Gara-gara menang, atau lebih tepatnya beruntung dalam lomba menulis komentar atas buku novel apik karya novelis muda berbakat Donna Nadira, akhirnya diganjar dengan satu unit netbook HP dark blue. Alhamdulillah…Yuk intip komentar yang asal untuk novel Ttokpokki–(nanti akan saya post kesan membaca buku ini dalam bahasa Indonesia): 
Reading this novel, I could immediately recall that evocative experience a few years back when I was an English teacher and assigned my students a writing project in which they’re to exert themselves to come up with a piece of writing at their best. They did pretty well and I rejoiced at their works. But I soon learned that Donna’s novel is a real achievement without parallel in the works of my students even compared to that of my brightest student.
What’s primarily striking when reading ‘Ttokpokki’ is the author’s excellence in English. Her diction is vibrant; words are carefully selected and every phrase is cunningly manufactured. Clauses and sentences appearing in this book imply that she knows well how to deal with syntactic construction. This remarkable command of English has surely paved her way to tell the story in a mesmerizing flow while presenting witty dialogs and spanking narration, that I ‘gobbled’ this novel in two days.
I like it that the story progressed swiftly from one Continue reading
