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The novel brought me to the sadness and the loneliness surroundings of a creature being abandoned by his creator. The narrative and the characters' growth in the book was amazingly strong which it still lingers in my mind and it still kept me in awe of the way the story was written. The name Frankenstein will automatically bring our imagination to a huge green monster, tall, with a rusty old nail stuck in its neck with creepy stitches on the skin or similar to the Herman in The Monster TV show. Well, this month, I had learned that Frankenstein was the name of the obsessed intelligent creator who recreates human with the selected body parts and eventually resulted to become a gothic hideous creature. The story leads me to a huge pool of question of how Mary Shelley arrived at the idea of creating the monstrous world of Victor Frankenstein. She adapted some of her life events, griefs, lost, guilty, romanticism and obsessions. From some of the sources I have read, she seems to...

“Tuhan, Bagaimana Untuk Aku Ada Perasaan?” merupakan sebuah buku psikologi yang ditulis oleh Faziliya Iliya dan diterbitkan oleh Institut Terjemahan & Buku Malaysia (ITBM). Gaya bahasa dan penulisan kreatif saudari Faziliya Iliya sangat menarik dan meyakinkan. Ada beberapa unsur kajian yang dijalankan di dalam penulisan ini yang membuatkan saya lebih yakin untuk membacanya. Satu di antara alasan yang menarik minat saya untuk membaca buku ini ialah, nota Pengarang yang terdapat pada helaian awal buku ini.  Saya tertarik dengan ulasan Sasterawan Negara, Dato’ Dr. Anwar Ridhwan mengenai buku ini. Ternyata buku ini mempunyai kekuatannya yang tersendiri. Selain daripada naratifnya yang mantap, pengolahan buku ini juga sangat baik. Usaha penulis mengkaji masalah psikologi yang kita sedia maklum boleh merosakkan jiwa seseorang telah disampaikan dengan penceritaan yang sangat baik. Beberapa elemen perjuangan untuk menjadi manusia normal, dan pertembungan dua su...

After reading Dracul, I keep on wondering whether those vampires existences are real or not. Dacre Stoker and JD Barker noted this at the beginning, "For all those who know monsters are real." I read it all including the author's notes and still keeps me wondering. Those names are from the real person. Bram had his illness when he was small and get back his life as a healthy person after the treatment which was neither mentioned in the notes nor Wikipedia. I could sum up that, the book is about 2 journeys. One, Bram was investigating for the mysterious life of Ellen Crone and two, the journey of Ellen Crone finding her true love Deaglan O'Cuiv and protecting him from the Dracul. The peak point is all about Dracul. Dracul was an actual product of Scholomance known as a school in the mountains where Devil teaches the mysteries of nature. Only 10 pupils at a time and retains one as payment. The one retained as payment was Dracul.  The storyline is very clear and ...

Sebaik sahaja tamat membaca buku ini, perasaan saya bercampur baur sedih dan kosong di dalam jiwa. Timbul rasa hampa dan semahu-mahunya menangisi kehilangan semua peluang baik yang pernah hadir tanpa disedari. Sekuat mana teriakan pada lautan, belum tentu menghilangkan kekesalan yang ada dalam diri bahawa semua peluang terbaik yang pernah datang telah dibiarkan berlalu pergi.  Bersesuaian dengan judul buku ini, RASA – karya Nuril Basri yang telah diterbitkan pada tahun 2019 oleh penerbit BUKU FIXI sarat dengan pelbagai rasa perasaan. Penyusunan jalan ceritanya yang sangat menarik berlatarbelakangkan sebuah pengembaraan seorang wanita yang tercari-cari matlamat kehidupan, pengisian perasaan dan rasa kebahagiaan. Kerana bosan dan tidak mencapai kepuasan diri terhadap kehidupan asalnya dan; kerana desakan usia, beliau nekad mencari haluan hidup yang baharu. Bermula dengan kembaranya di lautan sehingga terbawa haluannya ke Kota London, hidupnya penuh dengan dugaan yang menghim...

In the beginning, I felt uncomfortable with the subtle criticism of women in the book. Surprisingly, along the way, I can get along with the story and I love it. Charles Bovary has a dull personality, insensitive, lack of confidence and no excitement. He was the opposite character of Emma. He assumed that Emma is happy. Knowing not that Emma was unsatisfied with her life being married to him. Based on what I have read, Emma's predicament came from her own self-inflicted and also caused by her natural desire for love. She was influenced so much into fictionalizing romance in novels which sounded very promising towards love, relationship and more about happily ever after stories. She let her fictionalized world controlled her mind. She was not exposed to the real definition of marriage. She thought Charles could be her perfect true love character as in the book. Those factors have inflicted her to rush for love and wanting to know more about love and be loved. She didn't marr...

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid. We all know that our path has been written before we were even born. Our task is to walk according to the right way with guidance from The All-Mighty. As a human, of course, we will be given choices on where our path is heading to. Whether we are taking it the long way or short way, only time will tell. That's the gist of the book.  I found that the book was very engaging from the beginning to the end. I feel that the book was close to my heart when I read it. The narrative and characters were all well played. I love that the book was written in two separate paths where it made me think deeper about most consequences in life from every action taken. Although the author let us fly with our imagination with choices of living, she ended the story by guiding us to a happy ending. It's profoundly written and win my heart.  I love this book so much. 

Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams is a light and easy read; entertaining and brilliant book. It was a quick read for me. The storyline was simple and straightforward. This can consider as one of my best read for this year. The plot arrangement was brilliant. It was easy to guess for the ending but the surprise arrangement was creative and engaging. The book brought me back to my memories of watching my favourite movie - You've Got Mail. I felt so much happier and enjoying the moment reading the story. There were so many characters played in this story and all were active. I like the way Laura Jane Williams makes every character played and connected their role. The process to reach the peak of the story is very detail and as a reader, I experience the excitement and fun in every movement of the storyline. Laura described her characters precisely.  For example; Train Guy, Coffee Stain Girl, train schedule and even the imaginary crowds were enlivened as if it was so real in ...