tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43115299124139215392024-02-07T05:04:33.037-08:00The Awkward Life of DeskynowskyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-65101992617537869002015-01-01T00:04:00.000-08:002015-01-01T00:09:50.624-08:002015 Blog: So how is it gonna be...Hi to whoever read this post,<br />
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I realized that there has been lack of posting from my side. I don't have any excuse for that, it was a pretty hectic year for me especially the last couple of months.. I do still want to continue with the blog, because this is my baby.. And I really need to be committed.. something that I need to really work on... I have to try to ignore the lack of views on my page (don't let it discourage me!) and more of thinking that I do this because I really love books and I just wanna share my love for books.. Whether there will be someone reading my posts or not..<br />
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Well well, Happy 2015! One for sure, I have no resolution nor goal this year, I would just do whatever I wanna do and let it fly from there.. I am not good at planning anw..<br />
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So.... what are you going to read, Deska? well for January 2015, I have 4 books in mind that I want to get through, two of them (The Retribution of Mara Dyer and The Queen of The Tearling) are gifts from my friends (THANK YOU SO MUCH IKAO and AMY <3), and the other two (These Broken Stars and The Silkworm) are the two books that I really feel the need to read at the moment (other than The Golden Son by Pierce Brown that I just ordered online yesterday).<br />
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And what a dilemma, I do not know which one to start first, so I am going to do the TBR jar thing and see what books I will read first (pulling the nominees):<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-37196417107500734652014-06-15T19:31:00.000-07:002014-06-15T19:31:03.840-07:00TBR for period of 16th to 30th of June 2014 - Fantasy Marathon!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 2nd and 3rd books of Demon's Lexicon Trilogy by Sarah Rees Brennan, the Demon's Covenant an the Demon's Surrender ! I really really really love Demon's Lexicon, you can see my review of the book here (<a href="http://deskynowsky.blogspot.com/2014/05/book-review-demons-lexicon-by-sarah.html">Book Review: The Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan</a>). And I am sooo excited to see where everything will go after the whole crazy things in the 1st book!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. This is going to be my first book by Brandon Sanderson. I have seen Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy around on BookTube community quite often lately, so I think I will start with this one coz I think it's a standalone so far.. And see if I really like it, I will start to collect the Mistborn trilogy books afterward :)</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-68143107523823117552014-01-04T19:28:00.001-08:002014-01-04T19:28:54.648-08:00LONG TIME NO UPDATE...Hi to anyone who reads this sadly and neglected blog..<br />
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I don't have an amazing excuse other than my work and my life are really in a crazy path at the moment.. hopefully in couple of months I will be able to get a more regular update to my book blog here.. hopefully..<br />
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I have a lot of books to show in the haul post, reviews, and challenges..<br />
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So I am wondering since it's still new year and all, what are your resolutions for 2014? My resolutions are pretty much I want to read more diverse books and increase the number of books I need to read than last year. That would be my bookish resolutions and for my life in general, I just want to be happier than before :)<br />
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Oh well, sorry I could not post any pictures, I am dying too to show you some of new books and my new shelves.. but I just could not bring my mood to be cooperative at the moment.. maybe some other time I will make a video of it instead (I think it would be more practical..)<br />
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and I hear about this bookathon 9.0! I'm INTRIGUED! I really want to participate in it! so fingerscrossed!<br />
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<b>And before I go.. currently I am actively reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Ascend by Amanda Hocking and REREADING Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.. also I'm putting on hold on Champion by Marie Lu because I am just too scared to finish that book.. haha.. lame excuse obv..</b><br />
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alrighty then.. till the next post ;)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-85371208728544792872013-08-17T22:28:00.000-07:002013-08-17T22:29:54.372-07:00WRAP UP!!!!: My own Book-A-Thon Challenge!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - Read a Claasic (221 pages)</div>
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* The Girl who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Millenium #3) - Read a 500+ Page Book, Read a Book That Has Been On Your Shelf the Longest Time, AND Finish a Series! (820 pages)</div>
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* Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) - Re-read a Book AND Listen to an Audiobook (equal to 391 pages)</div>
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* The Gargoyles by Andrew Davidson - just finishing this book, I was already on page 366 of 499 so I finished this book off, so basically I read 133 pages)</div>
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* Stay With Me by Elyssa Patrick - an eARC provided by NetGalley and the author (216 pages)</div>
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* Scarlet by Marissa Meyer - still currently reading it, but during the book-a-thon week, I read the first 108 pages.</div>
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the only challenge that I didn't successfully execute was read more than 300 pages a day. There were days where I didn't read 300 pages, but there were days where I read more than 300 pages, so it didn't really matter I guess.</div>
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ooohhh.. I looooovvveeee book haul! I am getting tired of typing and taking a picture of these books, maybe I should make a book haul vids and post them on YouTube (soooo entering BookTube Community?).. oh well I don't know, I'll rethink about it again..</div>
