Moonlake’s Book Discoveries: March 2024

Mystery The Mercenaries: Blood Diamonds by P. W. Storm It’s a complete mystery to me why this is filed under fantasy on my local library catalogue and this is the ebook catalogue nonetheless. The book cover also doesn’t speak fantasy either. Technically this is not a mystery like I usually read but a thriller aboutContinue reading “Moonlake’s Book Discoveries: March 2024”

Upcoming European trip in May

Not sure if I had mentioned it before but I will be gone to Europe on my annual overseas trip with Mum in early May and back in June. We are visiting Italy, Switzerland and France all in one-go to save on airplane fares since we are never taking budget flights.  Below is the skeletonContinue reading “Upcoming European trip in May”

Chinese Lore- a selection of mythical fauna (18)

Ge Ge Fish Physical Description: A carp-like fish with six feet and a bird’s tail. The sound it makes is Ga Ga. Ze Fish Physical Description: Looks like a crucian carp with one head but ten bodies. Special Properties: It smells like a fragrant herb with a similar smell to fragrant angelica. Consuming its meatContinue reading “Chinese Lore- a selection of mythical fauna (18)”

Cracking the Omniscient Voice

I have been making some attempts at ‘cracking’ the omniscient voice in that I wanted to try to dip my hands into writing in that voice even though I won’t be using that particular for a long time (the truth is that my WIP has quite a long way to go still but I doContinue reading “Cracking the Omniscient Voice”

A self-reflection on Youth

This is a piece prompted by a song that I’ve searched out to listen to the day before yesterday on Saturday. It’s a Mandarin song and my rough translation of the song title is “Betrayed Youth” even though a more correct one would be “the Youth we Turned our Backs on”, which seems too muchContinue reading “A self-reflection on Youth”