Những Cảm Xúc Bị Cấm Đoán

by Lala Bohang, Nguyễn Tường Vân (Translator)

Chia tay rồi, nỗi niềm ở lại chỉ còn là những cảm xúc bị cấm đoán

Người đàn ông đó

Chỉ có thể yêu

Không thể hy vọng.

Con người là thế, biết rõ nghịch điện thoại chỗ tối sẽ hỏng mắt nhưng vẫn thích trùm chăn lướt net, biết rõ thức khuya không tốt cho sức khỏe nhưng nửa đêm vẫn còn lọ mọ. Cũng như chia tay rồi, biết rõ người ấy đã ra đi, nhưng cảm xúc vẫn vẹn nguyên như thuở ban đầu, biết bao kỷ niệm cứ nhớ mãi chẳng thể nào quên. Hồi ức về người ấy là bữa tiệc nhiều món, món chính ngọt ngào mà tráng miệng lại đắng ngắt.

“Em có thể nghe thấy âm thanh tảng băng tan vỡ, cơn gió, cùng chú chim đang kêu chiêm chiếp và thời tiết xấu từ lồng ngực mình. Cái ngày chúng mình ngồi trên bãi cỏ chẳng hề sạch sẽ và nắm lấy tay nhau, xung quanh là lũ kiến, lũ gián, và mọi sinh vật ghê sợ tồn tại trên mặt đất. Chúng mình chuyện trò về những điều hệ trọng như là quá khứ của cha mẹ chúng mình, sự tồn tại của Thượng đế, nhà tiên tri của chúng mình có thể là người ngoài hành tinh và có khả năng bay. Chúng mình luôn làm vậy mỗi khi ở bên nhau. Mỗi cuộc đấu tranh đều trở nên quan trọng gần giống một người khổng lồ. Em thấy mình trở nên quan trọng. Em tin rằng anh sẽ mang đến cho em hạnh phúc. Em có thể ngửi thấy tình yêu thương và sự ân cần của anh ở khắp nơi trên cơ thể em.

Và sau một ngày mỏi mệt khi chúng ta cùng ngồi trên bãi cỏ chẳng hề sạch sẽ, anh rời bỏ em mà chẳng nói một lời. Cuộc đời ném em vào hố đen sâu thăm thẳm. Anh rời bỏ em.”

Cuốn sách này là một đại tiệc đầy cảm xúc dành cho những con người đã đi qua đổ vỡ đang vật lộn với chính mình, là cuộc hành trình hàn gắn những vết nứt trong tim, và cũng là đôi phút trăn trở của những cặp đôi trên con đường hạnh phúc. Hy vọng Những cảm xúc bị cấm đoán sẽ là ly café cho những ngày có mưa trong lòng, để bạn tìm thấy sự bình yên và an ủi.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Indonesian Literature, Romance, Literature, Contemporary, Graphic Novels

152 pages, Paperback

First published July 18, 2016

About the author

Lala Bohang lahir di Makassar dan merupakan lulusan jurusan Arsitektur Universitas Parahyangan yang bekerja sebagai perupa, penulis, dan kurator untuk label buku Pear Press. Sejak tahun 2009 ia telah berpartisipasi pada beberapa pameran kelompok di dalam dan luar negeri. Tahun 2016 Lala mulai mempublikasikan buku trilogi berjudul The Book of Forbidden Feelings (2016), The Book of Invisible Questions (2017), dan The Book of Imaginary Beliefs (2019).

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lala Bohang
The Book of Forbidden Feelings
Gramedia Pustaka Utama
152 pages
4.2

This
Is
The
Book
For
Jakarta's
Middle
Class
Millennials
That
I
Knew
I
Never
Needed

[Utha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suka! Apalagi dengan ilustrasinya.

*

"You’re the kind of love that
I always avoid.
...
I can see the future,
you feel bored with my existence in your life.
...
The closer you get, the less magical you become."

[raafi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beberapa hari lalu aku coba mengikuti tes feminin-maskulin di salah satu situs. Entah benar atau tidak, kadar femininku lebih besar ketimbang maskulin. Percaya tidak percaya sih. Tapi buku ini bahkan terlalu feminin untuk pembaca pria-yang-katanya-feminin sepertiku.

