Breaking up by Kate Cann

This story is about a teenager called Fliss who is caught in an unbearable situation. While her little sisters are too young to know what is going on, Fliss can see that her parent's aren't getting on at all and they're turning her home into a battlefield. To escape from this nightmare, she begins to lean too heavily on her boyfriend Simon, making him the single most important person in her life. Things comes to a head when her father announces he's moving out. Although Simon cares about Fliss, the pressure becomes to much and Simon has to leave and let her face the problem on her own. What will she do to solve the problem? Will Fliss and Simon come back together?

Breaking up is an absorbing and intriguing book that I counldn't stop reading it. This superb novel is not only about teenage emotional needs but also about emergence for hope and maturity as Fliss starts to realise everything is not gonna be alright until she goes through an unhappiness experience. You will start to understand that you will be stronger after trying to solve the problem.

I would recommend this book to teenagers because the book tells people that life is not easy when we are teenagers and we start to face with many problems in life.

Whale rider (book review)

This story set in Newzealand, Maori tribal. The leader of Maori is Koro Apirana, a traditional aged who is willing to have a grandson, so that he could pass his traditional abilities to the next line. However, a bith of granddaughter (Kahu) has indeed broken their family’s lineage, this has been a great heartrending to Koro. In addition, as Kahu gets older she has entirety shown her talent abilities and a powerful energy of riveting whales, but Koro criticise that “she is of no used to me”. Therefore this makes Kahu literally intended to acquiring Koro smile and support.
Will the relationship be changed between Koro and Kahu? What will happen to everyone in the tribal? Will they adopt Kahu to be their leader?

I would recommend this book to my friends, because this story introduced me different kind of humanity, such as Koro he has a solemn exterior, but actually he is an approachable person.

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Every dragon egg only hatches when it meets the right person. There was an elf on a mission to find out who is the right person for this dragon egg but she was stopped by a witch on her way, so her only choice was to teleported the egg without knowing where it going be. Fortunately it got into Eragon’s hand, a poor farm boy, who was dreaming to be a knight. When Eragon recognized that the egg was a dragon egg, he felt really excited. The egg finally hatched in his hand. He is impressed by the beauty of the dragon. When Eragon first look at the dragon, he feel a mysterious energy running through his body so he touch it. Eragon gets burnt by the moment the touch the dragon and a dragon mark is left on his hand. He raise the dragon. Although he know that the dragon was a magical creature but Eragon could not resist to be amazed by the speed growing of the dragon. It grows so fast that it gets bigger than a house in just a few weeks. One day, destiny has led him meet an old man who knows a lot about dragon. The old man teaches him many things about dragon. That night he comes home and finds out that his whole family is killed by a witch.

The four adjectives that I would use to describe the story are thumping, fast-going, attractive and interesting.

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

In a summer in 1945, guests and close friends are invited to the only daughter of Don Vito Corleone, the leader of the Corleone mafia family. who is also called as Godfather. He's got a really close assistant named Tom Hagen, who is actually a lawyer and a counselor. Beside that, his youngest son, Michael Corleone has returned from World War II as a hero, he tells his girlfriend Kay Adams about his father's crimes and proves that he has nothing to do with his father's crimes.


Among the guests invited to the wedding with the famous singer Johnny Fontane, the sponsoring of Vito Corleone, finds The Godfather for the proposal to help him get roles in Hollywood films of Jack Woltz, who had previously refused blunt Fontane.

Hagen was sent to California to negotiate but still angry, Woltz says never delivered the roles to Fontane. The next morning when Woltz wakes up, he realizes that the head of his unique horse, that he introduced with Hagen earlier, is locating right next to him.

Then, a popular heroin trader named Virgil Sollozzo with the nick name "The Turk", who has influence with the family Tattaglia hostile. The Turk requests Vito Corleone to protect him politically for him to import and distribute a great amount of drugs, as a result , the request is declined by Vito Corleone. After that, Hagen is kidnapped by Sollozzo and his people, the Godfather also gets shot by Sollozzo's people but unsuccessfully. After keeping Hagen for a period of time, Hagen is sent back home to with the expedition to encourage Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of Vito Corleone, but still it is declined.

