[Review] The Christmas Shoes

Title: The Christmas Shoes

Author: Donna VanLiere

Publisher: ST. Martin’s Press

Published: November 9^th 2001

Page: 132p

ISBN: 0-312-28951-0

“If we’re open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives…to change us.  It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a schoolteacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe….or even a pair of shoes.

Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life.

But I believe. And I always will”

I was asking about Christmas Reading on late November and a friend mentioned about this book. I bought it online and hoped for it to come before Christmas, but it was late. I got it on December 29^th, the Christmas had passed. But I read it anyway; it took only couple of hour to finish it. I can tell that I could reread this book every Christmas, because it leads me back to the quintessence of Christmas. It was so simple, yet powerful enough to help me recall the meaning of Christmas and to cherish every person that God gives in my life.

It was about a successful lawyer, Robert Layton, and an eight year old kid, Nathan. Robert had pretty much provides everything his family needs: luxury car, big fancy house, and stuff for his wife and toys for his children. But none of it makes them happier. His life was about work, career and achievement. He was about to lose his wife when he met Nathan on Christmas Eve.

[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.

[Review] Narnia : Prince Caspian by C.S.Lewis

Title: Prince Caspian (The Chronicle of Narnia, #4)

Author: C.S. Lewis

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: September 1^st, 2009

Pages: 239p

ISBN13: 9780007323111

Narnia memang tidak setebal harry potter series, jadi tidak butuh waktu lama untuk menyelesaikan setiap buku yang panjangnya kurang dari 200 halaman. Selain karena halaman buku yang tipis, plot yang dibangun Lewis pun tidak lambat seperti buku klasik kebanyakan, mungkin karena tema yang diusung adalah fantasi untuk anak-anak, sehingga mudah untuk dinikmati. Saat membaca The Horse and His Boy, saya cukup terkejut menemukan ada manusia lain, selain keempat tokoh utama yang masuk ke dunia Narnia dan tinggal beberapa kota disekitarnya, namun jawaban atas pernyataan bingung itu pun terjawab setelah selesai membaca buku ini, thanks to Aslan.

Setelah masa Golden Age, Narnia diserang oleh bangsa Telmarine dan ratusan tahun lamanya Narnians hidup menderita dan bersembunyi. Cerita tentang Aslan, talking animal, pohon yang bisa berdansa, Faun, Centaurus serta Raja dan Ratu mulai berubah menjadi mitos, bahkan penguasa Telmarine melarang mitos itu diceritakan kepada anak-anak. Hutan menjadi tempat menakutkan, Cair Paravel yang dulunya indah hanya tinggal kenangan reruntuhan diatas bukit. Inilah keadaan dimana Prince Caspian ke-10 hidup di kastil Telmarine. Caspian sangat tertarik dengan Narnia di masa lalu, ia bahkan ingin hidup di masa itu dan bertemu dengan Raja dan Ratu, ia senang mendengarkan semua cerita indah tentang Narnia, namun pamannya tidak sepaham dengannya. Caspian adalah anak dari raja terakhir yang hidup dibawah perlindungan pamannya Miraz yang berlaku sebagai Lord Protector dan terus mengincar posisi Raja. Prince Caspian tetap hidup karena Miraz tidak punya keturunan, namun suatu malam keadaan berubah ketika istrinya melahirkan Putra untuknya, Miraz punya penerus dan Prince Caspian menjadi ancaman baginya. Dengan bantuan Professor-nya Prince Caspian melarikan diri ke dalam hutan, satu-satunya tempat yang ia percaya tidak berani dimasuki oleh tentara pamannya karena pohon-pohon yang terkenal kejam dengan binatang buas dan hal lainnya. Namun tak disangkanya, Ia justru bertemu dengan mahluk-mahluk yang selama ini hanya dikenalnya lewat cerita mitos. Mereka adalah Narnians yang masih bertahan hidup dalam persembunyian.  

