[Review] The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Title: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Publisher: Abacus (Kindle Edition)

Published: December 2^nd, 2014

Page: 319p

I was losing my reading mood last week when I asked my friend to suggest a book that could bring back my reading lust, and that’s how I met this book. At first, Gevin talked about Amelia Lohan, a woman who works as a new book representative from Knightley Press and was traveling to Alice Island to meet the owner of Island Book, AJ Fikry. I could say that it took only few pages to get me liked this book, the following quote says it all and because it talked about book people.

“Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.”

AJ who lived alone since his wife died has no talent of starting good relationship with people around him. So he was mean to Amelia when they met for the first time. He is not a people person and his bitterness makes everything worse. The only friends he has were Lambiase and Ismay. Alice Island is a small neighborhood, so when something unusual happened in the bookstore, the whole town will know, and it happened like that when AJ found a baby left in his bookstore, two years old baby girl who suddenly changed AJ’s life.

Wishful Wednesday [3]

Kalau mengunjungi blognya kak Astrid, kalian pasti tahu kalau Wishful Wednesday hari ini sudah mencapai 179 postingan, lalu lihatlah judul tulisan ini yang sangat cetek baru diangka tiga (mau ketawa? boleh, silahkan) Lalu kenapa tiba-tiba terpikir untuk posting ini? Simple sih! Sore ini di bandung lagi hujan sangaaaaatt derassss yang membuatku tidak bisa pulang dari kantor. Lalu tiba-tiba ada email masuk, ternyata itu email subscription dari blognya kak Astrid tentang Wishful Wednesday yang boleh diacungi jempol konsistensinya hingga hari ini. Nah kebetulan, ada beberapa buku yang dari kemaren keluar masuk keranjang belanjaku di Periplus maupun Bookdepository. Kenapa keluar masuk? Ya karena aku masih galau mau beli atau tidak, apalagi kalau berpikir timbunan yang masih ada dan buku-buku baru yang bahkan belum tiba. Tapi well, untuk berandai-andai saja tidak apa-apa dong. Jadi ini dia, buku yang aku lagi pengenin di minggu ini. 

"Optimus Yarnspinner, a young writer, inherits from his beloved godfather an unpublished short story by an unknown author. His search for the author's identity takes him to Bookholm--the so-called City of Dreaming Books. On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop. His nostrils are assailed by clouds of book dust, the stimulating scent of ancient leather, and the tang of printer's ink. Soon, though, Yarnspinner falls into the clutches of the city's evil genius, Pfistomel Smyke, who treacherously maroons him in the labyrinthine catacombs underneath the city, where reading books can be genuinely dangerous..."

Sebenarnya jadi pengen buku itu diatas juga gara-gara kak Astrid, pokoknya kak Astrid nih ahhhh...*lambai-lambai kak astrid* :)

Siapa pun yang ingin ikut berandai-andai, boleh mampir ke Blog kak Astrid ya.

Caranya:

• Silahkan follow blog Books To Share - atau tambahkan di blogroll/link blogmu =)
• Buat posting mengenai buku-buku (boleh lebih dari 1) yang jadi inceran kalian minggu ini, mulai dari yang bakal segera dibeli, sampai yang paling mustahil dan hanya sebatas mimpi. Oya, sertaan juga alasan kenapa buku itu masuk dalam wishlist kalian ya!
• Tinggalkan link postingan Wishful Wednesday kalian di Mr. Linky (klik saja tombol Mr. Linky di bagian bawah post). Kalau mau, silahkan tambahkan button Wishful Wednesday di posting kalian.
• Mari saling berkunjung ke sesama blogger yang sudah ikut share wishlistnya di hari Rabu =)

[Review] Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

Title: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library

Author: Chris Grabenstein

Publisher: Yearling Adventure

Published: June 24th 2014

Pages: 336p

ISBN: 9780307931474

Books.  Library.  Puzzle.

I love each one of them. How about combining them into a story? It would be fascinating and Chris Grabenstein successfully did it through this 336 pages. I am thrilled about how Chris put all things together in an ingenious way. Kyle Keeley is 12 years old and crazy about games especially anything that came out from Mr. Lemoncello’s imagination factory. He grew up with them and everyone in the family loves it. So when he heard about Alexandriavilles’ new public library that Mr. Lemoncello’s was helping build, he was so excited to see the place. In addition to the good news, he found out about the library lock-in event for the winner of essay competition “Why I am Excited about the New Public Library”. Mr. Lemoncello will pick twelve 12 years old kids as winners and they will get to go to the library lock-in on friday night and spend the night in the new library before anyboday else gets to see the place. Are you picturing it now? A night surrounded by books in a marvelous library designed by the famous game maker ever? Sound interesting huh?! And for a mysterious reason, Kyle won.

[Review] People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Title: People of the book

Author: Geraldine Brooks

Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama (GPU)

Published: 16 April 2015

Page: 504p

ISBN: 978-602-03-1447-1

Pertama kali diterbitkan pada tahun 2008, People of the Book, langsung menyabet Australian Publishers Association's Literary Fiction Book of the Year pada tahun yang sama. Buku karya Geraldine Brooks ini berkisah tentang sebuah kodeks Ibrani yang dikenal dunia dengan nama Haggada Sarajevo serta kisah orang-orang yang pernah ada di sekitarnya, melintasi generasi, agama dan belahan dunia yang berbeda. Meskipun kisah dalam novel ini diakui penulis sebagai fiksi, namun beberapa tokoh dan kejadian dalam novel ini sesungguhnya terinspirasi dari fakta yang ditemukan oleh penulis dari kisah aslinya. Haggadah ini tidak hanya menjadi saksi pertikaian yang pernah terjadi antara Yahudi, Kristen dan Muslim, tetapi juga membuktikan bahwa menjadi manusia jauh lebih penting daripada hidup egosentris dan saling menyakiti.

[Review] Mr Penumbra 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane

Title: Mr. Penumbra 24-Hour Bookstore

Author: Robin Sloane

Publisher: Picador

Published: October 2013

Pages: 288p

ISBN: 978-1-250-03775-6

Bought at Changi Airport (SGD$18)

If you are a bookworm who loves code and mysterious underground fellowship and live your life very close to technology development, this book might be suited on your shelf. You might find yourself wondering about all the fact the author talked about, like I did, browsed all the details about google, about a framework that used to do  some work on data visualization. See, I couldn’t help myself to stop talking about all the details that for you might not be so catchy.