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nhuda

dah lama habis baca buku ni. skarang baru nak updet. bz pindah rumah pindah office.



Dah start baca Something Blue by Emily Giffin tapi tak bergerak2 lagi :bgrin:

wa'ah

wah...finally sampai ke latest kinsella books...well done!

dah lama tak baca buku cerita nih.. tak de masa kalau nak baca kat rumah

Lana

Baru habis baca Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki, a dark & twisted book, antara buku yg buat aku emosi + sakit hati.  Cerita pasal obsesi /cinta tenat (or rather kebangangan?) sorang mamat ni terhadap budak perempuan cantik berwajah Eurasian yg dia kutip entah dari mana. Matlamat &  fantasi dia nak groom budak ni yg kekononnya naive untuk djadikkanya fine , cultured , modern young woman (& ultimately pasangan hidupnya) by indulging  her in the luxury of  Western culture (at the expense of his "being" ) bertukar jadi kisah "cinta"  sadis & tragis when Naomi is not as innocent as he thought she is..Naomi's manipulation of  his (joji,mamat bangang ni) cinta tenat/fantasi/obsesi  & his  submission to Naomi's constant manipulation degrades man to the lowest of the lowest & membuatkan aku "short circuit" , geram..

Kesimpulannya lepas aku baca Naomi, aku jadi sakit hati ya amat, i hate the book, i hate Joji & Naomi,  the story , the writer. But despite all these, its a great book &  buatkan aku nak  cari/ baca lagi karya2 Tanizaki.

Lana

Originally posted by Lana at 26-3-2006 09:47 AM
Baru habis baca Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki, a dark & twisted book, antara buku yg buat aku emosi + sakit hati.  Cerita pasal obsesi /cinta tenat (or rather kebangangan?) sorang mamat ni terhad ...

Book cover


sorry, still can't get over my love -hate feelings toward this disturbing book/story which i stumbled upon (by chance)..Hate Joji for his stupid obssession & for being so submissive, hate Naomi for being so manipulative & her s.hitty treatment toward Joji, hate Tanizaki for "making-up" the story /characters  (trying hard to convince  myself that these sort of characters /cinta tenat /kebodohan terlampau only exist lam citer2 nasi kangkang jer) .

The only thing that i felt missing from this book is the description of "sexual interactions" between the 2 characters  despite Joji's whole sexual fantasy & them living together   (not that i'm looking forward to read it muerkeke).

[ Last edited by Lana at 26-3-2006 12:36 PM ]

DanaScully

Aku rekemen buku nih:


Written by first timer Elizabeth Kostova

Interesting and engaging at first but a bit draggy towards the end.  Apa yg aku suka pasai buku ni sebab ia based on a history and not only its a horror+adventure+thriller but it also has a touching love story

If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor."

When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also.

Amazon.com

periwinkle..

The Last Mermaid by Shana Abe

Just finished this book.. i just don't know how to describe this book.. i love it soooooo much...this is just simply fairy tales so beautifully told..  almost magical.. enchanting...

This is my first time reading from this author.. I will definitely read more of her books...I highly recommend this book to those who don't mind a little bit of fantasy and also if you love the little mermaid story... there are 3 interrelated stories in this book, but I liked the first one best..

below is the prologue of the book...

... enjoy..


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Once there was an island....

For a thousand, thousand years it lay untouched, well apart from man, a place of myth and magic, enduring every dawn, every lavender twilight in sparkling isolation. No ship dared brave its waters, no human stepped its shores. Sailors who knew of it swore it was home to the sea gods, forbidden to mortals. They offered unearthly proof: silvered songs swept over the waters, distant laughter, sinful sweet. Wild storms whipped up should a ship come too near, blinding mists, an angry sea. Others still swore that to try to reach it was to sail along forever, the promise of perfection hanging always just out of reach.

So while the world constantly rolled and changed, the island remained pure and calm, a shining pearl suspended in blue, blue waters.

Sometimes the sea winds smiled, and the mists would lift and glow. Those few who glimpsed its wonder never forgot the sight: a lost lush land, blissful poison, both dulcet and deadly; an enchanted isle so dazzling a man would sell his soul to claim it.

