Blog Tour: Garden Magic + Giveaway

sengaja motret di depan kebun rumah saya, biar sesuai bukunya.

Pengarang: Mita Miranti

Penerbit: Grasindo

Tahun Terbit: 2015

Halaman: 202

Iris adalah seorang yatim piatu yang diwarisi kebun oleh almarhum ayahnya yang peneliti pertanian. Dengan bekal warisan itu serta ilmu yang dimilikinya di bidang tanaman, Iris pun kini memiliki usaha pertamanan. Walau kisah hidupnya pahit dan berat dengan cobaan yang beruntun datang, Iris adalah perempuan yang kuat yang selalu melangkah maju. Hanya Morries, anjing Siberian Husky-nya yang setia, yang benar-benar dicintai Iris.

Suatu hari, Iris mendapat pekerjaan untuk membuat taman kecil di halaman depan rumah Wira, anak Bu Astari, klien Iris. Hubungan Wira dengan ibunya ini lumayan aneh. Bu Astari adalah seorang ibu kaya raya yang tinggal sendirian di sebuah rumah besar. Anak sulungnya, Wira, lebih memilih tinggal sendirian, jauh dari ibunya. Padahal, adik Wira satu-satunya, Anggi, sudah meninggal dunia. Wira memiliki perangai yang bertolak belakang dari Bu Astari. Ia sangat ketus dan tidak pedulian, juga kasar terhadap Iris. Padahal Bu Astari sangat ramah dan keibuan. Namun entah mengapa, Iris justru tak bisa melepaskan ingatannya dari Wira.

Lalu sebuah kejadian mengerikan terjadi; Iris kemungkinan besar akan kembali kehilangan hal yang dicintainya. Namun kali ini, Wira juga terlibat. Wira, yang ternyata menyimpan masa lalu yang selama ini sengaja ingin dilupakan Iris. Apakah tidak ada kebahagiaan untuk Iris?

Paper Towns

Author: John Green

Publisher: Speak

Year Published: 2008

Pages: 305

Quentin Jacobsen--or Q--had been obsessed with his popular classmate and neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, since his childhood. The beautiful and unique Margo. But just like the other unpopular students, Quentin couldn't reach Margo so that he just liked to look at her from his bedroom window. One day, Margo appeared in Q's room, and asked Q to join her one night adventure. Together, they had to fulfill 11 missions, from breaking into their classmate's house to breaking into the Sea World. It was such an unforgettable night for Quentin so that he thought that starting that night, his relationship with Margo would change. But what came the next day surprised him.

That night, I lay on my side, staring out the window into the invisible world outside. I kept trying to fall asleep, but then my eyes would dart open, just to check. I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget. 

Margo had left her house. And it's not the first time. Her parents had lost their patient and decided not to care. However, Margo was already 18, which is considered as adult. They thought Margo was just looking for attention as usual, since on her last departure, she had left some clues--which her parents decided to ignore--and came back by herself after being ignored. But Quentin couldn't stay quiet. He really felt that this time, Margo was serious and maybe she had planned something horrible to herself.

Quentin then searched for the clues Margo had left. With the help of his two best friends, Ben and Radar, Quentin searched and analyzed Margo. What he found later, made him realize that maybe, the true Margo Roth Spiegelman was not like what he had imagined before.

Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

Out of the Easy

Author: Ruta Sepetys

Publisher: Speak

Year published: 2013

Pages: 346

Josie Moraine was a daughter of a prostitute named Louise. She had never known her father and her name was based on a popular madam's name. But not like her mother, Josie was a smart and strong-willed girl so that when her mother decided to join Willie's brothel in French Quarter, New Orleans, Josie easily caught Willie's eyes and quickly became the apple of her eye.

Ten years after, Josie had transformed to become a beautiful, clever and independent 17-year-old young woman. She lived in a bookstore owned by the Marlowe family and worked there while in the morning, she did cleaning at Willie's. However, Josie's dream was to leave New Orleans and pursue a higher education--a dream which everyone laughed at.

One day, she met a guy named Forrest Hearne, a star football player. Surprisingly, Mr. Hearne understood Josie's dream and encouraged her to pursue it. The encounter left deep impression to Josie

so that she was very surprised when she found out that Mr. Hearne had been killed not long after that. What surprised Josie more was the fact that she found Mr. Hearne's watch in her mother's room. Josie thought that maybe her mother and her boyfriend, a mafia named Cincinnati, had something to do with the murder.

Josie was now caught between the murder investigation which could ruin the business in French Quarter, the possibility that she herself would be suspected, and her dream of going to college and leave New Orleans.

We Were Liars

Author: E. Lockhart

Publisher: Delacorte Press/Randomhouse

Year Published: 2014

Pages: 225

Format: Paperback

Cadence Sinclair Eastman has been suffering from massive headache since her accident two years before. Not only the headache, she also has been suffering from selective amnesia; she cannot remember what happened before the accident, on her summer fifteen at the Beechwood Island.

The Sinclairs--the family from Cady's mother, owns a private island and every summer, the Sinclairs go there to spend summertime together. Harris and Tipper Sinclair, their three beautiful daughters, and seven grandchildren--and Gat. Gat, the Indian boy, the nephew of Aunt Carrie's lover, and also the boy Cady has fallen in love with. The four oldest children has always been together and they call themselves the Liars: Cady, Mirren, Johnny, and Gat. Cady has always been waiting for the summer since she can only meet the Liars during the summer.

Two years after the accident, Cady finally comes back to the island. But this summer--the summer seventeen--is not the same as the other summers. The grandmother has passed away. The mothers are fighting each other, Mirren always sick. And Gat says hurtful things about their relationship. But Cady cannot remember what happened during summer fifteen that changed everything..

What was really happened during summer fifteen? Why does everybody keep it from Cady?