[Review] Narnia : The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis

Title: The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicle of Narnia, #3)

Author: C.S. Lewis

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: September 1^st, 2009

Pages: 239p

ISBN13: 9780007323081

The first and second book of the series told about Narnia from the very beginning of the land to the reign of White Witch and fulfillment of the prophecy where two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve came to Narnia and released the land from the power of the witch. As a reader, I have been told that Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy came to Narnia through an old wardrobe, and I thought there was only Narnia at the other side of the wardrobe, but when I opened the third book, I looked at a map and learned that Narnia wasn’t the only land in the story, there were another places called the Archenland, Mt. Pire, the Calormene and Tashbaan along with the desert and the mountain.

Thou the characters from the previous books also appeared in this story, the main character were two children and two talking horses. The story began when a boy named Shasta who live in the Calormene as a son of fisherman discovered that his father whom he believe not his biological father was about to sell him to a nobleman who came to their house. Then suddenly, when he stood alone outside the house, the nobleman’s horse, Bree, talked to him about running away north into Narnia. The beginning of the journey was pretty easy for them and they even met companion along the way, Aravis, a girl who also escape from her father with another talking horse, Hwim. Together they got into the capital city of Calormene, Tashbaan, where something happened to each of them which brought great danger not only to themselves but also to Archenland and Narnia.

[Review] Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis

Title: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicle of Narnia, #2)

Author: C.S. Lewis

Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: September 1^st, 2009

Pages: 202p

ISBN13: 9780007323128

In summer, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, four brothers and sisters went to visit an old house belongs to a Professor, a big house with so many rooms that look creepy and mysterious. When they played hide and seek, Lucy, the youngest one, went upstairs into an empty room but a big and ages wardrobe. To hide herself, she stepped into the wardrobe and happy to touch the fur of hanging coats, she took more steps further till she felt something different, a soft and powdery and extremely cold, snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air. Lucy just entered Narnia and accidentally, she met a faun named Mr. Tumnus who offered her tea and cookies. Hours passed by and time for Lucy to get back, but when she was out of the wardrobe nobody know she was gone, it was like there was no time difference between the times she was gone and be back again. But when she told them about Narnia, nobody believes her. Not until one day, when they felt someone was chasing them that they were forced to hide in the same wardrobe and suddenly arrived in Narnia. Narnia was covered with endless winter. Many years had passed since the last human went to Narnia and as Aslan said at dawn of time in Narnia that the evil already in it. It was only about time that she became more powerful and did something evil on the land where animals can talk to each other. If Digory and Polly (see The Magician’s Nephew review) arrived in Narnia using magic ring, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy just found another way to the land of youth. The prophecy said that when Adam’s flesh and Adam’s bone sits at Cair Paravel in throne, the evil time will be over and done. It has long been foretold that two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve will defeat the White Witch and restore peace to Narnia. 

[Review] Narnia : The Magician's Nephew by C.S.Lewis

Title: The Magician’s Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1)

Author: C.S Lewis

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: October 1^st, 2009

Page: 220p

ISBN13: 9780007323135

(Bought in a box set at Big Bad Wolf 280k IDR)

Writing review for classic book is kind of hard for me, especially children book loved by almost everyone since the first publication. The Magician’s Nephew first published in 1955 and has become one of beloved books for children. So why would I write a review after 61 years later? Then I realize I want to share my feeling and thought which hopefully will testify the relevancy of the story these days when a game named Pokémon Go just became famous.

Digory is the nephew mentioned by the title and Uncle Andrew is the magician. Digory met Polly, the girl next door, when he came to live with his Aunt Letty and Uncle Andrew while his mother was in a very sick condition. One day, among the game he and Polly was doing, they fell into a room turned out belongs to Uncle Andrew, a forbidden room for everyone. Uncle Andrew tricked them with some magic ring to go to another world. There are two rings, golden ring will send them to the other world, but green ring will bring them home. The journey soon begun, brought them to a world named Charn where Empress Jadis rule as an evil queen. When they left Charn, Jadis followed them and soon she arrived in London which brought great suffer for several people including Uncle Andrew. Digory and Polly knew, they must send the wicked witch back to her world, so they put the golden ring on, but instead of arriving in Charn, they entered into a world with no light. Only darkness surrounds the world, they barely saw each other face. Then a beautiful song started, and then light appeared, like it was summoned by the melody. As the sun rose, they could see that the world was empty, only rocks and water, and the singer himself were pacing to and fro. It was a Lion. It was like everything in the book of Genesis. I think Lewis was portrayed the story of creation.

