Maybe it’s because of the moment of early year where there’s still so much energy to be positive and hopeful. Or maybe it’s mostly because I found myself in abundance of free time (currently unemployed) that I’d like myself to write again.
I consider using new platform, now that there are new options like Medium and Substack, but in the end I knew that it will not be wise and there will always possibilities where I stop in the middle of this.
Continue reading “Exercise 1”Ada hal yang aku kepingin banget bisa aku kembangkan dalam diriku dan itu adalah berpikir kritis dan mampu menyampaikannya. Semudah, misal dalam sebuah kelas, aku tidak takut untuk mengacungkan tangan untuk bertanya suatu hal karena punya rasa penasaran yang lebih. Karena kenyataannya, sejauh ini aku jarang sekali mempertanyakan informasi yang aku terima. Sampai aku ngga yakin kesalahan mana yang lebih dulu ada: tidak berpikir kritis atau tidak terbiasa mengemukakan pendapat. But I’m totally sure, I need to fix both problems.
Dalam pikiranku, aku mengiyakan dalih bahwa orang timur memang ngga kritis dan ngga seperti orang barat. Karena dari apa yang aku lihat di media, di mana rasa-rasanya yang aku konsumsi adalah media barat Amerika, mudah banget bagi mereka untuk speak their mind. Sedangkan orang sini tuh kebanyakan rasa sungkan-nya. Atau ini semata perihal rasa percaya diri?
Aduh aku belagu banget sih mau nulis yang reflektif gitu padahal dari judul mindlessly itu sebetulnya aku cuma pengen cerita tentang aku yang terjerat perangkap social media sehingga mindlessly scrolling over so many shorts that algorithm expose to me. And guess what kind of short videos given to me?
Continue reading “Mindlessly”
Lebih seringnya, Booker Prize List itu adalah buku-buku yang tough untuk dibaca. Dan sejenak, aku lupa fakta tersebut. Jadi ketika aku melihat buku ini available di event bookswap Desember lalu, dan aku juga sempat dengar rekomendasi salah satu booktuber yang aku follow kalau buku ini bagus, otomatis aku ambil buku ini.
The Promise bercerita tentang keluarga Swart yang kehidupan mereka, secara tidak langsung, dihantui oleh sebuah janji. The Promise disajikan dalam beberapa bab yang diberi judul anggota keluarga tapi bukan untuk menjadi POV mereka melainkan memberikan timeline cerita yang berpusat di cerita kematian mereka.
Continue reading “The Promise – Damon Galgut”
She said reading is just for people who want to escape real life and I couldn’t agree more.
It’s the truth. At least, my truth.
This October I managed to read 10 books. A progress!
My favorites are:
Continue reading “October Reading Recap”I’m still a bookish. Still love reading books and as life is also a roller-coaster of events, may reading activities also has it ups and downs.
I’m back, at least for now. With the harsh truth that the reason behind every comeback is because when I have time in my hand. Another thing that made me wrote this, and planning to come back and writing again, is that I have this urge to write again, to be good in writing things and making contents of books and reading.
From long time ago, I had this perception that a reader would make a good writer. Because they will have so much to talk about from every book they have read. It could start with writing book reviews, making opinion and comparison, and some with good enough imagination will able to make themselves an author. So I’d like to see myself in that spectrum of possibilities, which means I need to start again.
Though I’m not active in this blog, if you want you can actually see me updating my reading life in my instagram account
As this is the end of October, and tomorrow will be a new day a new month, I wish for us better days ahead. See you soon!
ps:
As you can see on the screenshot of my 2022 GR Challenge, I have a lot to catch up in the next 2 months. I believe I can reach the goal of reading 60 books but still, wish me luck!
Faraziyya 