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Book Review: My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

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Friday, September 18, 2015

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Author: Jasmine Warga
Publisher: HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
Pages: 302
Format: E-book
Published: February, 2015
Price: $10.99 -> Rp158.366 (Amazon)
Rating: 4 / 5 stars

Date started: September 7, 2015 - Date finished: September 9, 2015

Synopsis:
Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness.

There’s only one problem: she’s not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel’s convinced she’s found her solution: a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman) who’s haunted by a family tragedy is looking for a partner.

Even though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other’s broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. Ultimately, she must choose between wanting to die or trying to convince Roman to live so they can discover the potential of their energy together. Except that Roman may not be so easy to convince.
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Book Review: Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman

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Friday, April 3, 2015

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Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 128
Format: E-book
Published: September, 2013
Price: $5.99 -> Rp77.960 (Amazon)
Rating: 4 / 5 stars

Date started: April 3, 2015 - Date finished: April 3, 2015

Synopsis:
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."
"Hullo," I said to myself. "That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened."
Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious New York Timesbestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.
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Book Review: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

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Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 64
Format: E-book
Published: February, 2014
Price: $11.99 -> Rp156.020 (Amazon)
Rating: 3 / 5 stars

Date started: April 2, 2015 - Date finished: April 2, 2015

Synopsis:
"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy."
So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.
Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.
This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.
*this review may contain spoilers of the story

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Book Review: The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2) by Lemony Snicket

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Monday, October 13, 2014

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Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 192
Format: E-book
Published: October, 2009
Price: $ 6.20 -> Rp 75.764 (Amazon)
Rating: 3½ / 5 stars

Date started: October 13, 2014 - Date finished: October 13, 2014

Synopsis:
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.
In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, a lumpy bed, a deadly serpent, a large brass reading lamp, a long knife, and a terrible odour.
In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted. Never before has a tale of three likeable and unfortunate children been quite so enchanting, or quite so uproariously unhappy.
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Book Review: The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1) by Lemony Snicket

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Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 176
Format: E-book
Published: March, 2009
Price: $ 5.99 -> Rp 73.198 (Amazon)
Rating: 4 / 5 stars

Date started: June 12, 2014 - Date finished: October 13, 2014

Synopsis:
Imagine tales so terrible that as many as fifty million innocents have been ruined by them - tales so indelibly horrid that the New York Times bestseller list has been unable to rid itself of them for seven years. Now imagine if this scourge suddenly became available in a shameful new edition so sensational, so irresistible, so riddled with lurid new pictures that even a common urchin would wish for it. Who among us would be safe?
Begin at the beginning - evenif it is a bad one - with the first in A Series of Unfortunate Events, now even more disposable in paperback.
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Book Review: Shards and Ashes by Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong, Veronica Roth, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Rachel Caine, Nancy Holder, Beth Revis and Carrie Ryan

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Monday, October 6, 2014

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Author: Melissa Marr, Kelley Armstrong, Veronica Roth, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Rachel Caine, Nancy Holder, Beth Revis and Carrie Ryan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Published: February, 2013
Price: Rp 105.000 -> Rp 30.000 [71% off] (Periplus)
Rating: 2 / 5 stars

Date started: October 5, 2014 - Date finished: October 5, 2014

Synopsis:
Gripping original stories of dystopian worlds from nine New York Times bestselling authors, edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong.
The world is gone, destroyed by human, ecological, or supernatural causes. Survivors dodge chemical warfare and cruel gods; they travel the reaches of space and inhabit underground caverns. Their enemies are disease, corrupt corporations, and one another; their resources are few, and their courage is tested.
Powerful original dystopian tales from nine bestselling authors offer bleak insight, prophetic visions, and precious glimmers of light among the shards and ashes of a ruined world.
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