Flybird's Nest

  Softcover version Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love. Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth. **** Heart the Lover Author : Lily King First Published Year : 2025 Language : English Pages : 246 Genre : Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance Age Recommendation : 17+ (minor sexual content) I was in the mood for reading a page-turner. Despite my long list of to-be-read books i...

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. Now, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages. As she experiences desire and heartbreak in the past, so Riko comes to reconsider her life as a 21st-century woman – as a wife, as a mother, and as a lover – and to ask herself: after loving her husband and loving Mr Takaoka, is she is ready for her third great love? *** The Third Love Author : Hiromi Kawakami First Published in Japan : 2020 First Published in English : 2024 Publisher : Granta Book Language : English Pages : 288 Genre : Literary Fiction  Age recommendation : 18+ (sexual content) Lately, I rarely check the blurbs on the cover...

Versi Softcover N ovel Burung-burung Manyar dapat dibaca sebagai bentuk proyek pasca-kolonial. Novel ini berusaha untuk mencari penyimpangan yang terjadi dalam penulisan sejarah Revolusi Indonesia. Sejarah dalam novel Burung-burung Manyar diceritakan secara mengalir dengan beberapa masukan anekdot. Sejarah tidak disampaikan dengan nada otoriter. Sejarah dicerita melalui kisah cinta seorang yang bekerja mendukung kemerdekaan Indonesia, Larasati, dan Satadewa alias Teto, orang Indonesia yang bekerja dalam angkatan perang Belanda. Menjelang akhir novel, terdapat kejutan yang menggelitik. Teto atau terbangkitkan jiwa nasionalismenya, dengan menjadi relawan membongkar kecurangan perusahaan tempatnya bekerja yang merugikan Indonesia. **** Burung-burung Manyar Penulis : YB Mangunwijaya Tanggal terbit pertama  : 1981 Bahasa : Indonesia Halaman : 405 (terbit 2014) Genre : Historical Fiction, Literature Rekomendasi Usia : 18+ Dulu saat saya masih duduk di bangku sekolah, nama YB Mangunwijaya...

  Paperback version In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens, and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion—Tomoko’s dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family’s patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko’s cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a p...