Saman, Ayu Utami, 1998
- Indonesia, #12
- Kindle, $5 on Amazon.com
- Read: June 2017
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: I don’t even know
Saman: A very inaccurate synopsis
Book Review
The Weaverbirds: Eyes are not like guns OR nipples, pick another metaphor please
The Weaverbirds, Y.B. Mangunwijaya, 1981
- Indonesia, #10
- Kindle, $10 on Amazon.com
- Read June 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: boring people
This Earth of Mankind: That’s enough, thanks
This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1975
- Indonesia, #9
- Paperback (received as a gift)
- Read May 2017
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: guys who think #metoo is just a witch hunt
Sitti Nurbaya: stupid teenagers
Sitti Nurbaya: A Love Unrealized, Marah Rusli, 1922
- Indonesia, #6
- Kindle edition, $10
- Read May 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: poet laureates of adolescent angst
The Ten Thousand Things: Every, every minute
The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermoût, 1955
- Indonesia, #8
- Paperback (received as a gift)
- Read May 2017
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: Saints and poets maybe
The Black Lake
The Black Lake, Hella Haasse, 1948
- Indonesia, #7
- paperback (received as a gift)
- Read May 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: reformed spoiled brats
Lali: Looking Back
Lali: A Pacific Anthology, ed. Albert Wendt, 1980
- Cook Islands, #5; Tonga, #2; Samoa, #2; Niue, #1; Fiji, #1; Vanuatu, #1; Solomon Islands, #1; Papua New Guinea, #7; Kiribati, #2
- £13.84 from Amazon.co.uk
- Read: September 2015-December 2016
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: Moana groupies
Words of the Lagoon
Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia, R.E. Johannes, 1981
- Palau, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read March 2017
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: specific generalists
Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam: Stay in your lane, Mavis
Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam, Mavis Warner van Peenen, 2008
My Urohs (brings all the boys to the yard)
My Urohs, Emelihter Kihleng, 2008
- Federated States of Micronesia, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read January 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Serious young moralists
