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Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Clarisa's Library 0 currently-reading 3.61 2007 The Vegetarian
author: Han Kang
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]]> White Nights 1772910 82 Fyodor Dostoevsky Clarisa's Library 3 4.16 1848 White Nights
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.16
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rating: 3
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]]> Novel in Nine Letters 15707200 34 Fyodor Dostoevsky Clarisa's Library 0 classics, russian-literature 3.12 1845 Novel in Nine Letters
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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]]> The Landlady 329892 121 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0938618016 Clarisa's Library 2 3.39 1847 The Landlady
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Too much yapping, I honestly don't understand the plot at all.
]]> Knock! Knock! 61078853 188 Esa Khairina 6022428467 Clarisa's Library 3 fantasteen 4.11 2016 Knock! Knock!
author: Esa Khairina
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> Kutukan Naskah Drama 50796228
Dalam keadaan genting, datanglah laki-laki misterius menawarkan naskah drama. Penuh suka cita Tiara dan teman-temannya menerima. Namun, sejak drama dipentaskan banyak kejadian aneh menimpa mereka. Runtutan peristiwa itu persis dengan nasib yang dialami para tokoh dalam naskah drama. Celakanya lagi, Jack berperan sebagai satu-satunya tokoh yang mengalami kematian dalam drama itu. Yah, memang sih Jack merupakan teman yang menyebalkan. Namun apa tega kawan-kawannya membiarkan Jack dijemput maut tanpa ada perlawanan?]]> 145 Tessia Clarisa's Library 2 fantasteen 2.92 Kutukan Naskah Drama
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]]> <![CDATA[Diary of MARCH: THE FINAL TRUTH (Diary of MARCH, #2)]]> 41079667
Ketika hantu wanita itu gentayangan, dia tidak secara sederhana memaksa kami menguak mengapa dia meninggal dunia. Tidak, ini lebih rumit daripada itu. Ada rentetan dusta yang harus kami gali satu per satu. Mendengar semua saksi kunci dibantai habis. Bahkan aku tak mampu dilihat oleh manusia juga hantu, sementara aku harus mengorek informasi dari mereka. Semuanya semakin sulit ketika aku kembali ke masa depan dan ... tak satu pun orang percaya padaku.]]> 144 Fransisca Intan 6022429471 Clarisa's Library 3 3.73 2016 Diary of MARCH: THE FINAL TRUTH (Diary of MARCH, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Diary of MARCH (Diary of MARCH, #1)]]> 41079613
Lalu, teror datang. Siapa pun yang menyentuh buku harian itu akan dicakar ketika melewati lorong angker. Dia juga akan disapa ketika becermin, dihantui pantulan tak wajar dari balik kaca. Belum lagi diganggu burung gagak hitam yang mencoba bicara. Lilitan rambut akan membelit pergelangan tangannya. Semuanya ulah sesosok wanita berambut panjang, pirang, bergaun putih, dan mengacungkan pisau.

Alex mengalami itu semua. Bahkan kelima sahabatnya mengalaminya pula. Dia tidak punya pilihan selain menyeret kalian ke dalam kejadian-kejadian di luar nalar, menuju masa di mana semua teror itu bersumber...

... pada akhir abad ke-19.]]> 140 Fransisca Intan 6022429463 Clarisa's Library 3 fantasteen 3.69 2016 Diary of MARCH (Diary of MARCH, #1)
author: Fransisca Intan
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> Fantasteen: Lucid Dream 22926237

Aku menceritakan hal ini kepada teman-temanku, tapi mereka malah ketakutan. Kemudian, mereka mulai mengataiku sinting. Dan parahnya, kini aku sendirian. Teman-temanku yang manusia ternyata lebih mengerikan daripada makhluk halus yang kuhadapi. Masih lebih baik satpam tanpa kepala yang kutemui di koridor, atau guru IPA yang kepalanya di laboratorium ... atau ... siswa yang lehernya tergantung di ruang musik. Satu-satunya manusia yang waras adalah Chris. Dia tercipta sama denganku. Bahkan, kemampuan supernaturalnya lebih keren daripada aku. Kami berdua sepakat untuk menguak rahasia kemampuan aneh kami. Namun, semakin banyak kami mencari informasi, semakin banyak makhluk halus gentayangan yang menyerang kami. Haruskah kami lanjutkan? Eh, tunggu .. apa itu di belakangmu?]]> 168 6022421918 Clarisa's Library 0 4.27 2013 Fantasteen: Lucid Dream
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]]> Teru Teru Bozu 24109402
Atau kamu menggantung satu boneka itu di depan jendela kamarmu? Tentunya kamu tahu untuk apa benda itu ada di sana.

Namun aku yakin, kamu tidak pernah menyangka cerita mengerikan apa yang bisa teru teru bozu hamparkan
di hadapanmu. Kamu mungkin akan terkesiap ketika tahu teru-teru bozu di sekolahku punya kisah yang berbeda.

Lupakan teru teru bozu sebagai boneka pengusir hujan.
Di sekolahku, teru teru bozu meminta nyawa.

Kalau kamu berani membaca buku ini, kamu harus siap menemukan sesosok tubuh tersembunyi di balik kain putih yang berkibar. Bukan isian bulu angsa atau kain perca.]]> 192 602242481X Clarisa's Library 0 4.05 2014 Teru Teru Bozu
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]]> Jakarta Sebelum Pagi 34311766
Mawar, hyacinth biru, dan melati. Dibawa balon perak, tiga bunga ini diantar setiap hari ke balkon apartemen Emina. Tanpa pengirim, tanpa pesan; hanya kemungkinan adanya stalker mencurigakan yang tahu alamat tempat tinggalnya.

Ketika—tanpa rasa takut—Emina mencoba menelusuri jejak sang stalker, pencariannya mengantarkan dirinya kepada gadis kecil misterius di toko bunga, kamar apartemen sebelah tanpa suara, dan setumpuk surat cinta berisi kisah yang terlewat di hadapan bangunan-bangunan tua Kota Jakarta.]]> 280 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.33 2016 Jakarta Sebelum Pagi
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> A Room of One’s Own 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf Clarisa's Library 0 to-read, next-month-tbr-lists 4.22 1929 A Room of One’s Own
author: Virginia Woolf
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]]> <![CDATA[Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)]]> 56980548 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love. Now, they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence.

Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can’t go back. Suddenly he finds himself reaching out to new friends, standing up to bullies of all kinds, and making his voice heard. And, always, there is Dante, dreamy, witty Dante, who can get on Ari’s nerves and fill him with desire all at once.

The boys are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn’t understand them. But when Ari is faced with a shocking loss, he’ll have to fight like never before to create a life that is truthfully, joyfully his own.

The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an achingly romantic, tender tale sure to captivate fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H.K. Choi.]]> 516 Benjamin Alire Sáenz 153449619X Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.11 2021 Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)]]> 12000020
But against all odds, when Ari and Dante meet, they develop a special bond that will teach them the most important truths of their lives, and help define the people they want to be. But there are big hurdles in their way, and only by believing in each other—and the power of their friendship—can Ari and Dante emerge stronger on the other side.]]> 390 Benjamin Alire Sáenz 1442408928 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.29 2012 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso]]> 6656 This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.]]> 798 Dante Alighieri 0679433139 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.08 1320 The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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]]> Inferno 15645
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with scholars, teachers, and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.