Dan ilustrasinya, astaga. Aku sama sekali tidak mengerti. Ini meyakinkanku bahwa aku bukan penerjemah visual dan buat kalian yang mau ajak nge-date, jangan sekali-kali tawari aku ke pameran lukisan atau sejenisnya karena bakal melongo (dengan O besar) di sana.

Terlepas dari itu, ada beberapa puisi (eh, ini puisi kan?) yang "mengena". Semacam tertowel atau tersentil atau terusik gitu. Salah satunya ini:

"Too much perfection and positivity kills everything. Slowly and absolutely. The human race believes positivity is the key of success. The human race believes perfection is the key of happiness.
While both are the ultimate keys to neverland where everything is fake and literally unreachable. 'Dream, baby, keep on dreaming,' they say, so they can keep selling and you keep buying whatever they sell." - (pg. 138)

Akhirnya dengan segenap asa, kutulis ulasannya: http://bibliough.blogspot.co.id/2016/...

[ABO · Rating 3 out of 5]

Feeling yang paling saya suka:

"You go home after doing all things you're not interested in for a whole day. Meeting people who are not dreamers. Taking notes on things you would never pay attention to. Discussing matters that would never affect your mind and your life. Listening to everybody's unimportant thoughts about what's important and what's not. Breathing in air which is located in the most cold-blooded place on earth called forced routine. The energy is so magnetic it comes from your basic needs: validation, things, and friendship.

A day ends. Just like another day. You come home and try to forget. Try to make yourself better. It's not a life I want to live, your soul says. I'm better than this. I want to be remembered. I want my death to be another door to more amazing things. To be celebrated, to live longer than my body, to be able to leave something remarkable.

The sun is finally awake. And today will be the same as yesterday."

Ouch!

[Ivena · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read the back cover and was sold in an instant. I went home, read the forewords, and thought "What a beautiful thing. The rest must be prettier."

But the book isn't for me. It's like a darker version of tumblr poems; and although most of it are beautiful, honest, and pure; I'm afraid to go on. I'm afraid I would think that way too.

That is why the title is The Book of Forbidden feelings. The words are things that "Positivism Subscriber" would love to avoid at all cost. We all want the pretty things in life, and Lala writes and draw the harsh reality.

For example :
"Eat until happiness hit your chest."
"The friendship that works only for year-end shopping spree and a short girl-talk at beauty parlour"
The illustration of plants in which the pot called acceptance is on its way to wilt (or is it the shape of the leaves, I couldn't tell) and the tiny cactus called joy.

They are deep, meaningful, honest, beautiful. But also dark and depressing. Especially for someone who just fight depression, this book isn't what you need to read. But if you are someone with deep love of prose and poems and words, then I would recommend it. It is full of truth no one dares to talk about. It's adulthood wrapped in beautiful words and illustration.

[Mia Prasetya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buku yang berbahaya bagi orang yang baperan. Buku yang kadang bikin pembacanya mikir iya ini aku banget! Buku yang akan menarik pembaca ke pelosok goa memori paling dalam, tempat pemikiran-pemikiran yang tenggelam tanpa sempat terucap. Buku yang dibaca untuk pengantar tidur malah bikin melek lagi jam segini. Suka!

[Gacanti Swastika · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have known Lala since I was naive and young, she came out to be one of my bestfriend along the way. The kind of bestfriend you will have mixed feeling about: not caring but caring. I have (or we have) experienced her mood up and down, the minute she became hard and sarcastic, egoistical and defensive, the minute she softened up and embraced emotions. For all emotions she embodied, they were not posturing masks. It's Lala. She is a woman with her own mind. She's sweet but also dark. She's cute but also strong. She loves simplicity but also complications. Maybe that's why we gravitated towards each other, we don't care about people - we just have too much feeling for everything. So for our best effort is just ignoring and repressing all of them. So this is the book which she took ownership of all of her feelings (maybe) buried down there.

