(Book) Lovely, Dark, And Deep by Amy McNamara.

title: Lovely, Dark and Deep
author: Amy McNamara
publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2012
pages: 352 pages
rating: 3 of 5 stars

a sleepy review (laughs shyly).

this book is written beautifully with a "choppy" style. I don't know how to say it, but yeah, this kind of writing style works just fine with me. the only thing that didn't work for me is the main character itself, Wren. I completely understand why she's so unstable, because a lot of things happened in her past and those are not very pleasant. but, it's just too much. the more I read this, the more I felt frustrated. I don't even want to finish this book at first but my curiosity beat me to it and I'm glad I did.

(Book) Lullabies by Lang Leav

title: Lullabies

author: Lang Leav

publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC

pages: 248 pages

rating: 3 of 5 stars

a very short review :)

to be honest, I still enjoyed the first book more than this one. this book feels a lot mature and beautiful but it lacks of something. I'm not sure, it's kind of hard to pointed it out. this book has three chapters in it. chapter one can't seem to make me amazed and the second chapter is just so so. I'm really liking the last chapter, though. it's great, totally a page turner. it's either because I like the strains of a melancholy mournful words or Leav is really that skilled when she writes something in a poetic manner that make me blown away. it's just painfully beautiful to read :)

(Book) By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept by Paulo Coelho

title: By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept

author: Paulo Coelho

publisher: HarperTorch, 2004

pages: 180 pages

rating: 3 of 5 stars

a short review :)

I didn't expect anything when I decided to read this book. I just need to read something light and entertaining but alas it was far from that. There's no such things as a-light-read when it comes to Coelho's books, I guess (laughs). I thought this book's going to talk about first love and its irony but I was wrong, this book's mostly talking about spiritual things and it's kind of confusing for me since I'm not a Christian. So, I find it hard to related to the story.

(Book) Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

title: Veronika Decides To Die

author: Paulo Coelho

publisher: Harper Collins, 2000

pages: 199 pages

rating: 4.5 stars

Veronika is a 24 year-old woman living in an almost perfect life. She's pretty, got a nice job on a library and her parents love her wholeheartedly. What more could she asked for, a husband, perhaps? But no, she has nothing to do with her life anymore. One time she decided that her life was dull enough, there was no meaning at all for her existence and she was tired with her routines. She woke up in the morning, took a shower, had a breakfast at the same cafe, got her job done at the exact same time everyday. She would go to hooked up with whoever guy she met in a pub, slept with them and went back to her apartment. It was always like this, she's someone who hides behind her four walls doing nothing much except her daily routines. She realized that someday her youth will gone and it would be downhill all the way. The world is a cruel place to live in and she has no power to make things right. Thus, she took a lot of sleeping pills to killed herself. Because jumping from the bridge is troublesome, and she didn't want her parents to deal with such terrifying dead of her only daughter.

(Book) Fifty Shades Of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) by E. L. James

title: Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)

author: E. L. James

publisher: Vintage, 2012

pages: 529 pages

rating: 2 stars

It's going to be a short review :)

When a soon to be graduated literature student, Anastasia Steel went to interviewed a young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she never knew that this beautiful guy could make her life upside down. Anastasia is a naive young woman, a virgin, an inexperienced beauty with so much fortunes. How could she not? The interview that should be done by her best friend, Kate, ended up making her and the handsome Christian Grey being in a complicated relationship. Christian Grey didn't do the love thing, but Anastasia wants more. And the talks goes on and on, with the sex within.

(Book) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
author : Mitch Albom
publisher: Hyperion, 2003
pages : 196 pages
rating: 5 stars

it tells the story of an elderly man who died in a crowd in summer. his name is Eddie whose job is maintaining the rides at the Ruby Pier (an amusement park) from years to years to continues his father's job. he never thought the new rides called Freddy's Free Fall would make him killed that day. everything's feel so normal and it suddenly turns into disaster in the blink of an eye. all he want to do was save the little girl that was sprawled upon the ride's metal base. he could feels an exploding impact, sees a blinding flash, feels a little girl's hands in his own, and then nothingness. Eddie then finds himself awake and uninjured. he realizes that he feels young and much more energetic. it's weird but he's happy. he runs and jumps like a kid until someone from his childhood comeback to him.