Esolen's edition also provides a critical ntroduction and endnotes, with appendices containing Dante's most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and beyond —that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.

Verse Translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré]]> 490 Dante Alighieri 0812970063 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.02 1320 Inferno
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs]]> 94578 "[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche's thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art." —Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.

Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published.

Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.]]> 396 Friedrich Nietzsche 0394719859 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.29 1882 The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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]]> The Birth of Tragedy 2823 The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism.]]> 121 Friedrich Nietzsche 0140433392 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.01 1871 The Birth of Tragedy
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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]]> The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 329866 32 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1419160222 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.15 1877 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> Notes from Underground 49455 Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Clarisa's Library 4 to-read, classics 4.21 1864 Notes from Underground
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> The Idiot 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.22 1869 The Idiot
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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]]> Notes from the Underground 436982 Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov � Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821�1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes � moral, religious, political and social � that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.]]> 96 Fyodor Dostoevsky Clarisa's Library 4 4.08 1864 Notes from the Underground
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 1864
rating: 4
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A story that beautifully depicts nihilism. A book that criticize the hypocrisy of the society, the nature of human ambition, and existentialism crisis of human existence. Despite its plot that scatters all over the places, I am very amazed by how Fyodor Dostoevsky is able to write such commentary in only roughly 96 pages. Well Done!
]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.� But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 194 Ray Bradbury Clarisa's Library 5
A book that talks about books

Fahrenheit 451 is that type of book that made you want to sit for hours and do nothing, but to read and anticipate what's coming next. Ray Bradbury succeed in making such work of art. Inside, we are given the social reality of a utopian society that hates book because they think that books are the source of all kinds of sorrows and miseries in this world. Montag, the main character of the book, is a fireman whom his work is to burn books possessed by people-rebels that is. However, after encountering Clarisse who thought differently than other people in that community, Montag began questioning his life: his marriage, his happiness, and his existence. He began to feel wary and curious about the reasons why fireman burn books. What does book-a thing that cannot breathes and lives-possessed that made it to be a threat to the society. It's unhinged how one spark of curiosity could altered the brain of human completely. This book is not only a literary work, but a commentary, and perhaps prediction or crituqe, Ray Bradbury states against government who manipulates information and banned certain books because they thought it has ideals that can corrupt the society. My experience in reading the book has been enthralling, and I cannot stop myself from loving this book over and over again. Truly, a masterpiece! ]]> 3.97 1953 Fahrenheit 451
author: Ray Bradbury
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1953
rating: 5
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4.8/5

A book that talks about books

Fahrenheit 451 is that type of book that made you want to sit for hours and do nothing, but to read and anticipate what's coming next. Ray Bradbury succeed in making such work of art. Inside, we are given the social reality of a utopian society that hates book because they think that books are the source of all kinds of sorrows and miseries in this world. Montag, the main character of the book, is a fireman whom his work is to burn books possessed by people-rebels that is. However, after encountering Clarisse who thought differently than other people in that community, Montag began questioning his life: his marriage, his happiness, and his existence. He began to feel wary and curious about the reasons why fireman burn books. What does book-a thing that cannot breathes and lives-possessed that made it to be a threat to the society. It's unhinged how one spark of curiosity could altered the brain of human completely. This book is not only a literary work, but a commentary, and perhaps prediction or crituqe, Ray Bradbury states against government who manipulates information and banned certain books because they thought it has ideals that can corrupt the society. My experience in reading the book has been enthralling, and I cannot stop myself from loving this book over and over again. Truly, a masterpiece!
]]> The Road 6288
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.99 2006 The Road
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]]> Perempuan di Titik Nol 1341023
Lewat pelacur ini, kita justru bisa menguak kebobrokan masyarakat yang didominasi kaum lelaki. Sebuah kritik sosial yang amat pedas!

Novel ini didasari pada kisah nyata. Ditulis oleh Nawal el-Saadawi, seorang penulis feminis dari Mesir dengan reputasi Internasional]]> 200 Nawal El Saadawi 9794610402 Clarisa's Library 5 4.19 1975 Perempuan di Titik Nol
author: Nawal El Saadawi
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1975
rating: 5
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Clarisa's Library 3 classics, english-literature
The story itself used a beautifully sophisticated language in describing its people thoughts, characteristics, and storylines in general. However, the overly descriptive words are simply unnecessary, and it also made the whole reading process became lengthy. The story itself has no deliberate plot; it is as if I'm trying to read the story of two person who were enemies entangled in their bickering and thwarting, and somehow ended up falling in love together. I don't really understand the process in which both Elizabeth and Darcy could fall in love, as most of the content of the story is describing the life and love stories of other relationships. It's just weird to read the whole story is supposed to be the love story between Darcy and Elizabeth, yet they barely had even any chance to interact with each other. A solid 3/5, I could actually give an even worse rating, but Elizabeth's stubbornness spoke trough my soul, so I gave higher rating only because of the character. ]]> 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 1813
rating: 3
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3/5

The story itself used a beautifully sophisticated language in describing its people thoughts, characteristics, and storylines in general. However, the overly descriptive words are simply unnecessary, and it also made the whole reading process became lengthy. The story itself has no deliberate plot; it is as if I'm trying to read the story of two person who were enemies entangled in their bickering and thwarting, and somehow ended up falling in love together. I don't really understand the process in which both Elizabeth and Darcy could fall in love, as most of the content of the story is describing the life and love stories of other relationships. It's just weird to read the whole story is supposed to be the love story between Darcy and Elizabeth, yet they barely had even any chance to interact with each other. A solid 3/5, I could actually give an even worse rating, but Elizabeth's stubbornness spoke trough my soul, so I gave higher rating only because of the character.
]]> <![CDATA[Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail]]> 52962238
A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realization sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.

In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle� that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. He reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.]]> 576 Ray Dalio 1982160276 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.26 2021 Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
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]]> Capitalism and Freedom 51877 Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek

“Kendi meslektaşlarının düşünüş şeklini büyük ölçüde değiştirebilen bir profesör çok nadirdir. Dünyanın değişmesine etki edeni daha da nadirdir. Friedman ikisini de başardı.�
Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük’ün ilk baskısı 1962 yılında yayınlandığında, Büyük Buhran’ın acı hatıraları Amerikan halkının önemli bir kısmının hafızasında halen canlıydı. O dönemde, entelektüellerin yanı sıra hem Cumhuriyetçi hem Demokrat siyasetçilerin de tercihleri Keynesyen politikalardı. Böyle bir atmosferde yayınlanan Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük’te Friedman, devlet müdahalesinin niyet edilmemiş kötü sonuçlarına dikkat çekti. Rekabetçi kapitalizmin teorik ve pratik üstünlüklerini açık ve kuvvetli bir şekilde izah etti.

Friedman, bu kitapta, ekonomik özgürlükler ile siyasî özgürlükler arasındaki bağıntıyı net bir şekilde ortaya koymuştur. Friedman’ın iktisat felsefesinde merkezî bir tema olan rekabetçi kapitalizm, hem iktisadî özgürlüğe ulaşmak için bir araç hem de siyasî özgürlük için gerekli bir koşuldur.

