CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.

It was on the January 1 of this year that I encountered a lesser adjutant (秃鹳 in Chinese or Burung-Botak Kecil in Malay) for the first time in my life at Kuala Baram Wetlands. I viewed that as a great start to 2022! The Lesser Adjutants (Leptoptilos javanicus) are large wading birds in the stork family Ciconiidae that are found in South and South-east Asia. They ...

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima is a coming-of-age story told from the perspectives of the story’s three main characters: Ryuji Tsukazaki, a sailor; the widow Fusako Kuroda, an importer of European finery; and her misfit son Noboru, a boy poised on the tenuous cusp between childhood and adolescence. In a Yokohama suburb during the postwar ...

The Murder Road By Stephen Booth When Mac Kelsey finds his lorry wedged under a low country bridge while on a delivery run of animal feed, he never expects that his life would be over soon. His lorry blocks the narrrow lane in and out of the village of Shawhead. A local woman on her way home reports the stranded lorry to ...

Marc Solie is on the run. His family never recovers after the death of his younger sister from leukemia two years ago. After the divorce of his parents, his dad leaves him in the custody of his deeply depressed mother. Since then Marc’s been running from himself — from the pain of loss and loneliness. He suddenly loses touch with his father, and before ...

Guy Lafleur succumbed to lung cancer yesterday in palliative care in a suburb of Montreal. He was 70. Lafleur was someone I have a great admiration for. I was studying in Montreal when Lafleur was playing for the Montreal Canadiens and I had watched many of his games in the National Hockey League (NHL) on television. On nights when Lafleur ...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a novella by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, tells through the eyes of an unnamed narrator the events that lead to the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario twin brothers Pablo and Pedro. Hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents as she was not ...

In Ash & Bone by John Harvey, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder is called back from an isolated life in Cornwall by double trouble: his daughter Katherine is running wild and shacked up with a possible drug dealer, and a detective sergeant Frank used to work with has been murdered.  Elder’s fears for his daughter are underscored by guilt – it was his involvement in ...

Private Peaceful is the second book by Michael Morpurgo that I have read and I love it just like the first book Waiting for Anya. Both books are just over 180 pages in length and are easy to read. Both have left a lump in my throat. Private Peaceful By Michael Morpurgo The story is told from the perspective of Thomas “Tommo” Peaceful and begins ...

Waiting for Anya By Michael Morpurgo is a novel set in a mountain village, Lescun, in France near the Spanish border during World War II. The author has written lots of books aimed at children but his books are loved by adults all over trhe world. Waiting for Anya By Michael Morpurgo When  a young shepherd Jo finds a man hiding in ...

The Helper by David Jackson is a crime thriller featuring a sort of Good Samaritan turned serial killer. The Helper by David Jackson Tainted by his association with a case in which a few fellow officers died, Doyle is trying to stay below the radar but when a part-time student is brutally murdered while working in a shabby New York bookshop, he ...