This month’s A Classics Challenge prompt is to select a piece of… Music …that you feel reflects the book. Modern, classical, jazz, anything, it doesn’t have to be from the period of the novel but share what it is about the piece that echoes the novel in some way. To pick up a piece of music that goes with the mood of a classic book … Continue reading The State of a Changed Man in Music
This post is written to enter the August prompt of November’s Autumn’s A Classics Challenge. This month’s prompt is to share a memorable Quote … or a few of them from what you’re currently reading. Try to select one that are not so well-known but, of course, if you can’t help yourself share it too! Isn’t it the easiest prompt EVER? Actually I plan to … Continue reading A Bookish Quote from The Catcher in the Rye
A Classics Challenge prompt this month is rather easy, I can say. 🙂 Before we move further, let me tell you the topic for A Classics Challenge prompt this month: Lasting Impression Choose one of the Classics you’ve read this year or are currently reading. What is a moment, quote, or character that you feel will stay with you? Years from now, when some of … Continue reading Lasting Impression on Nineteen-Eighty Four
This is my entry for A Classics Challenge’s June prompt. The theme this month is Visual Tour, which I did with my latest classics read, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. What exactly is a Visual Tour? A series of images that closely represents how you see the scene or description. It doesn’t have to absolutely follow the text but it must reflect the mood. Please be … Continue reading Visual Tour on Northanger Abbey
Having missed the March prompt for November’s Autumn’s A Classics Challenge, right now I’m excited about the April prompt which is focusing on the book cover. I just finished reading Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the translated version into my native language, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language). This is the cover of the translated version: And here are the questions: What … Continue reading Jekyll-Hyde Cover Talk: A Classics Challenge April Prompt
Posting asli: di sini. Character – CLAUDE FROLLO (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Level 1 What phrases has the author used to introduce this character? Seraut wajah lelaki yang sederhana, tenang, dan murung. Tampaknya, usianya tak lebih dari tiga puluh lima, tapi kepalanya sudah sepenuhnya botak, hanya tumbuh beberapa helai rambut tipis kelabu di keningnya. Dahinya yang lebar dan besar mulai berkerut, tapi kemudaan serta … Continue reading [Classics Challenge 2012] February – Character Claude Frollo (Level 1&2)
Let’s read classics! Tidak hanya sekedar membaca, melalui challenge yang ini pembaca buku klasik juga ditantang untuk memperdalam wawasan tentang buku klasik yang dibaca. Posting aslinya (dari blog luar) bisa dilihat di sini. Bertepatan dengan perayaan 200 tahun penulis besar asal Inggris Charles Dickens, maka classics challenge ini saya dedikasikan untuk beliau. Level 1 Who is the author? Charles John Huffam Dickens, lebih dikenal dengan … Continue reading [Classics Challenge 2012] January – Author Charles Dickens
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