Güncelliğini o zamandan bu yana dünyanın pek çok yerinde koruyan önemli pratik konulara rekabetçi kapitalizm perspektifinden yaklaşımlar sunan Friedman, devletin, duhul ettiği alanlardaki olumsuz etkilerini araştırmış ve bunlara çözüm önerileri getirmiştir. Devlet müdahalesinin etkilerinin yoğun bir şekilde hissedildiği uluslararası ticaret, malî politika, eğitim sistemi, ayrımcılık, tekeller, ruhsatlandırma, gelir dağılımı, sosyal refah politikaları ve yoksulluk gibi konular bu kitabın odaklandığı alanlardandır.

Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük, 20. Yüzyıl’ın en etkili ve etkileyici kitaplarından birisi olarak gösterilmektedir. İlk edisyonundan sonra birkaç kez revize edilen kitap, onlarca dile çevrilmiş, tüm dünyada yüzbinlerce okura ulaşmıştır. Kitap, birçok ülkenin iktisat politikasını etkileyen fikirleri yaymasının yanı sıra Friedman’ın 1976 yılında Nobel İktisat Ödülü almasında etkili olmuştur.]]> 208 Milton Friedman 0226264211 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.90 1962 Capitalism and Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[so big edna ferber: classic novel]]> 65823612 So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother". Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High Prairie, IL. Her father had told her that life is an adventure, and one should make the most of it.

Selina sees beauty everywhere, including in the fields of cabbages. She has a natural curiosity about farming and oversteps the woman's traditional role by having the audacity to ask the men questions. She soon marries Pervus DeJong, a farmer. Selina eagerly offers suggestions for operational improvements, but Pervus ignores her, preferring to use the unprofitable farming methods employed by his father.

Though she suffers many hardships, Selina always remembers the importance of beauty, and she admires those who exercise their creative talents. She tries to instill these views in her son Dirk and fights with her husband over the need for their child to get a full education. Once Dirk finishes college and starts work, will he retain Selina's values?

So Big was the first book to have the rare distinction of being the best-selling book of the year and win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.]]> 218 Edna Ferber Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.00 1924 so big edna ferber: classic novel
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]]> <![CDATA[We Have Always Lived in the Castle]]> 89724 Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.]]> 152 Shirley Jackson 0143039970 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.93 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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]]> The Social Contract 12651
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract�, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.]]> 168 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0143037498 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.80 1762 The Social Contract
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]]> The Undercover Economist 70420
New to this edition : This revised edition, newly updated to consider the banking crisis and economic turbulence of the last four years, is essential for anyone who has wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. Senior columnist for the Financial Times Tim Harford brings his experience and insight as he ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains--to name just a few--are vacuuming money from our wallets. Harford punctures the myths surrounding some of today's biggest controversies, including the high cost of health-care; he reveals why certain environmental laws can put a smile on a landlord's face; and he explains why some industries can have high profits for innocent reasons, while in other industries something sinister is going on.

Covering an array of economic concepts including scarce resources, market power, efficiency, price gouging, market failure, inside information, and game theory, Harford sheds light on how these forces shape our day-to-day lives, often without our knowing it. Showing us the world through the eyes of an economist, Tim Harford reveals that everyday events are intricate games of negotiations, contests of strength, and battles of wits. Written with a light touch and sly wit, The Undercover Economist turns "the dismal science" into a true delight.]]> 288 Tim Harford 0195189779 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.81 2005 The Undercover Economist
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]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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]]> <![CDATA[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails]]> 36490332 In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important—and difficult—audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter’s generation stands to inherit.

Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age—and through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.]]> 224 Yanis Varoufakis 0374718431 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.20 2013 Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
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]]> <![CDATA[On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present]]> 13812171 1152 Alan Ryan 0871404656 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.19 2012 On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present
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]]> <![CDATA[Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist]]> 29214420
Kate Raworth, Simit Ekonomisi'nde miras aldığımız tahripkar endüstriyel ekonomileri yenileyici ekonomilere dönüştürmek ve mevcut fikirlerin en iyilerini bir araya getirerek sürekli evrim geçiren yeni bir ekonomik zihniyet yaratmak için yedi hedef ortaya koyuyor.

21. yüzyılın ekonomik düşüncesinin kalbine büyümeden ziyade gelişmeyi, adaleti ve hakkaniyeti yerleştirerek, bize ev sahipliği yapan dünyayı idare etme sanatına sürdürülebilir hedeflerle yön verebileceğimiz yepyeni bir resim çiziyor!]]> 384 Kate Raworth 1847941389 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.17 2017 Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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]]> Debt: The First 5,000 Years 6617037 Before there was money, there was debt.

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion(words like “guilt,� “sin,� and “redemption�) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.]]> 534 David Graeber 1933633867 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.21 2011 Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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]]> <![CDATA[Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union]]> 57615568
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century.

Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.]]> 576 Vladislav M. Zubok 0300257309 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.23 Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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]]> Girl, Interrupted 68783
Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.]]> 169 Susanna Kaysen 0679746048 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.95 1993 Girl, Interrupted
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.04 1942 The Stranger
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]]> The Little Prince 37570461 A 75th Anniversary edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's world-famous classic featuring a new cover and the history and making of this beloved story. ]]> 224 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1328479757 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.49 1943 The Little Prince
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]]> Animal Farm 53246182 128 George Orwell 0241453860 Clarisa's Library 0 4.27 1945 Animal Farm
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 24019191 355 Jeffrey Eugenides 1250074819 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.88 1993 The Virgin Suicides
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]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24583
Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale."

As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

Excerpt:
"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never lookedthroughthem for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll�"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"]]> 244 Mark Twain Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.92 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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]]> A Doll's House 37793

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".

The Student Edition contains these exclusive features:

· A chronology of the playwright's life and work

· An introduction giving the background of the play

· Commentary on themes, characters. language and style

· Notes on individual words and phrases in the text

· Questions for further study

· Bibliography for further reading.

]]> 122 Henrik Ibsen 1406914835 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.76 1879 A Doll's House
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]]> The Yellow Wallpaper 8217236
In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid� wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.

First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

Excerpt:
Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.]]> 63 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper
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]]> <![CDATA[Grimm Tales: For Young and Old]]> 53246188 Grimm Tales of wicked wives, brave children and villainous kings will have you reading, reading aloud and rereading them for many years to come.]]> 448 Philip Pullman 0241472725 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.92 2012 Grimm Tales: For Young and Old
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]]> The Dead Returns 25924054 Untungnya aku selamat.

Namun, saat aku membuka mataku dan menatap cermin,
aku tidak lagi memandang diriku yang biasa-biasa saja.
Tubuhku berganti dengan sosok pemuda tampan yang tadinya hendak menolongku.

Dengan tubuh baruku, aku bertekad mencari pembunuhku.

Tersangkanya, teman sekelas.
Total 35 orang.
Salah satunya adalah pembunuhku.]]> 252 Rikako Akiyoshi 6027742577 Clarisa's Library 2 japanese-literature 3.90 2015 The Dead Returns
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems]]> 51014619
Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable.

