Quote # 3

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)

The Winner Stands Alone

The most unique of Paulo Coelho’s book are, he always have different story telling on each book, also give the unpredictable ending on it. The Winner Stand Alone -as his thirteenth book-  once again proved Coelho as the best author.

This novel first published on Portuguese titled O Vencedor está Só in 2008. It’s just a love story at the beginning, Igor’s love for Ewa -his beloved wife- but then this love changes into something else, the hazardous poisonous one, even drove the horrible serial murder.

Igor is a Russian millionaire, came to Cannes Film Festival in France on… Read more

Quote #3

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Quote #2

People say they ‘find’ love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.

Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is one of internationally famous Japanese. She was born on 9 August 1933 in Nogisaka, Tokyo. Her father was a violinist and concertmaster, while her mother was a great housewife. Little Kuroyanagi lived when Japan had its huge modernation and  World War II.

After Tomoe burned in World War II, Kuroyanagi studying at Tokyo College of Music, majoring in opera, since she wants to be an opera singer. Graduating in 1979, Kuroyanagi started involve into the television entertainment industry. She became the first Japanese actress who contracted by NHK. Soon, she had her own televison show titled “Tetsuko… Read more

Quote #1

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”

Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

The Legend of Harry Potter

Harry Potter? I bet you know him well. The books, the movies, even the characters itself are magically beloved by the world. J.K Rowling did her masterpiece as a legend. This story is perfectly complete. Aside that whole wizard things, it also contains the sweet friendship, mystery and thriller, the bravest adventures, the conquering death attempt, the trusting belief,  even love and romance.

Rowling created the setting of this story uniquely. It is completely separate from reality yet intimately connected to it. Unlike Narnia and its fantasy land nor Lord of the Rings’ with its Middle-earth a mythic past, the wizarding… Read more

Blog Warming

Today is Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 12: 00.  I am delighted to launch The Book Spot , a simple blog to carve my interest in books, its authors and any related matters of it. Some quotes, short-biography or even just hobbies of the authors hopefully also can be shared.

Hope you enjoy it Pals ;)

Thank you.