal’s How to Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You with the super-sweet appeal of Hello Kitty.With more than 2 million page views a month, 500,000+ blog subscribers, and 500,000+ Facebook followers, Pusheen is a pleasantly tubby gray tabby cat who has warmed hearts and tickled funny bones of millions worldwide with her signature GIF animated bops, bounces, and tail wiggles. Now, Pusheen is ready to make the leap from digital to print with her first comic collection!

I Am Pusheen the Cat features some of the most popular comics from the website, including Reasons I Love Fall, Career Options for Your Cat, and Christmas To Do List, as well as a healthy serving (at least 25 percent) of never-before-seen material that is sure to delight Pusheen’s many dedicated fans.

[Review] Sia - Josh Grayson

Title of Book : Sia
Author : Josh Grayson
Publisher : self-published
Published date : 20 November 2013

When seventeen-year-old Sia wakes up on a park bench, she has no idea who or where she is. Yet after a week of being homeless, she’s reunited with her family. At school, she’s powerful and popular. At home, she’s wealthy beyond her dreams. But she quickly realizes her perfect life is a lie. Her family is falling apart and her friends are snobby, cruel and plastic. Worse yet, she discovers she was the cruelest one. Mortified by her past, she embarks on a journey of redemption and falls for Kyle, the “geek” she once tormented. Yet all the time she wonders if, when her memories return, she’ll become the bully she was before…and if she’ll lose Kyle.

WWW Wednesday (6 November 2013)

It's Wednesday again and this week I make it! I could do a WWW post this week! WWW Wednesday is a bookish meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?


What are you currently reading ?

I'm reading Oh to Grace by Abby Rosser. Slow progress, I know. I'm so caught up with finishing my internship report and final project proposals for college. Really hope I could finish reading Oh to Grace this week.

Wishful Wednesday [9]

Yippi! minggu ini sempet ikutan wishful wednesday lagi. Buku untuk Wishful Wednesday minggu ini adalah :

[Review] The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

Title of Book : The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #2)
Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books

Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate, complex, and thrilling.

October Wrap-Up 2013

Goodbye October the month of horror! I didn't post many reviews this October but surprisingly I did more reading than September. I read 9 books! Anyway, I'm sorry for the late wrap-up post. So, here's the books I read in the month of October :