The Lost Years of Merlin
Author: T.A. Barron

Merlin is, without doubt, the greatest wizard of all time. He was there even before the Arthurian legends were born. We know so many things about his supposed origin and deeds. About his parents, about the red and white dragons, about the kings he served, about his death - even his triple deaths. ( Read more... )

Fictions
The Aleph
A Universal History of Iniquity
Author: Jorge Luis BorgesIf I want to write something about Borges, what should I write ( Read more... )

Hoot
Author: Carl Hiaasen
In Indonesia published as Uhu by Gramedia Pustaka Utama

This is perhaps one of the best children/pre-teen novels I’ve ever read in my life. It’s a prize-winning book, anyway. Witty, funny, and sharp, Hoot tells the story of a lovable character named Roy Eberhardt. His family moves all across America several times and ( Read more... )

The Invisible Man
Author: H.G. Wells

So what is The Invisible Man?
Few, if any, critics of novel pay serious attention to it nowadays. Perhaps only fans of science fiction and H.G. Wells cheer The Invisible Man as one of the milestones in the genre of science fiction. Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen brought the Victorian myth ( Read more... )

Monster Mission
Author: Eva Ibbotson
In Indonesia published as Misi Monster by Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Minette and Fabio never like their current ‘homes’. Minette because she has to shuttle between her dad’s and her mom’s - her divorced parents hate each other and each thinks know what’s best for their daughter, although their main concern is ( Read more... )

Deep France: A Writer's Year in the Béarn
Author: Celia BrayfieldI didn't know where the Béarn was ( Read more... )

( My post about H.G. Wells in the mailing list 'pasarbuku', in Bahasa Indonesia only )

The Unending Mystery
Author: David Willis McCullough
Publisher: Pantheon

Labyrinths and mazes have always been sources of fascination. Some critics of James Joyce’s Ulysses even mapped the Dublin of the book to show that it’s a maze that Stephen Dedalus must walk and escape ( Read more... )

Herr Der Diebe
Also known as: The Thief Lord, Pangeran PencuriAuthor: Cornelia Funke ( Read more... )

Heh yeah.
Now I have to think about the icons.
And the content of course.