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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Books "TEKA-TEKI TERAKHIR"

Judul Asli : TEKA-TEKI TERAKHIR
Copyright © by Annisa Ihsani
Penerbit Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Editor : Ayu Yudha
Desain sampul : EorG
Cetakan I : Maret 2014 ; 256 hlm ; ISBN 978-602-03-0298-0
Rate : 4 of 5

Kota kecil Littlewood dipisahkan oleh sebuah sungai yang membagi pemukiman penduduk dalam dua sisi yang berbeda. Di sisi sebelah kanan, hunian lebih besar karena termasuk fasilitas sekolah, gereja dan supermarket. Sedangkan sisi sebelah kiri sungai hanya ada dua hunian, satu milik keluarga Welman dan satu dihuni oleh keluarga Maxwell. Keluarga Maxwell cukup dikenal oleh penduduk Littlewood karena mereka justru jarang bersosialisasi atau saling memperkenalkan diri dengan penduduk lainnya. Bahkan oleh anak-anak, pasangan suami-istri Maxwell dikabarkan merupakan penyihir yang tidak menyukai anak-anak. Tiada yang tahu kebenaran dari aneka isu yang terjadi karena tak satu pun dari mereka berani untuk mengetuk dan masuk ke dalam kediaman keluarga Maxwell. Hingga pada suatu hari, Laura Welman – si bungsu yang selalu takut untuk melewati kediaman Maxwell saat berangkat ke sekolah, berjumpa dengan salah satu anggota keluarga Maxwell yang akan merubah kehidupannya.

Books "THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR"

Title : “THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR”
[ book 1 of DIES DREAR CHRONICLES ]
Copyright © 1968 by Virginia Hamilton
Copyright renewed © 1996 by Virginia Hamilton
Cover design by Debra Sfetsios
Cover illustration copyright © 2006 by Leo & Dianne Dillon
Aladdin Paperbacks (an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)
Printed in the United States of America
First paperback edition 1970 ; reissued 1984
Aladdin Paperback edition January 2006 | 250 p | ISBN  978-1-4169-1405-1
Rate : 4 of 5

~ Conclusion in Bahasa Indonesia at the bottom post ~

ALA Notable Children’s Book
Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner

Thomas Small going into thirteen when his family moving from North Carolina to Ohio, leaving his Great-grandmother Jeffers and others relative behind. Mr. Small wants his family living in different environment, where no separation between black and white people. He got a new job as an teacher, aside his likeness in history, he also got a new house with long tragic history where the owner was an abolitionist known as Dies Drear – part of the Underground Railroad. Thomas who also fond of the story which his father told him, got excited when he learn that more than one hundred thousand slaves who fled from the South to Canada between 1810 – 1850, forty thousand of them had passed through Ohio.

Books "ROOM"

Title : “ROOM”
Copyright © 2010 by Emma Donoghue Ltd.
Cover design by Keith Hayes
Cover © 2011 Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company
Printed in the United States of America
Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, September 2010
First Back Bay international edition, January 2011 | 370 p | ISBN  978-0-316-18387-1
Rate : 5 of 5

~ Conclusion in Bahasa Indonesia at the bottom post ~
“Today I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra. Before that I was three, then two, then one, then zero.”
Room is where Jack was born, where he plays with Ma, where he sleep, eat, prays, watching TV, taking baths, and do everything as he like on schedule. Room is the world, where only Jack and Ma exist, sometimes Old Nick too when he show-up occasionally. Jack is a a good kid, with enthuasim and curiosity like any other child at his age. But Jack is not an ordinary kid. Because he believe the world only what he sees, feels, and touch is in the Room. Outside Room is just imaginary, at least that’s what Ma often say to him.

Books "SPEAK"

Title : “SPEAK”
Copyright © 1999 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Cover art © 1999 by Michael Morgenstern
Square Fish (an imprint of MacMillan)
Printed in the United States of America
Originally published in United States by Farrar Straus Giroux
First Square Fish Edition : May 2011 | 216 p | ISBN  978-0-312-67439-7
Rate : 4 of 5

~ Conclusion in Bahasa Indonesia at the bottom post ~

My reading preference mostly in thriller, mystery and fantasy, and since two years ago I also added classiclit in my TBR, but then again I also reading so many different genre as long there is ‘good story’ in it. Several months ago I stumble on book by Laurie Halse Anderson’s Catalyst – the kind of story that really surprise me with shocking moment, added with interesting subject too. Since then I’m reaching to spend times to read another book of her. Then finally I meet with ‘SPEAK’ – another Laurie’s works that already have several praise and award too. But the subject of the story itself who really got me interested in reading it. 

Books "CATALYST"

Books “KATALIS”
Judul Asli : CATALYST
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Copyright © 2002 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Penerbit Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Alih Bahasa : SP Dyah Purnamasari
Desain Sampul : eMTe
Cetakan I : Januari 2011 ; 264 hlm ; ISBN 978-979-22-6603-0
Rate : 4 of 5
[ Goodreads ]
“Katalisator adalah zat yang menambah kecepatan reaksi. Katalisator dimasukkan ke salah satu tahap reaksi, lalu nantinya diregenerasikan kembali dalam proses itu. Katalisator tidak habis terpakai, ia menciptakan jalur energi baru yang lebih rendah dalam reaksi tersebut.” [ ~ from “Catalyst” | p. 81 ]
Kate Malone – putri sang pendeta yang berbakti, mencurahkan waktu untuk meraih peringkat pertama di bidang akademik dan mengurus rumah tangga (terutama karena sang ayah dan adik laki-lakinya tidak mampu melakukannya) setelah sang ibu meninggal dunia. Kate bahkan meluangkan waktu untuk ikut serta kegiatan sosial yang diselenggarakan oleh anggota gereja. Semua memandang Kate sebagai anak teladan dan layak menjadi contoh bagi remaja lain. Tiada yang mengetahui apa sebenarnya yang ada di dalam benak Kate, karena ia telah menutup rapat-rapat rahasia tersebut.

Books "THE BOY WHO ATE STARS"

Books “ANAK LELAKI YANG MENELAN BINTANG-BINTANG”
Judul Asli : THE BOY WHO ATE STARS
by Kochka
Copyright in the original text © 2002 Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle
Copyright in the English translation © 2004 Sarah Adams
Penerbit Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Alih Bahasa : Rahmani Astuti
Desain & ilustrasi sampul : Satya Utama Jadi
Cetakan I : Agustus 2008 ; 104 hlm ; ISBN 978-979-22-3927-0
Rate : 4 of 5

“You see only with your heart, because your eyes miss what matters.”

Lucy (12 tahun) baru saja pindah bersama keluarganya ke Rue Merlin No. 11, Paris di bulan September, dan ia memiliki misi khusus untuk mengenal setiap tetangga penghuni apartemen di gedungnya dan memasang bendera kenegaraan asal para penghuni di pintu masing-masing. Hingga ia bertemu dengan tetangga yang menghuni apartemen tepat di atas kediamannya. Karena Lucy mulai mengenal Matthew – bocah berusia 4 tahun yang sangat unik dan memiliki ‘dunia’ tersendiri yang mengundang Lucy untuk mengetahui lebih jauh.