Category: Resensi
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Aku, Buku dan Cinta
Saya kurang pasti tajuk asal buku berbahasa Arab karangan Dr. Aidh Abdullah Al-Qarni ini, namun tertulis dalam aksara Arab perkataan “Asyik”. Pernah membaca sebahagian karya bestseller beliau La Tahzan, saya dapati bahawa gaya bahasanya sangat indah dan berbunga, sesuatu yang jarang didapati dalam karya berbentuk bukan fiksyen. Buku ini dimulakan dengan sebuah cerita seorang pencinta ilmu dan liku-liku yang ditempuhinya. Sudah tentu, selain daripada belajar daripada sekian banyak guru, seorang pemburu ilmu sangat akrab dengan makhluk bergelar buku, book, kitab atau apa sahaja namanya dalam pelbagai bahasa. Beliau juga menyatakan, alangkah ruginya orang yang memilih kegemaran selain daripada membaca serta…
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Kilmeny of the Orchard
I downloaded this book from Project Gutenberg,expecting Kilmeny to be something like Anne or Emily, two of my favourite heroines of all time. Well, Kilmeny was nothing like the aforementioned two, although she did possess a special charm of her own. I loved the fact that she was so innocent and childlike, although it is quite hard to believe that she had never looked into a mirror in her entire life. And I also like the link between her and the orchard–would her charm fade away when she is ruthlessly thrust into the complexities of the real world? Would she then…
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