Popsugar Summer Reading Challenge

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Just to spice up things a bit in the middle of the year (when I usually had my worst reading slump), I decided to participate in Popsugar Summer Reading Challenge. This is an intermezzo from the regular challenge and will be on until early or mid September.

I don’t think I will finish the whole challenge (but I still targeted to finish the regular challenge by the end of this year!!), so I just read on and take it easy with this challenge. Most of the prompts are fun anyway and I do have some in my TBR list. So… let’s do it and enjoy the summer months wherever you are! 🙂

1. A book with “summer” in the title
2. A book with a summer drink or cocktail on the cover
3. A book that takes place in your favorite (or dream) summer destination
4. A book about a vacation
5. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist
6. A book with an item you’d find at the beach in the title
7. A book with a body of water or pool on the cover
8. A book set at the resort or hotel
9. A book with release date in June, July, or August of any year
10. A summer-set thriller
11. A book involving a summer romance
12. A book about Black history in America
13. A scary book you’d read around a camp fire
14. A book that takes place during the summer before high school or college
15. A book that takes place in a beach town
16. A book with “sun”,”sand”, or “waves” in the title
17. A book with sunglasses on the cover
18. A book about camping or summer camp
19. A book classified as a “beach read”
20. A book that makes you nostalgic for summer (rereads welcome)

 

2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge

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Oh boy! It’s been a while (or forever) since the last time I updated this blog. I focused too much on fulfilling my Goodreads challenge (100 books!) and neglected reviewing the books here :(

And the bad news is I won’t be able to finish my Goodreads challenge anyway XD (I changed the number from 100 to 90 now). So next year I think I will not be too ambitious in number, but decided to join (again) the Popsugar Reading Challenge to spice up my game.

So here is the list of the challenge:

1. A book that’s published in 2020: The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Nevada (Imogen Binnie)
3. A book with a great first line : Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
4. A book about a book club: The Agatha Christie Book Club (CA Larmer)
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics : The Alice Network (London) (Kate Quinn)
6. A bildungsroman: Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: TBD
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover: Fleishman is in Trouble (Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
9. A book with a map: Winnie the Pooh (AA Milne)
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: The Snowman (Jo Nesbo)
11. An anthology: Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Daniel Jones)
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test: Beloved (Toni Morrison)
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it: Inside Out (Demi Moore)
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Crenshaw (Katherine Applegate)
15. A book about or involving social media: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (Jon Ronson)
16. A book that has a book on the cover: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonder (Julianna Baggott)
17. A medical thriller: Unwind (Neal Shusterman)
18. A book with a made-up language: TBD
19. A book set in a country beginning with “C”: The Painted Veil (China) (W. Somerset Maugham)
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention: TBD
21. A book published the month of your birthday: The Starless Sea (November 2019) (Erin Morgenstern)
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM: The Signature of All Things (Elizabeth Gilbert)
23. A book that won an award in 2019: The Overstory (Pulitzer Prize) (Richard Powers)
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Caitlin Doughty)
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: Franny and Zooey (JD Salinger)
26. A book with a pun in the title: Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: The Middlestein (Glutony) (Jamie Attenberg)
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character: TBD
29. A book with a bird on the cover: The House of Birds (Morgan McCarthy)
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: The President is Missing (Bill Clinton and James Patterson)
31. A book with “gold,” “silver,” or “bronze” in the title: The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Alan Bradley)
32. A book by a WOC: Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
34. A book you meant to read in 2019: Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
35. A book with a three-word title: The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Kate Morton)
36. A book with a pink cover: Milkman (Anna Burns)
37. A Western: Inland (Tea Obreht)
38. A book by or about a journalist: She Said (Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week: The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: White Chrysanthemum (a book with a plant in the title cover – 2019) (Mary Lynn Bracht)

Advanced, 2020 Edition

1. A book written by an author in their 20s: The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton)
2. A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title: Twenty-four Days Before Christmas (Madeline L’Engle)
3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision): Because of Winn Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)
4. A book set in the 1920s: The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: Enid Blyton (TBD)
7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title: The Bookshop of Yesterdays (Amy Meyerson)
8. A book published in the 20th century: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books: Hercule Poirot (TBD)
10. A book with a main character in their 20s: The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)

So– 50 books for the challenge doesn/t seem so bad, right? And hopefully I can read few other books as well so the final number wouldn’t be too disappointing 😀

I’ll make a separate page for this challenge and update the progress there.

Wish me luck for 2020!!!!

2018: Reading Challenges!

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I enjoyed doing my reading challenges last year so I decided to do a couple of them this year. Not too many that made me anxious and not enjoying my reading, but still I need something to challenge and motivate me to reach my goals.

