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Wishful Wednesday 46: Rock Biography
Halo,
Sepertinya saya vakum lumayan lama dari postingan Wishful Wednesday.
Selain sibuk dengan pekerjaan dan urusan pribadi, sebenarnya timbunan saya banyak banget.
Tapi, keinginan untuk memiliki buku tidak pernah pudar, so kali ini saya pengen banget memiliki buku-buku ini:
Buried Alive The Biography by Myra Friedman
The classic biography that set the record straight about the most famous woman singer in rock history. This updated edition puts Janis Joplin’s life and music into perspective for a new generation of fans at a time of intensely renewed interest. Illustrations.
Love, Janis by Laura Joplin
A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seemed to pour her very soul into her music. By the time her life and artistry were cut tragically short by a heroin overdose, Joplin had become the stuff of rock-and-roll legend. Through the eyes of her family and closest friends , we see Janis as a young girl, already rebelling against injustice, racism, and hypocrisy in society. We follow Janis as she discovers her amazing talents in the Beat hangouts of Venice and North Beach-singing in coffeehouses, shooting speed to enhance her creativity, challenging the norms of straight society. Janis truly came into her own in the fantastic, psychedelic, acid-soaked world of Haight-Asbury. At the height of her fame, Janis’s life is a whirlwind of public adoration and hard living. Laura Joplin shows us not only the public Janice who could drink Jim Morrison under the table and bean him with a bottle of booze when he got fresh; she shows us the private Janis, struggling to perfect her art, searching for the balance between love and stardom, battling to overcome her alcohol addiction and heroin use in a world where substance abuse was nearly universal. At the heart of Love, Janis is an astonishing series of letters by Janis herself that have never been previously published. In them she conveys as no one else could the wild ride from awkward small-town teenager to rock-and-roll queen. Love, Janis is the new life of Janis Joplin we have been waiting for-a celebration of the sixties’ joyous experimentation and creativity, and a loving, compassionate examination of one of that era’s greatest talents.
Terus terang saya bukan penggemar Joplin tapi saya selalu tertarik untuk membaca kisah tentang tokoh intriguing. Menurut saya Janis Joplin merupakan musisi yang menarik, karena di zamannya dia salah satu pemberontak lewat musiknya.
Selain biografi di atas, saya juga pengen membaca buku ini:
Just Kids by Patti Smith
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work–from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
Zaman SMP dulu, Patti Smith sempat duet dengan Don Henley dan singlenya sempat ngetop di radio-radio tanah air. Saya kenal Patti Smith dari situ. Sempat ngintip rating buku ini di Goodreads dan tinggi. Bikin penasaran.
Yang mau ikutan Wishful Wednesday gampang banget. Langsung aja visit blog Perpus Kecil
Happy Wednesday.
Wishful Wednesday 45: Books With Strong Female Characters
Nggak kerasa udah sampai di postingan ke-45. Belum semua wishlist saya terkabul, tapi saya belum kapok berandai-andai untuk memiliki buku impian.
Maret adalah Women’s History Month (di Amerika sih), saya jadi browsing buku-buku yang karakter tokoh utamanya kuat. Nggak nyambung dengan sejarah, walau ada juga buku incaran saya yang tokohnya memang ada di masa lalu.
Wishlist saya kali ini ada 5 buku.
Saya sedang mengikuti serial The White Queen yang diambil dari buku The White Queen, The Red Queen, dan Kingmaker’s Daughter. Kebetulan saya sudah punya The White Queen. Karena penasaran, saya jadi ingin membaca semua buku seri The Cousin’s War yang nggak kalah seru dengan intrik The Tudors.
Saya jatuh cinta dengan sinopsisnya. Dua anak kecil yang melarikan diri ke New York kemudian tinggal di dalam museum sepertinya mengasyikkan.
Kisah tentang imigran selalu memikat saya. Kali ini anak Mexico yang berkecukupan terpaksa harus hijrah ke California dan mengalami kesulitan ekonomi di sana.
