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

Inspired by the author’s own relationship with his autistic son, A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart is a tear-jerking, funny, searingly honest, poignant, uplifting and insightful debut novel about family, friendship and love that tugs at your heart. It makes you understand autism and change your views about autistic people. It is about accepting adult responsibilities, keeping love ...

“Stieg Larsson: The Man Behind The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” by Kurdo Baksi is a portrait of the late Swedish crime novelist by a longtime friend and fellow crusading journalist. It serves as a tribute and a memoir that attempts to answer many questions about Larsson, the author who played with fire. The Millennium trilogy books by Stieg Larrson ...

Botchan by Soseki Natsume is probably the most widely read novel in Japan and the author is one of Japan’s most beloved authors. While their American counterparts are acquainted with the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, Japanese students are required to read about Botchan’s quest to navigate his society’s hypocrisies while adhering to what he believes ...

A friend of mine lent me the book “1963 A Slice of Bread and Jam” by Tommy Rhattigan a couple of months ago but because I have so many books on my TBR list, I did not get around to reading it until a couple of days ago. I thought it is a gloomy type of book about abject poverty ...

Please Look After Mom (엄마를 부탁해), a novel by South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin,  sold a million copies within 10 months of release in 2009 in South Korea.  The English translation by Chi-young Kim won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and was also chosen by Oprah to be one of her “18 Books to Watch for in April 2011” ...

The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne is a spooky thriller that keeps me on the edge of my seat as it hurtles towards its shattering climax. It is a creepy mixture of a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story and I felt a bit uneasy when the story seems to hint at incest. It really takes me on a roller coaster ...

Queen has been one of my favourite rock bands since I was in Form 5 or Form 6. I even had a huge poster of them pasted on the wall of my room when I was studying in Montreal. I still listen to their songs regularly and my favourites include Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are The Champions, We Will Rock You, ...

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is widely regarded as an ode to modern literature. It is a beautifully written book and is a mesmerising love story and literary thriller with a lovely blend of mystery and historical fiction set in the Gothic heart of Barcelona, Spain. It is a book about a book with the same ...

I watched Searching without any inkling what the movie is about apart from the fact that the lead star John Cho has become the first Asian American actor to lead a mainstream Hollywood thriller with this film. It was only after watching the whole movie that I realized that the movie was set entirely within the confines of iPhones, iPad, ...

Two sisters’ apparent double suicide in central China recently highlights the tragic consequences of traditional favouritism shown to sons. A 17-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister died in a double suicide after an argument with their 12-year-old brother over food. In a note written by the elder sister, the fight over the food with their brother was the last straw ...