Because I love doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge so much last year, I decided to do it again this year. The prompts look interesting and challenging, without making it too hard to accomplish. And I think there are some books that I can read from my ever growing TBR pile 😀

Here’s the list for Popsugar Reading Challenge 2018: 

1. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen: Holes (Louis Sachar)
2. True crime: In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
3. The next book in a series you started: A Dance with Dragons (George RR Martin)
4. A book involving a heist: Pangeran Pencuri (Cornelia Funke)
5. Nordic noir: The Bat/Harry Holes #1 (Jo Nesbo)
6. A novel based on a real person: The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you: TBD
8. A book with a time of day in the title: Midnight Feast (Meg Cabot)
9. A book about a villain or antihero: Heartless (Marissa Meyer)
10. A book about death or grief: My Sister Lives on a Mantelpiece (Annabel Pitcher)
11. A book with your favorite color in the title: The Mystery of The Blue Train (Agatha Christie)
12. A book with alliteration in the title: Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
13. A book about time travel: The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
14. A book with a weather element in the title: The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)
15. A book set at sea: The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware)
16. A book with an animal in the title: Lily and the Octopus (Steven Rowley)
17. A book set on a different planet: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
18. A book with song lyrics in the title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote)
19. A book about or set on Halloween: The Halloween Tree (Ray Bradbury)
20. A book with characters who are twins: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
21. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: Middlemarch (George Elliot)
22. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Saenz)
23. A book that is also a stage play or musical: The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
24. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you: Beloved (Toni Morrison)
25. A book about feminism: The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
26. A book about mental health: The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
27. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift: TBD
28. A book by two authors: The Screaming Statue/The Curiosity House #2 (Lauren Oliver, H.C. Chester)
29. A book about or involving a sport: Quidditch Through the Ages (Kennilworthy Whisp)
30. A book by a local author: Gelombang (Dee)
31. A book mentioned in another book: Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
32. A book from a celebrity book club: Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
33. A childhood classic you’ve never read: Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
34. A book that’s published in 2018: TBD
35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner: Trigger Warning (Neil Gaiman)
36. A book set in the decade you were born: Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary)
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to: TBD
38. A book with an ugly cover: TBD
39. A book that involves a bookstore or library: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Matthew J. Sullivan)
40. Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenges: A book you bought on a trip: TBD

 

And, to spice things up a bit. I will also join one of my favorite challenges, What’s in a Name, hosted by The Worm Hole. Here are the categories:

• The word ‘the’ used twice (The Secret By The Lake; The End Of The Day, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time)
• A fruit or vegetable (The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society; The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake)
• A shape (The Ninth Circle, The Square Root Of Summer, Circle Of Friends)
• A title that begins with Z – can be after ‘The’ or ‘A’ (Zen In The Art Of Writing; The Zookeeper’s Wife, Zelda)
• A nationality (Anna And The French Kiss; How To Be A Kosovan Bride; Norwegian Wood)
• A season (White Truffles In Winter; The Spring Of Kasper Meier; The Summer Queen; Before I Fall; The Autumn Throne)

I’ll update the reading list later, and probably will move the challenges into separate pages.

So what do you think? Are these challenges still feasible for me? Do you have any reading challenge you’d like to join this year?

Good luck everyone and may 2018 bring the best books for you!

2017: A Year in Books

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Happy new year!!! Hopefully everyone has a good start of 2018 and ready to kick off the reading list 🙂

Before we move on to the new year, new goals and new challenges, I would like to reminisce a little bit about my reading life in 2017. Enjoy the list!

Most “great book, but why you do dis ending??”: Church of Marvels, Conclave

Most charming setting: A Gentleman in Moscow, The Bookshop on the Corner

Most surprisingly enjoyable: Uncommon Type, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Most “full of characters that I’d love to punch”: Fates and Furies, Burnt Paper Sky

Most “books with lame romance”: Song of The Lioness series, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

Most live up to expectations: The Underground Railroad, The Nest

Most juicy series that very entertaining: Game of Thrones (still!!!), Crazy Rich Asians

All in all, I enjoyed my reading experience in 2017. I found some new authors (that I’d love to read again in the future), I discover new genres and went outside of my comfort zone a little bit (I read 4 non fictions and 1 audiobook!!!), and even successfully read 40 books from my TBR.