One day she said she will launch a book. I wasn't surprised though, I knew writing (blog- one of them) was her passion (we met on a publication/magazine company). So it's only time when I will see her writings cemented on real books. But it wasn't all. She's also an illustrator. I remember when we were still working in the same office together, she said. 'I want to be an artist, illustrator and I will give it a go'. I didn't catch a glimpse of fear, she resigned and started to walk step by step to secure her life and position as artist. Illustration came naturally for her. It's her life. Her expressions. Her best assets, her identity. Now she took the step to merge her thoughts and illustration together.

So Book of Forbidden Feelings came out. I felt this is the intimate thoughts of Lala that she could share. The book basically told you what's like to be Lala. I can feel her in her book. And turned out she's a bad ass poet. The depressive thoughts, it's like on the edge of suicidal and understanding of life, she's not the kind of person who will uplift you. She is the kind of poet who will make you realize how bad it felt for other people if you're lying about who you are and what you desire.

Like this one:
"I would love to know your obsessions.
Is it landed house, gadgets, power,
domestic life, succulent plants, achievement money,
work, more likes and followers,
health, validations, sex, organic food,
pets, perfect selfies, children,
sports, religion, relationship,
minimalism, perfection, muscles,
urban toys, shoes, traveling, or fame?"
but nobody is prepared for that kind of question
on a first date.
So I said, 'you look great'.

One thing we have in common is that we know that behind all beautiful illusion about happiness and great relationship, there is lie underneath. A lie of your subconscious that you repress down there, waiting to explode--hoping that you will admit your repressive and desire that society thinks negative. Admit it. Fuck society. You want something. Admit it. You will be bored with your wife. Admit it. You will not be 100% happy and you will see there's always something wrong with you.

It's rarity to find an artist who is a complicated soul in Indonesia (by Indonesia-I mean Jakarta). Great artist should have that 'it' factor. It will keep your art honest and smells as you. No wonder she used black and white. No wonder she explained her emotion in childlike illustrations. It's triggering your emotions. And it's good. Congrats Lala.

[fayza R · Rating 3 out of 5]

buku ini bahaya, gak ada positif positifnya hahaha, kalo habis patah hati, depresi, capek, lelah sama dunia, dll terus baca buku ini bakal ngerasa 'ooohhh gue gak sendiriaan' haha

forbidden feelings karena, yeah we got that same feeling but Lala Bohang wrote it too honest, jujur teuing wkwkw

dan ilustrasinya suka bangeet kkk

***

"Lets play hide and seek





Hide forever"

***

kan orang patah hati banget kan ? inginnya hilang dr dunia wkwkw

rekomen buat yang maso dan enggak suka yang manis2 hhehe

[Ifa Inziati · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jenis bacaan yang habis kurang dari sejam, lebih cepat jika kamu tipe yang lebih suka membaca puisinya ketimbang meneliti ilustrasinya. Bingung dengan bintangnya, jadi saya sematkan tiga dulu yang aman.

Saya tahu penulis pertama kali dari blog sang ibunda yang menulis postingan saat ulang tahunnya. Penulis memang memiliki minat dan bakat yang besar pada ilustrasi dan puisi. Seperti judulnya, isi buku ini sebagian besar depresif, condong pada nothingness, sedikit maso, dan kesadaran akan betapa palsunya dunia ini. Duh, kok berat, ya.

Untuk fisik bukunya sendiri agak disayangkan, ya. Soalnya putih dan hardcover, bikin cepat kotor. Untungnya lembar yang berwarna hitam total tidak berbekas di tangan. Setidaknya pantas kalau kertasnya berkualitas, karena saya suka ilustrasi dengan latar hitam yang dibuat negatif (dan ini cukup banyak). Kan, sayang jika tintanya mudah luntur.