And, in time, one man did.

No one ever knew his full name. He lived before such records were kept, before even the lessons of the fields were written in scrolls, or ancient fables sung from father to son. The man was known only as Kell, and he gave his name to the island he settled as much as he gave his life.

He was a lone fisherman, lost at sea, dying. In the rapture of his death he dreamt of a woman beside him, crooning a song that seemed to cut loose his pain until he floated beside her, bespelled.

She was not a woman, of course. Like her island, she was that which no man could claim: a mermaid, with hair of spun gold and eyes of blue storm and skin that gleamed rarest ivory. In her bewitching voice she offered the fisherman a bargain, and he grabbed at it: his life for his soul, and a marriage to her.

Far and wide she had haunted the seas, the last of her kind, doomed by her very nature to live and die alone unless she gained the willing soul of a mortal man. In marriage she vowed to keep safe the fisherman's soul, to honor and serve him as well as any land-bound maiden could do. He would have riches beyond his dreams, a castle, a family, a home. He would be forever loved.

Now, as the legend was told, Kell was neither heathen nor fool. He knew what he risked but he did it anyway, for by then he had lost his reason in the siren's blue storm eyes. Moreover, he had seen the island she declared would be their own. It was green forest and glittering streams, sanded beaches and hidden grottos, deer and owls and night creatures stirring, and all the secret wealth the earth and sea together could offer.

So there on the sunswept sea he gave the mermaid his soul, and reckless more: his pledge to love her in return, to let her swim the waters and walk the land, and never doubt her wild, wild heart.

On her enchanted island they lived a very long time, longer than any man could count. The mermaid wife bore him many children; everything she promised turned true. For a while, Kell was content.

Yet time changes all men, and fisherman Kell was no different. Although he had lost his soul he still had his own wild heart, and in it lived a tiny, tiny seed of doubt. Over the years it grew, slowly, quietly, until he came to regret his bargain, despite his charmed life. He began to resent the island and his sea-born family. He spoke of returning to his old home, a place of plows and furrows and plain men, far from enchantment.

But the mermaid would not release him. She kept his soul locked tight near her heart in a locket of shining silver on a necklace she never removed.

Finally, one moonless night, Kell could abide it no longer. While his merwife slept he crept close and snatched the silver chain from her neck, opening the talisman locket. It waked her instantly, and she reached up to him and cried out:

My beloved, my fool! You have forsaken us both!

For all the while she had kept it close, the soul stayed captive near her heart, enslaved but safe. But when the fisherman opened the locket, his soul fled free to the stars.

Old Kell died in that very moment, forsaken as the mermaid had said. And that night she returned to the sea, wounded and forlorn, vowing in her pain to curse love, to keep her island and her children safe from faithless mortals.

From the starswept grottos she sang her siren song, fair warning to all who pass by:

An island charmed, the world full scorned;
An ocean rough, rash sailors mourned.
Here is my curse, born of true love's lie:
Leave off this place, leave off or die.

Dare come and long you'll stay,
Trapped in heart, night and day.
Leave again and the price is steep:
Plea not to spare; 'tis death you'll meet.

Three spins my curse I give,
The will to change, the hope to live;
Six lives shall come to be,
To end this spell, to set me free:

King's kiss to siren death, a soul retrieved;
Child of the sea unveiled, belov'd of his enemy;
Twin spirits lost, returned, to complete this destiny.

So say I. So mote it be.

And still the island lingers just beyond reach, dazzling, seductive. And still the sailors whisper: Beware the siren and her children. Beware the sweet poison of Kell.

seribulan

sounds interesting...where did u get it?

periwinkle..

cik seri, buku ni pinjam kat CM, baru semalam hantar.. hari ni mesti ada lagi agaknya.. nak simpan pun tak best sebab dah berconteng-conteng ngan haribulan kat depan tu... ekceli, dah berapa lama gak nak baca buku ni, sebab baca review mcm best..ada penah nampak kat kino & mph, tapi nak beli takut tak best..  tapi dah baca memang worth it beli.. tak macam buku romance lain yang rely too much on unnecessary/avoidable misunderstanding, miscommunication, coincidences yang tak berapa logik.. buku ni just nice... unpredictable and lain dari yang lain...

nhuda

finished



[ Last edited by  nhuda at 10-4-2006 07:45 AM ]

nevberg

tengah baca buku  the historian oleh elizabeth kostova


novel mengenai dracula...sapa dah baca dracula by bram stoker

Lana

Buku2 yg setahun aku peram..selamat dibaca akhirnya
-Dance Dance Dance by HM
-Kafka on the Shore  -150++ pages lagi nak abis..

seribulan

Kasih antara kita, Aleeya Aneesa...rasanya...correct me if I'm wrong...

persoalan menarik...penulisan kurang 'oomph'...

ReDroSe!

Baru habis baca buku Nothing Lasts 4ever_Sidney Sheldon...

jatuh cinta la dgn buku ni.....

tengah baca Mandatori_Ramlee Awang....

DanaScully

Originally posted by periwinkle.. at 29-3-2006 10:05 AM
The Last Mermaid by Shana Abe

Just finished this book.. i just don't know how to describe this book.. i love it soooooo much...this is just simply fairy tales so beautifully told..  almost magic ...

Oui! baca prolog tu pun aku dah terpesona! Bookmarked!  btw buku ni ada jual kat Popular tak?

Originally posted by nevberg at 12-4-2006 02:41 PM
tengah baca buku  the historian oleh elizabeth kostova


novel mengenai dracula...sapa dah baca dracula by bram stoker

best betul buku The Historian tu. sometimes aku rasa macam baca buku sejarah pulak :bgrin:

DanaScully

Just finished reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman.  It is my first Neil Gaiman's novel and it keep me enthralled and took me two days to finished reading it.  It was a very moving, enchanting, imaginative and beautiful fairy tale.  Can't wait to read another of his masterpieces.  :nerd:

gorgonz

hmm weekend with Mcnaught

3 books
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paradise paling best... w/pun ni kali ketiga ...

reyne

Since Feb06 reyne dah abis baca 3 buku :

Undomestic Goddes by Sophie Kinsella, rasa dah ada forumner bagi review about this book, to me its just another chic lit, nothing to shout about, predictable story line, hilarious and a bit too good to be true:gila:

The Other Woman's shoes - Adele parks, cerita about 2 sisters one happily married and one still unstable and unsettled, storyline is how they manage their lives, how differently people will react on certain situation,how different people see life and love from different perspective, how strong love is and how different it is actually if you are in the other person's shoe.....true blue chic lit, good read:pompom:

Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult, more of a drama, suspense, court scenario, lawyers and lifestyle, more on complexity of human relationship,good read if you like drama,love and suspense here and there, i was satisfied with this one, and this is my first time reading Picoult's book and looking forward for more of her stuff:clap::clap:

Currently reading Everybody Worth Knowing - nanti reyne kasi review

periwinkle..

Originally posted by DanaScully at 16-4-2006 09:13 AM


Oui! baca prolog tu pun aku dah terpesona! Bookmarked!  btw buku ni ada jual kat Popular tak?




best betul buku The Historian tu. sometimes aku rasa macam baca buku sejarah pulak :bgrin:

Hi Dana,

Tak tau la ada kat popular ke tak.. tapi boleh cuba cari.. another book by her, the secret swan pernah dapat romance award, macam menarik gak..

Historian ni dapat mixed review, hmm.. boleh cuba jugak ni...

Stardust tu cam best je.. suka cerita-cerita fairy tale nih.. :love:

limau_nipis

just finished reading.. Lady be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips...

hmm, so-so jer, tak up to par sangat, I still prefer First Lady

seribulan

Originally posted by reyne at 18-4-2006 12:37 AM
The Other Woman's shoes - Adele parks, cerita about 2 sisters one happily married and one still unstable and unsettled, storyline is how they manage their lives, how differently people will react on certain situation,how different people see life and love from different perspective, how strong love is and how different it is actually if you are in the other person's shoe.....true blue chic lit, good read

:hmm:my sis would love reading this....will try to find it...