From Batavia to Jakarta

Bought my first book today... Nooooo, not the first book I'm ever reading.

Just haven't bought any for myself :-P

I typically read science & history texts, during a dull high school phase I'd read the dictionary saying "wow" to all the strange words. ("ubernerd" I know, but I digress)

Now Mr. Unorthodox Lion pick books for me & once my lovely Venezuelan student, Lorena, saw me browsing a bookstore and got me "The Interpretation of Murder" by Jed Rubenfeld signing it "para professora Teresa"... I treasure it! *aaawww tear drop*

The book I physically picked for myself, after much deliberation & browsing to the dismay of Mr. Unorthodox Lion (luv you hun!), was "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitchell.

And you wanna know why I was drawn to it?

Cause I thought the back cover was cute, it had a funky title then upon reading the blurb discovered it was set in Imperial Japan, "during the Japanese occupation of the Indonesian archipelago during World War II, Batavia was renamed Jakarta" - "Land of the Rising Sun" is an automatic cool factor in my book :-D

Looking forward to thoroughly enjoying this read and sharing my review with the world.

The Thoughtful Lion