Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Right Title for This One?

I can’t see in front of me
What or who
All colours blend
Unclear and mixed up
Don’t show exact things
I can feel they move, toward and pass me
But I can’t see their face
Can’t hear their voices
Even single blow, even single sigh
What happen with my eyes?
Or, is my eyer the real problem?
I don’t think so
I can see my own hands with five fingers each
So, has my mind broken?
What happen to me?
Why can’t I see things?
They’re blurry and shadowy
Shadowy and blurry
Whatever
They’re the same things to me
Blurr… shadow…

©Sai Phero
January 2009

Friday, January 23, 2009

Sweet Sixteen Princess, a novel by Meg Cabot

Sixteen is the magic number.
Mia doesn’t always have the best luck with parties, so even though it’s her sweet sixteenth, she doesn’t want a birthday bash. As usual, Grandmère has other ideas, and thinks a reality TV special is just the thing in order to celebrate royally. The whole scheme smacks of Lilly’s doing—Lilly whose own TV show is still only limited to local cable viewers. Will Mia be able to stop Grandmère’s plan? Will her friends ever forgive her if she does stop it, since it involves all of them taking the royal jet to Genovia for an extravaganza the likes of which would turn even Paris Hilton green with envy? Why can’t Mia get what she really wants: an evening alone with Michael?
With a little luck, this sweet sixteen princess might just get her wish—a birthday that's royally romantic. Her Birthday was amazing in a sky lounge.

The sequel of Princess Diaries book no. 7 ½ (seven and a half). Yep, half because it’s a short story, not long one as usual. And it happened between book no. 7 (Party Princess) and no. 8 (Princess on the Brink) beside book no. 7 ¾ (Valentine Princess). What a unique numbering.
It contains the same Mia’s madness facing Grandmere and Lilly, the same diary style with little IM (chatting) style. The language is light and funny. So teenager that can make me, not only smile, but laugh as well.

Book-O-Meter

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Book Power on Golden Globe Awards This Year

Kate Winslet is awesome. She got tw awards: Best Actress – Drama for Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actree for The Reader. This two films based on book that published many years ago. It means that story from book is good enough to make producer-director-writer interesting in it to reproduce in reel. And make the juries of Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) choose it as winners (of course it’s not only because of based on book, but still make prestige of them).
What I’m saying is book is powerful to move people to do something. Just words from it’s author, people imagine, reflect, immitate and it become part of their lives, either it’s good or bad.

One of Those Hideous Books where The Mother Dies, a novel by Sonya Sones

My name is Ruby
This book is about me.
It tells the deeply hideous story of what happens when my mother dies and I''m dragged three thousand miles away from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray, to live in L.A. with my father, who I''ve never even met because he''s such a scumbag that he divorced my mom before I was born.
The only way I''ve ever even seen him is in the movies, since he''s this mega-famous actor who''s been way too busy trying to win Oscars to even visit me once in fifteen years.
Everyone loves my father.
Everyone but me.

What a very weird title. I was thinking a horror story with blood and murder when I first saw it at bookstore (my friends gave me this as birthday present – ha ha it’s so funny). But this is only an ordinary book for teens. Ms. Sones wrote from first point of view with poem style. No! Not in poetic language. Just ordinary story written in poem form – one chapter as one poem. There are also emails between the characters: Ruby to Lizzie, Ray and vice versa, and to her dead Mom!
It’s interesting but boring. It’s like we only read small part of the story because there are poems, not novel. I feel unsatisfied. In few hours, the book is finished. But it deserved to be bought and be read. It’s worth it (because of the writing style).

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

What I Like in the World?

Hmmm, a lot of things. I like movies. I like music. I like piano. I like to eat (everything
delicious and look delicious). But the most I like is books. Fiction ones. Drama, romance,
fantasy, mystery, horror, suspense, thriller, comedy. All of them. All genres. Not just for
young adult or adult but for teenager too. I. LIKE. BOOK.

As you can see here, I have almost written only romance and fantasy books. Those are the
most common genre and people like it. Though they are romance and fantasy, the authors
combined them with other genres. It isn't pure romance. It isn't pure fantasy. There are
comedy romance (Wanderlust; Love, Hate and Hocus-Pocus). There are fantasy romance (Twilight sagas). Now, books has more than one genre. With doing this, authors can develop the story deeper and wider in order to get variation fo stories to attract publishers and readers. We
as readers, won't feel bored. We know the richness of our lives and get something for it.

I. LIKE. BOOK.