But maybe the author was aiming for a great love story, a guy who genuinely in love with the girl that no matter what happened, after all this time, he still love her. And at the end, he became this great writer, made a lots of contribution, helping others. Sure, who won’t be sad when their heart was broken but you got through it. The way I see it, the whole rejection thing has a good effect on Zainuddin. (view spoiler) [ Everything happens for a reason, sometimes you don’t see it at that time. The characters are not likeable, in fact the main character, Zainuddin seems pretty depressing almost the whole story. If I take aside the romance, focus on the situation, the mindset of the community – Minangkabau people at that time- I find this a great literature. Story sets around 1930, so readers got the idea about the state of the country at that time. I like the topics mentioned in this story – religion, culture, the difference in social status. This story sets around 1930, so readers got the idea about the state of the country at Made me wonder the whole time I was reading this, what does the author means by Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck and I didn’t know it was literally talking about a sinking ship. A great title but the thing only happened at the end.
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Allegiant books in orderUp until then, my mentions were pretty tame, nothing outside the norm for a new author. It's harder to tell the difference than you'd think, and unlike many other women on the internet dealing with casual vitriol, I hadn't had much practice. Some were obvious hyperbole - like the person who threatened to "chop my breasts off" - and some were more frightening. At that point, I had been receiving angry messages - even threats - for weeks. Without hesitating, I blocked the user and closed Twitter. Within seconds, I received a reply: I hope you freeze to death. As I waited for my husband to drive back to the apartment to let me in, I sat on my back steps and tweeted about my misery, as one does. It was cold, and I had lost my keys somewhere along my path. In November 2013, the third book in my bestselling "Divergent" series, " Allegiant," had been on the shelves for a few weeks, and I was on a run. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Rising by Holly KellyAnd mending broken hearts should be the least of his worries. But the pain he caused is not easily forgotten. Gathering his courage, he leaves the sea to seek her out. Even more terrifying, he''s forced to admit he''s still in love with Nicole. But at the same time, he once again finds his heart at risk. Meeting the child he never knew fills a void in his life. Triton is both thrilled and frightened to learn he''s a father. When he finally came to his senses, he abandoned her to return to his refuge in the sea.Twenty years later, he comes face to face with his daughter. Unable to resist the human woman, he found himself swept up in her arms. But his resolve was unwavering-until he met Nicole. Powerful and eternally youthful, Triton was no stranger to seduction. He vowed then and there to never again father a child. Two thousand years ago, King Triton witnessed the slaughter and total annihilation of his merchildren. 5/22/2023 0 Comments We All Looked Up by Tommy WallachThere were a few extras that the conclusion needed that just weren't there. As in the movie "The Breakfast Club," each of the four stereotyped characters turns out to be much more than they seem on the outside at the beginning of the book.I would almost give this a 4 star, but cut it back by a half because I found it impossible to believe Anita would ever, even with a coming apocalypse, be attracted to Andy, and because the ending wasn't quite satisfactory to me. The author imagines what would happen in society at large and to individuals up close, if we knew that we had only 12 weeks left to live. Each of 10 greater chapters has a lesser chapter devoted to each of these four characters. scientists can't quite pin it down for certain, but it looks like there's a 2/3 chance that the Earth will be obliterated.)The story follows four high school students in the final 12 weeks before the collision (or near collision).There is Peter (the jock), Andy (the slacker), Anita (the brain), and Eliza (the slut). An asteroid is on a collision course with earth (or maybe a near collision course. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Any Other Name by Alex NonymousWhen his novel I Am Legend was adapted into the 1964 movie The Last Man On Earth, Matheson was so annoyed by changes to his screenplay that he asked to be credited as Logan Swanson. Matheson also chose to distance himself from some of his work-but in his case, it was because he took issue with what editors or filmmakers had done with his work. Readers noticed the similarities, and by the time he’d written a few Bachman books, the secret was out. Unfortunately for him, the experiment didn't last long. King wanted to know whether the success of his 1974 work Carrie was genuinely merited by his writing or just a result of the buzz created around the movie version of the story. Publishing as Bachman was also a test, of sorts. To get around that restriction, King came up with a pseudonym: Richard Bachman. According to his official website, authors in the '70s and '80s were encouraged to release one book per year in order to avoid saturating the market. King has penned more than 50 novels in his career, but that collection would be smaller if his early publishers had their way. