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Mulai baca lagi Kegiatan membaca bukuku nyambung lagi. Hehehehe senengnya. Masih ingat dengan orang Korea itu kan. Nah, ceritanya dia juga penggemar buku, jadi waktu aku ajak jalan-jalan ke gramedia, dia menawari aku untuk memilih buku yang aku inginkan. Hehehehe, ini sih kayak kejatuhan durian. Beberapa hari sebelumnya aku udah ngeceng beberapa buku. Seperti biasa, cukup ditulis dulu di HPku. Nah, ada satu buku yang tebel dan harganya agak ajib. Pas, dia nawari untuk membelikan aku buku, langsung aja aku pilih buku itu. Judulnya "THREE CUPS OF TEA". Kalo bagi adiku dan muridku yang hobi baca komik dan ogah baca buku tak bergambar, wuih buku ini mengerikan. Sebenarnya aku ga langsung baca buku itu karena biasa urusan murid. Adiku, Nia dia yang baca buku itu duluan. Dia bilang ini buku yang bagus. Setelah aku dapet hari libur, langsung tancap baca buku seharian. Aku ga nyangka isinya dalam sekali. Buku ini memceritakan tentang seorang pendaki gunung dari Amerika yang tadinya...

The Girls of Riyadh Minggu kemarin aku baru selesai baca buku The Girls of Riyadh dari Rajaa Al Sanea. Walaupun ceritanya ga beda dengan Princess yang menceritakan kehidupan putri Sultana tapi aku lebih suka buku yang ini. Mungkin di buku ini, cerita-cerita tentang kekayaan ga terlalu diobral. Menurutku di The Girls of Riyadh ini titik beratnya lebih ke masalah mereka. Cerita tentang kekayaan yang begitu menohok itu ga terlalu sering dibahas. Sejujurnya, waktu baca beberapa halaman awal, keherananku ga jauh beda dengan yang aku rasakan waktu baca Princess. Kayaknya aku juga jadi judgmental gitu. Lama kelamaan aku bisa mengerti juga “Why”nya. Waktu baca Princess, honestly aku ga bisa ngerti dengan pria-pria itu yang hobi menikahi anak-anak bau kencur yang baru mulai memasuki masa pubertas. Atau kenapa mereka hobi banget dengan yang namanya kawin dan “having fun”. Peringai buruk itu hanya aku bisa lihat di pria-pria yang berasal dari negara yang kaya minyak itu. Kayaknya mereka ...

Book Reading Project Last week, I had this book hunting with Noe. After reading books from Andrea Hirata, I started to look for some other great books. Noe and I got addicted. As usual, the search was conducted in one of the biggest book store in Bandung. But since we planned to buy not just one book and financial was a bit of a problem, we decided to buy those books elsewhere in the place where we can get big discount. So on 25th of December, we went to the famous book spot in Bandung where we can get big discount. The books we bought, 40 Days in Europe, The Kite Runner, Laut dan Kupu-Kupu the last one is Dong mu . Each of us bought two books and the we would exchange them once we finished reading them. But before that I read Princess . The book was a gift from my students, Yusuf, for my birthday. When I read Princess, I was so amazed not by the act of the men but by the amount of wealth they have. Wow! Their wealth is so unspeakable. My mind wonders straightly to school. I...

After reading Andrea’s trilogy, I started to scan my books collection. I have read good novels which some of them I don’t own caused I borrowed them from my lectured who turned to be friend. My collection wasn’t bought by me only. Some of them are gift (because I asked them to buy some books for me by saying I was so curious by the others’ opinion and sort of and sort of. In the end when I said how much I had to pay, they would nicely said no need) from my friends and students who happened to study abroad. Let’s see. I have Matilda from Koko who once studied in Manchester, Totto-chan English version from Diana who happened to visit Singapore, Totto-chan Japanese version from Afi who once worked in Japan of course, Roald Dahl’s, Isabel Allende’s and some others from Mamad who once studied in Aussie, Shakespeare’s from …. (sorry I really forgot his name), Little Prince and Eva Luna from Ari (my prof whom I told you before) and the last one is Coffee Price from Chang Woo Oppa (I haven...

Yesterday, I have just finished reading the third novel of Andrea Hirata—if I may say, he’s the best young novelist I know so far—called Edensor. The introduction of me with Andrea Hirata’s novels is a sere coincidence. Before that I had no idea if there was a novelist named Andrea Hirata. I have this usual meeting with my college best bud named Mia. She’s a real busy person, we can meet like every 5 months or so although we live in the same city. It’s about time difference my friend, as if she were living somewhere in the USA. On the day that we had agreed before, we met in our sanctuary place, “Food Court BSM”, one of the biggest malls in Bandung. We usually talk about lives, who has made the progress or is there any news from our friends about the upcoming wedding or our future wedding. The chat started from her life then to mine and how she thought that I was very lucky for having such variation in life through my cyber space life. The moved on to the conversation about travel...