Project TBR + February TBR + Peek of My Bookshelf + Other Stuff!

Saya memutuskan untuk memulai project TBR demi memaksa diri sendiri membabat timbunan buku yang semakin meninggi. Di video ini saya menjelaskan cara yang saya pakai dalam project TBR ini, dan buku apa yang menjadi TBR saya di bulan Februari ini, dan sekilas penampakan rak buku saya, dan hal lainnya. I hope you can enjoy the video. Like, comment, or subscribe ;)

January 2015 Wrap Up!

Hai! Telat sehari nih untuk ngupload video ini. Better late than never, right? Enjoy! Let me know if you like this or not, comment or subscribe is very welcome *wink* Postingan 'wrap up' ini ada sebagai pengganti postingan 'book haul' yang rencananya akan saya tiadakan. Biar lebih semangat baca, bukan semangat beli. Hehehe.

The Naked Traveler Across the Indonesian Archipelago - Trinity + Secret Santa Post #2

Wuih, judulnya panjang.

Helloooo, Guys! Sudah lama sekali (sebulan, lebih tepatnya) saya nganggurin blog ini. Maaf. I just need some time apart from this blog. I need something new, or else I'll get bored and abandon this blog for even more time that I already did. Karena itulah, untuk review buku kali ini saya mencoba hal baru yang belum pernah saya coba.

Saya bikin video! Saya enggak pernah bikin video sebelumnya, jadi, ini yang pertama. Saya sadar banget akan pencahayaannya yang buruk, kualitas kameranya juga, suaranya juga... semuanya! Hahah. Maklumin saja lah yah. Tapi saya lumayan semangat gara-gara bikin video ini, bahkan... sebenarnya, saya sudah menyiapkan satu video lagi yang akan saya publish awal Februari. Hoyeee~

Secret Santa Post #1 bersama Happy Cattelya

Hai! Post kali ini akan ditemani oleh si cewek berkumis ini. Happy Cattelya. She even shares the same middle name as me. Desember 2014 ini dia ulang tahun yang pertama, jadi biarlah dia berseliweran di post ini yah.

Saatnya pamer kado yang dikirimkan Secret Santa saya! Yeeey. Karena bakalan banyak gambar, lebih baik saya sedikit cingcongnya. Nah, paket yang sampai ke rumah saya berisikan ini,

Kenapa Saya Enggak Bikin Book Haul Post Lagi?

Apakah ada yang bertanya-tanya selama ini? Kalau ada yang penasaran, ini dia penjelasan saya. Kalau ternyata enggak ada yang penasaran... yaaa... saya tetap akan melanjutkan tulisan ini. Mariii...

Wishlist SS 2014 [cihuuuuyyy]

Hoyeeee ikutan Secret Santa BBI lagi. Tahun lalu pengalaman pertama saya ikutan Secret Santa, and oh boy it was fun! Soalnya saya tuh tipe yang senang sekali beli buku. Mau itu beli buku buat diri sendiri atau buat orang lain. I'm obsessed in buying books. Karena itulah, saya sangat menikmati acara Secret Santa BBI ini. Thank you divisi event BBI yang ciamik semua. This is a romantic smile for ya'll.

Nah, berikut ini buku-buku yang termasuk wishlist saya.

Shift - Em Bailey

Bailey, Em. 2012. Shift. Great Britain: Electric Monkey.

Rating 5 stars

I often read books before I go to sleep every night, because that’s how I roll since I was a kid. If the books are not interesting enough to keep me awake, I don’t mind because those books still help me to beat my sleep deprivation. As you may guess, the amount of books that keep me awake through the night is, of course, far more many than the books that don’t. But, books that keep me awake AND haunt me in my sleep are quite rare, I believe. 

This book. This book is one of those books that makes me lost my sleep time, and when I did sleep, it haunted my ugly dream. I admit, I had a nightmare after I read this book. It jabbed me right in my supposedly brave-heart.

I enjoy this book so much. I can’t believe that NONE of my Goodreads friends have read it (or maybe they just don’t put it on their bookshelves, I don’t know).

Mara Dyer Trilogy (Book 1-3) – Michelle Hodkin [SPOILER, obviously]

Hodkin, Michelle. 2011, 2012, 2014. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, The Retribution of Mara Dyer. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Overall Rating 2,5 stars.

Sigh. Another stellar debut, another love to give. I decided to pick it up and read it, solely because of the amazing cover on the first book of this series, the other two are not very satisfying but I couldn’t care less after I finished the first book. I think that is the kind of cover that will always attract my attention. You know, mysterious, dark, sharp picture, and doesn’t show any particular face to be judged. Totally my type of cover, yes. Safe to say, I knew nothing about this book until I read it, I even didn’t know its genre.

I know now, I should never judge a series if I don’t read its whole series. By that, maybe I did an unfair judgment with Marked, but that is one awful book though, ugh. I love the first two book of Mara Dyer Trilogy, but after reading the final installment, my love was fading pretty fast. I’m bumped because I can’t give more than 2,5 stars for this series, believe me, I really want to love this more. But the last book crushed me, and not in a good way either. Despite the failed ending of this series (I’m getting to that later), I really like Michelle Hodkin’s writing style (she has good humor) and I still will pick up her future novels, I guess. Now, shall we talk about who Mara Dyer is?

Lucid - Adrienne Stoltz & Ron Bass

Stoltz, Adrienne and Ron Bass. 2012. Lucid. New York: Razorbill.

_­Rating 5 serious stars

This is a story about a girl who whines a lot more than I tolerate and a girl who is so lonely she often makes up stories about strangers around her. And I should say I am pretty shocked myself for being able to finish the story until the very last page, let alone crown it with a five-star rating.

It’s definitely not a happy story, but I smiled in some parts of it. It’s not a sad story either, but I cried anyway in the end, complete with an ache in my heart and all.