In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect and show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of the day. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.]]> 417 Abhijit V. Banerjee Clarisa's Library 0 currently-reading, economics 4.23 2019 Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
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]]> <![CDATA[Economics: A Very Short Introduction]]> 784148
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life. Here, Dasgupta goes beyond the basics to show it's innate effects on our history, culture, and lifestyles.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.]]> 172 Partha Dasgupta 0192853457 Clarisa's Library 0 currently-reading, economics 3.23 2007 Economics: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> Ferris Wheel at Night 58922588 Sang istri menyerahkan diri ke polisi.

Dengan ayah sebagai korban dan ibu sebagai tersangka, bagaimana mendefinisikan anak-anak mereka; anak korban pembunuhan atau anak pembunuh?

Apa peran tetangga setelah kasus terjadi?

Lalu, yang terpenting, mengada ada insiden seperti ini?]]> 428 Kanae Minato 6237351809 Clarisa's Library 3 japanese-literature 3.76 2010 Ferris Wheel at Night
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]]> Penance 31423183 The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma.

When they were children, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into separating from their friend Emily by a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurs: Emily is found murdered hours later.

Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko weren't able to accurately describe the stranger's appearance to the police after Emily's body was discovered. Asako, Emily's mother, curses the surviving girls, vowing that they will pay for her daughter's murder.

Like Confessions, Kanae Minato's award-winning, internationally bestselling debut, Penance is a dark and voice-driven tale of revenge and psychological trauma that will leave readers breathless.]]> 240 Kanae Minato Clarisa's Library 3 japanese-literature 3.83 2009 Penance
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]]> Confessions 19161835 Her pupils killed her daughter.
Now, she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.

But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.

Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions explores the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.]]> 240 Kanae Minato 0316200921 Clarisa's Library 4 japanese-literature 3.5/5 3.91 2008 Confessions
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3.5/5
]]> Silence 36657784
Miyuki dibesarkan di Yuki-no- Shima, sebuah pulau terpencil yang konon dilindungi oleh Simatama-san, dewa penjaga pulau. Miyuki yang bermimpi menjadi artis akhirnya keluar dari pulau itu dan tinggal di Tokyo, meskipun ditentang oleh kedua orangtuanya.

Setelah lama tidak pulang, akhirnya tahun ini Miyuki akan pulang bersama dengan Toshiaki, kekasihnya. Meski awalnya Miyuki tidak menyadarinya, tapi sepertinya Simatama-san tahu ada yang tidak beres dengan Toshiaki.

Apa pun yang terjadi, Shimatama-san pasti melindunginya, kan?]]> 328 Rikako Akiyoshi 6026383387 Clarisa's Library 2 japanese-literature
What is this? Just what is this? I'm too flabbergasted to utter anymore words]]> 3.47 Silence
author: Rikako Akiyoshi
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.47
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
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1.5/5

What is this? Just what is this? I'm too flabbergasted to utter anymore words
]]> Girls in the Dark 22432940
Gadis itu mati.
Ketua Klub Sastra, Shiraishi Itsumi, mati.
Di tangannya ada setangkai bunga lily.

Pembunuhan? Bunuh diri?
Tidak ada yang tahu.
Satu dari enam gadis anggota Klub Sastra digosipkan sebagai pembunuh gadis cantik berkarisma itu.

Seminggu sesudahnya, Klub Sastra mengadakan pertemuan. Mereka ingin mengenang mantan ketua mereka dengan sebuah cerita pendek. Namun ternyata, cerita pendek yang mereka buat adalah analisis masing-masing tentang siapa pembunuh yang sebenarnya. Keenam gadis itu bergantian membaca analisis mereka, tapi....

Kau... pernah berpikir ingin membunuh seseorang?]]> 284 Rikako Akiyoshi 6027742313 Clarisa's Library 3 japanese-literature
The plot to me is confusing, although many agree that it has a good storyline. Aside from that, I feel that the psychological horror in this book to be not enjoyable. 2.5/5 that is. ]]> 4.28 2013 Girls in the Dark
author: Rikako Akiyoshi
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
shelves: japanese-literature
review:
2.5/5

The plot to me is confusing, although many agree that it has a good storyline. Aside from that, I feel that the psychological horror in this book to be not enjoyable. 2.5/5 that is.
]]> Absolute Justice 40118425 268 Rikako Akiyoshi 6025186014 Clarisa's Library 5 japanese-literature
OKAY

Let me make myself clear: THIS IS A VERY GOOD STORY EVER!. The plot is original and you find it nowhere in other author. How it twisted Justice to become a sinister character in a person is truly outstanding. It is hard to find a psychological thriller that I really like. This is a type of book that I would read 10 times! Super recommended]]> 4.27 2016 Absolute Justice
author: Rikako Akiyoshi
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
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review:
5/5

OKAY

Let me make myself clear: THIS IS A VERY GOOD STORY EVER!. The plot is original and you find it nowhere in other author. How it twisted Justice to become a sinister character in a person is truly outstanding. It is hard to find a psychological thriller that I really like. This is a type of book that I would read 10 times! Super recommended
]]> Giselle 43832381
Lima belas tahun kemudian, sebagai perayaan ulang tahun Tokyo Grand Ballet, "Giselle" diputuskan untuk ditampilkan kembali.

Akan tetapi, saat mereka mulai mempersiapkan pertunjukkan, arwah Mayumi mulai muncul. Berbagai kecelakaan dan kejadian nahas pun terjadi beruntun.

Sebenarnya mengapa arwah Mayumi kembali? Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi lima belas tahun silam?]]> 400 Rikako Akiyoshi 6025297290 Clarisa's Library 3 japanese-literature 3/5 <br /><br /> 4.03 Giselle
author: Rikako Akiyoshi
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.03
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
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review:
3/5


]]> <![CDATA[The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore]]> 201751300 An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations

Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see those stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.

Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including The Strand, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who appeared to sign books at Marshall Field’s in 1944.

The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.]]> 416 Evan Friss 0593299922 Clarisa's Library 3 3.93 2024 The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
author: Evan Friss
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2023/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
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]]> Bintang 35278713
Namaku Raib, aku bisa menghilang. Seli, teman semejaku, bisa mengeluarkan petir dari telapak tangannya. Dan Ali, si biang kerok sekaligus si genius, bisa berubah menjadi beruang raksasa. Kami bertiga kemudian bertualang ke dunia paralel yang tidak diketahui banyak orang, yang disebut Klan Bumi, Klan Bulan, Klan Matahari, dan Klan Bintang. Kami bertemu tokoh-tokoh hebat. Penduduk klan lain.

Ini petualangan keempat kami. Setelah tiga kali berhasil menyelamatkan dunia paralel dari kehancuran besar, kami harus menyaksikan bahwa kamilah yang melepaskan “musuh besar�-nya.
Ini ternyata bukan akhir petualangan, ini justru awal dari semuanya�
Buku keempat dari serial “BUMI”]]> 392 Tere Liye 6020351173 Clarisa's Library 2 4.42 2017 Bintang
author: Tere Liye
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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]]> Matahari 30827710 390 Tere Liye 602033211X Clarisa's Library 3 4.43 2016 Matahari
author: Tere Liye
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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]]> Bulan 24946146
Tetapi ada sebuah rahasia kecil Seli yang tidak pernah diketahui siapa pun. Sesuatu yang dia simpan sendiri sejak kecil. Sesuatu yang menakjubkan dengan tangannya.

