Awesome May Giveaway!

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Finally!!! Ada giveaway lagi di blog ini. Hehe

Rencananya sih giveaway bakal diadain tiap bulan. Semoga aja rejeki lancar dan nggak lupa buat bikin postingannya ya. Tapi, bagi yang tertarik buat ikut, kalau menang nanti kamu harus a.k.a wajib bikin review. Boleh di blog, note Facebook, atau Goodreads. Terserah deh mau bikin review model gimana.

Nah, untuk hadiahnya, kamu boleh pilih sendiri buku apa aja asal harganya nggak lebih dari Rp 100.000 ya. Lalu, buku yang dipilih harus buku yang terbit bulan Mei. Kamu harus ngasih alasan kuat nih kenapa pengin baca buku itu. Soalnya, buku yang kamu pilih nanti juga bakal aku baca. Ya semacam nyari teman baca gitu deh hoho. Kalau beli buku sendiri, ujung-ujungnya selalu berakhir di timbunan sih. Aku lagi cari cara biar tergugah buat baca terus.

So, udah paham dengan ketentuannya? Langsung isi aja form di bawah ini:

Book Review: The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Title: THE LAST SONG
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
First media tie-in mass market edition, March 2010
Pages: 463
ISBN: 978-0-446-57096-1
Price: Rp 106.000 (Periplus Online)
Rating: 5/5 stars

SEVENTEEN-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.

I think this is the first Sparks' book that I have ever read. How is it? GREAT! I can't think about anything wrong except I had to imagine Ronnie in my head as Miley Cyrus. Yes, I have watched the movie. But I hadn't finished yet. I'm sure I'm not the only one who falls in love with this book. But I dare to give this 5 out of 5 stars. I'll let you know why.

Top All-Time Favorite Authors

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Happy World Book Day, everyone! In the middle of preparing for my very last exam, I decided to accept the challenge hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Well, the challenge is called Top Ten Tuesday. But since I am not sure I have that long list of favorite authors, I'm gonna mention less than 10. Let's see who I come up with.

J.K. Rowling
I thank God you finally become one! :) I can't imagine my life without Harry Potter. I still remember the days where I laid on my bed all days after school just to finish all Harry Potter books. Reading her works feels magical somehow. When she published The Casual Vacancy, I fall in love too. But in different kind of love. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to read The Cuckoo's Calling. One thing I'm sure, I'm looking forward for Harry Potter spin off tv series.

Book Review: Petak Umpet Minako by @manhalfgod

Judul: Petak Umpet Minako
Penulis: @manhalfgod
Penerbit: Rak Buku
Tanggal terbit: 16 Februari 2015
ISBN: 978-602-711-405-0
Harga: Rp 52.000 (BukaBuku)
Rating: 4/5

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Jujur saja, aku adalah orang yang penakut. Waktu jadi host blog tour buku bergenre horor, aku kesulitan untuk menyelesaikan semua bukunya. But I did anyway. Dari sepuluh buku yang diberikan penerbit, semua jenis ceritanya sama, yaitu seorang tokoh menceritakan pengalaman mistisnya. Yap, jenis cerita mistis seperti yang biasa kamu dengar saat berkumpul dengan teman-teman itu lho. Membaca alur yang serupa jelas bikin aku bosan. Bayangin aja, SEPULUH BUKU!! Nah, saat penulis DetEksi merekomendasikan buku ini untuk dibahas dalam rubrik BookClub, aku langsung tertarik setelah membaca sinopsisnya. Aku juga menemukan dua bab awal buku di akun wattpad sang penulis. Kalau kamu Kaskus-er, kamu juga bisa baca di sini.

Cerita diawali oleh kisah Baron. Dia adalah seorang karyawan kantoran yang biasa-biasa saja. Dia berusaha untuk merangkak naik ke tangga kesuksesan meskipun pekerjaan itu bukan passionnya. Demi bisa meminang sang pacar, Gabby, dia rela menjalani hidup seperti itu. Apalagi, Gabby datang dari keluarga orang penting. Nah, malam itu, Gabby memaksa Baron agar menyempatkan diri datang ke restauran tempat reuni SMA-nya diadakan. Saat Baron dalam perjalanan menyusul, ternyata Gabby dan teman-teman lain pergi ke lokasi SMA-nya untuk bernostalgia. Baron makin khawatir saat Gabby mengiriminya SMS:

''Sudah sampaidimana,Ron? Kami sudah di sekolah. Sekarang Vindha sedang memulai 'upacara'-nya. Perasaanku tidak enak, cepatlah datang!''

Sesampainya di sekolah, tempat itu sangat sepi. Baron mencari teman-temannya. Tapi, saat dia bertemu Edward, cowok itu malah menyerang Baron! Edward seolah-olah nggak mengenal Baron sama sekali. Tiba-tiba, Adam datang menyelamatkannya. Saat Adam berusaha melompati pagar sekolah untuk mencari bantuan, jiwanya terenggut. Setelah melihat kejadian menyeramkan itu, Baron nggak sadarkan diri. Saat dia terbangun, dia sudah menjadi bagian dari permainan yang diusulkan Vindha, yaitu Hitori Kakurenbo.

Book Review: Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Title: JUST ONE DAY
Authors: Gayle Forman
Publisher: SPEAK (An imprint of Penguin Group Inc.)
First published in the USA by Dutton Books, 2013
Publication date: August 2013
Page: 369
ISBN: 978-0-14-242295-3
Price: Rp 292.000 (Periplus Online)
Rating: 4/5

ALLYSON Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase-packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she's not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: twenty-four-hours that will transform Allyson's life. A book about love, heartbreak, travel, identity, and the "accidents" of fate, Just One Day shows us how sometimes in order to get found, you first have to get lost... and how often the people we are seeking are much closer than we know.

"We are born in one day. We die in one day.

We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day.

Anything can happen in just one day."

It took few months for me to finally finish this book. Boring? Yeah, but not entirely because I'm sober enough to give it 4/5 stars. I spotted this book on The Bookie Looker. It seemed enchanting out of all the beautiful things on that blog. So, I bought it trough Periplus Online, which is one of my book shopping solution. Since I'm a member, I always get discount 15% or more ;) Other than the book's outer look, I've heard so many praises of Gayle Forman's works. I've read If I Stay and Where She Went in a day without a break (except went to shower, had a drink and food) and I love them! Well, I like the first book better. That was why I had no doubt to purchase Just One Day.

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Some people say that they can't connect with Allyson character. Some people say that Allyson's life is related to them. But for me, reading this book is like reading a friend's story on her blog. Allyson's life makes me so envy. She has good grades and her parents are generous. Europe trip for a graduation gift? That is something unusual in here, especially in my family. We don't do gift for grad. We just do a so-not-big feast at a so-not-fancy restaurant and that's it. I believe high school is so much easier in my country. When Allyson and Melanie (the best friend from childhood) arrived at London, Allyson decided to go on a just one day trip to Paris with the Dutch boy named Willem (I don't get the name). That's where the story begin...