READING LOG (BIOGRAPHY)

 

Reading Log (Biography)

 

Name   : Khansa Fauziyah

No.Id  : 222122134

Class    : D 

 

Day 1 Saturday 25 February 2023 Time: 20.00
First Person	Nicholas Spark (Author)
His/Her Biography	Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska. The second of three children born to Patrick Sparks, a college professor, and his wife Jill, a homemaker, Sparks spent the early part of his childhood moving around with his family as his father finished up his graduate work. They lived in Minnesota, then Los Angeles, later Grand Island, Nebraska, and finally Fair Oaks, California, where the Sparks clan found a permanent home. Sparks went on to graduate from high school there in 1984, becoming the class valedictorian. Author Nicholas Sparks wrote his first (unpublished) novel while sidelined by a sports injury. He then attended the University of Notre Dame and went into sales. Business setbacks got him writing again and in 1995, he finished The Notebook, which was a best-seller and later turned into a hit movie. He followed this novel with Message in a Bottle, Nights in Rodanthe and The Longest Ride, among others. Beyond his writing, Sparks has dedicated himself to philanthropic efforts. He's a major contributor to his alma mater Notre Dame where he provides annual scholarships, internships and a fellowship for the Creative Writing Program.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/nicholas-sparks
The Amount of Words on Text	1.183 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	He’s my favorite author. I love his books. His books are best-seller. Then, some of the adaptation book into some movies are good, too.
Comment After Reading	From his biography, I knew his past when he was writing “The Notebook”. It’s inspiring.
New Vocabularies Found	Philantrophic,

 

Day 1 Saturday 25 February 2023 Time: 22.00
Second Person	Selena Marie Gomez
	Born on July 22, 1992, in Grand Prairie, Texas, Selena Gomez got her start in show business with a two-year run on the kids show Barney and Friends. After a few bit parts in movies, Gomez guest starred on the Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Hannah Montana. In 2007, she was cast as the lead for Wizards of Waverly Place, and in 2009 she released the pop album Kiss & Tell. Other projects over the years include the 2013 film Spring Breakers, the 2015 album Revival, featuring the single "Good for You," and the 2020 album Rare, featuring the chart-topping hit "Lose You to Love Me." Gomez has also earned praise for going public with her battle with lupus.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/musicians/selena-gomez
The Amount of Words on Text	1.150 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	I really love her. During I was kid, I usually watch her from Disney, then listen her music. Selena is the first I know about Hollywood, especially Disney. Not only for that, but also the first I started dance used her song “Love You Like A Love Song”. Recently, I watched too, her series with genre thriller-comedy Glad to see Selena’s acting.
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled as fans of Selena and really inspiring for me.
New Vocabularies Found	Necessarily, revived, facial swelling.

 

Day 2 Sunday 26 February 2023 Time: 20.00
Third Person	Ryan Gosling
His/Her Biography	Born on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, Ryan Thomas Gosling grew up in a working-class Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints family in the city of Cornwall.  Canadian actor Ryan Gosling first found success by joining the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993. As an adult, he starred in the romantic hit The Notebook (2004) and garnered award nominations for Half Nelson (2006) and Lars and the Real Girl (2007). Gosling has also appeared in Blue Valentine (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Ides of March (2011) and The Big Short (2015), among other projects. He received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for his portrayal of a jazz pianist in the 2016 hit movie musical La La Land, and the following year he starred in the popular sci-fi flick Blade Runner 2049.  Gosling has worked to promote several social causes, including AIDS research, poverty relief and the humane treatment of animals. He likes to box and to make furniture—a skill he picked up while making The Notebook. Gosling is also an accomplished jazz guitarist and singer. Since 2011, he has been romantically linked to Place Beyond the Pines co-star Mendes. In the summer of 2014, news broke that they were expecting their first child. Their daughter, Esmeralda Amada Gosling, was born that September. In April 2016, Mendes gave birth to the couple's second daughter, Amada Lee. In September 2016, US Weekly reported that Gosling and Mendes were secretly married earlier that year.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/actors/ryan-gosling
The Amount of Words on Text	1,112 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	How gorgeous and charismatic he is. Beside of that, the first I saw from his movie “La La Land”, he’s good actor and humorous person. There’s no scandal about him, especially his family. And he has not Instagram.
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled as a fan of him and get knowledge or facts about him.
New Vocabularies Found	Garnered, reenactment, beleaguered

 