According to Goodreads statistics, I have read 81 books in 2017 (a bit more than last year’s total, and just one more book than my 2017 reading challenge target), 27,283 pages, with average of 3.5 stars rating. Not bad at all 🙂

I have finished two reading challenges, and only missing one review (perhaps I will write the review this year if I had a chance):

Category: A book involving travel

2017 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge

1. A book recommended by a librarian – Three Times Lucky (Sheila Turnage)
2. A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long – The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
3. A book of letters – 84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
4. An audiobook – The Red House Mystery (A.A. Milne)
5. A book by a person of color – The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title – If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
7. A book that is a story within a story – The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
8. A book with multiple authors – The Meanest Doll in The World (Ann M Martin and Laura Godwin)
9. An espionage thriller – An Officer and A Spy (Robert Harris)
10. A book with a cat on the cover – Whittington (Alan Armstrong)
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym – 1984 (George Orwell)
12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read – When I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
14. A book involving travel –  Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
15. A book with a subtitle – Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York (Sari Botton, et al)
16. A book that’s published in 2017: Uncommon Type: Some Stories (Tom Hanks)
17. A book involving a mythical creature: The Monstrumologist (Rick Yancey)
18. A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile: The Adventure of The Christmas Pudding (Agatha Christie)
19. A book about food – Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler)
20. A book with career advice – Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Sheryl Sandberg)
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective – The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
22. A steampunk novel –Un Lun Dun (China Mieville)
23. A book with a red spine – Mycroft Holmes (Kareem Abdul Jabar & Anna Waterhouse)
24. A book set in the wilderness – The Call of The Wild (Jack London)
25. A book you loved as a child – Kumpulan Dongeng Binatang 1 (Anne-Marie Dalmais)
26. A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited – Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
27. A book with a title that’s a character’s name – The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair (Joel Dicker)
28. A novel set during wartime – Sophie’s Choice (William Styron)
29. A book with an unreliable narrator –The Dinner (Herman Koch)
30. A book with pictures – Sang Putri dan Sang Pemintal (Neil Gaiman)
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you – Broken Monsters (Lauren Beukes)
32. A book about an interesting woman – The Wonder (Emma Donoghue)
33. A book set in two different time periods – The Distant Hours (Kate Morton)
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title – March (Geraldine Brooks)
35. A book set in a hotel –A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
36. A book written by someone you admire – Seriously, I’m Kidding (Ellen DeGeneres)
37. A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 – Murder on The Orient Express (Agatha Christie) 
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas – Hallowe’en Party (Agatha Christie)
39. The first book in a series you haven’t read before – Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of Lioness, #1) (Tamora Pierce)
40. A book you bought on a trip – Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (Patty Yumi Cottrell)