Buku ini berkisah tentang seorang anak campuran kaukasia dengan kulit hitam dan mengalami kebingungan ras karena perlakuan lingkungannya.
Seorang gadis yang memasuki clique bernama Bluebloods di sebuah sekolah elit harus berhadapan dengan kasus pembunuhan. Saya cukup penasaran dengan karya Pessl.
Yang mau ikut pamer wishlist-nya, langsung saja klik Perpus Kecil.
Wishful Wednesday 44: Read The World
Akhirnya posting lagi setelah absen satu bulan lebih. Sebenernya pengin memenuhi wishlist yang belum kesampaian, tapi apa daya selalu ada buku baru yang menggoda.
Apalagi setelah blogwalking ke sini. Ann Morgan baru merilis bukunya yang berjudul Reading The World.
Salah satu wishlist saya minggu ini adalah buku di atas.
Setelah blogwalking ke blog-nya Ann, saya sempat kepikiran pengin ikut challenge yang serupa. Tapi, saya sadar diri karena sudah ikutan banyak challenge, jadi saya tunda keinginan saya tahun depan saja. Dan, tentu saja, untuk membaca buku dari semua negara yang ada di dunia agak sulit diwujudkan dalam satu tahun (untuk saya). Kalau saya jadi ikut Read The World Challenge, saya akan membaca buku dari negara yang bukunya mudah didapat.
Cek list bacaan Ann di sini
Demi mencicil buku untuk challenge impian, saya pengin punya buku-buku ini:
One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife’s orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive, his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales each night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, prolonging her life for another day.
Gathered from India, Persia and across the great Arab empire, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Retold by Hanan al-Shaykh, One Thousand and One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice.
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet.
Americanah akan diangkat ke layar lebar. Link berita klik aja.
Yang mau ikutan posting wishlist-nya, cek aja blog Perpus Kecil.
Wishful Wednesday 43: In Death Series
Hari Rabu cepet banget ya datangnya. Udah tanggal 21 Januari aja dan sebentar lagi … Februari, bulan yang saya tunggu-tunggu karena saya dan keluarga mau liburan 😚.
Berhubung mau berlibur, saya jadi kasak-kusuk mencari buku untuk dibawa. Selain itu, mama saya juga lagi keranjingan baca dan salah satu serial yang ia suka adalah In Death Series.
Saya punya beberapa buku In Death, tapi setelah crosscheck lagi, ternyata saya ketinggalan jauh nih.
In Death Series checklist
Jadi, untuk minggu ini, wishlist saya adalah buku-buku ini:
1. Naked in Death – link
2. Glory in Death – link
3. Betrayal in Death –
link
4. Reunion in Death – link
5. Purity in Death – link
6. Imitation in Death – link
7. Divided in Death – link
8. Visions in Death – link
9. Survivor in Death – link
Ini kayaknya wishlist terbanyak sepanjang ikutan Wishful Wednesday deh 😁.
Itung-itung melengkapi koleksi dan ada bahan diskusi dengan mama.
Yang mau ikut posting Wishful Wednesday langsung aja klik link ini ya.
Happy Wednesday 💕
Wishful Wednesday 42: The Dead and the Gone
Tidak terasa sudah menginjak hari terakhir di tahun 2014. Banyak peristiwa, baik yang membahagiakan dan menyedihkan, yang mewarnai kehidupan saya selama 2014. Dan, tahun ini saya tidak bisa memenuhi target untuk membaca 75 buku. Semoga tahun depan saya bisa lebih bersemangat lagi.
Wishlist saya sebenarnya masih banyak. Tapi, khusus WW terakhir di tahun 2014 saya mau yang istimewa: buku yang covernya bergambar bulan. Yep, di penghujung tahun ini, saya terobsesi dengan segala hal berbau bulan, terutama tshirt, pernak-pernik dan buku. Khusus untuk buku bercover bulan, saya nggak peduli rating dan genre.
