20th Book (April in Moscow)

Name                    : Roro Wulandari

NPM                      : 16611074

Tittle of reading materials: April in Moscow

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Types of Reading: Book

This novel is about a story of a dancer, April Fox. She worked for the British Dance Company in Leeds. Her boss was Maria Grant. One day, Maria gave a big news to her dancers. She told that she got a letter from Moscow, and Russians wanted them to dance thereon the next month. Six weeks later, April, Maria, and her friend Laura went to Moscow by plane. On the plane April and Laura talked many things about Moscow. They were very excited to go there.

In Moscow, a bus took the dancer to their hotel. April and Laura went to their room. Laura watched TV in their room while April was looking at the outside of their window. The next day, the dancers worked very hard, their dance for the festival,Green Ocean , was new and difficult. They started at 8 and finished at 6. After dinner, they went to the Bolshoi theater. The day after, April and Laura finished at 3 o’clock. They went to a cafe and drink Russian tea. They travel around the street after that. in the street near the museum, they was a small market. April saw some red and yellow boxes on the table. Then two young men spoke to them and told them that those are music boxes. April and Laura were very happy to know that there are some people could speak to them. They are Sasha and Nikolai. Then, the four people had a time together at that day, and the two men invited April and Laura to join them to the country for week’s holiday.

Next morning, they went to the country with three people more, Lara, Igor and Sonya. They went to a lake near Moscow. They had a good time together. there was a boat beside the lake. Late in the afternoon, April and Nikolai go out in it. They were talking and smiling to each other. In the middle of their talk, suddenly Laura called her and told her that it was the time to go.

In Moscow, there is a lot to do.the dance performance was going to started. April felt sad because she thought about how she could meet Nikolai again. Then, the show was finished. All the people enjoyed the performance. On the next day in the airport, April still thought about Nikolai when suddenly a person took her hand. It was Nikolai, and he gave her a parcel. They couldn’t have much time because the plane was going to run. On the plane, April opened the parcel. There is one of the music boxes that she saw before and a letter from Nikolai. She was very happy because Nikolai said that he wanted to meet her in England.

This is a good and romantic story. I really like this novel.