Lanjut ke isi buku. Sebetulnya tidak semua beraura muram, ada beberapa yang membuat saya berkata, 'FINALLY, POSITIVISM!' seperti favorit saya di halaman 63, tentang tubuh yang hanya sebagai wadah jiwa, maka tak ada gunanya untuk terobsesi pada tubuh (positif, kan?). Tapi memang tidak jauh-jauh dari relationship, sih. Meski ditulis dalam Bahasa Inggris, tetap saja berasa lokal, karena ada beberapa diksi yang terasa seperti 'menginggriskan Bahasa Indonesia'. Teh Botol dan Lontong Cap Gomeh juga dapat tempat di sini. Yang terasa Indonesianya antara lain frasa 'when you eat a McDonald's burger but forget to take the pickle.' karena setahu saya pickle itu khasnya burger sana, dan kurang lebih seperti sambal untuk orang kita--menjadi makanan yang dikangenin saat bepergian. Americans love their pickles.

Kalau kamu suka karya yang gelap dan ilustrasi gaya pop mural, mungkin saja buku ini adalah jodoh kamu.

[Niratisaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars for the conflicting feelings that's inflicted by Lala Bohang to me.

Saya dibuat bingung dengan ekspresi dalam puisi Lala yang begitu pribadi, ringkih, sekaligus artistik dan menarik. Tapi lebih dari itu, saya dibuat terpesona.

Ketika sebuah buku bisa membuat kamu merenung sendiri dan berkontemplasi, masih pentingkah pertanyaan genrenya apa? Kenapa kok aneh gini?

Sesekali, Indonesia perlu penulis kontemporer semacam Lala. Semacam penawar agar tidak terkena diabetes :)

[Marina · Rating 2 out of 5]

** Books 08 - 2018 **

This books to accomplish Tsundoku Books Challenge 2018

2,3 of 5 stars!

I really didn't get the hype of books is. I am not really enjoy reading this pieces after all. it is not really my cup of tea

[afin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rated 2 / 5 stars

Synopsis:
I wanted to say, "I would love to know your obsessions, Is it landed house, gadgets, power, domestic life, succulent plants, achievements, money, work, more likes and followers, health, validations, sex, organic food, pets, perfect selfies, children, sports, religion, relationship, minimalism, perfection, muscles, urban toys, shoes, traveling, or fame?" but nobody is prepared for that kind of question on a first date.
So I said, "You look great."

Review:
The Book of Forbidden Feelings was probably one of the most hyped up books of 2016 in Indonesia. With that being said, of course I came into this book with a high expectation even though poetry books are kind of a hit and miss to me. I once flipped through a couple of pages of this book in a bookstore but I never really finished it, I never really bought it due to the fact that it is quite an expensive book. I finally bought this book during the Gramedia.com's harbolnas promotion because what the heck might as well buy it since it was so cheap. After I finished this book, it was obvious to me that this one falls into the "miss" category of poetry books to me.

I know it's bad to compare things, but I kept comparing this book to Naela Ali's Stories For Rainy Days, which I really liked and I know both of these books are different from one another heck the only similarity is that they're both illustrators. A little about this book, obviously this book is a collection of poems written and illustrated by Lala Bohang. The poems in this book highlights Lala's "forbidden feelings", which I loosely translated into the thoughts people have hidden inside that they only keep to themselves because those thoughts are dangerous and could get them into trouble. To be honest with you, I expected the content of this book to be wilder because when a title has "forbidden feelings" in it I expect it to discuss "forbidden" things. To me this book fell short in that department, although one or two poems in this book caught my eye most of the others just felt like rantings to me.

The ones that caught my eye:
Dark chocolate, physical interaction, coffee, love, money, and affection. They're our kinds of heaven on earth, temporary but enough at least for now. Enough to fill the mundane daily life. Enough for now. But then days remind you of the word forever. Forever is a long time and no matter how much dark chocolate, physical interaction, coffee, love, money, and affection fill your life. It will never be enough.

and

The funny thing is the more hate you put in, the harder you forget. The more anger and rage in it, the sadder you become. When everything goes really bad but you're able to get through that shitty situation, you're magically reborn. You feel more loved and more attached to the person you hate the most. That's why the hardest memories to forget is the worst memories to remember.

Read my full review on my blog http://booksoverall.blogspot.co.id/20...

[Hanif · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Ok, it's time to read Bohang's works without judgment," I said to myself today. But lol. I can never stop thinking that this is just a diary of a grumpy, bitter, city girl who knows art. She wrote scattered and repetitive words, made them to 'literary art' just because she decorated them with cute drawings and boasted its process for the sake of 'breaking the rules'. This kind of 'easily digestable' works will keep circulating in the market because of lazy readers.