Namanya Seli. Dan tangannya bisa mengeluarkan petir.]]> 400 Tere Liye 6020314111 Clarisa's Library 3 4.44 2015 Bulan
author: Tere Liye
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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]]> Bumi 18759843
Aku sama seperti remaja kebanyakan, kecuali satu hal. Sesuatu yang kusimpan sendiri sejak kecil. Sesuatu yang menakjubkan.

Namaku, Raib. Dan aku bisa menghilang.]]> 440 Tere Liye 6020301125 Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature 4.31 2014 Bumi
author: Tere Liye
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> Negeri 5 Menara 6688121
Tiba-tiba saja dia harus naik bus tiga hari tiga malam melintasi punggung Sumatera dan Jawa menuju sebuah desa di pelosok Jawa Timur. Ibunya ingin dia menjadi Buya Hamka walau Alif ingin menjadi Habibie. Dengan setengah hati dia mengikuti perintah Ibunya: belajar di pondok.

Di kelas hari pertamanya di Pondok Madani (PM), Alif terkesima dengan “mantera� sakti man jadda wajada. Siapa yang bersungguh-sungguh pasti sukses.

Dia terheran-heran mendengar komentator sepakbola berbahasa Arab, anak menggigau dalam bahasa Inggris, merinding mendengar ribuan orang melagukan Syair Abu Nawas dan terkesan melihat pondoknya setiap pagi seperti melayang di udara.

Dipersatukan oleh hukuman jewer berantai, Alif berteman dekat dengan Raja dari Medan, Said dari Surabaya, Dulmajid dari Sumenep, Atang dari Bandung dan Baso dari Gowa. Di bawah menara masjid yang menjulang, mereka berenam kerap menunggu maghrib sambil menatap awan lembayung yang berarak pulang ke ufuk. Di mata belia mereka, awan-awan itu menjelma menjadi negara dan benua impian masing-masing. Kemana impian jiwa muda ini membawa mereka? Mereka tidak tahu. Yang mereka tahu adalah: Jangan pernah remehkan impian, walau setinggi apa pun. Tuhan sungguh Maha Mendengar.

Bagaimana perjalanan mereka ke ujung dunia ini dimulai? Siapa horor nomor satu mereka? Apa pengalaman mendebarkan di tengah malam buta di sebelah sungai tempat jin buang anak? Bagaimana sampai ada yang kasak-kusuk menjadi mata-mata misterius? Siapa Princess of Madani yang mereka kejar-kejar? Kenapa mereka harus botak berkilat-kilat? Bagaimana sampai Icuk Sugiarto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ibnu Rusyd, bahkan Maradona sampai akhirnya ikut campur? Ikuti perjalanan hidup yang inspiratif ini langsung dari mata para pelakunya. Negeri Lima Menara adalah buku pertama dari sebuah trilogi.]]> 432 Ahmad Fuadi Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature 3.5/5 4.15 2009 Negeri 5 Menara
author: Ahmad Fuadi
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
shelves: indonesian-literature
review:
3.5/5
]]> <![CDATA[Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)]]> 1398034 nation Indonesia di awal abad ke-20. Dengan membacanya waktu kita dibalikkan sedemikian rupa dan hidup di era membibitnya pergerakan nasional mula-mula, juga pertautan rasa, kegamangan jiwa, percintaan, dan pertarungan kekuatan anonim para srikandi yang mengawal penyemaian bangunan nasional yang kemudian kelak melahirkan Indonesia modern.

Roman bagian pertama; Bumi Manusia, sebagai periode penyemaian dan kegelisahan dimana Minke sebagai aktor sekaligus kreator adalah manusia berdarah priyayi yang semampu mungkin keluar dari kepompong kejawaannya menuju manusia yang bebas dan merdeka, di sudut lain membelah jiwa ke-Eropa-an yang menjadi simbol dan kiblat dari ketinggian pengetahuan dan peradaban.

Pram menggambarkan sebuah adegan antara Minke dengan ayahnya yang sangat sentimentil: Aku mengangkat sembah sebagaimana biasa aku lihat dilakukan punggawa terhadap kakekku dan nenekku dan orangtuaku, waktu lebaran. Dan yang sekarang tak juga kuturunkan sebelum Bupati itu duduk enak di tempatnya. Dalam mengangkat sembah serasa hilang seluruh ilmu dan pengetahuan yang kupelajari tahun demi tahun belakangan ini. Hilang indahnya dunia sebagaimana dijanjikan oleh kemajuan ilmu .... Sembah pengagungan pada leluhur dan pembesar melalui perendahan dan penghinaan diri! Sampai sedatar tanah kalau mungkin! Uh, anak-cucuku tak kurelakan menjalani kehinaan ini.

"Kita kalah, Ma," bisikku.

"Kita telah melawan, Nak, Nyo, sebaik-baiknya, sehormat-hormatnya."]]> 535 Pramoedya Ananta Toer 9799731232 Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature
The vivid depiction of VOC regime in Indonesia is well-written. Bumi Manusia is one of the best Indonesian classic literature ever made. It showcases oppression faced by "pribumi" or Indonesian during the occupation of Dutch in Indonesia. It also tell you the story of "gundik" or Indonesian second wives of the Dutch people. It is a tragic love story, filled with struggles of its main characters in achieving/retrieving of what supposed to be theirs. However, the lengthy chapter and excessive description of its characters' thoughts and plot made it very boring at some times. Some of the words are also hard to digest (even for Indonesian-bred like me), because the use of the vocabs that are different from today's language. Hence, due to all of this considerations I choose to give it 4/5. Well Done!]]> 4.48 1980 Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.48
book published: 1980
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/01
date added: 2025/01/17
shelves: indonesian-literature
review:
4/5

The vivid depiction of VOC regime in Indonesia is well-written. Bumi Manusia is one of the best Indonesian classic literature ever made. It showcases oppression faced by "pribumi" or Indonesian during the occupation of Dutch in Indonesia. It also tell you the story of "gundik" or Indonesian second wives of the Dutch people. It is a tragic love story, filled with struggles of its main characters in achieving/retrieving of what supposed to be theirs. However, the lengthy chapter and excessive description of its characters' thoughts and plot made it very boring at some times. Some of the words are also hard to digest (even for Indonesian-bred like me), because the use of the vocabs that are different from today's language. Hence, due to all of this considerations I choose to give it 4/5. Well Done!
]]> Fantasteen Scary: Hot Seat 57519758
Ada korban jiwa pada malam itu. Sejak itu Ariel berubah. Dia harus menjadi penanggung jawab hidup yang penuh kemalangan. Mampukah Ariel menjalani sisa masa remajanya?]]> 186 Nabilla Anasty 6024200889 Clarisa's Library 0 3.64 Fantasteen Scary: Hot Seat
author: Nabilla Anasty
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.64
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]]> Fantasteen Scary : VE 60832797
Kimberly tidak menyadari bahwa mimpi-mimpi buruknya, semua peristiwa yang telah terjadi di sekolahnya, kematian demi kematian yang telah merenggut satu per satu temannya, ada kaitannya dengan dirinya, dengan piama yang diberikan oleh Zoe sebagai hadiah untuknya.