Find that his father's life is threatened, Michael Corleone, the youngest child of Don Vito Corleone, volunteers himself to assassinate Sollozzo. He appoints Sollozzo to a restaurant to be able to kill Sollozzo easier. Then he successfully kills Sollozzo by the hidden gun in the toilet. Tom Hagen then sends Michael to a Sicilia island, where he is protected fully by local mafia.

Will the Corleone family be safe after assassinating Sollozzo?

This book is so thought-provoking that has caused a strange negative feeling that makes me don't want to stop reading it by the uses of words and the descriptions of the characters by the author, Mario Puzo.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Plot:

Twilight is about a love story between a human and a vampire. Bella, a 17 years old girl, has moved from Arizona to Forks, a small city which always rain, to live with her dad.

Bella had made a lot of friends in the first day of school, however when she sees Edward Cullen, who is undoubtedly attractive with his beautiful faces and his pale white skin, she couldnt remove her eyesight away from him.

At first, it seems like Edward didnt like Bella, because he couldn't stay in a same room with her. Weeks later, they astonishingly became friends! Bella then deeply fall in love with Edward. Yet, she still can't work out that why is Edward so special compares to other people.

One day, she and her friends went on a day trip to the beach, one of her friend Jacob, told her a story about the "cold ones", the group of people who drinks blood. She then suddenly reliases that the guy he loves is a vampire, but she knows that she still loves him isn't he is not a human.

Bella is the first person that Edward fall in love with after he was changed into a Vampire when he was 17. His love to her is pretty dangerous, as he might lose his control and bite her for her tasty blood. Will they solve the problems out and stay together? or they have to seperate themself to make both of them in the save situation..?

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is the first novel in the English language, it was written in 1838 by Charles Dickens. The other book with a similar name to this is "The Parish Boy's Progress". It was an early example of the social novel, the book calls the public's attention to realise the contemporary evil, including Poor Law that stated poor people who were employed to work in low quality workhouses with low wages.

Oliver Twist, an infant was born of the dying mother in a Parish workhouse. He was born into a life of poverty and he is forced to live and work in a workhouse in an unnamed town. He has to witness the death of his mother at very young age and his father’s unexplained absence. Therefore, he had to spend his first nine years in a poor rundown workhouse.

After he was bullied into asking for a second bowl of meal by a strict chef, he was forced to leave the workhouse. Oliver was sent into a family, at this place he was commented by a boy who was the same age as him. Oliver attacked him and was then forced to run away. Later on, he met Jack, a boy his age who offered him shelter at the house of his boss, Fagin. Fagin trains boys to pick pockets, which is what Oliver learns to do.

During, a pick pocketing occurred Oliver was sicken when others stole the pocket from the elderly man. He was caught but then he was saved by the same elderly man who tried to get him back to his usual life. But Fagin didn’t give up easily and he and the other boys recaptured Oliver later. What will happen to Oliver at the end? Will he be able to escape from the Fagin?

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The book contains three short stories extracted from the book: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyles, published in 1892. The original book contains twelve stories about the greatest detective of all time, and "Sherlock Holmes Short Stories" have selected three of the best stories from the original version.

In these three stories, each of them tells a mysterious case told by individuals, mostly these cases were done under the hand of the criminals. Every individuals have a story of their own, and all of them had come to see the detective, who was living at 221B Baker Street in LonDon, England. Inside the room of his apartment, Sherlock Holmes and his partner, doctor Watson, listened to the stories told by the people who came to see them, as they need his help to solve a typical case of their own, from a mysterious murder caused by a "speckled band", to a scandal in Scandinavia, to a "five mysterious orange pips of death and a secret organisation called K.K.K".

What I liked the most is how Holmes investigate the crime scene, looking for clues using all of his senses, and how he could link the clues together to solve the crime which I would never think that they have a connection which leads to Holme's final conclusion. For me, Holmes is like a fox hunting down for it's pray, and I know that he would finishes the crime scene with a kill.