#144 All Through The Night - Sepanjang Malam

Judul : All Through The Night (Sepanjang Malam)
Penulis : Mary Higgins Clark
Penerbit : PT.Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Tahun terbit : 2005
Tebal buku : 184hal
ISBN : 9796558335
Review :
Tujuh tahun yang lalu, ada seorang ibu muda yang dengan berat hati meninggalkan bayinya di depan gereja di Manhattan. Dengan usia yang masih begitu muda dan karir yang menjanjikan menantinya, ia memutuskan untuk membiarkan anaknya diasuh oleh orang lain. Harapannya adalah umat di pastoran tersebut dapat menemukan bayi mungilnya dan mengasuhnya.

Tapi siapa sangka disaat yang bersamaan ada seorang pencuri yang sedang merampok gereja tersebut. Untuk menghapus kecurigaan polisi, Lenny mendorong kereta bayi tersebut bersamanya. Setelah sampai dirumahnya, ia terkejut karena ternyata ada seorang bayi mungil didalam kereta bayi tersebut. Tak ingin diusir oleh bibinya, Lenny pun berdalih bahwa ia membawa seorang bayi hasil hubungannya dengan wanita yang ia cintai. Muslihatnya berhasil karena bibinya tak jadi mengusirnya dan malah sangat sayang kepada bayi mungilnya.

Tujuh tahun berlalu dan anak itu tumbuh menjadi gadis yang sangat cantik. Dan Lenny bermaksud untuk menjadikannya partner untuk mencuri ketika ia rasa waktunya sudah tepat. Di saat yang bersamaan ibu dari bayi itu kembali ke gereja dimana ia meninggalkan bayinya tujuh tahun yang lalu.

Dikenal sebagai ahli memecahkan misteri, Alvirah dan Willy diminta bantuan untuk menelusuri kasus ini. Berniat mengembalikan bayi tersebut kepada sang ibu, Alvirah pun melakukan pencarian di sekitar gereja dan dengan pelan tapi pasti ia mulai menemukan secercah jawaban.

Ini adalah buku pertama Mary Higgins Clark yang kubaca. Ceritanya cukup bagus, temanya unik, tapi sayang cara penyelesaiannya terlalu mudah sehingga gak dapat gregetnya. Tapi buku ini tetap layak dibaca dan setelah ini saya jadi ingin membaca karya-karya Mary Higgins Clark lainnya.


Happy New Year Eve everyone!

One Happy Day

Me and my best friend, ci Maggie went to Optik Metro today. I had a package to take and we both were craving for bakso Simas which is located beside Medan Plaza. so together with ci Magg and ci Wili, we went to Simas, to have a late lunch , chit-chat and taste the delicious pudding =D

The package that I mentioned before was given by my friend, ci Eka aka tacie as a new year gift ^^v
and since I read mba Mia's review about Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
( you can read it here : http://miamembaca.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/nineteen-minutes-jodie-picoult/),
I've really wanted to buy the book and read it. And I guess 2012 will be a good year to start the reading.

the gift is on the left side.
Tempted (House of Night #6) - P.C.Cast, Kristin Cast
Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

To Catch a Prince - Gillian McKnight
To Catch a Prince - Gillian McKnight.

Last time I said that I want to buy a book or two in the end of the year as an appreciation for myself for  what I had achieved in this year. So, I went to Times Bookstore and bought To Catch a Prince. I love the cover and the synopsis seems promising. Everytime I went to bookstores, it's hard not to buy any. Actually there are two more books that I want to buy, Thirteen Reasons Why and Shatter Me. But after some consideration, I decided to buy this one first. I believe others can wait :)

We didn't stop book-shopping there, and since there is no Gramedia in Medan Fair, we went to Karisma. Apparently, they held a sale clearance and the book prices are about Rp.10.000,00 to Rp.15.000,00. At first, we didn't intend to buy at all, *you guys have to trust me!!*, but in the end, my hand betrayed me and grabbed six books that you can see below.

1. Gangway : Let Me Begin ; Mendadak Benjut - Boim Lebon
2. Kartu Kedua Belas (The Twelfth Card) - Jeffery Deaver
3.Penyelamatan Yang Sia-Sia (Saving Fish From Drowing) - Amy Tan
4.A Brother's Journey : Bertahan Dari Siksaan Masa Kecil - Richard B.Pelzer
5.Weedflower (Bunga Liar) - Cynthia Kadohata
6.Reinkarnasi - Lan Fang

I feel guilty actually. But consider the cheap prices for the six books I bought today, the guilt is suddenly disappeared. >.< Well, like Frank Zappa said,"So many books, so little time." You read a book, you bought three as a replacement, so the question is when exactly will we stop reading? The answer is quite obvious I guess,"Never."

PS : I had a great day with mamak Maggie, it was such a pleasure to spend a day with her.^^ Hope Ci San, Ci Aline ,Ci Yun,etc can join us on the next gath.

