Le Journale

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.  -Ernest Hemingway This is a tear-jerking book. At first I thought it would be a light book. But the struggle is heavy, it turned out to be. And the bereavement kind of feeling as a theme of this book never fails me. I cry loudly when Violet starts continuing her wanders to complete their project from U.S. Geography class. And the last place Violet visits is making me cry even harder. I love Finch and some part of me thinks about the same kind of thoughts as him. The other side of me is thinking hard about the reason why Finch gone through everything. I get the clue, of course. He used to get beaten up by his father. His mother doesn't really care about her family. But still, I think it is not enough to make him as complicated as him until all he can think about is drowning himself in a lake. I want more of his story. The complete story of Finch beside the death of the cardinal. But maybe there...

I went crazy. Spending money lavishly on books. Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned. Nobody is perfect, right? So here I am, full of flaws... LOL Here comes Ramadhan, cause I would spend it reading each one of these! :D

I made this review for my Goodreads account, but I think the sight of composing view of my blog is making me to add some more about it. So, here it is, my amateur review of I Was Here book from Gayle Forman. As usual, a honest review from the sassy side of me. The cover speaks about the inside of this book. It's not pretty, in my opinion. I never leave a book, whether it is good or bad. Yeah, I mean the worst one. And I send this book a deep condolence of being considered as the latter one. And I have a LOT of reasons for that. So, I just needed to finish this book, as soon as I reached the chapter 3. I already had a gut feeling that this story would end terribly and just inevitably disappointing.  Did you know what? I think some stories about suicide on Wattpad are even worth reading than this one. You know why, it is because the relationship between Cody and Meg. Meg is a keeper, we all know that and it is just easy to see from the description made by Cody. Then wh...

I grow up loving physical books. Ever since I was a little kid, I've been collecting comics and magazines. But when I started the first year of freshman as Middle student, I was very fond of reading novels. Indonesian mostly. I read Goosebumps and X-Files novels most of the time since my older brother has some of it. And when I went to HS, I started reading Indonesian romance novels like the ones written by Sitta Karina. She is one of favorite authors for best romance novels. Then my liking moved to Dewi Lestari. In high school too I started growing fondness towards imported books. You know, you have this kind of pride when having one or some. The very first English novel I read was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. But my lil bro ruined it like he was a shredder machine. It's gone to the trash bin.  As for now, I consider books as the best companions. I befriend them better than I do towards humans. This is why I willingly spend a lot of money for imported books....

Behold cause it may contain spoiler. And don't be happy, cause this book doesn't have any connection with Harry Potter series. And that is probably the good news. New side of J.K. Rowling that we're able to see! *standing applause* This book has so many plot twists, which I love! And I finally get to finish this book right after reading I Was Here by Gayle Forman which I rated with one star. The feeling is indescribable because The Casual Vacancy offers you a lot of characters with each one of their backgrounds becoming the root of the conflicts.  It is indeed, a big novel about people living in a small town, called Pagford. It is the city in West with some families whose behaviors become the main idea of this story.  I understand the pride that English men possess, like since Victorian era, where girls were prohibited in doing affairs and stuff, it apparently still becomes such issue in this book. Clean heir, as well as name/title is the main idea of this b...