Kategori Single Point

1. Classic Literature, adalah buku-buku sastra klasik seperti buku-buku Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, etc.: The Call of The Wild (Jack London), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers), If On a Winter Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirzig),
2. Children Literature, adalah buku-buku bertema dan cocok untuk anak-anak kecil hingga usia middle grade (SMP), atau usia hingga 15 tahun. Contoh, Rick Riordan: Three Times Lucky (Sheila Turnage), Kumpulan Dongeng Binatang 1 (Anne-Marie Dalmais), The Meanest Doll in The World (Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin), Whittington (Alan Armstrong), Oh, The Places You’ll Go! (Dr. Seuss), How to Look for a Lost Dog (Ann M. Martin), The Boy Called Christmas (Matt Haig), The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (Sheila Turnage), The Hundred Dresses (Eleanor Estes),
3. Young Adult Literature, adalah buku-buku bertema remaja (Young Adult) dan New Adult (NA), berusia SMA hingga kuliahan, atau berusia 16-22 tahun. Contoh, Sarah Dessen, John Green, Jennifer L. Armentrout, dll: The Mystery of The Clockwork Sparrow (Katherine Woodfine),
4. Asian Literature, buku-buku yang berlatar belakang Asia, bertema kehidupan Asia, atau penulisnya berasal dari Asia. Contoh, Kevin Kwan, Akiyoshi Rikako: China Rich Girlfriend (Kevin Kwan),
5. Indonesian Literature Before 80’s, buku-buku asli dari Indonesia yang terbit sebelum tahun 1980
6. Self-Improvement & Self-Help, merupakan buku-buku pengembangan diri. Contoh, buku-buku John C. Maxwell, chicken soup, dll: Seriously…I’m Kidding (Ellen DeGeneres); Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will to Lead (Sheryl Sandberg);
7. Poetry, buku-buku puisi, baik dari Indonesia maupun luar Indonesia. Contoh, Tidak Ada New York Hari Ini, atau sonnet Shakespeare
8. Biografi Pahlawan Indonesia, adalah buku-buku yang menceritakan kisah hidup pahlawan Indonesia, seperti tentang Ir. Soekarno, Jenderal Soedirman, dsb
9. Award Winning Books, adalah buku-buku yang memenangkan sebuah penghargaan atau lebih, misalnya pemenang RITA Awards, Goodreads Choice Awards, dsb: March (Geraldine Brooks), The Nest (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney), brown girl dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson), Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff),
10. Science-Fiction, buku-buku dengan genre utama science-fiction. Contoh, Star Trek, Ender’s Game, Across The Universe
11. Dystopia, buku-buku dengan genre utama dystopia. Contoh, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner: 1984 (George Orwell),
12. Adventure, buku-buku mengenai petualangan dan memiliki tema utama petualangan, contoh: buku-buku Enid Blyton, Robinson Crusoe, dll
13. Historical Fiction, adalah buku-buku dengan genre utama fiksi historis. Bisa romance, non romance. Contoh: Ruta Sepetys, Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas (romance): A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles), The Distant Hours (Kate Morton), The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead), The Wonder (Emma Donoghue), The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), Church of Marvels (Leslie Parry),
14. Fantasy Fiction, adalah buku-buku dengan genre utama fantasy. Contohnya, buku-buku Neil Gaiman: Un Lun Dun (China Mieville), A Feast for Crows (George R.R. Martin); The Princess Bride (William Goldman); The Monstrumologist (Rick Yancey);
15. Paranormal Romance, adalah buku-buku dengan genre dan elemen utama paranormal romance, tentang vampire/shifter/makhluk non-manusia. Contohnya: Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Thea Harrison, dll
16. Contemporary Romance, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki genre utama romance dan berlatar belakang kontemporer, dengan tokoh yang sudah berusia dewasa. Contoh, Cecilia Ahern, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Colleen Hoover, Elle Kennedy, Lauren Blakely, dll: Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler),
17. Erotic Romance, buku-buku dengan genre utama romance dan memiliki unsur eroticism yang besar. Contohnya, E.L. James, Sylvia Day, C.D. Reiss
18. Sport Fiction, buku-buku fiksi dengan tema olahraga, baik romance maupun non-romance. Contoh: Susan Elizabeth Phillip
19. Thriller and Crime Fiction, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki genre utama thriller dan fiksi kejahatan. Contoh, Stephen King, J.D. Robb, David Baldacci, John Grisham, etc: The Red House Mystery (A.A Milne), Broken Monsters (Lauren Beukes), An Officer and a Spy (Robert Harris), The House at Baker Street (Michelle Birkby), Burnt Paper Sky (Gilly Macmillan),
20. Wedding Literature, buku-buku yang memiliki tema pernikahan (wedding)
21. Graphic Novels & Comic Books, adalah buku-buku komik, novel bergambar, dan novel berilustrasi: Sang Putri dan Sang Pemintal (Neil Gaiman),
22. Debut Authors, adalah buku dari pengarang yang melakukan debut pada tahun 2017 (buku pertama), bisa fiksi bisa non fiksi: Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (Patty Yumi Cottrell); Uncommon Type: Some Stories (Tom Hanks);
23. Hobby Nonfiction, adalah buku-buku nonfiksi mengenai hobi, seperti crafting, travel, fotografi, motor dan mobil, dsb: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami), Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York (Sari Batton et al),
24. Brick Books, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki ketebalan buku minimal 500 halaman dalam bentuk fisik (paperback/hardback) maupun digital (sesuai dengan edisi Kindle/ebook): The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair (Joel Dicker); The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende); The Nix (Nathan Hill);
25. Name In A Book, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki nama tokoh (nama depan/belakang) pada judulnya, dan bukan pada nama serinya: Mycroft Holmes (Kareem Abdul Jabar),

Kategori Ten Point

1. Full Series, membaca dan mereview satu seri penuh selama tahun 2017, minimal memiliki 3 buku (trilogi) dalam satu seri dan semua review dimasukkan ke dalam linky [EDIT] tidak termasuk komik, dan novella tidak dihitung (buku-buku pendamping): Alanna The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness #1, Tamora Pierce), In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness #2, Tamora Pierce), The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness #3), Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness 34, Tamora Pierce)
2. Buku Pengarang Lima Benua, mereview buku-buku dari masing-masing satu pengarang dari setiap benua (Asia, Eropa, Amerika, Afrika, dan Australia), sehingga dalam tema ini akan ada 5 link/tautan review. Buku yang dibaca boleh fiksi, bisa nonfiksi: 84 Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)- Amerika, The Dinner (Herman Koch) – Eropa, Crazy Rich Asian (Kevin Kwan) – Asia, The Last Anniversary (Liane Moriarty) -Australia, Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) – Afrika
3. Lima Buku dari Penulis yang Sama, membaca dan mereview lima buku dari penulis yang sama, namun bukan bagian dari seri (harus stand-alone), bisa fiksi maupun nonfiksi: Pesta Hallowe’en (Agatha Christie), Skandal Perjamuan Natal (Agatha Christie), Pembunuhan di Orient Express (Agatha Christie), Mrs. McGinty is Dead (Agatha Christie), They Do It with Mirrors (Agatha Christie)
4. Historical Non Fiction, merupakan buku-buku historis nonfiksi, bisa berupa ensiklopedi, buku sejarah, dll: In the Garden of Beasts (Erik Larson)

So.. welcome, 2018! May this year bring better, brighter, and enjoyable books and reading experience to everyone! Cheers!