The Dead and The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer | Bookdepository $9.86 link
Kebetulan saya baru aja pesen buku pertamanya.
Semoga saya berjodoh dengan buku ini. Amen.
Untuk yang mau ikutan Wishful Wednesday Christmas giveaway, syaratnya adalah:
1. Buat posting Wishful Wednesday di blog-mu – (yep, it’s only for blogger this time, sorry guys!). Tapi nggak harus blog buku kok, yang penting blog-mu masih aktif. Jangan lupa cantumkan button Wishful Wednesday dalam postinganmu (bisa di-copy dari postingan ini). Posting diterbitkan di blog masing-masing hari Rabu, 24 Desember 2014 dan/atau Rabu, 31 Desember 2014. Yep, Giveawaynya berlangsung selama 2 kali hari Rabu 🙂
2. Isi postingan adalah tentang buku yang sedang menjadi wish-mu saat ini (boleh lebih dari satu buku), beserta alasan kenapa kamu ngebet banget pengen punya buku tersebut. Tampilkan juga gambar cover buku incaranmu ya!
3. Syarat buku inceran: Buku boleh berbahasa Indonesia maupun Inggris, tapi harga maksimalnya (setelah harga diskon dan total di luar ongkir) adalah IDR 100,000 atau USD 10. Dalam postingan tersebut, kamu wajib mencantumkan link tempat buku ini bisa dibeli online (contoh toko buku online lokal: Bukukita.com, Bukabuku.com, Inibuku.com). Untuk buku berbahasa Inggris, hanya dapat mencantumkan link bookdepository.com (free ongkos kirim ke Indonesia), atau opentrolley.co.id, atau periplus.com. Pastikan buku incaranmu masih tersedia stoknya, dan bukan merupakan buku yang sudah tidak diterbitkan (out of stock/out of print).
4. Setelah posting, kamu wajib memasukkan link postinganmu ke Mr.Linky yang ada di bagian bawah postingan ini. Untuk yang ikutan selama dua hari Rabu (tanggal 24 dan 31), boleh memasukkan dua kali link postingan (tetap di Mr. Linky yang sama di postingan ini ya, karena Wishful Wednesday tidak akan terbit di 31 Desember 2014).
5. DUA orang (yep, dua lho!) pemenang akan dipilih menggunakan random.org berdasarkan nomor urutannya di Mr. Linky. Setiap blog hanya boleh membuat satu postingan di tanggal 24 Desember 2014 dan satu postingan di 31 Desember 2014, atau hanya satu postingan saja di salah satu tanggal tersebut.
5. Link terakhir di Mr. Linky ditunggu hingga tanggal 31 Desember 2014 pukul 23.59 WIB. Peserta yang sudah posting tapi tidak memasukkan link-nya ke Mr. Linky hingga batas waktu yang ditentukan, dianggap GUGUR.
6. Pemenang akan diumumkan hari Rabu, 7 Januari 2015 pk. 10.00 WIB melalui blog ini. Pemenang diberikan waktu 2×24 jam untuk konfirmasi melalui email ke astridfelicia@hotmail.com. Bila lebih dari waktu tersebut belum ada konfirmasi, maka akan dipilih pemenang lainnya. Pemenang harus memiliki alamat kirim di Indonesia.
7. Bila buku yang menjadi wishlist sudah tidak dicetak lagi, atau tidak bisa ditemukan di website yang sudah dicantumkan, maka pemenang diberi kesempatan satu kali lagi untuk memilih buku lainnya.
Yuk, langsung aja klik Books to Share. Good luck 😌
Wishful Wednesday 41: Bookish Books
Bonjour!
Menjelang Natal biasanya saya semangat, tapi nggak tahu kenapa tahun ini terasa agak sepi dan mellow.
Dan tahun ini saya ngga kepincut dengan buku berbau natal.
