Sunday, December 28, 2014

Gift & Riddle Secret Santa 2014


Sebagai salah satu anggota baru di BBI, saya sangat antusias sekali mengikuti event yang diadakan oleh BBI. Setelah kemarin turut berpartisipasi dan bersuka cita di acara Festival Pembaca Indonesia '14 di Museum Nasional (Ssst....saya ngeborong banyak buku lho hanya dengan modal Rp. 0 dan buku bekas). Nah....seperti tahun-tahun sebelumnya, BBI juga mengadakan event tahunan, yaitu Secret Santa. Dan tahun 2014 adalah tahun ke-4 terselenggaranya event Secret Santa. Di event ini, peserta yang berpartisipasi akan saling memberikan kado berupa buku (yaiyalah...) kepada sesama peserta lainnya yang sebelumnya telah di undi oleh panitia. Jadi, intinya selain menjadi pemberi kado, peserta otomatis juga akan mendapatkan kado. Dan bagian yang paling serunya adalah setiap peserta tidak akan tahu siapa Santanya, jadi harus guess by your self dari riddle yang dikirimkan oleh si Santa tersebut. Nah....serukan??!! Kalau mau ikut, gabung dulu jadi anggota BBI *promosi* hahaha.

Well...well... postingan kali ini saya akan menunjukkan hadiah + teka-teki yang dikirimkan oleh My Dearest Santa. Karena saya tidak memberikan prioritas mana buku yang saya inginkan di wishlist, jadi saya sangat senang menerima yang mana pun. Dan tada.....ini lah hadiahnya.....

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

[Book Review] Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander

Writer : Ellie Alexander
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Format : eARC, 320 pages
Source : NetGalley, sent on behalf of publisher
Publishing date : 30th, December 2014
Language : English
Genre : Cozy Mystery, Adult Fiction
Series : A Bakeshop Mystery #1
Read on November, 25th 2014
My rating : 3.5 of 5

Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal…
After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte’s customers turns up dead, there’s much ado about murder…
The victim is Nancy Hudson, the festival’s newest board member. A modern-day Lady Macbeth, Nancy has given more than a few actors and artists enough reasons to kill her…but still. The silver lining? Jules’s high school sweetheart, Thomas, is the investigator on the case. His flirtations are as delicious as ever, and Jules can’t help but want to have her cake and eat it too. But will she have her just desserts? Murder might be bad for business, but love is the sweetest treat of all…
"It's pretty stunning what people can or will do when they feel threatened. It's such a shame." p.235
When your marriage is suck and the best thing to do was back to your home town, and what you've got is murderer at your bake shop. This is what happened to Juliet, when she back to her sweet, small, and lovely hometown - Ashland, Oregon.