BBI Read and Review Challenge 2017

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Seperti biasa, divisi event Blogger Buku Indonesia (BBI) setiap tahunnya selalu datang dengan ide-ide segar tentang baca bareng dan posting bareng. Tapi berbeda dari tahun-tahun sebelumnya, tahun 2017 ini BBI untuk pertama kalinya hosting reading & review challenge. Jadi nantinya akan ada sistem poin sepanjang tahun, di mana member yang berhasil mengumpulkan poin terbanyak akan menerima hadiah-hadiah keren. Huhuy!

Apa saja kategorinya? Nih dia:

Kategori Single Point

1. Classic Literature, adalah buku-buku sastra klasik seperti buku-buku Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, etc.
2. Children Literature, adalah buku-buku bertema dan cocok untuk anak-anak kecil hingga usia middle grade (SMP), atau usia hingga 15 tahun. Contoh, Rick Riordan
3. Young Adult Literature, adalah buku-buku bertema remaja (Young Adult) dan New Adult (NA), berusia SMA hingga kuliahan, atau berusia 16-22 tahun. Contoh, Sarah Dessen, John Green, Jennifer L. Armentrout, dll
4. Asian Literature, buku-buku yang berlatar belakang Asia, bertema kehidupan Asia, atau penulisnya berasal dari Asia. Contoh, Kevin Kwan, Akiyoshi Rikako
5. Indonesian Literature Before 80’s, buku-buku asli dari Indonesia yang terbit sebelum tahun 1980
6. Self-Improvement & Self-Help, merupakan buku-buku pengembangan diri. Contoh, buku-buku John C. Maxwell, chicken soup, dll
7. Poetry, buku-buku puisi, baik dari Indonesia maupun luar Indonesia. Contoh, Tidak Ada New York Hari Ini, atau sonnet Shakespeare
8. Biografi Pahlawan Indonesia, adalah buku-buku yang menceritakan kisah hidup pahlawan Indonesia, seperti tentang Ir. Soekarno, Jenderal Soedirman, dsb
9. Award Winning Books, adalah buku-buku yang memenangkan sebuah penghargaan atau lebih, misalnya pemenang RITA Awards, Goodreads Choice Awards, dsb
10. Science-Fiction, buku-buku dengan genre utama science-fiction. Contoh, Star Trek, Ender’s Game, Across The Universe
11. Dystopia, buku-buku dengan genre utama dystopia. Contoh, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner
12. Adventure, buku-buku mengenai petualangan dan memiliki tema utama petualangan, contoh: buku-buku Enid Blyton, Robinson Crusoe, dll
13. Historical Fiction, adalah buku-buku dengan genre utama fiksi historis. Bisa romance, non romance. Contoh: Ruta Sepetys, Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas (romance)
14. Fantasy Fiction, adalah buku-buku dengan genre utama fantasy. Contohnya, buku-buku Neil Gaiman
15. Paranormal Romance, adalah buku-buku dengan genre dan elemen utama paranormal romance, tentang vampire/shifter/makhluk non-manusia. Contohnya: Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Thea Harrison, dll
16. Contemporary Romance, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki genre utama romance dan berlatar belakang kontemporer, dengan tokoh yang sudah berusia dewasa. Contoh, Cecilia Ahern, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Colleen Hoover, Elle Kennedy, Lauren Blakely, dll
17. Erotic Romance, buku-buku dengan genre utama romance dan memiliki unsur eroticism yang besar. Contohnya, E.L. James, Sylvia Day, C.D. Reiss
18. Sport Fiction, buku-buku fiksi dengan tema olahraga, baik romance maupun non-romance. Contoh: Susan Elizabeth Phillip
19. Thriller and Crime Fiction, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki genre utama thriller dan fiksi kejahatan. Contoh, Stephen King, J.D. Robb, David Baldacci, John Grisham, etc
20. Wedding Literature, buku-buku yang memiliki tema pernikahan (wedding)
21. Graphic Novels & Comic Books, adalah buku-buku komik, novel bergambar, dan novel berilustrasi.
22. Debut Authors, adalah buku dari pengarang yang melakukan debut pada tahun 2017 (buku pertama), bisa fiksi bisa non fiksi
23. Hobby Nonfiction, adalah buku-buku nonfiksi mengenai hobi, seperti crafting, travel, fotografi, motor dan mobil, dsb
24. Brick Books, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki ketebalan buku minimal 500 halaman dalam bentuk fisik (paperback/hardback) maupun digital (sesuai dengan edisi Kindle/ebook)
25. Name In A Book, adalah buku-buku yang memiliki nama tokoh (nama depan/belakang) pada judulnya, dan bukan pada nama serinya