[Ria Destriana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to grow up but my soul
doesn't seem to be very excited about it.
Maybe she's lying.
She's just a soul.
One day she says, "Get up, lazy cat! You have
to live your day proud and loud!" but another
day she whispers, "So tired, can we just stay
at home all day, call in sick, write an ugly poem,
and be busy being invisible?" I can't control her.
I'm just a body.
She's the thinker.
She's so inconsistent and always
has this thirst for attention
and celebration for herself.
She makes me busy seeking for distractions.
She never counts me in her future plans, she's
too busy shouting meaningless motivational
sentences or killing my confidence
in a very low whisper, like wind in
December, "You're not good enough."

***

Aku mengenal nama Lala Bohang melalui ilustrasinya beberapa tahun lalu, makanya aku penasaran dengan bukunya ini. Buku seperti apa yang akan ditulis oleh Lala?

Now, I really love this book!

Membaca prosa dalam The Book of Forbidden Feelings seperti mendengarkan Lala berbicara denganku menyuarakan pikirannya. Tentang hidup, tentang cinta, tentang memahami dan jujur pada diri sendiri--suatu perasaan yang sangat jarang ingin dirasakan semua orang. Ilustrasi dalam buku ini juga menguatkan hal itu.

Seperti isi bukunya yang hitam putih, nuansa dalam prosa yang ditulis Lala serta ilustrasi yang digambarnya memang terasa muram dan depresif, tapi juga sangat dekat di hati.

"This is not a motivational book," said the last page. Buku ini memang bukan buku motivasi, tapi aku menemukan diriku dalam buku ini.

That's why the hardest memories to forget is the worst memories to remember. People are funny, they are always willing to hurt themselves. And when everything comes to an end, there's nothing but this exhausting effort to forget.

Ini buku prosa sekaligus ilustrasi kedua yang kubaca setelah kolaborasi Aan Mansyur dan Emte dalam Melihat Api Bekerja. Sama seperti buku itu, aku menyukai prosa dan ilustrasi Lala yang saling melengkapi. Semoga buku-buku seperti ini semakin banyak di Indonesia. Because it's really nice to see illustration and prose at the same time. Mencari makna dari gambar dan kata-kata menimbulkan keseruan tersendiri.

Kekurangan buku ini hanya satu. Hardcover berwarna putih. Seandainya ini paperback atau berwarna hitam semua seperti buku milk and honey dari Rupi Kaur mungkin akan lebih baik. Sekalian menggambarkan isi bukunya yang muram. Kayaknya sih aku akan dengan noraknya menyampul plastik buku ini supaya nggak cepat kotor :p

Untuk kamu yang suka buku dengan kata-kata yang indah (dan jujur) serta ilustrasi dengan makna yang dalam, aku rekomendasikan buku ini untuk kamu.

4 bintang untuk Lala dan perasaan-perasaan yang terlarang.

[Anisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pensaran sama buku ini gara" banyak yang baca. Awalnya saya kira ini novel ternyata bukan. Ini apa sih? Puisi ya? Dengan tambahan ilustrasi gitu? Saya nggak ngerti sih maksud buku ini apaan, saya kok nggak dapat feel-nya gitu. Di bagian awal kayak patah hati gitu ditinggalin pacarnya terus dia merasa kehilangan, nothingness, tapi kok ujung"nya malah random gitu ya? Tapi tetep sih kebanyakan isinya lebih ke negative dibanding postive nya. Apalagi ilustrasinya, saya sama sekali nggak ngerti maksudnya apa. Mungkin ini bukan jenis bacaan saya sih jadinya nggak terlalu suka. Tapi buku ini nggak jelek-jelek amat, puisi yang ditulis Lala Bohang ini sebenarnya bagus dan saya kagum karenanya. Selebihnya... bleh mungkin emang sayanya aja yang nggak ngerti sama maksud buku ini.

"it will never be enough. Except purity. When needs disappear and are replaced by nothingness. How to be pure again? You asked. How long is forever? I asked back."

