Being part of a self-imposed reading challenge (to read one book in a day), I began with the thinnest. I was attracted by its dark daunting cover and title. Death Of A Ghost, how intriguing! A ghost is already dead after all. Is it a paranormal mystery or something else? Since it’s part of a long-running mystery series and less than 300 pages, I was sure it’d be a fast read.
My last post to the blog was around four months ago. Last year, I disappeared from my blog just like that too. It’s because I couldn’t stand it or something happened in Real Life. Ironically, I had begun the year 2019 with a sort of manic energy and thus plenty of high expectations. An anthology of short stories every three months, a novel to be drafted every six months and a weekly blog post about writing. But in the end, I got stuck. Leaving this blog bare for months, hating even to look at it.
Before I went into hiatus around May 2019, I had actually started on a novel codenamed Project White after being much inspired by the authortuber, Kate Cavanaugh. Had written around 3k plus words but I stopped after feeling all over the place. That novel required a bit more research than I thought I could write.
Cozy up, because this mystery will throw you for a loop in its cast of unreliable narrators and unexpected turn of events. In 600 pages or so, it took me nearly a month to finish this one. I’m a slow reader because of my sight but I don’t regret it.
Truthfully, I haven’t read any classic mystery novels except for Sherlock Holmes. I am not a fan, a Sherlockian. I am just an enthusiast, really. Sure I have the complete set of short stories and novels… Just an enthusiast. We’re not talking about him here. We’re talking about this mystery, The Moonstone.
Truthfully, I haven’t read any classic mystery novels except for Sherlock Holmes. I am not a fan, a Sherlockian. I am just an enthusiast, really. Sure I have the complete set of short stories and novels… Just an enthusiast. We’re not talking about him here. We’re talking about this mystery, The Moonstone.
I’ve always been curious about this classic suspense. I started this story knowing the premise and who the elderly Dr Jekyll and young Mr Hyde were. But I’ve never seen it in writing, at how does the author potray such duality of nature in a character.
What surprised me was that the story was from the perspective of Dr Jekyll’s lawyer. All the while I had thought it would be told from the strange doctor’s point-of-view. The story was more of a novella, concise only within ten chapters.
What surprised me was that the story was from the perspective of Dr Jekyll’s lawyer. All the while I had thought it would be told from the strange doctor’s point-of-view. The story was more of a novella, concise only within ten chapters.
A nearby tree was engulfed in flames.
No second thoughts. She rushed out of the fire station with the extinguisher, ignoring the surprise gasp in the fire station. Just a small fire, she could handle it.
No second thoughts. She rushed out of the fire station with the extinguisher, ignoring the surprise gasp in the fire station. Just a small fire, she could handle it.