Kategori Ten Point

1. Full Series, membaca dan mereview satu seri penuh selama tahun 2017, minimal memiliki 3 buku (trilogi) dalam satu seri dan semua review dimasukkan ke dalam linky [EDIT] tidak termasuk komik, dan novella tidak dihitung (buku-buku pendamping)
2. Buku Pengarang Lima Benua, mereview buku-buku dari masing-masing satu pengarang dari setiap benua (Asia, Eropa, Amerika, Afrika, dan Australia), sehingga dalam tema ini akan ada 5 link/tautan review. Buku yang dibaca boleh fiksi, bisa nonfiksi
3. Lima Buku dari Penulis yang Sama, membaca dan mereview lima buku dari penulis yang sama, namun bukan bagian dari seri (harus stand-alone), bisa fiksi maupun nonfiksi
4. Historical Non Fiction, merupakan buku-buku historis nonfiksi, bisa berupa ensiklopedi, buku sejarah, dll

Saya sih nggak bakalan bisa ikutan semua jenis kategori, tapi saya akan berusaha untuk memasukkan setiap review yang saya buat tahun ini di salah satu kategori.. Syukur-syukur kalau bisa juga digabung dengan POPSUGAR reading challenge 🙂 Sambil menyelam, minum air. Yeaay 😀

POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2017

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Heyho! So finally I decided to do another challenge this year, after skipped all kinds of challenges in 2016. Well, go with the flow was really fun and liberating, but I think I would like to add a bit of spice for this year reading. Because after a long and winding 2016, people need to welcome 2017 with some more spirit 🙂

After looking at some candidates for my challenge this year (I decided to only join one challenge), I kept coming back to POPSUGAR Reading Challenge. It doesn’t require reviews, unlike challenges hosted by bloggers, and I think most of the books there could come from my forever tall TBR pile.

Here’s the list:

2017 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge

1. A book recommended by a librarian – Three Times Lucky (Sheila Turnage)
2. A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long – The House of The Spirits (Isabelle Alende)
3. A book of letters – 84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
4. An audiobook – TBD
5. A book by a person of color – The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title – If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
7. A book that is a story within a story – The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
8. A book with multiple authors – Let It Snow (John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle)
9. An espionage thriller – An Officer and A Spy (Robert Harris)
10. A book with a cat on the cover – Cat and the Stinkwater War (Kate Saunders)
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym – 1984 (George Orwell)
12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read – When I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability – Wonderstruck (Brian Selznick)
14. A book involving travel –  Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
15. A book with a subtitle – Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (Thomas Hardy)
16. A book that’s published in 2017: TBD
17. A book involving a mythical creature: A Feast for Crows (George R.R. Martin)
18. A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile: TBD
19. A book about food – Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler)
20. A book with career advice – Girlboss (Sophie Amoruso)
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective – The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
22. A steampunk novel -Un Lun Dun (China Mieville)
23. A book with a red spine – TBD
24. A book set in the wilderness – The Call of The Wild (Jack London)
25. A book you loved as a child – TBD
26. A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited – Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
27. A book with a title that’s a character’s name – The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair (Joel Dicker)
28. A novel set during wartime – Sophie’s Choice (William Styron)
29. A book with an unreliable narrator -The Dinner (Herman Koch)
30. A book with pictures – TBD
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you – Broken Monsters (Lauren Beukes)
32. A book about an interesting woman – The Signature of All Things (Elizabeth Gilbert)
33. A book set in two different time periods – The Distant Hours (Kate Morton)
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title – One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Jasper Fforde)
35. A book set in a hotel – Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie)
36. A book written by someone you admire – Seriously, I’m Kidding (Ellen Degeneres)
37. A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 – TBD
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas – TBD
39. The first book in a series you haven’t read before – Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of Lioness, #1) (Tamora Pierce)
40. A book you bought on a trip -TBD

Phewww, those are a lot of books! Hopefully I could actually finish this challenge LOL. Let’s see what happens at the end of the year…

Actually POPSUGAR also has an Advanced Challenge, with additional themes but I don’t think I would do it, since I would still join BBI Reading & Review event each month.

Sooo… wish me luck!!

PS: Since POPSUGAR doesn’t make official button for this challenge, I took the image from their original post about this challenge and add the wording myself, and voila, I made a special button just for my posts 😀

 

Lucky No. 15- Challenge Winners!

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Something New Category

I know, I know, I know. This is like the very late post ever XD Apologies for this very very delayed post, somehow since I’ve been a very bad host last year, I tended to neglect and postpone anything related to the Lucky No. 15 Challenge.

