Baca dan Posting Bareng Desember 2014

Halo semuanya! Sebelumnya, mohon maaf untuk kesalahan penulisan tanggal di post Secret Santa . Tanggal yang benar untuk posting bareng riddl...

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[The 100 best novels] #50 – Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

In the spring of 1924, Virginia Woolf , then in her 40s, gave a famous lecture, later published as the essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, in wh...

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[The 100 best novels] #49 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos(1925)

Anita Loos, a screenwriting Hollywood wunderkind, says she began to draft Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a jazz age classic, on the American rail...

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[The 100 best novels] #48 – A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924)

In 1957, EM Forster , looking back in old age, wrote that the late-empire world of A Passage to India "no longer exists, either politi...

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[The 100 best novels] #47 – Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

Babbitt, dedicated to Edith Wharton, was published in the same year as Ulysses (No 46 in this series) and likewise explores the passage thro...

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Tema Baca dan Opini Bareng 2015

Halo teman-teman BBI-ers!!! Tak terasa kita sudah sampai di penghujung 2014 dan kegiatan Baca Bareng kita di tahun 2014 sudah hampir habis. ...

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The 100 best novels: #46 – Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

1922 is one of those extraordinary years in the history of English literature – the moment when Modernism came of age, and after which nothi...

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Daftar Tempat Wisata Buku

Berasal dari obrolan - obrolan kawan BBI, tercetus ide untuk mengumpulkan artikel - artikel dari blog - blog BBIers yang mengulas tentang wi...

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The 100 best novels: #45 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

Edith Wharton (nee Newbold Jones), who was born into a rich and distinguished New York family in 1862, is perhaps a great city's greate...

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BBI at IRF 2014 - Update

Halo.. halo... Tak terasa, tahun 2014 sudah beranjak menuju penghujungnya. Sudah akan keempat kalinya, Festival Pembaca Indonesia (IRF) dis...

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The 100 best novels: #44 – Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915)

In Aspects of the Novel , EM Forster wrote: "The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, ...

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The 100 best novels: #43 - The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915)

Which Lawrence to choose? Lady Chatterley's Lover is arguably the most influential, and certainly the most famous, or notorious. But mu...

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