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it's nandra. they also call her nashz, the history of such name is way too long to elaborate in this little space. she's seventeen. she's a she. she lives a typical metropolitan lifestyle in the capital of Indonesia. she's currently in her senior year of high school, enduring the second and last year of IB Diploma Programme that's totally ruining her life slowly. but she thinks the whole suffering would give her some sort of advantage in the (scarily) near future. she's a CISVer and lovin' every bit of it. oh, she also very much enjoys mango juice, she'd even prefer it than OJ haha. and while we're at it, yes, she might be random from time to time. she wishes you'd be quite patient about it. :)


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Thursday, September 03, 2009 // 11:04 PM
the best(s) of times :)

i wanna blog just because i feel like it. no IB shitz are gonna stop me from doing so, ever and that's that.

so anyways me wanna make reviews for today yayerz.
this time it's fooooor:

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

yes, ladies and germz. i finally finally read dessen's latest book. though my dad bought it for me in spore, but apparently there's some copies here in kinokuniya so... let's move on shall we not?

Along for the Ride tells the story of Auden an insomniac, academically driven girl. all her life, she is practically an adult, even when she's still so young. as such, Auden missed out a lot on social life in high school since she's always pushed to be driven and focused. there's a reason behind that though. in sophomore year, her parents divorced. and it was preceded by loud arguments, in which at some point she couldn't take anymore. so she seeks silence and solace in Ray's diner -- all through the night until sunrise. what does she do there? she mostly studies. but when she chose to go visit her dad and his new wife, Heidi, and their newborn Thisbe, everything will change for her, even when her mom insisted to her otherwise. in Colby, Auden will learn a lot of second chance, with the help of Eli -- fellow insomniac BMX rider -- and various other people she met in Colby.

as like any other sarah dessen book, you'd always learn about some little piece of life. this book is all about second (or more) chances, possible changes and "getting back on the bike". truly, one of the first impressions i get about Auden was "wow, she clearly has no life in high school". all that studying was way too much and i really don't think that anyone could be like that haha. but it made me realise how lucky i am to have many friends and existing social life haha.

one of the most important thing i learned from the book is that, as cheese and redundant as it may sound, it really doesn't matter how many times you've fallen, what matters is getting back up and move on again. and that, really, it is not worth anything to be a quitter. it really doesn't matter that you've scraped your knee against the asphalt for so many times, what matters is that you've tried and dust off the rubble of yourself as you got up again. because, really, you'd never know until you actually tried. Auden at first never tried to make up for what she missed back in high school, because she's afraid she can't, but hey, she didn't know it herself until she actually tried.

however, i think that somehow the plot progresses a bit... slower than dessen's previous books. Auden's transformation is relatively slow, but then again, maybe it takes a while to change. but it's still a marvelous masterpiece by dessen.

anyways, i make lame reviews haha. go get the book now if you're interested it's really worth the read :)

"You don't want the best of times to be just one, forever. You'd want a lot of bests of times, each one topping the other."
Hollis West in Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen :)

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