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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Tahun lepas saya tidak sertai cabaran di sini, tahun ni saya kembali. Sebab tertarik dengan cadangan Kak Najibah untuk buat blog.

1.The Alienist
2.Life on the Refrigerator Door

wah, Ain bermula dengan pantas!

3.The Baker's Daughter
Bosan membunuh buku ni. Akhirnya habis juga. Ni ada seketul lagi yang bosan nak kena habiskan.

4.The Frightful First World War

5.A Wizard of Earthsea
Satu lagi buku bosan dah habis. Alhamduliilah, rasa macam baru keluar penjara.

Bosan pun habiskan juga. Kalau saya, saya ketepikan aje.

Sebab ada sesetengah buku yang bosan mulanya tapi kemudian mula menunjukkan belangnya. Khuatir terlepas bahagian yang menarik...

6.Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
A very nice story. Loved the main character and his motivation. I am still unsure though whether to rate this with 3 or 4 stars.

Norain MT wrote: "6.Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
A very nice story. Loved the main character and his motivation. I am still unsure though whether to rate this with 3 or 4 stars."

It seems like a quite a good story that become tedious to read at certain parts. Worth a try.

Norain MT wrote: "5.A Wizard of Earthsea
Satu lagi buku bosan dah habis. Alhamduliilah, rasa macam baru keluar penjara."

Oh wow? Really? I've always wanted to read Le Guin's books, more specifically her book The Left Hand Of Darkness. Haven't had a chance, but I read The Dispossessed which was just ok. Have you tried her other books?

Suhana wrote: "It seems like a quite a good story that become tedious to read at certain parts. Worth a try."

I guess it did at some points. There were things that were not so successful about this book. Like Sadie, who unlike her husband Jack, refused to move on and remained trapped in her Nazi Germany past. I don't know how the author wanted her readers to perceive Sadie, but God, I found her too pathetic to my liking. And her reconciliation with Jack did not have the impact, the umph factor.

Well, mostly Sadie. I could relate to Elizabeth their daughter and I loved Jack and his drive to realise his impossible dream.

Juwita wrote: "Oh wow? Really? I've always wanted to read Le Guin's books, more specifically her book The Left Hand Of Darkness. Haven't had a chance, but I read The Dispossessed which was just ok. Have you tried her other books?"

It was the writing style that I could not pretend to love. Like those things we relate to sastera in Malaysia, with its elaborate language and using 100 hundred words where five is enough. If I had the time maybe I could try to like it, but God knew I would rather move on.

7.Girl in Translation
A very enjoyable read.

But I wish I have time for non-fiction.

8.Anya's Ghost

9.The Kitchen House
I had to skim through the last quarter of the book because it was too full of tragedy, too heart-wrenching. Man, I am unhappy enough as I am, why read a sad book?

Kadang-kadang saya pun terasa menyesal bila membaca buku atau cerpen yang wataknya bersedih dan ikut terbawa-bawa dengan kesedihan watak hingga memberi kesan kepada mood seharian. Ada waktu saya cepat tersedar dan segera membuang perasaan begitu. Lebih baik saya baca buku biografi atau autobiografi. Perasaannya lebih 'real'.

10.One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Interesting idea but the execution, not so.
11.Man in the Queue

Two books that rather disappointed me.

12.Beef And Liberty

13.The Light Between Oceans

14.Lackadaisy: Volume #1
Classy. I wish I could draw like that.

15.The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns

16.The Blind Assassin
Suka amat buku ni, tak pasti nak bagi 4 atau 5 bintang. Classy.

17.How to Be an American Housewife

18.The Irresistible Henry House

19.Brighton Belle
20.Hark! A Vagrant

21.Knights
22.Vixen

23.The Time Traveler's Wife
I have finally read this book which everyone else but me seemed to have read! Yeay!

It was good but there were some disconcerting things about it. But I did cry at some parts.

24.Japanese Inn
25.The Calligrapher's Daughter
26.Brideshead Revisited
27.Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
28.Haunted Ground
29.Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
30.Archer's Goon
31.The Bone Collector
32.A Game of Thrones
33.The Lives of Christopher Chant
34.Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
35.Murder on the Links
36.Poirot investigates
37.The Aviator's Wife
38.Fatherland
39.The Pinhoe Egg
40.Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
41.The King of Attolia
42.Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian
43.I Capture the Castle
44.A Kiss Before Dying
45.The Crab With the Golden Claws
46.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

My current favourite is Michael Collins's autobiography, no. 34. He was the man who went to the moon with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. Only he did not land because he needed to pilot the command module. Long story.

47.Espresso Tales
48.The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
49.44 Scotland Street
50.The Great Gatsby
51.The Design of Everyday Things

52.The Godfather
53.The Storyteller
54.Verdigris Deep
55.Lord Edgware Dies

No 48 best tak? Bercadang nak cari.

Oh, best akak! Tau tak drama series kat BBC, 'The Midwife' yang dah masuk season 3 (kalau tak salah ingat)? Drama tu berdasarkan memoir ni la. Saya suka dua-dua, bukunya dan dramanya.

Memoir ni trilogi sebenarnya. Yang no 48 tu, Shadows Of The Workhouse dan Farewell To The East End: The Last Days Of The East End Midwives. Buku pertama banyak fasal pengalaman penulis sebagai bidan di East End London, yang kedua lebih kepada catatan pengalaman beberapa orang yang menjadi 'mangsa' workhouse. Yang ketiga saya tak pasti. Setakat ni saya baru baca buku pertama tu.

56.The Shadow of the Wind
57.Night
58.I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
59.Un Lun Dun
60.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
61.If Tomorrow Comes
62.Please Look After Mom