Anyway, promise is a promise and it’s better late than never. So I would like to announce who are the lucky winners of this challenge, the ones who had successfully completed the challenge and put their links in the wrap up post linky.

There are two Indonesians and two international winners, whom I chose with the help of random.org. Here they are:

1. Wardah @Melukis Bianglala
2. Bzee @Bacaan Bzee
3. Malin @Malin’s Blog of Books
4. Carolyn @Riedel’s Fascination

Congratulations for all winners, and thank you again for all participants for your wonderful contribution, especially for those who had successfully finished the challenge.

For Indonesian winners, please send an email of your address to astridfelicia@hotmail.com, I will send you the goodies soon 🙂 And for international winners, please choose a book from Bookdepository.com (maximum of USD 12), and email your choice to astridfelicia@hotmail.com.

Maybe I will host a mini challenge sometime after the midyear. I hope I could repay my bad host attitude this year with something more appropriate LOL.

Hopefully you are all enjoying your reading in 2016 so far 🙂 See you soon!

 

13 Days Reading Children and Young Adult Literature – Winner of the Challenge!

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Yess, terima kasih untuk semua partisipan yang sudah meramaikan event 13 Days Reading Children and Young Adult Literature. We hope you all had some fun!

Dari 24 orang peserta yang menyetorkan aktivitas membacanya ke form yang tersedia, telah terpilih satu orang dengan poin tertinggi, yang membaca buku dan menyetor review dengan jumlah terbanyak. Pemenang ini berhak atas hadiah voucher buku sebesar IDR 250,000, dan namanya adalaaaah…….

Astri Nardi (@astri_nardi) – Congratulations!

Astri berhasil mengumpulkan total 160 poin dan membaca 20 buku dalam 13 hari, wow!

Pemenang diharapkan mengkonfirmasi ke email: arimifauziyyah@gmail.com paling lambat tanggal 17 April 2015 pukul 09.00. Jika tidak, akan dipilih pemenang lain.

Terima kasih untuk semua yang telah terlibat dalam 13 Days Reading Children & Young Adult’s Literature ini 🙂

See you in another event!

13 Days Reading Children & Young Adult’s Literature

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Yeay! Akhirnya hari yang ditunggu-tunggu datang juga, dan officially, 13 Days Reading Children & Young Adult’s Literature sudah dimulaiiii *tiup terompet*

Aturan mainnya gampang kok, dan terbuka untuk siapa saja, termauk non-member BBI 🙂

Here we go!

Rules:

1. Tantangan membaca ini terbuka untuk siapapun yang berdomisili di Indonesia. Blogger ataupun non-blogger. Memiliki akun Goodreads maupun tidak.

2.       Mendaftarkan diri di formulir ini.

3.       Dalam 13 hari ke depan membaca novel-novel yang masuk ke dalam kategori Children’s dan Young Adults, minimal 1 buku.

4.       Laporkan progress bacaanmu di formulir ini. Form ini terdapat di seluruh blog grup CL/YA.

5.       Form yang diisi lewat dari tanggal 13 April pukul 23.59 WIB tidak diakumulasikan ke dalam perhitungan poin.

Prize:

Voucher buku senilai Rp. 250.000,- untuk 1 orang pemenang dengan perolehan poin terbanyak.

Yuk yuk, tunggu apalagi, mari bersenang-senang bersama Children dan YA Literature selama 13 hari ke depan 🙂

Oya, jangan lupa juga pantengin postingan bergilir dari semua blog yang tergabung dalam grup ini ya 🙂 Berikut jadwal postingnya:

Selain itu, akan ada juga giveaway hop!!! Silakan tunggu postingan selanjutnya 🙂

BBI’s Turning 4, Let’s Celebrate!

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Yeaaay, nggak kerasa, Blogger Buku Indonesia, alias BBI, alias si imut Bebi, sudah hampir menginjak usia 4 tahun di bulan April mendatang. Ibarat anak kecil, lagi seru-serunya main, belajar, dan bikin heboh orang sekitarnya 🙂

Tahun ini, Divisi Event BBI yang keren-keren, merancang satu lagi acara yang semakin keren, yaitu Around the Genres in 30 Days, dimulai sejak 16 Maret sampai 17 April 2015. Jadi, para member BBI ceritanya dibagi menjadi tiga grup besar sesuai genre favorit masing-masing, yaitu Romance, Fantasi, dan Children & Young Adult’s Literature. Nantinya, setiap grup akan mengadakan serangkaian acara sendiri, mulai dari baca bareng, posting bareng, dan pastinya sih…giveaway hop!

