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This book offers a glimpse of the brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world, a malignancy that is slowly gaining recognition as one of the paramount human rights problems. For me, the few first chapters are horror, it tells stories about girls being trafficked and raped, and ended in brothels, woman who was burned with acid by her ex-husband, girls who were abused, slaughtered, or were killed in routine gendercide. I am terribly sorry for these parts, realising that so many women out there suffer, forced to be sex workers as they are poor, seen as just property of men and not even worth a pity to be treated when they are sick. Women are just like cows and pigs. They are sold. Even in this book, there is a girl who was sold for only 10 dollars! I can't say anything, but furiously crying. I may be poor, been struggling to gain education, and I'm not also part of those millenial who live as a very privilaged community. But, I think that's really nothin' compared to what these girls have been through to defeat poverty and gender inequality. When you arrive at chapter 6-8, there would be more explanation about women and health, maternal mortality, family planning, and investment on reproductive health and sex education. My fav is in the 9th chapter, discussing about Islam and why people see it as misogynistic religion. One answer is historical, and it is no. When Muhammad introduced Islam, it was step forward for women. Islamic law banned female infanticide, muslim women routinely owned property with rights protected by law, and Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues. His wife, Aisha is the Islamic world's first feminist, who took on an active and public role and led armed rebellion against a longtime adversary. Few last chapters you'll see that women aren't the problem but the solution. They just need to be empowered, they need to access their rights, they should be given opportunity so that they can contribute to development, to economy, and to also empower other girls and women. Battle for women's rights is to agree that women has that half value to be equal, like Mao used to say, women hold up half the sky. #nvybooks

[nvidyayuniarti]

There must be some days in which you probably think that you've been too wrapped up in the siren song of your own life. Like your days were full, yet you remained unsatisfied. That happens to me sometimes (well often recently hha), and I just realize now that it's ok sometimes to say that I'm not ok. (Well, I usually don't and have too much hesitation for asking help, even for just being listened). Given a fact from my nearest circle, that many are trapped in the same problem as well. I gotta say that this isn't individual problem, this is more societal. I don't have solution, and someone just reminds me about this book. Once more, I read it, and turn out being alarmed with these most highlighted points - have u found someone to share your heart with? - are u giving to your community? - are you trying to be as human as u can be? - dying is only 1 thing to be scared, living unhappily is something else. - why did we, bother with all the distractions we did? - the way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others - we think we don't deserve love, we think if we let in we'll become too soft, a wise man said, love is the only rational act. - how useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity - once you learn how to die, you learn how to live - love each other or perish - don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate u. - fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself - people don't know what they want in a partner. they don't know who they are themselves-so how can they know who they're looking for - make peace, you need to make peace with yourself and everyone around u. #mitchalbom #tuesdaywithmorrie #nvybooks #readingrecommendation #reading #books

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Sesuai judulnya, Matinya Socrates, buku ini memang menceritakan kejadian menjelang kematian Socrates. Kejadian yg sebetulnya cukup singkat, tapi diisi oleh perbincangan yg sgt dalam tentang apa itu mati, apa sebenarnya makna kematian, & bagaimana makna hidup itu sendiri sebelum kematian. Cerita ini dituturkan Phaedo, ttg diskusinya bersama Socrates, dan teman-teman sekaligus murid-muridnya, seperti Echecrates, Apollodorus, Simmias, Cebes, & Crito, di tempat dimana Socretes di tahan, Kota Philus. Dgn membaca buku ini, sedikit banyak saya belajar bagaimana dialog antar filsuf biasanya terjadi, zaman itu. Intense, tapi tenang, penuh ide besar yg kuat tapi tidak tergesa-gesa, kental dari kesan intelektual, tapi jauh dari bahasa sombong dan jumawa. Semua membuka ruang yg baik untuk saling bertukar pemikiran dan saling menyangsikan dgn hormat. Sangat kagum dgn sikap Socrates yang tidak reaktif mendengar keraguan rekan dan muridnya ketika diskusi, yg justru cenderung lebih santai dan penuh perhatian dalam menyikapi semua rasa ingin tahu lawan bicaranya. Socrates menjelaskan idenya dengan membongkar kembali pikiran yg sebelumnya terlanjur terbentuk, baik dalam dirinya dan lawan bicaranya, utk membentuk ide baru dgn keyakinan yg lbh kuat. Dia memang terlihat spt meyakinkan dirinya sndri ketika menjelaskan ide dibanding meyakinkan lawan bicaranya. Bagian favorit sy dr buku ini ckp byk, mungkin bbrp yg sgt mengena adlh diskusi ttg bagaimana seharusnya filsafat menjadi cara utk membebaskan jiwa, mempersiapkannya utk mati (filsafat=teknik kematian), dan siap bersatu dgn segala sesuatu yg baik di alam bawah. Bagian cerita ketika Simmias dan Cebes bergantian bertanya pada Socrates jg bgtu menarik, karna ada alur logika yg ckp pjg dan rumit (tp menarik) saat itu utk menjelaskan bagaimana jiwa akan tetap kekal stlh kematiannya. Di akhir, Socrates mati dgn pesan yg singkat dan terkesan remeh, tp mungkin maknanya tetap dlm, bahwa ketika mati, selesailah semua urusan manusia di dunia, dan utk itu semua perlu dibayar tuntas. Yaaa biarpun ttep lucu sih pesen ttg ayam ini 😂 cc: @samueljosafat. Anw thank udh minjemin bukunya kak. #nvybooks #reading #books #plato #socrates