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Barbara tuchman the first saluteEustatius, and then takes us back to the Netherlands. It was also of vital importance to the American war effort, since the Colonists were unable to manufacture the guns and gunpowder they needed. It was an extremely profitable trade (and one in which many British merchants were engaged, incidentally). Eustatius had served as the foremost conduit through which the Colonists obtained such supplies from Europe. From 1774, when the British placed an embargo on the shipping of ''warlike stores'' to their American colonies, St. Tuchman's new book takes its title - the first occasion (or so it has been generally accepted) on which American sovereignty was formally recognized by the representative of a foreign government.Īt the time the Netherlands was still bound to Britain by a treaty of alliance, but the salute spelled out the commercial realities of the situation. This was the ''first salute'' from which Barbara W. 16, 1776, a ship flying the flag of the Continental Congress put in at the island, and on the orders of the Governor the guns of the local garrison fired a welcoming salvo. It is not a place you hear much about today, but for a brief year or two in the 18th century it became one of the focal points of world history. Eustatius is a small island in the West Indies that was settled by the Dutch in the 17th century. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Always coming home ursula le guinBlending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. This new edition includes an introduction by Shruti Swamy, author of A House is a Body. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast, hailed as “masterly” ( Newsweek ), “hypnotic” ( People ) and “ most consistently lyric and luminous book” ( New York Times). Reissued for a new generation of audiences, Ursula K. Always Coming Home is a study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like-for society and for the art of storytelling."- The Millions Lincoln by David Herbert Donald is the fourth biography about an iconic president that I’ve read through the first sixteen. Dismissing his chances for the presidency, one of Hatches’ Boston correspondents remarked scornfully: “As for Lincoln, I am afraid he will kick the beam again, as he is in the habit of doing.” Pg. To be sure, his debates with Douglas had brought him national attention, but he had lost the senatorial election both in 19. Though he was one of the Founders of the Republican Party, he had no close friends and only a few acquaintances in the populous Eastern states, whose vote would be crucial in the election. He had served only a single, less than successful term in the House of Representatives, and for the past ten years had held no public office. A profound student of the Constitution and of the writings of the Founding Fathers, he had limited acquaintance with the government they had established. Now fifty years old, he had no administrative experience of any sort he had never been Governor of his state, or even mayor of Springfield. Without family, tradition or wealth, he had received only the briefest of formal schooling. To all outward appearances, he was less prepared to be president of the United States than any other man who had run for that high office. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Trial of thorns by stacey trombleyBy the time this is through-I’ll bring them all to their knees. The whole realm thinks I’m weak but I’m stronger than they could ever imagine. But I’ll find a new destiny-by winning the Trial of Thorns. Every time I see the hatred in his eyes it reopens old wounds, a reminder of the destiny that was stolen from me. Especially Reveln, the prince whose brother I killed. The thing that will keep me up at night is having to face those I betrayed. I can handle a few bullies and death-defying challenges. Dragons and twisted mazes are the least of my worries now. As a convicted assassin, I’ve been banished from the fae realm for years but now I have the opportunity to compete in a ruthless competition to earn a full pardon. Series now complete All that's standing between me and freedom are eleven bloodthirsty fae. 5/22/2023 0 Comments On Basilisk Station by David Weber‘On Basilisk Station’ is something very different from anything I’ve ever previously read, for a number of reasons. Parliament is at odds whether it wants to keep the place the major local industry is rife with smuggling the merchant cartels want her head the star-conquering “Republic” of Haven is definitely up to something and her naval force is a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work when required to police an entire star system.īut the people out to get her have made on mistake. The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. “Having made her superior look like a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace, there she meets her past and is set up for ruin. |