Saya sendiri tergabung di grup paling selow, paling asik dan paling santai, yaitu Children & Young Adult’s Literature 🙂 Sesuai nama grupnya, kami akan membahas dari A sampai Z segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan buku-buku anak serta young adult/remaja.

Nah, siapa saja sih member grup kece ini? Mariii disimak, karena nantinya dengan mengunjungi ke-14 blog kami-kami ini, kalian akan bisa ikut berpartisipasi di serangkaian acara keren yang berlimpah hadiah 🙂

1. Faraziyya’s Bookshelf (https://blogbukufaraziyya.wordpress.com)
2. Through Tinted Glass (http://4urfun.blogspot.com)
3. Orinthia’s Bookshelf (http://orinthiaandbooks.blogspot.com)
4. Books to Share (https://perpuskecil.wordpress.com)
5. Carpe Noctem (http://sleepy-bookworm.blogspot.com)
6. Delina Books (http://delinabook.wordpress.com)
7. Lensa Buku (http://lensabuku.com)
8. My Little Library (http://atriadanbuku.blogspot.com)
9. Kuroneko Book Club (http://kuronekobookclub.blogspot.com)
10. Ngidam Buku (http://ngidambuku.blogspot.com)
11. Bacaan B.Zee (http://bacaanbzee.wordpress.com)
12. Book-admirer (http://book-admirer.com)
13. Ketimbun Buku (http://mata-p3ni.blogspot.com)
14. My Book Corner (http://justaveragereader.blogspot.com)

banner super kece bikinannya Ziyy 🙂

Untuk merayakan ultah ke-4 Bebi, grup kami sudah menyiapkan berbagai acara yang menarik. Yang paling nge-hits tentu saja 13 Days Reading Children and Young Adult’s Literature, yang akan diadakan mulai tanggal 1-13 April 2015. Jadi selama 13 hari, yukkk kita sama-sama membaca dan mereview buku-buku anak maupun young adult. Nantinya, reading challenge ini akan menjadi bagian dari Giveaway Hop yang berhadiah total voucher belanja IDR 500k dan paket buku, untuk 4 orang pemenang. Yeay! Seru kan? 🙂

Selain itu, di blog Books to Share juga akan ada beberapa Giveaway tambahan dengan hadiah voucher maupun merchandise. Tungguin aja ya pengumumannya mulai 1 April di blog ini 🙂

Selain Giveaway Hop, grup Children & YA juga akan mengadakan blog tour dengan tema Children & Young Adult’s Literature Talks. Please catet jadwal di bawah ini supaya kamu nggak ketinggalan postingannya ya 🙂

Children & Young Adult’s Literature Talks

Blog Tour

 

Kamis (2/4):

• My Little Library -> Feature: Belajar Dewasa dengan Membaca (YA)
• My Book Corner -> [Children’s Book Author] Roald Dahl (CL)

Jum’at (3/4):

• Ngidam Buku -> Feature: Detektif Cilik dan Remaja Mancanegara dalam Literatur Anak (CL)

Sabtu (4/4):

• Kuroneko Book Club -> Feature: Diversity in YA
• Ngidam Buku -> Feature: Detektif Cilik dan Remaja Indonesia dalam Literatur Anak (CL)

Minggu (5/4):

• My Book Corner -> [Children’s Book Author] Kate DiCamillo (CL)

Senin (6/4):

• Faraziyya’s Bookshelf -> Feature: Verse Novels in Young Adults
• Ketimbun Buku -> [Children’s Famous Series] Dr.Seuss (CL)

Selasa (7/4):

• Lensa Buku -> Feature: Antara Bacaan Anak dan Bimbingan Orangtua (CL)

Rabu (8/4):

• Orinthia’s Bookshelf -> Feature: As Real As It Can Be (YA)
• Ketimbun Buku -> [Children’s Famous Series] Miiko (CL)

Kamis (9/4):

• Bacaan B. Zee -> Feature: Let’s Talk About Children’s Classic (CL)

Jum’at (10/4):

• Faraziyya’s Bookshelf -> Feature: Mental Health Issue in Young Adults
• Carpe Noctem -> Feature: Learning to Cope With Family Problems from Jacqueline Wilson’s Books

Sabtu (11/4):

• Book Admirer -> Feature: Anak-anak Berkebutuhan Khusus dalam Literatur Anak (CL)

Minggu (12/4):

• Through Tinted Glass -> [Children’s Book Author] Shel Silverstein (CL)

Senin (13/4):

• Books To Share -> Feature: Navigating Newbery (CL)
• Delina Books -> Feature: Stereotip Tentang Remaja dalam Karya Fiksi (YA)

 

Jadi, stay tuned terus ya selama bulan April nanti, pastinya 4th Anniversary BBI ini akan dirayakan dengan meriah dan berlimpah hadiah 🙂

Cheers!