[Review] The Magic String of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

Title: The Magic String of Frankie Presto

Author: Mitch Albom

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: November 10, 2015

Pages: 512p

ISBN: 9780062294418

Bought at periplus.com

“Everyone joins a band in this life. You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make a room for him. As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighbourhoods, school and army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a gallery inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it” – p19

Musik menceritakan kisah ini. Musik memberikan dirinya kepada Frankie Presto dan melihat perkembangan dirinya lewat hidup Frankie Presto. Albom tidak pernah jauh-jauh dari kematian, seperti bukunya yang lain, Albom pun berangkat dari kematian. Frankie Presto meninggal diawal buku, lalu Albom, lewat kata-kata Musik membawa pembaca menyimak perjalanan hidup Frankie Presto, sejak ia dilahirkan sampai ia mencapai usia tua, maju dan mundur, pembaca perlu mengikuti plot yang dibangun oleh Albom. Fransisco Tarrega dan karyanya Lagrima menjadi perkenalan pertama Frankie Presto dengan musik meskipun ia belum bisa mengingat setiap melodinya. Carmencita humming Lagrima disela-sela napas terakhirnya ketika melahirkan Frankie Presto didalam tekanan Gereja yang sedang dibakar dan disaksikan oleh seorang suster yang kemudian ia percayai untuk menjaga anaknya.

[Review] "Cerita Detektif tanpa Detektif" [And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie]

Title: And then there were none

Author: Agatha Christie

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: March 2003

Pages: 317p

ISBN:  9780007136834

Ten Little Soldier Boys went out to dine; One chocked his little self and then there were nine.

Nine Little Soldier Boys stayed up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.

Eight Little Soldier Boys travelling in Devon; One said he’d stay there and then there were seven.

Seven Little Soldier Boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.

Six Little Soldier Boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.

Five Little Soldier Boys going in for law;  One got in Chancery and then there were four.

Four Little Soldier Boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.

Three Little Soldier Boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.

Two Little Soldier Boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.

One Little Soldier Boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Sepuluh orang asing menerima undangan dari seorang tuan rumah yang mengklaim dirinya sebagai pemilik Soldier Island, dan mengharapkan sepuluh orang ini untuk datang dengan tujuan yang berbeda-beda. Tepat pada harinya, mereka tiba di Soldier Island, namun alih-alih menemukan tuan rumah, mereka hanya bertemu dengan dua orang pelayan yang juga tak pernah bertemu dengan tuan rumah yang sebenarnya. Soldier Island terisolasi dari kota dimana semua orang tinggal dan perlu perahu serta laut yang tenang untuk bisa bolak-balik dari pulau itu ke kota terdekat. Awalnya mereka menikmati rumah dan pulau yang terasa seperti milik sendiri, tetapi ketika malam tiba dan orang pertama mati didepan mereka, barulah mereka sadar kalau mereka tidak sedang berlibur, tetapi justru sedang berada dalam bahaya besar yang kapan saja bisa mengambil nyawa mereka. Sajak yang ada dibagian awal review ini tergantung di kamar setiap orang dan membaca sajak ini serta menyaksikan kematian demi kematian, mereka sadar kalau hidup mereka sedang dipermainkan selayaknya bunyi sajak tersebut. Namun akankah sajak itu berhasil dibunyikan dengan sempurna dalam kehidupan nyata di Soldier Island?  

[Review] Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Title: Because of Winn-Dixie

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Presss

Published: August 6th, 2011

Page: 182p

ISBN: 9780763644321

India Opal adalah karakter utama dalam kisah ini, ia baru saja pindah ke Naomi, Florida bersama ayahnya yang berprofesi sebagai seorang pendeta. Buat opal, ayahnya punya kebiasaan seperti seekor kura-kura, yang dalam keadaan tidak menyenangkan akan memasukkan kepalanya kedalam cangkang untuk membentengi diri. Ibunya meninggalkannya diusia saat Opal belum mengingat apa-apa, sehingga Opal tidak punya kenangan apapun, ayahnya pun tidak pernah bercerita apa-apa tentang istrinya, meskipun Opal tahu setiap hari ayahnya merindukan ibunya. Di tempat yang baru Opal tidak punya teman yang membuat ia sering merasa kesepian, sampai suatu saat Winn-Dixie datang dan mengubah segalanya, bahkan si kura-kura tidak lagi memasukkan kepalanya kedalam cangkang.