Setelah browsing ke blog tetangga, saya jadi kepengin punya 2 buku ini:
The Novel Cure:
From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
By Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin
“The Guardian” (UK) “An exuberant pageant of literary fiction and a celebration of the possibilities of the novel.” A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful–a way to learn about how to live. Read at the right moment in your life, a novel can–quite literally–change it. “The Novel Cure “is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled two thousand years of literature for novels that effectively promote happiness, health, and sanity, written by brilliant minds who knew what it meant to be human and wrote their life lessons into their fiction. Structured like a reference book, readers simply look up their ailment, be it agoraphobia, boredom, or a midlife crisis, and are given a novel to read as the antidote. Bibliotherapy does not discriminate between pains of the body and pains of the head (or heart). Aware that you’ve been cowardly? Pick up “To Kill a Mockingbird “for an injection of courage. Experiencing a sudden, acute fear of death? Read “One Hundred Years of””Solitude “for some perspective on the larger cycle of life. Nervous about throwing a dinner party? Ali Smith’s “There but for The “will convince you that yours could never go “that “wrong. Whatever your condition, the prescription is simple: a novel (or two), to be read at regular intervals and in nice long chunks until you finish. Some treatments will lead to a complete cure. Others will offer solace, showing that you’re not the first to experience these emotions. “The Novel Cure “is also peppered with useful lists and sidebars recommending the best novels to read when you’re stuck in traffic or can’t fall asleep, the most important novels to read during every decade of life, and many more. Brilliant in concept and deeply satisfying in execution, “The Novel Cure “belongs on everyone’s bookshelf and in every medicine cabinet. It will make even the most well-read fiction aficionado pick up a novel he’s never heard of, and see familiar ones with new eyes. Mostly, it will reaffirm literature’s ability to distract and transport, to resonate and reassure, to change the way we see the world and our place in it. “The Economist” “Astute and often amusing . . . a charming addition to any library. Time spent leafing through its pages is inspiring – even therapeutic.”
Saya nggak perlu intip Goodreads untuk ngecek rating buku ini. Saya yakin pasti keren dan memuaskan ingin tahu saya tentang buku-buku yang belum saya baca.
Nah, buku satunya yang ini:
The Bookshop Book
By Jen Campbell
We’re not talking about rooms that are just full of books.
We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops.
Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that’s invented the world’s first antiquarian book vending machine.
And that’s just the beginning.
From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over two hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we’ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).
The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.
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“A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.”
David Almond
(The Bookshop Book includes interviews and quotes from David Almond, Ian Rankin, Tracy Chevalier, Audrey Niffenegger, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeanette Winterson and many, many others.)
Who doesn’t love bookshop? Buku ini selain covernya cute, isinya pasti bikin saya senyum-senyum sambil ngiler.
Itu saja wishlist saya minggu ini, semoga suatu hari bisa terkabul.
Yang mau ikutan pamer wishlist-nya langsung aja klik Perpus Kecil
Wishful Wednesday 40: Classics Edition
Hola!
Nggak kerasa udah 40 kali ikutan WW ini walau nggak rutin tiap minggu. Thank you, Astrid, untuk ngehost meme seru ini dan masih aktif sampe sekarang.
Oiya, saya juga mau ngucapin Happy Birthday untuk Astrid. Semoga panjang umur, sehat, bahagia, dan diberi rejeki untuk membeli buku yang banyak 😚
Saya punya beberapa wishlist minggu ini.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams – $9.15 | Link
Beberapa kali saya liat buku ini seliweran di Bookdepository tapi belum tertarik untuk baca. Karena saya terobsesi dengan Marlon Brando muda saat ini, dan saya juga menonton film-film lawas beliau, saya jadi ngebet pengin baca buku ini.
Ini penampakan Stanley Kowalski di film A Streetcar Named Desire.
Stop dulu deh posting gif Stanley sebelum bengek saya kambuh.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – $8.85 | Link
Saya sering lihat buku terjemahannya di OL Shop dan IBF, tapi (sama dengan buku di atas) saya belum kepengin beli. Memang Penguin ini racun banget. Semua covernya keren dan saya jadi niat mau ngoleksi buku klasik terbitan Penguin.