[Jessica Huwae · Rating 4 out of 5]

She draws and she writes. Must say, the content in this book much much better than those pseudo poets who hate Salihara for no reason, claiming they are poet yet it is hard for everyone to digest their writing *loh kok jadi nyinyir*. But this book, isn't that kind of course. It's more about personal reflection, your secret obsessions, longing, trust, distrust that makes it even more enjoyable. I hope Lala continue to write--a longer one!

[Juwita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a motivational book but somehow complete your feeling that can't speak loudly

[Nisa Rahmah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Membaca buku ini bisa menimbulkan kesan hangat, seperti sedang dipeluk oleh masa lalu dan masa depan secara bersamaan. Emosional, tapi emosional yang tidak membuat depresi (eh, benarkah?), tidak berkoar-koar, tidak meledak-ledak. Tapi hangat, seperti sedang menyesap cokelat hangat saat hujan turun dengan derasnya. Perasaan-perasaan yang beginilah yang saya rasakan ketika membacanya. Ditambah lagi ilustrasinya menambah padu tulisan yang sedang berbicara.

Semuanya bermakna. Saya mau kutip salah satu dari lembaran buku ini secara acak:

It will never be enough.
Except purity. When
need disappear and are
replaced by nothingness.
How to be pure again?
you asked. How long is
forever? I asked back.

(hal 87)

The thing we have for the last 30 days.
I call it a distraction.
I crave your aproval
about things that matter to you.

I crave more attention for
nothing I care about.
I crave or a nonstop flow of
affection, love, kisses, more love,
your skin, and warmth.
I crave everything or nothing.

(hal 27)


Saya baca ini versi buku digital (via SCOOP), dan rasanya tidak keberatan suatu hari nanti membeli buku cetaknya, karena puisi bagi saya memiliki makna berbeda jika dibaca berulang kali, di suasana hati yang berbeda pula.

(Buku ini cocok buat dijadikan caption-caption IG atau status galau di Facebook, eh twitter juga sih. Dan saya sudah melakukannya. #ngaku)

[Dee Octivina · Rating 1 out of 5]

my 1st time giving 1 star to a book. sorry.. but this book isn't for me. it's full of pessimistic, skepticism and all negativity. I can't stand it n not finished reading it. moreover with some of those gross thing (I mean literally gross) mentioned (such as a yellow smelly mark on her underwear), ouucchh.. nope, just nope. I mean what's all the good about it? I really don't understand...

and oh... she talked about her exes few times. and I still don't get what's her point in it?

I thought this book tells about some taboo issues or any forbidden feelings that we can't express in life n daily. I was wrong :(
it's pretty much about complaining.

one thing I like is just the opening quote, and unfortunately isn't hers.

[Farissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Roses are red
The sky is blue
Alone in my room
Being overly negative

Tertarik dengan buku ini karena covernya yang simpel dan ilustrasi di dalamnya. Beberapa kalimat memang terasa "gue banget" :D

[shanghao · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wasn't that bad, wasn't that good, it was ok. Like a collection of tumblr posts with funky illustrations bound in an attractive packaging.

[Astrid Claudia · Rating 4 out of 5]

As gloomy as my past.. or feelings.. or..

Yep. Gloomy.

[RaLav · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lagi-lagi aku baca di ipusnas bulan ini. Kali ini aku mencoba baca karyanya Mbak Lala Bohang. Aku lupa persisnya tapi aku dapet rekomendasi buku ini di ipusnas entah kapan. Pas itu aku coba aja deh untuk tulis nama Lala Bohang di search bar ipusnas, dan keluarlah salah satunya buku ini. Bisa dibilang aku cukup hoki waktu itu. Karena yang ngantri buku ini ada ratusan orang namun saat itu buku ini punya satu persediaan, langsung saja saat itu juga aku klik tombol pinjam. Gak nyangka antriannya cukup panjang dan waktu itu aku beruntung banget (btw saat nulis review ini aku belum balikin bukunya, mungkin yang mau pinjam boleh komen di bawah, siapa tahu aku belum balikin bukunya).

