Title: Godlob Author: Danarto Year: 2004 "Wahai, kembang-kembang yang jelita. Mengenal kalian seperti mengenal semesta. Suatu kebahagiaan. Dan lantas kita ngomong-ngomong dan berkelakar. Tetapi sekarang aku lapar. Kalian makananku satu-satunya. Dan itu berarti pembunuhan." I know I am 8 months late, but this is my first Indonesian book that I read in 2020. This book consists of 9 short stories written by Danarto. All the stories were written in 1968 but the book was printed in 2004. This book was originally belong to my mother. I think she owned this a long long time ago. When I moved out, I remember that I found this book on the storage room. After high school, I barely read Indonesian books, so, I was kind of having high hopes with "Godlob" It took longer for me to read this book because: 1. All the stories is realism and 2. I am not used with the writing style so my brain needs to process the words a little bit longer than usual. Exactly, reading this book is a w...

Title: Men Without Women Author: Haruki Murakami Date: 2017 "Once you have become Men Without Women, loneliness seeps down inside your body, like a red wine stain on a pastel carpet." Yes, another Murakami's book. Because of Norwegian Wood I have taken an interest to read all Murakami's works. Men Without Women is the second book of his book that I have read. The book itself consists of seven (short) stories about men on their loneliness without women. All the seven stories were from different narrators and plots but they share something in common. The stories is talking about how women are coming to men's live and then they left based on the men's perspective. The stories are: Drive my Car, Yesterday, an Independent Organ, Scheherazade, Kino, Samsa in Love, and Men Without Women.  Drive my Car is the first story on the book. It tells about Kafuku, an actor, who hired a female driver. Later, he shared his story about his dead wife whom he found out was cheatin...