A COMPENDIUM OF CLASSIC AND POSTMODERN NOVEL SUMMARIES

Fictional works have been favored by author from an early age, from the legend of the archipelago 'Lake Toba', the fairytale world Putri Salju, and the adventures of Lima Sekawan, to Agatha Christie's translated novels in middle school. During her stay in Yogyakarta, she enjoyed reading more, such as Reader Digest and Time Magazine in the library, and ideological struggle books along with the political turmoil ahead of 1998. Her reading fondness also continued to carry over to Semarang, and she became more familiar with John Grisham, Stephen King, and Anne Rice. What's more, her passion to write is embolden by courses she took in Literature Department Diponegoro University that reviewed old literary works from Shakespeare's English soil, epic poems of the Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri, George Elliot, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, to postmodern American literature Mark Twain and John Steinbeck. The love of fiction never goes out, author also poured a hobby and wrote someshort stories and poems in Batak language. Until now, as a lover of fiction, author fill her spare time by writing thriller and mystery novels.