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January 4, 2022
#bookreview: No Land to Light On | Yara Zgheib
No Land to Light On by Yara ZgheibMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Sama Zayat is at the Boston airport on January 28, 2017 waiting for her husband, Hadi, to return from his father's funeral in Amman. But he doesn't emerge, and the inexplicable mob crushes her, leading to the premature birth of her firstborn.
Hadi Deeb is stuck in a nightmare, detained at the airport for reasons unknown, questioned as if he were an illegal immigrant despite his visa and refugee papers. Papers which were very much in order w...
December 31, 2021
2021: A Year in Review
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2020 
What can I say about 2021?
"I survived." (What else can anyone say about 2021??)
Amok is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which was variously called Berserker or The Weight of Strength on this blog, depending on which draft/version it was. But Amok is the final published title. It's currently available on most online retailers (in ebook & print), Black Dragon Books (UK/International Shipping), Teaspoon Publishing ...
December 30, 2021
#bookreview: The Golden Yarn (MirrorWorld 3) & The Silver Tracks (MirrorWorld 4) | Cornelia Funke
The Golden Yarnby Cornelia FunkeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Okay, so I was hoping to like this better after another read, since The Petrified Fleshand Reckless II: Living Shadowswere much better the second time round. (Idk how that works; a state of mind, maybe?) But while I liked it well enough, it just still remained a little meh. Not enough to push it up to a 4-star at any rate.
Plotwise, The Golden Yarn is getting more complex. Spieler, the Alderelf, is taking centre stage - he seems to be the ma...
December 24, 2021
December 1, 2021
#bookreview: Living Shadows (Reckless #2) | Cornelia Funke
Living Shadows by Cornelia FunkeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jacob Reckless has been keeping secrets - but how long can he keep his coming death from Fox, who knows him better than he knows himself?
Living Shadows (also called Fearless) is a race against time and death. Jacob has tried every magical object and legend he can think of, but the Fairy curse is proving unbreakable. The only thing left to try may not even prove reliable (or exist at all)--and is also being actively pursued by the Goyl. Funke...
November 21, 2021
#musicmonday: Ganjaran | Josh Yeoh
Oh Yesus, jadilah ganjaran terbesar Harta yang lebih indah dari hidupku Tak ingin ku hilang jiwaku mengejar dunia Ku tahu hidupku milik-Mu
Come and be my exceedingly great reward
You're the treasure that I would give my whole life for
What would it profit me to gain the world but lose my soul?
I know my life is not my own
#GTF: Between 01 exhibition | Tan Lay Heong (A response)
You live in the in-between. You've been living there since the pandemic started, since the day the gomen ask you to stay home, stay safe. Lindung Diri, Lindung Semua. The days bleed into each other, the weeks into months, the months into years. It has been eighteen months since you've seen the light.
Who have you really protected?
The plastic boxes pile up in your house, one for every meal. Almost. You can still handle making your own breakfast, when you decide to have it. What'...
November 16, 2021
#bookreview: The Petrified Flesh (Reckless #1) | Cornelia Funke
The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia FunkeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Will Reckless' skin is turning to stone and his older brother Jacob is using all his treasure hunting skills to find a cure. Only, there is no cure. And more than that, Will's skin is turning to Jade - and in this world of fairy tales, the mythical Jade Goyl is the one who will protect the Goyl King from his human enemies.
Rather than a straight fairy tale setting, Funke gives us a portal/alternate earth fantasy - where Jacob has found a...
#bookreview: Reckless I: The Petrified Flesh | Cornelia Funke
The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia FunkeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Will Reckless' skin is turning to stone and his older brother Jacob is using all his treasure hunting skills to find a cure. Only, there is no cure. And more than that, Will's skin is turning to Jade - and in this world of fairy tales, the mythical Jade Goyl is the one who will protect the Goyl King from his human enemies.
Rather than a straight fairy tale setting, Funke gives us a portal/alternate earth fantasy - where Jacob has found a...
November 11, 2021
#nanowrimo: An excerpt from the #teanovel!
It was a Saturday and Jasmine didn’t know what to do with herself. The routine had always been to be doing things during the weekday, whether that was school or college or work, and then to be not doing things during the weekend, which in school or college had meant either meeting up with friends or joining some church-related activity, but in the past fourteen years had gradually come to mean stumbling into the office at 11am “for five minutes to grab a thing or send an email” and then going ho...