Saat dia menyadari, semuanya sudah terlambat. Dia ingin memutar kembali waktu. Dia berharap bisa kembali ke masa sebelum dia memasuki kamar itu. Kamar yang telah mengubahnya menjadi sosok yang paling mengerikan.]]> 152 Akbar Suganda 6022427649 Clarisa's Library 3 3.71 Fantasteen Scary : VE
author: Akbar Suganda
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.71
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]]> <![CDATA[Fantasteen Deluxe : Haunted School]]> 60832814
Namun, setelah dia melihat perempuan berwajah pucat dibalik pohon besar, menyaksikan beberapa siswa meninggal ketika menaiki tangga lantai tiga, dan mengetahui bahwa lantai empat terlarang untuk di kunjungi, Steven mulai memercayai peringatan Robert. Canserstoom tidak aman.

Steven harus pindah ke Ripperpuff. Lagi-lagi Robert berpesan, “Hentikan perempuan itu! Hanya kamu yang bisa menghentikannya. Nyawamu dalam bahaya besar!� Ada apa sebenarnya? Siapa perempuan itu? Bagaimana Steven menghentikan perempuan itu?]]> 280 Akbar Suganda 6024202873 Clarisa's Library 3 3.80 Fantasteen Deluxe : Haunted School
author: Akbar Suganda
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.80
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]]> Awal dan Mira 16067931 Karya Utuy ini pernah mendapat penghargaan dari B.M.K.N sebagai naskah drama terbaik di tahun 1952.

"Kan didjaman sekarang ini banjak padukatuan jang didjaman peperangan pada bersembunji takut mati, tiba-tiba sekarang muntjul dengan kedudukannja jang hebat-hebat, sangking hebatnja merasa perlu mempunjai bini dua tiga"
(AWAL & MIRA, halaman 17)]]> 45 Utuy Tatang Sontani Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature 3.5/5 3.98 1952 Awal dan Mira
author: Utuy Tatang Sontani
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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review:
3.5/5
]]> <![CDATA[Janur Ireng (Trilogi Sewu Dino, #2)]]> 54484774 Di panggung, tampak seorang perempuan cantik duduk mengenakan baju khas pernikahan Jawa.

Pernikahan siapa ini?

Gong ditabuh dengan keras. Rombongan mempelai pria datang, tapi Sugik tak dapat melihat wajah sang mempelai. Ketika rombongan itu menginjakkan kaki di karpet merah, suara keramaian tiba-tiba berhenti.

Hening.

Seseorang di samping Sugik terbatuk-batuk, lalu muntah darah. Sugik terkesiap mundur melihat semua tamu seperti kesurupan. Orang-orang berteriak, para pemain gamelan membentur-benturkan kepalanya, para perempuan menjambaki rambut dan mencakar-cakar wajah.

Di tengah keriuhan itu, akhirnya Sugik dapat melihat sosok mempelai pria. Ia berdiri gagah dengan pakaian khas Jawa. Hanya saja, tidak ada kepala di atas tubuh itu.

Setelah Sewu Dino, Simpleman mengajak kita mundur ke masa ketika semua teror bermula. Tentang legenda tujuh keluarga yang memperebutkan puncak kehormatan dengan tak sedikit nyawa dikorbankan. Rahasia besar akan terkuak, seiring dengan munculnya pertanyaan-pertanyaan baru yang kian menyesatkan.]]> 296 SimpleMan 9786022203 Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature
The amount of horror in this triology is noteworthy of a huge applause. The gore and the depiction of sadism of people doing witchcraft pracitces is very vivid. Reading this book sends chills down my spine. ]]> 4.34 Janur Ireng (Trilogi Sewu Dino, #2)
author: SimpleMan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.34
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/01
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: indonesian-literature
review:
3.5/5

The amount of horror in this triology is noteworthy of a huge applause. The gore and the depiction of sadism of people doing witchcraft pracitces is very vivid. Reading this book sends chills down my spine.
]]> Ranjat Kembang 57691050
Menceritakan 3 kisah sekaligus dari 3 Kudro yaitu Dela Atmojo dalam Kembang Wijayakusuma, Agus dalam Lemah Layat, dan Mira dalam Padusan Pituh.]]> 310 SimpleMan 6022203996 Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature 4/5 4.34 2021 Ranjat Kembang
author: SimpleMan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/01
date added: 2025/01/16
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4/5
]]> Sewu Dino 50631924 Tubuhnya kurus dan pucat. Badannya dipenuhi borok dan nanah. Tak hanya itu, perutnya juga besar seperti orang hamil.

Tidak peduli Sri yang ketakutan, Mbak Tamin melanjutkan penjelasannya, “Dia adalah Dela Atmojo, anak yang harus kamu rawat sampai waktunya tiba. Ia dikirimi kutukan santet sewu dino. Santet yang sudah merenggut nyawa hampir seluruh anggota keluarga Atmojo!�
—ĔĔĔĔĔĔĔĔ�
Dari penulis bestseller KKN di Desa Penari, Simpleman kembali dengan kisah klenik tanah Jawa yang terinspirasi dari kisah nyata, Sewu Dino. Tentang santet seribu hari yang dikirim untuk menggerogoti nyawa manusia. Semakin kita pikir telah menemukan jalan keluar, semakin kita merasa tersesat. Sebab cerita ini lebih besar dari yang kamu bayangkan.]]> 230 SimpleMan 6022203481 Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature
I truly love the description of traditional witch practices that's still being used by some Indonesians. The triology is suspenseful and horrifying. Must read!!!]]> 4.06 2019 Sewu Dino
author: SimpleMan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2023/01/01
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: indonesian-literature
review:
4/5

I truly love the description of traditional witch practices that's still being used by some Indonesians. The triology is suspenseful and horrifying. Must read!!!
]]> KKN di Desa Penari 53154120
Siapa yang menari di malam gulita seperti ini?

Tiga puluh menit berlalu, dan atap rumah terlihat samar-samar dengan cahaya yang meski temaram bisa dilihat jelas oleh mata.
"Mbak... kita sudah sampai di desa."

Dari kisah yang menggemparkan dunia maya, KKN di Desa Penari kini diceritakan lewat lembar tulisan yang lebih rinci. Menuturkan kisah Widya, Nur, dan kawan-kawan, serta bagian bagian yang belum pernah dibagikan di mana pun sebelumnya.]]> 256 SimpleMan 6022203333 Clarisa's Library 2 indonesian-literature
It was a dissapointing read. The amount of horror in this book is non-existence, the flow of story is just not grasping and suspenseful. It's a solid definition of a boring so-called horror book. ]]> 3.59 2019 KKN di Desa Penari
author: SimpleMan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2023/01/01
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: indonesian-literature
review:
1.5/5

It was a dissapointing read. The amount of horror in this book is non-existence, the flow of story is just not grasping and suspenseful. It's a solid definition of a boring so-called horror book.
]]> Corat Coret di Toilet 2049232 "Aku tak percaya bapak-bapak anggota dewan, aku lebih percaya kepada dinding toilet."]]> 94 Eka Kurniawan Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature 3.81 2000 Corat Coret di Toilet
author: Eka Kurniawan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> Laut Bercerita 36393774 Jakarta, Maret 1998

Di sebuah senja, di sebuah rumah susun di Jakarta, mahasiswa bernama Biru Laut disergap empat lelaki tak dikenal. Bersama kawan-kawannya, Daniel Tumbuan, Sunu Dyantoro, Alex Perazon, dia dibawa ke sebuah tempat yang tak dikenal. Berbulan-bulan mereka disekap, diinterogasi, dipukul, ditendang, digantung, dan disetrum agar bersedia menjawab satu pertanyaan penting: siapakah yang berdiri di balik gerakan aktivis dan mahasiswa saat itu.

