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#bookreview: KL Noir: Blue

KL NOIR: Blue by Eeleen Lee
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I thought the first story, Ballerina in Pink (Roslan Mohd Noor) was pretty okay but nothing spectacular. Also, typos. So the copy I have is the first print, so maybe they fixed this in subsequent prints, but I normally don't expect that many obvious typos in the first story. It IS right in the beginning after all, before your eyes start to cross over and your brain shuts down.

Mamu Vies' Whose Blood Was It, Anyway? was a well-crafted story whi...

#MusicMonday: When I think about the Lord

I was busy writing stuff on Medium and wasting time on Facebook and almost forgot about Music Monday!

I had another song in mind initially, but this came on the playlist this morning - so I think I'll keep that other song for next week! :)



The version I was listening to in the car this morning was jazzier - but I couldn't find that version online. The ones I found, where bluesy and a little too sad.

5 days left on the #cyberpunkmalaysia #giveaway!

Just a quick note to say that you have 5 days left to enter my giveaway for Cyberpunk: Malaysia, so head on over to the GIVEAWAY PAGE to enter. :)

Also, to all my American readers, happy Fourth of July!

#bookreview: Hidden Fire by Deirdra Eden

To read my review of book one of the Watchers Series, Knight of Light, click here.


Hidden Fire by Deirdra Eden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

At 19, Lady Auriella is the Watcher of England and she's beginning to feel like a miserable failure. The newly-crowned King Edward doesn't believe in the Shadows and publicly mocks her position whilst trying to find her a suitable husband. Her world falls further apart when she's sent to assassinate the King of Scotland.

Her journey is fraught with danger - not ju...

#MusicMonday: Wait by By The Tree

Lunch time poetry

My heart isn't here anymore
She said
I drift
Unanchored to reality
Untethered to this life
My heart
Tastes the sweetness of
A song I never wrote
Of a poem I never read
A line I can't grasp
The meaning of
Slips
Slips away
But I was never here
She said
My heart isn't here anymore

Maybe it never was

#bookreview: The Children of Darkness by David Litwack

The Children of Darkness by David Litwack
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What if all that you have ever been taught as good and right, the light that you've been taught to appreciate turns out to be the hand of darkness that has been holding you down?

When Nathaniel Rush of Little Pond discovers that the vicars of the Light have things to hide - things that may change his understanding of the world - he has to decide if he should run away from this knowledge, fitting back into the normalcy of life he h...

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#MusicMonday: Long Way Home by Bebo Norman

So I will, I will not give up this fight
I will not lay down and die
I will not carry this heart of stone
I may not be your place to run
I may not be your kingdom come
I may stumble through this great unknown
But I will be all that is true
I will not give up on you
I was made to be with you alone
'Cause you and me, we get to see
The long way home

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I've been on a bit of a nostalgia trip ever since I drove down to KL for the book launch. I dug up the old CD bags and put them in the car for the trip, an...

Happy Father's Day!

This Father's Day, you get to take an English test! LOL
(courtesy of grammarly.com/grammar-check)