Happy Reading!~

#143 Betrayal (Immortal #2) -Gillian Shields

Title : Betrayal ( Immortal #2)
Author : Gillian Shields
Series : immortal series
Publisher : Katherine Tegen Books
edition language : english
Review :
This is the second book of Immortal series. Well, I can't lie to myself and say that his book is awesome, I just can tell that this book is fine. However, I did enjoy reading it. At some point, I keep wondering of why Evie is so crazy about Sebastian. We don't fall in love with ghost, do we? Sebastian isn't a ghost who died last summer. He's been dead for centuries. He's a very old creature. Yet Evie who had fallen in love with him since the book one, always looking for him like every night and forget the risk of being found by teachers there. Love is blind or love is such a fool? Who knows? :)


This time when Evie came back to Wyldcliffe Abbey School, Sebastian wasn't there anymore. He didn't show up no matter how many times she called his name. It leads to the fact that Sebastian was actually dying and helpless. Evie wanted to help him so bad. And lucky her, she has two bestfriends, Sarah and Helen to help her to find a cure to Sebastian. Unlike the other students, Evie and her sisters knew very well about their powers. But their journey don't go smoothly because The Dark Sisters always keep an eye on them. The Dark Sisters are some teachers who are seeking immortality.


And once upon a time, Sebastian had promised them an eternity if they became his followers and gave a life of a girl for him to survive and remain young and powerful in this world. But since Sebastian met Evie, it was all changed. Well, love has its magic,huh? :) Bad guys can change into good guys, and vice versa. But it means chaos to The Dark Sisters. If Sebastian changed his mind, then they will have nothing but mortality. And that means, the war has begun. 

"There are many kinds of betrayals. There are the small ones. The unkind word, the laughter behind someone's back, the petty lies. And there are the betrayals that break hearts, destroy worlds, and turn the strong, sweet light of day into bitter dust."

What is love with a betrayal in it? What is love without trust? 

If you love someone enough, you will leave them for a better good.

#142 Three Weddings and a Kiss

Title : Three Weddings and a Kiss
Sub title : Promises - Lisa Kleypas
Author : Kathleen E.Woodiwiss, Lisa Kleypas, Catherine Anderson, Loretta Chase.
Publisher : Avon
Edition language : english
Review :
So this is an anthology written by those authors I had mentioned above. But I just had a chance to read the Lisa Kleypas, Promises. What I can tell is, although the story is quite short, yet I still love it. The story told about Lidian Acland who was insanely in love with Chance Spencer. The man never showed up,though. But she acted like they had shared some intimate love and she doesn't has any intention to seek another men even though there are so many men who attracted to her. One of them is Lord Eric De Gray.

Lord Eric happened to be the heir of De Gray after his oldest brother passed away. There is no doubt that he has a lot of experiences with women. But when he looked at Lidian, he knew that she was different with any other women that he had seen before. So, although Lidian had told him that she has no interest in seeing other men except Chance, Eric didn't just back off.

In fact, I can tell that he did his best to attract Lidian's attention and gave so much care to her even though what is on her mind is Chance only. But what if she found out that Chance doesn't have the same feeling with her? Will she finally love Eric back? :)

I love Eric so much especially when he said this,"You are still a child, in many ways. But that doesn't stop me from loving you." Aww.so sweet!!

#141 Epic Fail - Claire LaZebnik

Title : Epic Fail
Author : Claire LaZebnik
Publisher : HarperTeen
Total Pages : 288pages
edition language : english
Review :
New school ,new teachers, and new friends. Elise and her sisters, Juliana, Layla, and Kaitlyn have to blend in with all of them. Being a new student make you a bit worry if you will get the right person to be your friend or not. Some are just being nice, some are really care, and the rests don't even put an attention.
and you will be more worried if your mother is a new principal there, and your dad is a teacher there as well.

Elise doesn't feel ashamed of them. No, she doesn't at all. What she really worried about is what if when people begin to notice it, they don't want to be friends anymore with her. I can tell that the worries is unreasonable. If your friends can't accept for who you are then it is clear that they don't deserve to be your friends. As simple as that.

To know that your new school is full of actress and actors' sons and daughters make you look small. Elise feels like want to hide forever when Derek, the movie stars' son sit at the same table with her at lunch time.
Derek is a good-looking and well-educated guy. And he is friends with Chase, Juliana's new crush.
Born as the son of movie stars makes you live a different life from most children. All people want to be friends with Derek, talk with him, and act like they had known Derek for a long time, and it was very irritating for him.

Elise is the first person who doesn't look him in that way. But their relationship is a bit rocky in the beginning because of some arguments. But what kind of relationship that has no arguments at all? =D that's a very sweet of them. 

I love how Elise defend her parents when her friends mock them, and even when Derek accidentally share a bad thought of her mom, she doesn't hesitate to mad at him. Means the girl has a self-control of herself, not like the other girls who will pretend not to hear it, or the worse is participate in the conversation just to get their attention. What a fool.


I have two persons that are so obnoxious and definitely need a slap in the butt and face in this book. You will know soon after you read the first chapter. It isn't hard to notice,though.

Some people say this is a modern pride and prejudice, but poor me, I haven't read pride and prejudice yet T_T the fact that i'm majoring english literature doesn't make me all of a sudden read the book. Hope I'll find some time to read it. Note to myself : I need to read more about literature books. Not that I don't own it, but I haven't found the courage.

Last but not least, i love this book and it's definitely worth to read.