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It needs more than three weeks for me to finish this book. And hufff...few first pages, I feel like, "waw, what the...is this book telling about?" haha. The pace of its scenes to change is very fast, I mean the narrative moves quickly before I can even completely understand its context. Or maybe my brain is just proved too slow (I can feel it was severely bleeding reading this book 😂) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", a very powerful hook I can perfectly remember from the first chapter of this book. Leading me to get a sense of anticipated outcome after reading this book. Means, there will be many inquiring thoughts after my reading 😄 This book telling story from 1780s -1790s and is set in Paris and London. It starts from a secret mission by Jarvis Lorry which travels to Paris with Lucie Manette to release her father, Doctor Manette who was in jail for 18 years without trial. After successfully taking her father to England, Lucie starts her tragic love story with Charles Darnay, an emigrant who has left France because of his hatred for his family, and Sydney Carton who, at the end, sacrifices himself to save Lucie, the women he loves and her family by replacing Darnay's place in prison. Featuring a setting of French Revolution, this novel I suppose also compares forces that led to revolution and unrest both in Paris and London. I can get an obvious attempt from Dickens to portray the horror of violence during revolution throughout the novel and how he also visions revolutionary terror which interestingly entails hope particularly for the poor. What I love the most from this novel is the way Dickens combines a story from both the interaction between individuals and society. This is for sure not an easy reading for me, but you probably would not understand how glad I am to finally finish it. Literally, the words and dictions he uses, make me apologize to myself for not being smart and quick on the uptake wkwk. #nvybooks #reading #books #dicken #bookrecommendation #readinglist

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I really like the title of this book, it's astonishingly brilliant, or well...maybe paradoxical term is always somehow intriguing. From the very first chapter, I believe this is a book about economy. Then...I moved several pages, till I found, oh no...this is maybe a book about philosophy. Then...I finished several chapters with another guess, this is likely about development. And, I end up calling this book, "whatever it is" 😁 It starts from a question about how is exactly our current utopia in this Land of Plenty? As common book talking about economy, and growth, this book also discusses about population, scarce resources, and of course the poor and inequality. But what really interesting from it is the ideas which are brought by the writer. Like at the first chapter, it tells about a return to utopia in which liberalism seems being an ideology that has been all but hollowed out. Freedom may be our highest ideal, but ours has become an empty freedom. For the next pages you will find much more exciting ideas about, a 15-hour workweek, race against the machine, the end of poverty, and what is left there beyond the gates of the Land of Plenty which we are philosophizing. My most favourite parts from this book are a debate (he literally provides the two sides arguments here) about basic income, borderless world, and another chapter about how useless it is to be a banker. Sorry for being ruthless. But I'm saying what I'm reading only (to some extend I do agree tho) hhe. Another thing I like so much from this book is the way the writer uses sarcasm, for instance "there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." LoL 😂😂😂 That kind of jokes kinda help the reader (or only me) to take a breath from a very serious flow of debate along the reading. #nvybooks #readinglist #recommendedbook #read #books #utopiaforrealist #rutgerbregman