Jakarta, Juni 1998

Keluarga Arya Wibisono, seperti biasa, pada hari Minggu sore memasak bersama, menyediakan makanan kesukaan Biru Laut. Sang ayah akan meletakkan satu piring untuk dirinya, satu piring untuk sang ibu, satu piring untuk Biru Laut, dan satu piring untuk si bungsu Asmara Jati. Mereka duduk menanti dan menanti. Tapi Biru Laut tak kunjung muncul.

Jakarta, 2000

Asmara Jati, adik Biru Laut, beserta Tim Komisi Orang Hilang yang dipimpin Aswin Pradana mencoba mencari jejak mereka yang hilang serta merekam dan mempelajari testimoni mereka yang kembali. Anjani, kekasih Laut, para orangtua dan istri aktivis yang hilang menuntut kejelasan tentang anggota keluarga mereka. Sementara Biru Laut, dari dasar laut yang sunyi bercerita kepada kita, kepada dunia tentang apa yang terjadi pada dirinya dan kawan-kawannya.

Laut Bercerita, novel terbaru Leila S. Chudori, bertutur tentang kisah keluarga yang kehilangan, sekumpulan sahabat yang merasakan kekosongan di dada, sekelompok orang yang gemar menyiksa dan lancar berkhianat, sejumlah keluarga yang mencari kejelasan akan anaknya, dan tentang cinta yang tak akan luntur.]]> 380 Leila S. Chudori 6024246943 Clarisa's Library 5 indonesian-literature
One of the best book I've ever read. The story depicted Indonesian's totalitarianism during the 1998 riot. The fundamental factor of telling the story through the eye of different people affected by the lost of their close ones (because of them being an activist) is truly beautiful. The grief is showcased in such meticulous way, and the message given through this book is truly powerful. What a great read!]]> 4.63 2017 Laut Bercerita
author: Leila S. Chudori
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/01
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: indonesian-literature
review:
4.5/5

One of the best book I've ever read. The story depicted Indonesian's totalitarianism during the 1998 riot. The fundamental factor of telling the story through the eye of different people affected by the lost of their close ones (because of them being an activist) is truly beautiful. The grief is showcased in such meticulous way, and the message given through this book is truly powerful. What a great read!
]]> Carrie Soto Is Back 60435878 Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.

By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.

But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.

At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.

In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.]]> 384 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158687 Clarisa's Library 1 reading-slump 4.19 2022 Carrie Soto Is Back
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2023/12/01
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: reading-slump
review:
This put me on a reading slump. Taylor.... Why?
]]> James 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.46 2024 James
author: Percival Everett
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.46
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rating: 0
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]]> The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy 317764
The action of The Visit takes place in the small town of Guellen, "somewhere in Central Europe." An elderly millionairesse, Claire Zachanassian, returns to Guellen, her home town, after an absence of many years. Merely on the promise of her millions, she shortly turns what has been a depressed area into a boom town. But there is a condition attached to her largess, which the natives of Guellen realize only after they have become enmeshed in her vengeful plot: murder. Out of these elements, Durrenmatt has fashioned a many-leveled play which is at once a macabre parable, a deeply moving tragedy, and a scathing indictment of the power of greed.]]> 109 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 0802130666 Clarisa's Library 4
A great depiction of the power owned by a person with wealth. It is a story about a tragedy, revenge, and societal dysfunctions. The book embodies about racism towards gender roles. However, the difference in this novel is that woman is depicted to have more power and influence than man. I love how this book depicted racism towards gender from the lens of man. They would clearly understand the notion of why gender equality exist through this book. The minus aspects of this book is coming from its story's anecdote (sometimes it doesn't make sense) and the lack of character identity. Overall, it's worth to be read. ]]> 3.93 1956 The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1956
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/02
date added: 2025/01/16
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4/5

A great depiction of the power owned by a person with wealth. It is a story about a tragedy, revenge, and societal dysfunctions. The book embodies about racism towards gender roles. However, the difference in this novel is that woman is depicted to have more power and influence than man. I love how this book depicted racism towards gender from the lens of man. They would clearly understand the notion of why gender equality exist through this book. The minus aspects of this book is coming from its story's anecdote (sometimes it doesn't make sense) and the lack of character identity. Overall, it's worth to be read.
]]> Senyum Karyamin 1302796 Kata Penutup: Sapardi Djoko Damono

Kumpulan cerita pendek ini berisi 13 cerpen Ahmad Tohari yang ditulis antara tahun 1976 dan 1986. Seperti dalam karya-karyanya terdahulu, dalam kumpulan ini pun Tohari menyajikan kehidupan pedesaan dan kehidupan orang-orang kecil yang lugu dan sederhana. Dan sebagaimana dikatakan dalam “Prakata�, kekuatan Tohari “terletak pada latar alam pedesaan yang sarat dengan dunia flora dan fauna�.

Selain itu, gaya bahasa Tohari “lugas, jernih, tapi juga sederhana, di samping kuatnya gaya bahasa metafora dan ironi�.]]> 73 Ahmad Tohari 979403603X Clarisa's Library 4 indonesian-literature 4.04 1989 Senyum Karyamin
author: Ahmad Tohari
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/10
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: indonesian-literature
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]]> <![CDATA[The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)]]> 12893742 406 Rick Riordan 1423140575 Clarisa's Library 3 2025, adventerous 4.27 2012 The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/16
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: 2025, adventerous
review:
The Kane Chronicles is the definition of adventurous. The way it tells the story of the kane siblings (Carter and Sadie) is very interesting, and its writing style is truly addictive. However, the character development of these two seemed forced, there is no exact point why suddenly Carter and Sadie got their powers, and even if they do, I don't think that the particular event is noteworthy of a big character change/development. Next, the storyline, I don't understand why everything is such in a fast paced. They've only been in the Brooklyn House for a year, then suddenly they got this blastful and magical power. The plot, again is too unrealistic and boring. Surely, not my cup of tea. Then, The romance. The romance in this story is predictable and cliché, I would never understand why Rick would paired a 14/15 year old child with a thousand years old god (and the ending of merging 2 boys into one so that Sadie won't have to choose.. Oh No! Never It's too disgusting to be described in words). I, in particular, don't enjoy such romance trope and gap. The love story of the two main characters, for me, is a nuance sometimes. For example, at times where Carter and Sadie need to be focused, their crush on other people caused them to be distracted and it hindered the flow of the story. The character developments that's forced, romance that's unnecessary and exasperating led me to give this book a 2.5/5.
]]> <![CDATA[Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power]]> 48856308
Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered Islamophobia and solidarity with global struggles, showing that the fight for gendered liberation can change the world for everybody when we refuse to think of it solely as women's work. Including testimonials from Sisters Uncut, migrant groups working for reproductive justice, prison abolitionists and activists involved in the international fight for Kurdish and Palestinian rights, Olufemi emphasises the link between feminism and grassroots organising.

