Writing

The Lost Book

“Rascally missing book!” I grumble, acknowledging that it’s my fault for bringing home a book from the enchantment library. A library with dim lighting cast by floating lights. The old book smell is intense, and the shelving is medieval in appearance. It’s an irresistible building. Regardless, it’s a wonder the book was on the shelf… Continue reading The Lost Book

Coffee Blog

Sharp Taste

This morning I’m drinking Cookie Jar Double Chocolate Chunk Cookie flavoured coffee. It’s a rich darkness in my mug, but my nose doesn’t detect the notes of chocolate that I thought would be present. The taste is bitter black coffee with hints of mint. It’s not unpleasant but it isn’t what I was expecting. If… Continue reading Sharp Taste

Coffee Blog

Crave Coffee

My coffee today is flirting with a bitter-sweet smell. The sharpest notes are bitter with hints of cooked syrup underneath. The taste is smooth. Because the coffee is hot as it flows over my taste buds my brain thinks warm, creamy, and caramel. If that is actually the case or just a trick of the… Continue reading Crave Coffee

Coffee Blog

Another Cookie Jar Coffee flavour

My first impression of the scent filling the space is of warm peanut butter cookies fresh from the oven! That sweet and nutty cookie dough smell that is interlaced with the oily notes of peanut butter. The flavour palate is oily roasted peanut, mildly bitter with an almost vanilla fade out. Big thanks to Cookie… Continue reading Another Cookie Jar Coffee flavour

Writing

Dropping Away

I watch it rise, the bottom seemingly dropping away. It’s a semitransparent blue, deceiving in its deadliness. Its apparent transparency is a trick of nature to draw in unsuspecting prey because although you can see the immediate area before you the vastness of its reach is extraordinary. The immensity allows undetectable threats to surface or… Continue reading Dropping Away

Coffee Blog

Coconut Cream Pie Flavoured Coffee

I love the smell of my coffee today. It fills the air with a sweet almost lime-lemon fragrance mixed with the bitter notes of coffee. I would expect this java to have an oily sheen, but it doesn’t. However, my first sip is reminiscent of oily coconut. Its flavour is both woodsy and roasted nut.… Continue reading Coconut Cream Pie Flavoured Coffee

A to Z Blogging

Zombie Halloween Book Review

Zombie Halloween: Goosebumps Most Wanted Author: R.L. StinePublished in 2014Publisher is Scholastic PaperbackAvailable in eBook, paperback (print length 192 pages) and Library BindingChildren’s Books on Halloween | Children’s Humour |Literature and Fiction for Children My children and I watched the Jack Black Goosebumps movie a few years ago. It was our first Goosebumps experience together.… Continue reading Zombie Halloween Book Review

A to Z Blogging

Witch Wraith Book Review

Witch Wraith (The Dark Legacy of Shannara, #3) Author: Terry BrooksPublished in 2013Publisher is Del RayAvailable in eBook, paperback, mass market paperback (print length 512 pages), Hardcover & AudiobookShannara | Fantasy Action & Adventure | War & Military Action & Adventure The following review was originally posted on Goodreads: December 2021. “What you need is… Continue reading Witch Wraith Book Review

Writing

Kaleidoscope

The colours blur together: yellows, pinks, oranges, and light blues. Moving shapes like the coloured glass of a kaleidoscope. Each colour and pattern are representatives of my jumbled emotions. The colours bleed out to shades of red—a warning of danger-bearing emotions—as the sequence continues to dance.  I’m trapped, glued to the eyepiece as the tube… Continue reading Kaleidoscope