Flybird's Nest

Attractive cover High Fidelity Identities: Author : Nick Hornby Language : English Publication date : 1995 Publisher : Penguin Books Pages : 253 pgs   R ob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers. Rob tries dating a singer, but maybe it’s just that he’s always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that life with kids, marriage, barbecues, and soft rock CDs might not be so bad. ***   You'd know this guy, or at some point of your life, may be, you were Rob Flemming.  Nama Nick H

Intriguing cover Girl in Pieces Book Information:  Girl in Pieces Author : Kathleen Glasgow Pages : 398 Publisher: Delacorte Press Genre : Young Adult (YA), Psichology thriler ***   Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.    Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.   A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unfl

Lovely Cover of Counting by 7s Counting by 7s Author : Holly Goldberg Sloan Date Published : August 2013 Genre : Young Adult Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.   Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is  not  a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read. **** I know I should stop to read book something like this, dark, sad and lost. Anyway with dark themed, Counting by 7s is quite light and entertaining.

The Boy on the Wooden Box Book ID's Title : The Boy on the Wooden Box Author : Leon Leyson Date Published : Aug 2013 Genre : Memoir **** In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson’s life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory—a list that became world renowned: Schindler’s List. This,

The Book of Forbidden Feelings The Book of Forbidden Feelings Penulis : Lala Bohang Genre : Puisi, ilustrasi Hlmn : 147 Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama Bahasa : Indonesia Cetak kedua, Agustus 2016 *** I wanted to say, "I would love to know your obsessions. Is it landed house, gadgets, power, domestic life, succulent plants, achievements, money, work, more likes and followers, health, validation, sex, organic food, pets, perfect selfies, children, sports, religion, relationship, minimalism, perfection, muscles, urban toys, shoes, travelling, or fame?"  but nobody is prepared for that kind of question on a first dates. So I said, "You look great." *** Sejujurnya saat pertama kali melihat cover buku ini,  saya berfikir ini adalah buku spiritual, buku tentang 7 sifat buruk manusia yang harus dienyahkan, sort of. Ternyata saya salah, buku ini malah bercerita sebaliknya, kumpulan pikiran-pikiran terdalam manusia (perempuan terut

The GrownUp by Gillian Flynn *** A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. “The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one o

The Girl on the Train Massmarket paperback edition The Girl on the Train  Author : Paula Hawkins   Language : English Published : 13 January 2015 (Riverhead, US) Pages : 336 Genre : Fiction, Thriller, Psychology **** EVERY DAY THE SAME Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. UNTIL TODAY And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone