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Ik ben blij en dankbaar met minn leven! Meski kena food poisoning dan perut kaya dikruwes Mike Tyson dua hari ini tapi well, I still could sip my herbal tea and read. What else can I expect for? Elke dag leker bezig ya kan?! Des ✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2022 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld22 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #ShankariChandran #ChaiTimeatCinnamonGardens #TamilLiterature #Diaspora (at Bangkok, Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkNb4jQL98T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Never Ending Hijrah. Daebaaaaakkk! Dari buku ini kita bisa belajar jadi seorang anak, orangtua, tetangga, dan pengusaha. Menjadi sukses di semuanya. . So much inspiration! Adalah Om Reza dan Tante Silvia pengusaha yg selalu menerapkan sunnah-sunnah Rasulullah saw di negara minoritas muslim. . Om Reza dan tante Silvi yg memilih menjadi perantau di negeri orang, bahkan bisa menjadi peternak sukses di sana, dan tidak meninggalkan nilai-nilai Islam sama sekali. Padahal mereka tinggal di negara yg minoritas muslim. Tapi mereka membuktikan, menjadi minoritas bukanlah penghalang. Justru mereka jadikan itu tantangan bagaimana agar cahaya Islam tetap hidup. Dengan terus menjalin silaturahmi dengan sesama muslim walau beda kewarganegaraan, lalu membentuk komunitas, dan akhirnya bisa membangun masjid satu-satunya di wilayah tsb. . Pastinya Om Reza dan Tante Silvia adalah produk istimewa dari para orangtua yg tak biasa. Karena karakter berkaitan tegas dengan pola asuh. Dan mereka menerapkannya kembali pada kelima anak mereka. Semoga Allah berkahi dan selalu dimudahkan urusannya. . Masih ada banyak pelajaran yg bisa kita ambil dari orangtua hebat ini. Baca bukunya! Gak bakal bosenin kok. Cukup sehari namatinnya, tapi pelajaran hidup yg bisa kita teladani akan berpengaruh jangka panjang untuk kehidupan kita selanjutnya. Semoga aku pun bisa mengamalkan apa-apa yg aku garis bawahi dalam buku^^ . Never Ending Hijrah- Tatty Elmir& Kurniawan Gunadi ft. Retno Prajanti Tambeh, Poby Karmendra ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ . #bookstagram #indobookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bookishindonesia #booklover #booknerd #bookworm #temanbaca #neverendinghijrah

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"To be in love...to be utterly alone..." A beautiful quote by Henry Miller. Who does not know him? A casanova who spent most of his time wandering around between the U.S. and France, going from one lady's arms to another lady's embrace, drinking and smoking, and living a controversial life and a complicated love life with Anaïs Nin and his June Miller. Those qualities only add more charms to Miller's. Yet one thing should be noted: Henry Miller is one of the prominent figures in erotic literature. The World of Sex is one of the books that he wrote. What makes it different is the fact that Henry puts his personal thought about life, love and sex here. His ideas and ways of thinking are always fascinating. He always sees things from different aspects. His opinions related to the prostitutes here is the example. Henry also believes that love is different with sex and most women often mix them both. I surprisingly enjoy reading The World of Sex. It is a bit of non-fiction and autobiography as it's based on Henry's experience himself. Still a book worth reading tho! #booklover #bookish #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookenthusiast #bookaddict # #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookshelves #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descanto #fictionbook #nonfictionbook #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #literatureisliving #riotgrams #theworldofsex #henrymiller #eroticliterature (at Desca's Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrzPbshymez/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Rasina tells a story from two POVs: from the POV of Joost Borstveld, a Dutch officer in Batavia in 1755 and from the POV of Hendriek Cornelis Adam, another Dutch officer in Banda circa 1621. What makes these two POVs intersected is the narration about slavery during the Dutch colonialism in Indonesia esp those coming from Banda; pointed in two aspects: the opium trade and the slavery. I am always amazed with Banu’s ways in depicting his story. He seems to drag his readers’ imagination and take them to experience the story themselves. Add his strength: his research on the specific matters he’s trying to convey. I wish that this book can be translated into different languages. It does worth the hype and it will defo become another great addition for ASEAN or Asia literature. KEBAB Reading Club @kebabreadingclub is conducting a discussion on this book on 25 April 2023. Check their IG and register yourself in. Link in KEBAB’s bio. Des✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2023 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld23 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #IndonesianLiterature #IndonesianAuthor #IksakaBanu #Rasina (at Sota,PNG) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrUIeqoS_qb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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There is indeed a lot to admire about Waris Dirie and her story. Raised in a nomadic Somali family, raped at age four and then mutilated in a female circumcision ritual at age five, she bravely ran away from home at thirteen to avoid being married off to an old man. The Young Dirie endured many obstacles - finding her way to Mogadishu and to her long-lost relatives, a string of unsuccessful living arrangements, working as a maid in London and then as kitchen help in McDonalds with minimal English language or literacy. Eventually, Dirie embarks on a successful modeling career and then uses her success to speak out against female genital mutilation (FGM). So yes! It's defo a shocking story and everyone can read quickly despite the mediocre writing which detracted some. Unfortunately I just couldn't warm up to Dirie as a narrator. Some parts of the books seemed so superficial and dull which didn't leave me any impression at all. Well, still a quick one to read during the short flight tho! Thanks @namakurhea for shipping this book all the way from Jakarta. ❤️ Des✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2023 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld23 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #WarisDirie #DesertFlower #AutoBiography #FemaleGenitalMutilation (at Sota,PNG) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq_wwy2y3ok/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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My access to book is very limited ever since I moved to the border between Indo and PNG. So here comes the rereading... Bright is a novel written by Duanwad Pimwana and is translated into English by Mui Poopoksakul. I had a buddy read on this novel with the one and only Prabda Soon-die-hard-fan @teguhafandi and the podcast queen @patricia.wulandari There is no plot-line in this novel as the story is centred around an abandoned five-year-old Kompol. His mother left him and the baby boy for another man after the husband kept hitting her. The father returned to the ex-wife taking Kompol’s baby brother. The family is all scattered out. Kompol’s parents keep coming in and out of Kompol’s life; leaving him collectively adopted by the community: Hia Chong, Aunt Mon, the womaniser Old Tia and many more. This little boy makes a bit of money from being a masseuse for Dang and also as a helper for Hia Chong. Kompol’s collection of incidences consists of sad and happy stories of his childhood. I know there are some sad parts, but I still cannot help myself but to smile while reading the parts about his innocence and foolishness. Kampol and his friends make me giggle with all of their usual childhood mischief. They befriend the stray dogs, playing with marbles, bounce-back balls which remind me of my childhood. What I also love from this novel is the fact that Pimwana does not only give me a joyous depiction of childhood but also a portrait of working class in Thailand. I really recommend this book especially to those who enjoy sweet stories (the ending is sweet even it ends tragically) about family. Des ✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2023 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld23 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #Bright #DuanwadPimwana #ThaiLiterature #ThaiWriter (at Sota,PNG) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq8-Kb3y62p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Here: my rainbow socks and my current read! I am mow reading an anthology of Japanese gay literature and I cannot help myself but to highlight some sentences I have read in the introduction. There's a sentence which makes my heart constricts (slide 2), saying, ..." Love between men is not in fact a tradition that has been widely discussed by the Japanese academic community..." I cannot help myself but to think "what a lamentable fact..." it is indeed a lamentable fact because if I always adore the Japanese Samurai homosexuality and their trends. The trends have shifted from a beautiful and more passive boys or the acolyte or the sexual companions of a monk or abbott called chigo to a wakashu - the brave and manly squires of the samurai. So what's more beautiful in life than seeing the broad chest, stocky body and muscular thighs of those samurai a la Yukio Mishima (last slide) being described and romanticized for the same-sex love in the literary arena? Des ✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2023 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld23 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #JapaneseLiterature #JapaneseAuthor #IharaSaikaku #anAnthologyofJapaneseGayLiterature (at Sota,PNG) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZn1UBLddG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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So here: the anthologies of short stories published by by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The list of contributors are some prominent writers you may have known like Hannah Lilith Assadi, Yoon Ha Lee and Madeline Ashby. Add the foreword from Roxanne Gay. The idea for this anthology is to shine a light on various issues occurring and worsening, and show potential solutions. The main point is to create a utopian world where people can live safely. Interesting ha! Well, just like any other anthologies, this anthology has some good and okay stories. Yet they will mention and offer you stories about domestic violence, child abuse, animal abuse, physical violence and murder, islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, classism, poverty, self-harm, alcoholism, substance abuse, homophobia and possibly other issues that I have forgotten. If you’d prefer to avoid sensitive matter related to the topics I just listed, Take Us to a Better Place Stories may not be for you. So did the stories in the collection lean a little heavily on their theme? Of course they did. Were they still well written and enjoyable? Yes! Des✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2023 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld23 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels#RoxanneGay #Anthology #MadelineAshby #TakeUstoaBetterPlace (at Sota,PNG) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVpy0aypWY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=