Moonlake’s Book Discoveries: June 2025

Science Fiction Defy the stars by Claudia Gray This is part of my mini reading challenge for this year, book 1 of the Constellations trilogy. I’m not much of a science fiction reader but this is really more speculative futuristic solar system space opera featuring the blossoming of a romance that is just right forContinue reading “Moonlake’s Book Discoveries: June 2025”

Moonlake’s Writing Updates- June 2025

After a rest of about a week after my recent trip, I went back to my drafting but there was no juice to it. So sometimes towards the end of last week, I decided I would remake the WIP into a scene by scene summary on index cards.  Why am I doing this and whatContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Updates- June 2025”

Remarkable Women in Ancient China (24)- Xun Guan

Who is She?  Notable Life Events Why is She Remarkable: We don’t know anything more about Xun Guan but just that feat at the age of 13 is awesome, right? I don’t think anything more needs to be said  Moonlake’s Thoughts on Her: I don’t have any more thoughts. This seems more a fictional orContinue reading “Remarkable Women in Ancient China (24)- Xun Guan”

22 days train trip in Spain and Portugal- Spain part 1

We landed in Barcelona around 8:30am after an overnight stay at Dubai for connecting flights. It was too tiring an experience to repeat- two very early morning flights over two days. As a result, the first day was basically nothing. We basically just took a few pics amongst the crowd at Casa Battlo (see pic above)Continue reading “22 days train trip in Spain and Portugal- Spain part 1”