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Now, I would like to share you the amazing bargained book haul at Periplus Online! So for those who live in Indonesia, we are not really lucky enough like some of our friends who live in Canada or the US who can have access to BooksCloseout or other bookstores that can sell them great titles of YA or any other fiction books in such a great and cheap price! But Periplus is close enough, they have quite amazing selection of fiction books (YA or Adult) in a great bargained prices. I got all of these from their bargain section on their website, each under IDR 50,000 (under US$ 5). So I basically got 8 books for about IDR 250,000 (or around US$ 25). I could not pass this opportunity out..</div>
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All of them are new books! I am really excited for all of these titles!</div>
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- <b>All books in the Fever's Mackayla Lane series (#1 Darkfever, #2 Bloodfever, #3 Faefever, #4 Dreamfever, and #5 Shadowfever) by Karen Marie Moning</b>: at first I was afraid that Periplus only sells one or two books in the series in the bargained price, but turned out they have all the books in the bargain price, each for I think about US$ 2!</div>
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- Then I got <b>Nemesis by Jo Nesbo</b>, since Stieg Larsson, I haven't read any crime novels and I have heard many good things about Jo Nesbo, I am really curious, and thank God they have one of his novel on sell, so bought it!</div>
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- <b>Blood Red Road by Moira Young</b>! THIS book is I am most excited about!</div>
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- <b>Pure by Julianna Baggott</b>! Finally I got this book in such a cheap price! This book has been very expensive, I almost want to order it online, but I put it on hold coz I just have too many to read already, BUT! How can you pass this out when it is under US$ 5?!!!</div>
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Okay, I think I will put myself on book buying ban for now (with some exception since I already ordered some books in July via Bookdepository but hasn't arrived yet.. Few are already arrived, maybe I will do a bookdepo haul later on when all of those books are arrived (I want my The Cuckoo's Calling!!!!).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-19963940850838542932013-08-12T10:40:00.000-07:002013-08-12T10:40:50.005-07:00ARC review: Stay With Me (With Me #1) by Elyssa Patrick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-70719109707934961882013-08-11T21:40:00.002-07:002013-08-11T21:40:29.585-07:00Bout of Books Read-a-Thon 8.0So.... I know I am crazy, but I think the timing is right, so I decided to do one.. Currently I am challenging my self to do seven challenges of book-a-thon as you can see on <a href="http://deskynowsky.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-own-book-thon-challenges.html" target="_blank">my previous post</a>. But then I watched a YouTube video by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35O_aRj7ZcA" target="_blank">Catriona for LittleBookOwl</a> and she will do a <a href="http://boutofbooks.blogspot.com/2013/07/bout-of-books-80-sign-up.html" target="_blank">Read-a-Thon 8.0 challenge by Bout of Books</a> next week (from August 19th to 25th 2013), it sounds exciting right? Well count me IN! I really need to get out from this reading slump and read as many as I can during the Read-a-Thon 8.0. Here for more infos:<br />
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I have prepared some list of books am going to read:<br />
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth<br />
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass<br />
- Requiem by Lauren Oliver<br />
- Terminal by Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461388822334130271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4311529912413921539.post-92048059421983696092013-08-06T10:41:00.000-07:002013-08-06T10:41:23.977-07:00My Own Book-a-Thon Challenges!Hi!<br />
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So I am going to be very brief about this one.. So I realized that The Book Community has done a Book-a-Thon challenges in July? Sorry, I kinda forgot. But I saw many people from BookTube Community have already posted their Book-a-Thon Wrap Up videos, and I know that I am kinda late to jump in on the wagon xp<br />
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But hey, it was just a bit impossible for me to do one in July, so I think I should do it this August and I think I will be on my own this time.. haha.. sad, but I really want to do this :D<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>1. Read a Classic (I have adventure of Huckleberry Finn in my head.. hmm..)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>2. Read a 500+ Page book (The Diviners? or Game of Throne? or maybe The Name of the Wind? I don't know - a bit ambitious this one.)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>3. Re-read a Book (Chasing Fire or The Vampire Academy?)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>4. Read a Book That's Been On Your Shelf the Longest (This one should be easy, I have so many to choose!)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>5. Finish a Series (hmm maybe Requiem or Terminal..)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>6. Listen to an Audiobook (eh hey I have Chasing Fire audio book! I can do two challenges at the same time! AWESOME!)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><b>7. Read 300 pages a day (hmmphh.. breathe.. breathe..)</b></span><br />
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<b>Author: John Green</b></div>
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<b>Published: September 22nd 2009</b></div>
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<b>Publisher: Speak</b></div>
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<b>Pages: 305 pages</b></div>
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<b>Rating: 4 of 5 Stars</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><i>Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows.<br /><br />After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;">okay, I like this book obviously..<br /><br />It is an amazing story filled with mysteries, puzzles/riddles, and adventures..<br /><br />hmm, I am not so sure if this book gives me feels like other two John Green's books (looking for Alaska and TFIOS) do.. but this book does bring out my curiosity.. I think it is a very good read and very interesting one.. I like it in a way that it's an awesome YA adventure and mystery book.. I really love parts where John Green put some poetry references in it.. really nice touch..<br /><br />What I like the best from this book is the conversation between Margo and Quentin, Quentin and his bestfriends, Quentin and his parents, Quentin and other students.. It's just obvious that I like Quentin as a character.. Tho I also have to say that Margo is definitely very unique and the way she's thinking no matter how odd that is, I somehow can understand and relate to it xp<br /><br />I think that'd be all for now.. :)</span></span></div>
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