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💕💓💔 Tiga buah tanda 💗 yang beragam utk buku ini. Sekedar menunjukan betapa saya jatuh cinta pada keseluruhan isinya, sekaligus patah hati sedalam-dalamnya. Saya hrs berterima kasih utk cerita Winatra Wirasena yg membawa kenangan manis-- ketika kata2 perjuangan dan mahasiswa begitu ampuh membakar semangat--di masa jaket kuning, unjuk rasa dan orasi bgt menggugah utk dicicip, sama mungkin rasanya dgn kuah tengkleng buatan Ibu Laut. Masa dimana romantisme perjuangan mahasiswa berdengung di telinga saya berkali-kali, terjebak antara kebingungan zaman, mencari bentuk terbarunya, yg katanya hrs lbh relevant. Cerita laut terlalu real bagi saya (karna mungkin memang bgt), sampai2 sy bergidik sendiri membayangkan adegan tong yg dilempar ke laut, seolah2 itu melempar pikiran sy jg ke depan istana ketika sy mengamati foto2 usang berjajar di aksi kamisan, dan payung hitam, dan orang-orang yg berdiri berkerumul, yg sama sekali tdk sy kenal, yg sy hanya yakin udara di sekitarnya pun tahu ada misteri yg terlalu gelap yg membuat mereka bgtu gigih utk menolak lupa. Mungkin dr seluruh tokoh, sy memang lbh jatuh cinta pada Kinanti. Tapi saya tdk bsa berhenti berempati pada Asmara, yg tegas mengatakan bahwa "Peristiwa yg tak nyaman atau menyakitkan tidak perlu dihapus, tetapi diatasi". Bayangan tentang jeruji besi, istana, markas gerakan yg tersembunyi, dasar laut, dapur, dan tempat sy sendiri, bergantian masuk dan mengisi pikiran sy ketika membaca buku ini. Bukan sedih yg putus asa, atau benci yg penuh dendam yg membekas di akhir setiap bagian ceritanya. Hanya sekedar rindu yg dalam, yg tercampur kekecewaan dgn bumbu ketidakpastian yg pekat, yg sejujurnya lbh menyiksa dr sekedar kabar kematian. Semua pada akhirnya selalu mengantar saya pada sisa kenangan di depan Istana saat berbaris bersama keluarga dan kerabat yg berpayung hitam, saat itu saya tdk tahu bahwa begitu rasanya bernaung dlm kegelapan. Keinginan utk mungkin suatu hari payung itu bisa ditutup karna tdk ada lg yg perlu berlindung dr cahaya matahari, dr terang dan kejelasan. #nvybooks #bookreview #reading #lautbercerita #leilaschudori #readinglist

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Saya sepertinya tidak menemukan kata-kata yang lebih baik dibanding "campur aduk" untuk menjelaskan bagaimana kesan setelah membaca buku ini. Buku lama, dan saya semacam super telat baru baca sekarang. Sejujurnya sudah lama denger buku Ahmad Tohari itu bagus, tapi baru sempet aja akhirnya memilih buku ini untuk dibaca. Thanks to diskonan gramedia juga karna jadi dapat buku ini dgn harga murah 😁 Yang paling membekas dari buku ini tentu tokoh Srintil. Wanita yang sedari kecil diyakini terlahir sebagai ronggeng, suatu gelar yg membanggakan utk perkampungan kecil dan terbelakang (entah saya jg sebetulnya blm bisa menyimpulkan, mana hidup yg lebih terbelakang jika hrs mengukurnya dgn standar kemanusiaan). Ah, yang jelas kampung itu miskin, sgt tradisional, dan boleh dibilang sengsara. Saya mengikuti jalan cerita Srintil dan Rasus bukan sebagai tokoh yg murni hayalan, tp lebih seperti simbol. Simbol yg digunakan penulis utk menyampaikan pesannya. Pesan ttg bagaimana wanita dan laki-laki, dan hubungan keduanya disusun atas histori budaya, keyaninan, dan jg sistem politik. Srintil adalah wanita kampung, Rasus juga, dan mereka sama-sama tumbuh dari tanah yg begitu sederhana. Tapi cerita mereka tidak begitu. Kerumitan muncul sebagai pertanda alam, kegaduhan manusia, bahkan karma perilaku yang entah dibuat oleh kenaifan manusia itu sendiri atau memang masyarakat menghendakinya, membangunnya melalui sistem-sistem yang mengakar, menjadi nilai. Sulit diubah, dan itu yang akhirnya mengendap dalam diri Srintil, korban yang tidak mampu mengadu pada pelakunya. Dia rusak, dan begitu saja waktu membiarkannya. Scr subjektif, sbg seorang perempuan, ada pelajaran tragis yg jg saya ambil dan ingat lekat2 dr buku ini, bahwa laki-laki umumnya adalah manusia biasa, dengan naluri kambing jantan, dengan naluri bayi yg merengek, dgn keblingsatan yg kadang cuma sbg pelampiasan rasa tak percaya diri (bgt ditulis Ahmad Tohari dlm buku ini). Dan perempuan, atau lbh tepatnya gol yg tertindas (kebetulan di buku ini disimbolkan dgn perempuan) srg kali tdk mengenal pilihan nasib yg bebas, karna manusia sdh memilihkannya melalui istilah pantas/tdk pantas. #nvybooks #bookreview #ahmadtohari