So....a nice enough guy makes a long list of all the dullest tasks he can think of, and does them, mostly, and his life is still lovely and nothing really significantly changes because he happily admits he's a 'bit hopeless' at finishing (or indeed starting) these tasks. So he does all the boring...
I expect this book annoys anyone who has to shelve books for a living, which way up does it go? The gimmick is that one side is the story of the hen weekend and the other side is the story of the stag weekend of a thirty-something couple. I found the stag section more enjoyable, and especially ho...
An enjoyable lighthearted holiday read. I loved the idea of two stories told in the same timescale - one the stag do and one the hen do. Its up to you which story you read first and I chose the hen do, which was the better story and left you wondering what the hell the men were up to in Amsterda...
To my shame it had been a while since I had read a Mike Gayle book so when I took The Importance of Being a Batchelor from my shelf I was looking forward to the read and was not disappointed. Funny, engaging, Mike Gayle as ever pulls you into the lives and situations of the Batchelor family. Fo...
This one is fresh. I have not read a funnier description of a heartbroken bachelor before, maybe I have not read enough, yet this would be funnier I speculate. This actually seemed a generalization of a twenty-something bachelor's life and of all his everyday feats. If I had to quote everything t...
Konon, Gabrielle Zevin pernah bilang, “Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”Saya tahu keberadaan buku ini sejak beberapa tahun lalu, tapi baru ada niatan beli Senin lalu saat melihatnya di tumpukan diskonan. Karena sedang ingin bacaan ringan, maka dari banyak tumpukan (kurang lebih...
Read October, 2006 Mike Gayle has easily become one of my go to authours. When he comes out with a new book I am amungst the first to order it, when I am in a slump and want to read something that is sure to give me a chuckle I pick up a Mike Gayle book. His voice is always fresh and his story li...
“Where did we go wrong?”The above question probably haunts everyone whose relationship recently went down the drain. Some would probably spend most of his / her time trying to figure out what the cause of the split while the rest struggle to move on without bothering to do the full-blown analysis...
Category: BooksAuthor: Mike GayleGenre: Pop LiteratureRate: 3 out of 5Buku yang gw dapatkan dari diskonan Gramedia di Lotte Mart Fatmawati. Alasan gw beli buku ini?1. Karena lagi diskon (cuma jadi 20 ribu, hehehe),2. Karena judulnya, Turning Thirty - Beranjak Tiga Puluh.Itulah kondisi gw sekarang...
Moving house is indeed a highly traumatic activity (I should know, having moved both houses and entire continents in recent years) but helping your parents to move out of the house in which they’ve both lived and raised a family for over forty years is the stuff of nightmares. ‘And what do you ne...
Everything I wanted to say sounded insincere and cliched the second I’d written it down. It was as if the very act of picking up a pen rendered me incapable of writing a sentence without resorting to something that I’d seen in a film or watched on a soap opera. What I really wanted was to say som...
I was sitting on my own in a booth overlooking the strip in the McDonalds at the crossroads. In front of me were a cold cup of coffee (mine) and the remains of a Big Mac Meal (someone else’s). I pulled my phone out of my back pocket and switched it on. Within seconds it beeped frantically to let ...
Even though it was meant to be summer, the sky above him was a deep, dark gun-metal grey. It was three-layers cold and the lack of office girls in skimpy tops on their way to work made him wonder if he had missed the memo about the entire season being cancelled. As it happened, a beautiful summer...
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works: The lines from Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw reproduced with permission of The Society of Authors on behalf of the Bernard Shaw Estate Quotation from Self Made Mann, an interview wi...