Setelah baca sinopsisnya, saya jadi penasaran dengan sosok Holly yang menurut salah satu blogger mirip James Bond tapi versi cewek.
Dan wishlist yang terakhir adalah…
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller – $8.63 | Link
Saya terpikat dengan karya Miller setelah membaca The Crucible. Sebenarnya waktu kuliah saya sempat diberi tugas untuk membaca buku ini dan membuat presentasi review-nya. Namun saya terjangkit amnesia partial dan saya lupa sama sekali dengan isi buku ini.
Untuk yang ingin ikut posting Wishful Wednesday, syarat-syaratnya sebagai berikut:
1. Buat posting Wishful Wednesday di blog-mu – (yep, it’s only for blogger this time, sorry guys!). Tapi nggak harus blog buku kok, yang penting blog-mu masih aktif. Jangan lupa cantumkan button Wishful Wednesday dalam postinganmu (bisa di-copy dari postingan ini). Posting diterbitkan di blog masing-masing hari Rabu, 26 November 2014, bertepatan dengan Wishful Wednesday [135] di blog Perpus Kecil.
2. Isi postingan adalah tentang buku yang sedang menjadi wish-mu saat ini (boleh lebih dari satu buku), beserta alasan kenapa kamu ngebet banget pengen punya buku tersebut. Tampilkan juga gambar cover buku incaranmu ya!
3. Syarat buku inceran: Buku boleh berbahasa Indonesia maupun Inggris, tapi harga maksimalnya (setelah harga diskon dan total di luar ongkir) adalah IDR 100,000 atau USD 10. Dalam postingan tersebut, kamu wajib mencantumkan link tempat buku ini bisa dibeli online (contoh toko buku online lokal: Bukukita.com, Bukabuku.com, Inibuku.com). Untuk buku berbahasa Inggris, hanya dapat mencantumkan link bookdepository.com (free ongkos kirim ke Indonesia), atau opentrolley.co.id. Pastikan buku incaranmu masih tersedia stoknya, dan bukan merupakan buku yang sudah tidak diterbitkan (out of stock/out of print).
4. Setelah posting, kamu wajib memasukkan link postinganmu ke Mr.Linky yang ada di bagian bawah postingan ini. DUA orang (yep, dua lho!) pemenang akan dipilih menggunakan random.org berdasarkan nomor urutannya di Mr. Linky. Setiap blog hanya boleh membuat satu postingan dan memasukkan satu link ke Mr. Linky.
5. Giveaway ini hanya diadakan dalam SATU HARI saja, yaitu Rabu, 26 November 2014. Link postingan di Mr. Linky dapat disubmit saat Wishful Wednesday [135] terbit, dan link terakhir ditunggu hingga pukul 23.59 WIB. Peserta yang sudah posting tapi tidak memasukkan link-nya ke Mr. Linky hingga batas waktu yang ditentukan, dianggap GUGUR.
6. Pemenang akan diumumkan hari Rabu, 3 Desember 2014 pk. 10.00 WIB melalui blog ini. Pemenang diberikan waktu 2×24 jam untuk konfirmasi melalui email ke astridfelicia@hotmail.com. Bila lebih dari waktu tersebut belum ada konfirmasi, maka akan dipilih pemenang lainnya. Pemenang harus memiliki alamat kirim di Indonesia.
7. Bila buku yang menjadi wishlist sudah tidak dicetak lagi, atau tidak bisa ditemukan di website yang sudah dicantumkan, maka pemenang diberi kesempatan satu kali lagi untuk memilih buku lainnya.
Tunggu apa lagi? Buruan posting wishlist-mu dan semoga kamu beruntung ya.
Happy Wednesday😍
Wishful Wednesday 39: Secret Santa
Udah lama ga ikutan Wishful Wednesday. Bertepatan dengan annual event-nya BBI, khusus postingan hari ini saya mau buat daftar buku-buku incaran saya.