Reclaiming feminism from the clutches of the consumerist, neoliberal model, Feminism, Interrupted shows that when 'feminist' is more than a label, it holds the potential for radical transformative work.]]> 148 Lola Olufemi 0745340067 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.43 2020 Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
author: Lola Olufemi
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)]]> 9067850
And now their most threatening enemy yet - the chaos snake Apophis - is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will come to an end. In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family.

To have any chance of battling the Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. But that would be a feat more powerful than any magician has ever accomplished.

First they have to search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is exactly?

Narrated in two different wisecracking voices, featuring a large cast of new and unforgettable characters, and with adventures spanning the globe, this second installment in the Kane Chronicles is nothing short of a thrill ride.]]> 452 Rick Riordan 1423140567 Clarisa's Library 4 2025 4.18 2011 The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: 2025
review:
This book is just... CHEF KISS! I love Riordan's writing style so much. The book is easy to read, highly recommended for those who want to start reading. The adventure undergone by the kane siblings fighting Apophis is really exciting. Truly a book that gets me out of my reading slump. However, I do have some *ick* about the romance trope between sadie and anubis. It's cute, but the fact that Anubis is thousands of years god doesn't sit right in my head. Though, it's still is a great book to read.
]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Clarisa's Library 4 2025 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
author: Harper Lee
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1960
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/03
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2025
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The way Harper Lee created a pathaway for me to see how racism is being constructed inside of the society always kept me going. Harper Lee narrates the story not through the eyes of aduts who understand the consequences of racism, but from a perspective of an innocent white-bred young girl. Her writing was really detrimental in showcasing the hypocrisy and double standards inside of American's community. I had the book for my English A class's reading. I thought at first it was such a boring book because of how lengthy Lee describe the settings, etc. However, when I tried to dig deeper and read harder, It turns out that I love it to death. For those who tried to read this book and gave up in page 100 like how I did, give this book another try honestly!
]]> The Bell Jar 56616095 (back cover)]]> 288 Sylvia Plath 0060837020 Clarisa's Library 5 4.12 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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]]> Normal People 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 Clarisa's Library 1 reading-slump 3.81 2018 Normal People
author: Sally Rooney
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 1
read at: 2024/01/01
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: reading-slump
review:
Oh god, the worst book I have ever read. It has no substances! I've wasted my time reading this. Idk maybe it is just me or anyone felt the same too? It is so bland! Even my dad's joke has more substance than this book. An absolute NO!
]]> <![CDATA[The Reappearance of Rachel Price]]> 182484360
Lights. Camera. Lies.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.

But the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And � could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.]]> 438 Holly Jackson 0593374207 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.09 2024 The Reappearance of Rachel Price
author: Holly Jackson
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> Five Survive 61313902 Eight hours.
Six friends.
One sniper . . .

Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s a sniper out there in the dark watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.

A game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to get help and to work out which member of the group is the target. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels. Not everyone will survive the night.]]> 391 Holly Jackson 0755504402 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.09 2022 Five Survive
author: Holly Jackson
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Where the Sidewalk Ends 30119 Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.

Shel Silverstein, theNew York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.

You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.]]> 176 Shel Silverstein 0060513039 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.34 1974 Where the Sidewalk Ends
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Graphic Novel]]> 3052106 Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world worth having but youth!�

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a graphic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic work, stunningly re-imagined by writer Ian Edginton and artist I.N.J. Culbard. This Gothic morality tale is the story of a man who, taken by his own beauty, pledges his soul in a desperate bid for eternal youth. But when his wish is granted, things go terribly wrong. A painting of Dorian begins to age in his place, while Dorian himself becomes a dangerous narcissist who destroys everyone standing in his way until the day he is forced to come face to face with the ugliness of his own conscience.]]> 122 Ian Edginton 1411415930 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.17 2008 The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Graphic Novel
author: Ian Edginton
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> The Great Gatsby 41733839 here and here.

James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,� it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.95 1925 The Great Gatsby
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1925
rating: 0
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]]> Play It As It Lays 428 Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul - it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
]]> 231 Joan Didion 0374529949 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.94 1970 Play It As It Lays
author: Joan Didion
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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]]> Dead Poets Society 67238 166 N.H. Kleinbaum 0553282980 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.19 1988 Dead Poets Society
author: N.H. Kleinbaum
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> 1984 61439040
Alternate cover edition can be found here.]]> 368 George Orwell 0452284236 Clarisa's Library 5 absolute-5-stars 4.21 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1949
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/01
date added: 2025/01/13
shelves: absolute-5-stars
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]]> Animal Farm / 1984 5472 This edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels�1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Animal Farm is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they? AUTHOR: George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.]]> 400 George Orwell Clarisa's Library 5 absolute-5-stars 4.29 1949 Animal Farm / 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1949
rating: 5
read at: 2023/06/13
date added: 2025/01/13
shelves: absolute-5-stars
review:
Such a beautifully depicted totalitarianism with the use of allegory, symbolism, and many others. An amazing artwork, one of the best book I have ever read truly (and I don't really like most book frankly speaking). Yet, this one captivates me very much. Absolutely one of my favorite work of all time
]]> Animal Farm 170448 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 141 George Orwell 0451526341 Clarisa's Library 5 adventerous, absolute-5-stars 4.07 1945 Animal Farm
author: George Orwell
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1945
rating: 5
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date added: 2025/01/13
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]]> <![CDATA[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]> 113946 "The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason."

Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time.

For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. His "wonderful, awful" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all.

Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. He takes the ramshackle sleigh to Mt. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. But what is that sound? It's not sobbing, but singing! Children simultaneously adore and fear this triumphant, twisted Seussian testimonial to the undaunted cheerfulness of the Whos, the transcendent nature of joy, and of course, the growth potential of a heart that's two sizes too small.

This holiday classic is perfect for reading aloud to your favorite little Whos.]]> 64 Dr. Seuss 0007173040 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.38 1957 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
author: Dr. Seuss
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
author: Markus Zusak
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)]]> 77767
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE is the second book in the Laura Years series.
--back cover]]> 335 Laura Ingalls Wilder Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 4.21 1935 Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1935
rating: 0
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]]> Mrs. Dalloway 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Clarisa's Library 0 to-read 3.80 1925 Mrs. Dalloway
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1925
rating: 0
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Clarisa's Library 5 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Clarisa's Library
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1963
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/14
date added: 2025/01/13
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A straight 5 star. Honestly, when I first read this book back in December 2024, I was having a huge reading slump, so I put this book off and stopped reading it. However, January changes that perspective. I tried to reread this book again. And OH! IT'S SUCH A WORK OF ART. I can't believe how good the flow of the book is, how coherent every word is. Everything here felt beautiful despite its dark and depressing story. I found Sylvia Plath's writing style to be noteworthy and her solid depiction of the bell jar is absolutely beautiful. 5/5 for sure!
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