Day 2 Sunday 26 February 2023 Time: 22.00
Fourth Person	Anne Hathaway
His/Her Biography	Anne Hathaway was born on November 12, 1982, in Brooklyn, New York. The daughter of an actress and a lawyer, Hathaway grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. She excelled at performing early on, becoming the first and only teenager accepted to The Barrow Group, a theater company and acting school in New York City. In 1999 Hathaway got her first big break on the television series Get Real, which only lasted one season. She played the oldest daughter, Meghan, on the family drama. Her work on the series earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination (best actress in a drama). Actress Anne Hathaway got her first big break in 1999 on the short-lived television series Get Real. Hathaway then landed the role that made her famous, playing Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (2001). In 2006 she found huge success with The Devil Wears Prada and the following year she starred in Becoming Jane, a film about Jane Austen. Hathaway then garnered both critical and commercial attention for her role in 2010's Love and Other Drugs. She went on to win acclaim for later film appearances, including those in The Dark Knight Rises, Les Miserables (both released in 2012) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), before being tapped for the heist comedy Ocean's 8 (2018). Hathaway married actor and jewelry designer Adam Shulman on September 29, 2012. The couple had been dating for four years at the time.  In addition to acting, Hathaway supports several charities, including the Step Up Women's Network and the Lollipop Theater Network.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/actors/anne-hathaway
The Amount of Words on Text	1.154 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	I love found her in video with she speech as the emancipation of woman, share her humanities, then watched her in some movies so amazing and nice actor. Also, she is gorgeous with her an elegant vibes. I lover when she smiles as you can see in photo. She’s the  same birthday like a Ryan Gosling.
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled as a fan of her, then she’s so inspring.
New Vocabularies Found	Excelled.

 

Day 3 Monday 27 February 2022 Time: 20.00
Fifth Person	Takeru Satoh
His/Her Biography	Takeru Satoh is a Japanese actor. He is best known for his leading role as Ryotaro Nogami in the Kamen Rider Den-O franchise, and as Himura Kenshin in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin film and its sequels. Satoh was born on 21 March 1989 in Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama. Satoh briefly worked as a child actor for three or four years, appearing in commercials and magazine photo shoots. After he entered higher grades in elementary school, he decided not to continue as a child actor due to a "shy personality". He graduated from Koshigaya Kita High School, Saitama in 2007. In the same year, while shooting Kamen Rider Den-O, he was diagnosed with primary pneumothorax after complaining about pain in the left chest, and has since recovered. Satoh was scouted by an agent from Amuse, Inc. in Harajuku in Tokyo when he was in senior high school, and made his debut in 2006. His first drama was Princess Princess D (TV Asahi) where he played the role of Toru Kouno. In 2007, he guest-starred in Shinigami no Ballad (Kentaroh Ishihara) and gained popularity in the seventeenth installment of the Kamen Rider series as Ryotaro Nogami. Satoh attributes the popularity of Den-O to its comedic timing.
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Sources	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Satoh
The Amount of Words on Text	867 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	He’s one my favorite of Japanese actor. He’s charismatic in another role player some movies or series. He has been impressed with his acting. Recently, I watched First Love. I’m so glad when he took as main lead of this series.
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled as a fan of him, reread his nominations, he’s really good actor.
New Vocabularies Found	Breakthrough

 

Day 3 Monday 27 February 2023 Time: 22.00
Sixth Person	Keanu Reeves
His/Her Biography	Keanu Reeves was born on September 2, 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon, and was raised in Toronto, Canada. He first gained attention for his performance in River's Edge, while the comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, brought him major recognition. Reeves has developed an eclectic film roster that includes the action flick Speed and the sci-fi blockbusters The Matrix and its sequels, as well as more art-house fare like My Own Private Idaho and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Reeves made his directorial debut in 2013 with Man of Tai Chi. Of Chinese-Hawaiian heritage on his geologist father’s side, Reeves’ first name translates from Hawaiian to English as “cool breeze over the mountains.” Reeves’ mom worked in entertainment as a performer and later a costume designer. Upon his parents’ split, the youngster moved with his mother and sister to New York and then Toronto. Reeves developed an ardor for hockey, though he would eventually turn to acting, garnering TV roles and making his big-screen debut in the 1985 Canadian feature One Step Away.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/actors/keanu-reeves
The Amount of Words on Text	1.029 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	During his acting in some movies, His random acts of kindness include secretly donating large sums of money to children's hospitals. He also made headlines for treating women respectfully when he takes photos with them. He’s good manner.
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled as a fan of him, especially he’s good manner person.
New Vocabularies Found	An ardor, nonetheless, devastated

