BacaBuku: Landline by Rainbow Rowell

 Buku #5/2024

Ummi baca buku ni tahun lepas. Lupa dah bila exactly baca. Rasanya masa ummi kena Covid for the 3rd time. Otherwise memang tak sempat nak membelek buku. Last year was hectic. This year, even more hectic 😥🥹. Seram nak masuk office lepas habis cuti panjang nanti.. Sekarang pun bila baca whatsapp, tengok status/story rakan² seperjuangan sibuk mesyuarat, bengkel, site visit sana sini sinun.. Semuanya macam bertimpa².. 😔.

So, taknak bayangkan sekarang, taknak semakkan otak... Nak enjoy je dulu cuti ni. Sudahlah cuti tak bergaji kan.. hahaha.. 

So, buku ni tentang apa?

Ia tentang perkahwinan Georgie dan Neal yang seakan sudah hambar. The wife, Georgie, terlalu sibuk dengan kerja, terlibat dengan some famous TV show.. Aiming for something bigger on her carrier. While husband, Neal, boleh consider macam house-husband. Neal ni pula perwatakan dia macam introvert, tak banyak cakap, tapi he does almost everything dari running house errands, siapkan anak², hantar anak ke sekolah, masak yada yada.. 

Plot masa sewaktu perayaan Hari Natal. Ada perselisihan faham between the two of them, where the whole family should be going back to Neal's mother's house before Christmas, but Georgie have something important involving her carrier, chasing some deadline. Neal akhirnya, without saying much, pack his things with their kids' flying back to Neal's hometown, leaving Georgie alone with her 'never ending work'.. 

Masa ni la munculnya 'the landline'.. Talian tetap. Most rumah sekarang takde talian tetap dah kan, i guess so, sebab mine memang takde. My mom's pun dah deactivate dah landline sebab dah takde yang pakai. Semua kelek handphone je..

What's with the landline? Georgie yang devastated, rasa kehilangan, rasa serba tak kena, feeling miserable bila tinggal keseorangan di rumah sendiri.. Decided to go back to her mom's house. Handphone dia pula ada masalah bateri. Dalam almari pakaian di rumah emaknya ada telefon berwarna kuning, the landline phone. So, dia sambungkan telefon tu, dan dial nombor Neal. Somehow, the conversation was awkward. It was like she was talking to the past Neal. The Neal before they were getting married. Is it a halucination?? Does magic phone that brings you back to the yesteryears really exists? Is it really Neal whom she was talking to? What will happen to their marriage? Will it sink? Will they survive?? 

Buku ni, ummi beli lama sangat dah. Masa zaman gigih meredah Big Bad Wolf.. Tak pasti dan tak ingat kenapa ummi pilih buku ni. Ummi tak familiar pun dengan author ni. A random pick je rasanya ni.. Hahaha.. I took me quite some time (few couple of years perhaps) to start reading this book. Risau kalau ia tak kena dengan jiwa. But alhamdulillah, ummi enjoy je baca dan tak sabar nak tahu ending dia macam mana.. Worth to read..