[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] 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.

[Review] The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom

Title: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Author: Mitch Albom

Publisher: Sphere

Published: June 2013

Pages: 312p

ISBN: 978-1-84744-226-0

Bought at Asia Books (525 Baht)

Does heaven really exist? Some people keep asking some question like that. Why they so curious about something like that? Exist or not, does it really matters? Maybe people desperately want to believe something, something beyond us.

“If you believe it, you don’t need prove” – page 280

This book begins with so many stories about different people lived in Coldwater, Michigan. It is a small city, so everybody knows each other. There is a military-pilot named Sully Harding who hadn’t expected the assignment to fly an airplane, so he got an alcohol a night before. The rule is you shouldn’t have an alcohol 12 hours before your duty. At the time he was about to land, he received incorrect instruction from ground control resulting a collision. Too bad, he’s wife that rushed to see what happened to him has a car crash of her own, hit by the ground control officer that on the way to escape from his mistake. Sully’s wife got totally injured, Sully pled guilty and sentence to prison because his blood report contained an alcohol and there is no flight recording that can prove his innocent. He’s wife died when he was in prison. After 10 months imprisoned, Sully changed into heartbroken, skeptical, atheist, and hopeless man, he tortures himself everyday with the same sentence “he wasn’t there” when his wife passed away.

[Review] The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder | Who is My Santa?

Title: The Christmas Mystery

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Moyer Bell

Published: 2007

Pages: 222p

ISBN: 978-155921-395-0

Gift from Secret Santa

-MY REVIEW-

Aku harus mengingatkan diriku berulang kali bahwa apa yang sedang kubaca hanyalah sebuah cerita khayalan yang dibuat oleh seorang manusia biasa, karena aku terus-terusan terjerumus ke dalam imajinasi yang menurutku hampir nyata tentang histori, tempat-tempat menarik, malaikat, orang bijak dari timur (orang majus), petualangan kembali ke masa lampau dan tentang seorang gadis berusia 8 tahun yang melihat sebuah mainan Lambkin berubah menjadi Lambkin hidup yang berlari keluar dari department store.  Buku ini menjadi salah satu koleksi istimewa untukku, karena buku ini menyajikan cerita tentang Christmas dengan cara yang berbeda, dan tentu saja karena buku ini adalah pemberian Christmas Nisse melalui event tahunan Blogger Buku Indonesia (BBI) yang bernama Secret Santa. Mengenai secret santa akan kita bahas lebih lanjut di akhir review buku ini.

The Christmas Mystery, seperti yang terlihat di cover buku ini, berisi potongan-potongan gambar yang terangkai menjadi sebuah cerita. Kisah ini berawal ketika seorang anak bernama Joachim bersama ayahnya membeli Advent Calendar untuk menyambut bulan desember. Memasuki sebuah toko buku tua, Joachim menemukan Advent Calendar yang berada diantara buku-buku tua yang bahkan oleh penjaga toko buku tidak diketahui dari mana asalnya. Sang penjaga toko pun mengijinkan Joachim membawa pulang Advant Calendar itu dengan gratis bersama dengan informasi bahwa seorang pria tua bernama John yang mungkin meletakkan Calendar itu disana. Joachim pun menamakan calendar itu Magic Advent Calendar tanpa tahu bahwa ia akan menemukan hal-hal magical ketika membukanya. 