Wishlist saya adalah sebagai berikut:
1. The First Phone Call From Heaven – Mitch Albom.
Saya terjangkit OCD akut kalo masalah buku. Selama ini saya mengoleksi buku-buku Albom versi terjemahan. Dan, tentu saja, untuk edisi yang ini saya juga ingin punya yang terjemahan.
2. The Confession – John Grisham
Sebagai penggemar Grisham, wajib banget punya bukunya. Dan yang ini saya belum punya.
3. 2 States – Chetan Bhagat.
Saya belum pernah membaca karya Bhagat sebelumnya, tapi saya terpikat dengan film 3 Idiots yang diangkat dari novel karya beliau.
4. Antony & Cleopatra – Colleen McCullough
Saya penggemar historical fiction dan sepertinya buku ini layak untuk dikoleksi.
5. Siddharta – Herman Hesse
Dari dulu saya penasaran dengan buku ini. Ternyata sudah ada terjemahannya. Saya juga tertarik dengan kehidupan Siddharta.
6. Perempuan-Perempuan Mahabharata – Kavita A. Sharma
Waktu kecil saya sering didongengi hikayat Mahabharata oleh mama saya. Saya juga pernah membaca versi komik karya R. Kosasih, tapi sudah banyak yang lupa. Saya ingin me-refresh memori saya dengan membaca buku ini.
7. Harem Sang Sultan – Colin Falconer
Kisah kerajaan jaman dahulu juga salah satu tema favorit saya. Banyak skandal yang lebih heboh dari skandal-skandal masa kini yang terekspos oleh media.
8. The Killing Kind – John Connoly
Saya belum pernah mencicipi karya Connoly sebelumnya. Beberapa teman penggemar genre thriller merekomendasikan buku beliau. Nggak ada salahnya dibaca.
9. The Strain – Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Saya mengikuti serial tv The Strain, dan saya suka banget dengan gambaran vampir yang agak berbeda dengan vampir-vampir dalam kisah fiksi yang sudah ada.
10. Hannibal – Thomas Harris
Saya ingin melengkapi koleksi serial Hannibal dengan memiliki buku ini.
11. An Abundance of Katherines
Setelah membaca Will Grayson, Will Grayson, saya jatuh cinta dengan John Green. Lalu, saya agak kecewa dengan The Fault in Our Stars yang terasa flat menurut saya. Suatu hari, salah seorang sahabat saya merekomendasikan buku ini. Saya cukup penasaran dengan judulnya.
12. The Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
Udah lama saya terngiler-ngiler dengan buku ini. Semoga kali ini berjodoh.
13. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Jarang-jarang saya membaca genre fantasi. Ada beberapa buku fantasi yang bikin saya penasaran. Salah satunya buku ini.
Cukup sekian wishlist saya. Kata orang angka 13 sial dan berkaitan erat dengan okultisme, tapi saya percaya semua angka baik adanya.
Sebelumnya saya mau mengucapkan terima kasih untuk (calon) Santa saya.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Untuk yang ingin berpartisipasi ikut having fun posting meme Wishful Wednesday, bisa langsung berkunjung ke blog Perpuskecil.
Jangan lupa membaca syarat dan ketentuan, juga mengisi linky yang tersedia di postingan paling bawah.
Happy rainy Wednesday.
Wishful Wednesday 38: History of Imperial China Series
Udah lama banget kayaknya ngga update blog dan ikutan meme Wishful Wednesday. Tahun ini jadwal baca rada berantakan karena ada tugas lebih penting yang menanti *lap keringet*.
Saya sedang tergila-gila dengan segala sesuatu yang berbau sejarah. Waktu sekolah dulu, sejarah adalah salah satu mata pelajaran favorit saya. Banyak yang nggak suka dengan sejarah karena membosankan, pusing menghafal tanggal kejadian, ada juga teman yang berpendapat bahwa kita harus move on, gak perlu mengungkit kejadian lampau yang terlanjur terjadi.
