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

I have just finished reading The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin without knowing that this is a children’s book as the plot transcends all age-bracket genres.  I find it a bit humorous that at age 64, I am reading a book meant for children. On the other hand, I think children would need to be good in English to read ...

Wake In Fright by Kenneth Cook, first published in 1961, have achieved a cult status as the Australian answer to US and UK novels of 1960s youthful alienation. Though it is only 174 pages in length, it packs a powerful punch. It is the gruelling story of John Grant, a young  bonded schoolteacher on his way back from the remote township of Tiboonda in New ...

The Seventeen Second Miracle by Jason F. Wright is a heartwarming story about loss, tragedy, forgiveness, healing, love and the joy that comes when you reach out to make a difference in the life of another. Small kindnesses can lead to  life-changing miracles. Rex Connor learned on a summer afternoon in September 1970 that seventeen seconds can change a life forever when, ...

Over by Margaret Forster is a heartbreaking portrayal of how the death of a daughter causes a family to slowly implode. It is about love, grief, pain, loss and the corrosive effects of loss on human nature. Don and Louise’s eighteen-year-old daughter Miranda had drowned in a sailing accident but her body was never recovered.  Louise tries her best to move on to ...

About half a century has elapsed since I last read an Agatha Christie novel.  I was in Form One or Form Two at Kai Chung Middle School in Binatang when I read my first Agatha Christie novel. After such a long lapse, I did not know what to expect when I first started reading Death in the Clouds. According to ...

Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima is the first book that I have read in 2022. It is a relatively thin book at about 200 pages. It is the second Mishima book that I have read, the first being The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫 (1925-1970) is one of the most important Japanese authors of the ...