[Review] Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Title: Skipping Christmas

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: November 2001

Pages: 177p

ISBN: 0-385-50583-3

Bought at Brash Basah ($2.9)

John Grisham adalah salah satu penulis yang banyak menelurkan buku-buku fiksi berlatar politik hukum yang begitu banyak digemari. Sejak lama aku ingin berkenalan dengan buku-buku beliau, tetapi justru aku memulainya dengan sebuah buku yang tanpa embel-embel hukum sama sekali. Sebuah buku yang menurutku memiliki ide cerita aneh, unik tetapi touchy. Skipping Christmas adalah kisah menarik yang dibeberapa bagian menjengkelkan, lucu tetapi juga menyentuh.

Sejak awal, pembaca langsung diperkenalkan pada titik mula konflik. Luther dan Nora Krank melepas anak perempuan mereka, Blair, untuk menjalani 1 tahun di pedalaman Peru menolong masyarakat primitif disana. Dua puluh tiga tahun lamanya Blair selalu melewatkan Natal bersama-sama kedua orang tuanya, dan inilah pertama kalinya Luther dan Nora harus melewatkan Natal hanya berdua. Kepergian Blair pun menjadi titik hilangnya semangat mereka merayakan Natal. Luther bahkan berhasil menghitung kembali seluruh pengeluaran Natal tahun sebelumnya, dan mengutuk hal itu karena mendapati angka yang sangat besar yang menurutnya dihabiskan dengan percuma. Lalu munculah ide Skipping Christmas, toh Blair pun tak ada disamping mereka. Daripada mengeluarkan uang untuk Christmas, Luther mengajak Nora berlibur dengan kapal pesiar menuju Caribbean dan pantai-pantai lain selama 10 hari. Skipping Christmas berarti menolak semua hal yang biasanya menjadi kebiasaan mereka merayakan Natal, mulai dengan menolak tawaran untuk mengirim kartu Natal, tidak memasang pohon Natal, tidak menaikkan Frosty di atas rumah mereka, memberitahu teman-teman mereka bahwa tidak ada pesta Natal di rumah mereka, bahkan menolak ide charity for Christmas. Setiap hari mereka sibuk mengkhawatirkan Blair sambil menghindari seluruh tetangga yang menanggapi ide Skipping Christmas dengan mencibir. Hampir semua orang yang mendengar ide Skipping Christmas menghakimi mereka egois, ada yang menganggap mereka berbuat dosa, bahkan sampai memanggil reporter untuk mewawancarai mereka. Sikap semua orang ini membuat Luther dan Nora sedikit ketakutan, mereka seakan terkurung di dalam rumah mereka sendiri, kuatir jika keluar dan harus berhadapan dengan tetangga mereka atau lebih buruk lagi reporter.

[Review] On Christmas Eve by Ann M. Martin

Title: On Christmas Eve
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: October 2007
Pages: 160p
ISBN: 9780439745895
Bought at Brash Basah ($2)

 

In the place where I belong, when September begins, shopping center will play Christmas song almost every day, and every hour, red and green and gold ornaments will be hanging all over the place. Christmas tree is ready to be found, and the lights are sparkling in the night. It is the same air that Ann Martin was trying to describe in this book.

The main character of this story is a nine years old girl named Tess McAlister. She lives with her family (mom, dad and her sister-Evvie) in the edge of town. The benefit living in the edge of town is they can get their own Christmas tree without spending money; they just walk in to the woods near their house and saw a tree.

[Review] Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Title: Charlotte’s Web
Author: E.B. White
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2003
Pages: 184p
ISBN: 0-06-440055-7

Charlotte’s web was the first fable book I ever read. For some reason, I just can’t imagine how animals talk to each other, so I thought this kind of book would give me nothing to learn, and I just found myself making another mistake for judging something before even trying it. 

This story began when Fern convince her father not to kill a new born pig. For Mr. Arable, the pig looked like a runt, so it was worthless. But fern insisted to give the pig a chance to live. She said that the pig couldn’t help being born small, so it’s unfair to cut his life so early. Finally, her parents gave the pig to her and she raised him in the bottle and called him Wilbur. Every day after school, Fern played with Wilbur, took him for a walk and fed him. But when Wilbur grew big and bigger, Mr. Arable asked fern to sell Wilbur to his uncle Mr. Zuckerman. The only reason Fern was agreed is she can visit him anytime she want because the Zuckerman’s barn can be reached on foot.