Mak Buruk yang tua dan uzur, Tuminah janda muda, Dalim adik Tuminah, Zainab gadis belasan tahun yang dipaksa berkahwin dengan seorang lelaki tiga kali usianya, Tompang yang buta, Basir yang membawa makanan kepada Tuminah dan menidurinya sebagai balasan, merupakan beberapa watak yang terpaut dalam fikiran walaupun telah lama saya habis membaca buku ini.

Air mata turut membasahi pipi apabila terkenang penderitaan sekumpulan orang ini akibat peperangan. […]

CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR by Roald Dahl is the last book I read for the marathon. The story here continues with the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family and Mr Willy Wonka—all eight of them shooting into the sky in a glass elevator. And then things get out of control. The glass elevator overshoots and goes into orbit!

THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl is the fourth book I have completed for the Roald Dahl Reading Marathon.

“She” (in the quote above) is the Grand High Witch and along with many other witches, they are having an annual meeting at the same hotel where Boy (we do not know his name) and his grandmother is having a holiday. Boy stumbles into this meeting by accident when he is looking for a quiet spot to train his two pet mice. The meeting room was vacant at first, but soon the participants (a group of ladies) enter. Slowly he realizes that these women are, in fact, witches!

MATILDA is the third book I have completed for the Roald Dahl Reading Marathon and it’s my favourite! I started reading it at 11 PM (Saturday) and finished at 1.18 AM (Sunday). Snuggled up in my reading chair, I did feel a little sleepy and feared I might not be able to finish the book but the moment I got started, I knew completing the book would be a breeze. It is quite impossible to resist a book that begins with the chapter “The Reader of Books”… […]

THE BFG is the second book I completed for the Roald Dahl Reading Marathon. I started reading THE BFG in the late afternoon, managed to throw in an afternoon nap, and completed it just in time before dinner.

The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) is indeed a special giant. It’s another fun book and an imaginative one to boot. On the cover with the BFG is little Sophie who was kidsnatched out of her bedroom into Giantland. So this time I’m off on another fantastical journey that involves even the Queen of England! […]

What a fun way to begin the weekend on a beautiful Saturday by reading Roald Dahl’s JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH! This book—along with four others—is part of my Roald Dahl Reading Marathon. The goal is to read all the five books within two days.

My first Roald Dahl book was CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, which I read last year in September. I’ve enjoyed it very much and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH did not disappoint. It’s a fun book and an imaginative one. Loved the cover too! Here, I went on a fantastical peachy journey with a little boy named James Henry Trotter. […]

TEHANU by Ursula K. Le Guin is the fourth book in the Earthsea Cycle series.

The first book, A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, is about Ged. The second book, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN, is about Tenar and the third one, THE FARTHEST SHORE, introduces us to prince Arren who embarks on a journey with Ged to restore good to the evil that has befallen Earthsea.

In TEHANU, however, there is no working of magic. The story reunites Ged and Tenar. And a young girl named Therru. The widow Tenar rescues a badly burned girl […]

The third book in the Earthsea Cycle series, THE FARTHEST SHORE by Ursula K. Le Guin, is a thought-provoking book that deals with the issue of death and eternal life. I loved it.

In this one, there is another wizard with great power—perhaps even one that matches Ged’s—who is working a spell. A spell that will throw the world into chaos and upsets its balance by denying and avoiding death. To set things right again, Ged and prince Arren embarks on a journey of possibly no return. They travel by sea into the West, the farthest shore. In their adventure, they encounter dragons and the children of the open sea [...]