My Favorite Books of 2013 :)

What makes this year (2013) really different for me?

This thing is really make a sense:

The Book of my favorite author Ika Natassa, here are her book that I have read:

 A Very Yuppy wedding,  Divortiare, Twivortiare, Antologi Rasa, Autumn Once More (Critical eleven) :

How, I knew these books?

The first time I knew about this book happened when I was in a middle of a class and sit beside one of my friend named Anik, she brought one of the book above with a title “Twivortiare”. After being in the same class for almost two years we finally knew that both of us are a reader, so we talk about the book that we love. I actually I romance loving, I am one of a billion fans of Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Mark Twain fans (See, you absolutely knew my favorite genre J).  Then Anik told me about one of a genre that I never knew before, which was a “Metropop”, she told me much about it and lend me Twivortiare which was one of the Metropop by Ika Natassa. And then I just read it in about 3 days, and it was absolutely amazing for my first experience to read a Metropop, a really different sense, it was like finding a new window to look at  this life (although is “a not so me” but it was great! :) )

I avowed this book have change some of “Me”.

After finished Twivortiare, I decide to buy “A very Yuppy Wedding”, “Divortiare”, and “Anotologi Rasa” at the same time (I am crazy fall in love with the writing style of the author), and the last is Kumcer Autumn Once More. Ika Natassa, you absolutely AMAZING!!!!:)

Beside the all of the novels, I also love the author, why?

1.       She is really smart and talented (Now she is working in Bank Mandiri as the ) and have won some award.

2.       She is really good at English, read her novels also learning English in a fun way…J

3.       She is really creative and good at painting.

4.       She is cool and gak jaim.

5.       Gak Sombong, I have send an email and ask something yang agak2 personal, diluar dugaan sama sekali, kirain bakalan dicuekin but in a few minutes she replay it and give a really good feedback. In my own experience, Ika Natassa is a second writer yang connect langsung sama pembacanya setelah Shin Abe, yang pas jaman SMA, pas saya lagi gila sama MANGA ngebales email saya dengan sangat “friendly”.

6.       We can follow all of her activity di twitter (jadi bisa asking anything about her project, mulai dari rencana novel, march, dan juga seputar “how to be a good employee” she is really friendly and smart.

7.       LOVE the novels and the author deh pokoknya. Her novels give another perspective in mylife terutama tentang menjadi a good women, harus mampu berdiri sendiri. And some career as a banker.:)

Buat sekarang, lagi pengen cerita tentang her next project buat jadi novel yaitu “Critical 11” yang jadi Cerpen di KUMCER AUTUMN ONCE MORE sama penulis-penulis yang lain.

Critical Eleven ini sangat-sangat keren!:)

Penulisnya sangat tepat menjadikan Cerpen ini jadi kayak pintu gerbang buat mengungkit rasa penasaran dan kelanjutan dan melanjutkan kekerenan ceritanya sampai jadi novelnya nanti. (Really wanna read the novel, but the author janjinya bakal ngepublish novel ini di tahun 2015…L so, I have to wait)

Ceritanya tentang Tanya dan Ale….and the cool friend of Tanya, yaitu Agnes. Tanya dan Ale baru bertemu saat flight ke Jakarta dan selanjutnya akan diceritakan dinovel…L

cerpen critical 11 ini syarat dengan quote2 keren dan masuk akal antara Tanya dan Ale. I love every single words in every pages (Critical Eleven cuma di 85-99), dan alasan mebeli Kumcer ini adalah karena cuma satu judul aja, yaitu Critical eleven ini, jadi pas pertama beli yang langsung dibuka halaman 85 aja.:D

This is some great dialogue of this short story:

 “Toko buku itu bukti nyata bahwa keberagaman selera bisa kumpul di bawah satu atap tanpa harus saling mencela. Yang suka fiksi, komik, politik, masak-memasak, biografi, travelling, semua bisa ngumpul di satu toko buku and find their own thing there. Bookstores are the least discriminative place in the world.”

—	Ika Natassa di cerpen “Critical Eleven”, Autumn Once More. (2013)

 “Waktu adalah satu-satunya hal di dunia ini yang terukur dengan skala yang sama bagi semua orang, tapi memiliki nilai yang berbeda bagi setiap orang.”

—	Ika Natassa di cerpen “Critical Eleven”, Autumn Once More. (2013)

“Expectation is a cruel bastard, isn’t it? It takes away the joy of the present by making us wondering about what will happen next.”

—	Ika Natassa di cerpen “Critical Eleven”, Autumn Once More. (2013)