 

Day 4 Tuesday 28 February 2023 Time: 20.00
Seventh Person	Miyazaki Hayao
His Biography	Miyazaki Hayao, (born January 5, 1941, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese anime director whose lyrical and allusive works won both critical and popular acclaim. Miyazaki’s father was the director of Miyazaki Airplane, a manufacturing concern that built parts for Zero fighter planes. The family business instilled in Miyazaki a love of flying that became apparent in virtually all of his work. After having completed studies in economics at Gakushūin University, Tokyo, in 1963, he took a position as an entry-level animator at Tōei Animation, a division of the Tōei studio and Asia’s largest producer of animation. While at Tōei, he met fellow animators Takahata Isao and Ōta Akemi.  Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli continued to produce works for the domestic market, however. His Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) debuted alongside Takahata’s Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) in 1988. While both films were well received critically, the financial success of the studio was secured by the phenomenal sale of Totoro merchandise. Miyazaki followed with Majo no takkyūbin (1989; Kiki’s Delivery Service), the story of a young witch’s coming of age, and Kurenai no buta (1992; Porco Rosso), an adventure yarn about a World War I flying ace who has been cursed to have the face of a pig. These successes set the stage for 1997’s Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), a blockbuster that broke Japanese box-office records. The film revisited some of Miyazaki’s recurring themes, such as the conflict between human progress and natural order and the persistence of the spiritual world alongside the mundane. In addition, its depiction of kodama (Japanese tree spirits) as white humanoid creatures with clattering heads provided one of the more enduring images in anime. Miyazaki’s Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001; Spirited Away) captured the top prize at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, won best Asian film at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and was named best animated feature at the 2003 Academy Awards.
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Sources	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Miyazaki-Hayao
The Amount of Words on Text	963 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	Hayao is the greatest animation directors.  Because I love watch anime. Watch all those anime movies from his label. His studio name is Studio Ghbili. Those animation is super amazing. Not only for his animation, but also the storyline is beautiful, even though some of the ending kind of a little bit  “heart-wrenching”. However, I consider people loves his animation.
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled and get knowledge about him.
New Vocabularies Found	Allusive

 

Day 4 Tuesday Date: 28 February 2023 Time: 22.00
Eighth Person	Didi Ninik Thowok
His Biography	Didik Hadiprayitno, or well known as Didik Nini Thowok was born in a small town of Temanggung in Central Java on the 13th of November 1954.  He graduated from  ASTI/ISI (Yogyakarta Institute of Art Indonesia) in 1982. He is the director of LPK Natya Lakshita (Natya Lakshita Dance School) and Didik Nini Thowok Entertainment. Didik Nini Thowok’s fame propelled him throughout Indonesia for his unique style, combining classical, folk, modern and comedic dance form. He is one of the few artist who continues the long tradition of “Traditional Cross Gender“ in the dance form. His talent in impersonating female characters as well as his incredible skill in various dance traditions such as topeng (mask dance), Sundanese, Cirebon, Balinese, and of course Central Javanese; has on many occasions dumfounded the audience in determining the gender of the artist. Didik Nini Thowok has performed for the highest dignitaries throughout the world. He is one of he few artists in Indonesia, and a multi–talented artist (dancer, teacher, performance artist, mimer, actor, make-up artist, comedian, and singer). He is renowned for his superb interpretation of traditional dances of many regions of Indonesia. He is also an outstandingly original choreographer whose work is acclaimed internationally. The name Didik Nini Thowok is identically well known with humorous dances movement pattern. Apparently, in Didik Nini Thowok’s concept and idea, dances have become a vehicle to entertain and to cheer up the heart and soul of the public. On the stage, he transforms into a coquettish and cheerful dancer, but lots of people accused him commercial in return. That’s the result of his struggle over 20 years to find his own dance characteristics creation. It is said that to dance not as the way people dance generally. His dance creations shown in public always reflect the cheerful spirit and are being presented in some fresh styles and formats. Most of them were inspired by the traditional dances that came from various sub ethnics that lie within the Indonesian archipelago.
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Sources	https://didikninithowok.id/about/
The Amount of Words on Text	331 words
What Makes You Interested in This Person	Most of people called him “eyang”. Eyang is a master dancer and Indonesian choreographer. Eyang, is an artist who I love him his performance. His body movement, expression is beautiful, allure, fascinating. Indonesia’s highly preserved cultural heritage
Comment After Reading	I’m thrilled so much, and get knowledge about Eyang.
New Vocabularies Found	Archipelago