Quick review: A Modern Cinderella by Louisa May Alcott

A Modern Cinderella by Louisa May Alcott My rating: 3 of 5 stars It was a good book, don’t get me wrong and Alcott still managed to capture my heart with her literary wit. Is it as memorable as Little Women , or Jo’s Boys ? No. The stories in the book reminded me of…

A Realization, Stranger than Fiction

Joe Kerr and I finished this movie the other night and I can’t help but think… This is the kind of literature I want to write. As a writer, I am also plagued by bouts of mental block, a sudden lack of inspiration, creativity drought. People who don’t run out of things to say nor write…

“I must have some drug, and reading isn’t a strong enough drug now.”   C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same. – Grumman, Subtle Knife

The Peculiars

The Peculiars A Book Review of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Jahzeel Dionne V. Ybasco ________________________________________________ “There are peculiars all over the world,” Miss P, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children   Having a different world where diversity is tolerated and encouraged is a famous theme in the fantasy genre that it does…

Writers read.

Writers read. And I like to read good stuff. #WriterWednesday #MissPeregrinesHomeforPeculiarChildren #RansomRiggs

Review: Eragon

THE VOICE OF ERAGON An Analysis of Christopher Paolini’s novel, Eragon by Jahzeel Dionne V. Ybasco _____________________________________________________________ That some books are inspired by other classic and more renowned books is nothing new to me. It is to be expected. As million books are published every day, it is not surprising that some have the same…

Defining Moment

by Jahzeel Dionne V Ybasco _________________________________________________________________ How do you define success? What is success for you? These questions are possibly the most common ones you can find in slam books – those colorful little notebooks containing questions that made the lives of those born in the 80’s and 90’s go round. They were meant to…

AMAZON LILY*

by Jahzeel Dionne V. Ybasco Good things kept happening to me last month. My family and I had our second family reunion, I successfully finished the marathon, my family also celebrated Fathers’ Day. I was also able to get the highest number of classes in our company for three straight times. But what served as…