Kenapa saya suka sejarah? Salah satunya karena saya suka drama dan intrik, dan ada aja drama dan intrik dalam peristiwa sejarah yang lebih ngejedar dari kejadian sekarang.
Wishlist saya kali ini adalah buku-buku berikut:
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis
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In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia.
The Qin and Han constitute the “classical period” of Chinese history—a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity.
The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China’s long history of imperialism—events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
China Between Empires by Mark Edward Lewis
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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north–south line. Mark Edward Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions.
The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy.
By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 CE, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty by Mark Edward Lewis
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The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Edward Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu.
The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars.
Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
The Age of Confucian Rule by Dieter Kuhn
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Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed.
With the chaotic dissolution of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocratic families vanished. A new class of scholar-officials—products of a meritocratic examination system—took up the task of reshaping Chinese tradition by adapting the precepts of Confucianism to a rapidly changing world. Through fiscal reforms, these elites liberalized the economy, eased the tax burden, and put paper money into circulation. Their redesigned capitals buzzed with traders, while the education system offered advancement to talented men of modest means. Their rationalist approach led to inventions in printing, shipbuilding, weaving, ceramics manufacture, mining, and agriculture. With a realist’s eye, they studied the natural world and applied their observations in art and science. And with the souls of diplomats, they chose peace over war with the aggressors on their borders. Yet persistent military threats from these nomadic tribes—which the Chinese scorned as their cultural inferiors—redefined China’s understanding of its place in the world and solidified a sense of what it meant to be Chinese.
The Age of Confucian Rule is an essential introduction to this transformative era. “A scholar should congratulate himself that he has been born in such a time” (Zhao Ruyu, 1194).
China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe
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In a brisk revisionist history, William T. Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.
The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a “universal” empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan.
Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of “small government” worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow.
This original, thought-provoking history of China’s last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
Saya baru punya 1 buku dari seri ini, yaitu The Troubled Empire by Timothy Brook link
Semoga saya kesampaian bisa mengoleksi seri ini.
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Wishful Wednesday 37: Oleander Girl
Udah tiga bulan hiatus ngeblog, termasuk partisipasi Wishful Wednesday.
Terus terang, gara-gara sakit lama dan kerjaan, semangat baca agak meluntur. Harus dipecut lagi nih supaya rajin baca lagi.
Gara-gara buka Facebook, saya jadi kepengin banget punya novel yang ini:
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From the bestselling author of One Amazing Thing, a sweeping, suspenseful, atmospheric coming-of-age novel about a young woman who leaves India for America on a search that will transform her life.
Beloved by critics and readers, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Junot Díaz as a “brilliant storyteller” and by People magazine as a “skilled cartographer of the heart”. Now, Divakaruni returns with her most gripping novel yet.
Orphaned at birth, seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy is the scion of a distinguished Kolkata family and has enjoyed a privileged, sheltered childhood with her adoring grandparents. But she is troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents’ death and clings fiercely to her only inheritance from them: the love note she found hidden in her mother’s book of poetry. Korobi dreams of one day finding a love as powerful as her parents’, and it seems her wish has come true when she meets the charming Rajat, the only son of a high-profile business family.
But shortly after their engagement, a heart attack kills Korobi’s grandfather, revealing serious financial problems and a devastating secret about Korobi’s past. Shattered by this discovery and by her grandparents’ betrayal, Korobi undertakes a courageous search across post 9/11 America to find her true identity. Her dramatic, often startling journey will, ultimately, thrust her into the most difficult decision of her life.
Ciri khas tulisan Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni adalah cerita tentang imigran asal India yang tinggal/pindah ke Amerika Serikat membawa adat-istiadatnya yang kental.
Karena kebanyakan koleksi saya novel terjemahan, maka saya juga berharap buku ini diterjemahkan oleh GPU.
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