Isi buku ini cantik dan gelap, baik dari sisi ilustrasi maupun tulisannya. Sebenernya bisa dibilang buku ini not my cup of tea, soalnya aku ga terbiasa dengan tema seperti ini but I enjoy it😆. Buku ini berisikan tulisan-tulisan tentang perasaan yang bisa dibilang relatable.

Jujur saja aku bingung sebenernya ini buku puisi atau buku apa sih? Mohon maafkan aku yang sendirinya masih bingung ini buku jenis apa, karena aku gak familiar dengan puisi. Tapi kalau lihat dari shelf goodreads, kelihatannya buku ini termasuk buku puisi ya? But whatever type of book is this, rasanya itu ga terlalu penting, yang penting adalah kalian menikmati tulisan dan ilustrasi cantik di buku ini.

Buku ini sangat tidak aku rekomendasikan untuk orang dengan kondisi mental yang kurang/tidak baik. Karena this is not a motivational book, this is a book that make you search for a motivational book. Jadi plis jangan coba-coba baca buku satu ini kalau kondisi mental kalian sedang tidak baik, this book make your mental even worse.

Buku ini aku rekomendasikan buat yang mau ngegalau tapi kayaknya gak galau😂😭 Istilahnya mau sedih aja gitu tanpa alasan. Thanks buat Mbak Lala Bohang yang sudah menciptakan buku dengan ilustrasi dan tulisan yang cantik ini 🖤

Rate-ku untuk buku ini 4/5⭐

At the end let me drop some words that I like from this book:

"Nothing is the most beautiful thing in the world because in nothing the possibility is endless. Everything is nothing and nothing is everything.”

[Fitrah · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's nothing that more connected to me nowadays than this book. Like, seriously, every words, every sentences, without exception letting my voice blurred out. It feels so good when there is something that stucked in your mind, but you can't puke it out, and when you read the book, there is something that suddenly spread out of your body.

Aku benar-benar jatuh cinta dengan buku ini...

[Hanny Wulandari Yasin · Rating 5 out of 5]

My personal deepest diary.

[Safara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book in English. You can access it in Gramedia Digital apps.

Lala Bohang's writing style reminds me of other famous contemporary poets. Maybe not all of us relate to this book, because it is often revolves in quarter life crisis phase, especially in a capital city like Jakarta (or at least, that has happened to me before).

Being in your 20s is hard. Some of your friends are married, some of them are sucessful in career, and sometimes you feel of missing out on every trend evolve around us.

For you who cannot describe your feeling well, or maybe want to have contemplation time, I recommend you to read this book. The illustration is superb.

[sutou_ · Rating 2 out of 5]

i expect something moderately dark, but ended up surprised that a lot ppl thought that the content in the book is "too dark" because from my subjective view, it really isnt.

this work filled up with one's selfishness. to write, to finish, to not minding how would the other thought. sadly, it was a pointless selfishness that dont merit anyone but the writer's sense of accomplishment... from what i see, anyway. glad to see people get to enjoying the book tho, bc i really cant

aka not my cup of tea because it lacks a lot, though i'm okay with my wasted time reading this.

[e.c.h.a · Rating 4 out of 5]

anjiiirrr...pasti banyak yang baper baca puisi-puisi di buku ini. Penulisnya bilang, kalau bukunya bukanlah buku motivasi tapiii gw yakin pasti ada yang termotivasi dengan salah satu atau dua dari puisinya. Gara-gara puisinya 'yang gue banget'

Ilustrasinya mah jempol.

Bintang 4 dari gw karena gw suka puisi penutupnya. Gue bangeetttt...

[Shanya Putri · Rating 3 out of 5]

So depressing.

Sempat punya buku fisiknya, baca beberapa halaman tapi stuck. Lalu akhirnya buku itu pun dijual ke teman yang lebih berminat untuk baca.

The writing is just okay. The illustration is weirdly beautiful.

[Olivia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel more related with this book instead of "The Book of Invisible Questions" somehow. I feel like taking pics of many writings inside because I thought 'THIS' so many times. XD Anyway, it's such a beautiful book and in my opinion, related much with our lives nowadays.

Final Rating 4/5