Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday (2): Top Ten Books On My Spring To-Be-Read list

Well, although there's no spring in my country, I'll assume the Top Ten Tuesday of this week is about books I will read during 20 March to 20 June. So, this is it:


From my Historical Fiction piles:

March
I'm now in the middle of The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullogh, which I think will only last till end of March.

April
Gadis Kretek by Ratih Kumala
This is a historical fiction from an Indonesian writer, telling a history of "kretek" cigarettes business in Indonesia long time ago and the stories of people who lived in that era.

The Court of the Lion by Eleanor Cooney & Daniel Altiery
A historical fiction of Tang Dynasty in China. There are 2 series of trilogy but I think I'll read the first book first

Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
From Indonesia, to China, next I'll be heading to Russia with this historical fiction..

May
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Quite a "sexy" book, hopefully worth reading.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I don't know when will the movies be played in my country, hopefully not before I finish with the book.


From my Classics piles:

March
Until the end of March, I'll be still struggling with L'Assommoir of Emile Zola.

April
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

May
Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot

June
I will read these two books on A Victorian Celebration project:
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

What about you? What's in your TBR list this spring? If you'd like to join this blog hop, just stop by at broke and bookish' blog.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday (1): My Top 10 Classics

Aku tahu, hari Selasa sudah lewat, tapi aku baru menemukan blog hop yang asyik di blog ini. Temanya adalah menemukan 10 buku sesuai topik yang tiap minggunya berganti-ganti. Kreatif juga blogger ini, mau memikirkan 52 topik sepanjang tahun.

Untuk minggu ini, topiknya adalah: Top X Genre Books (pick the genre you want). Karena aku suka genre classic, maka inilah 10 buku klasik yang paling kusukai:

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  3. Curtain by Agatha Christie
  4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  5. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  6. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  7. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  9. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  10. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

Bagaimana denganmu?...