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Seven lives has a cat

by moonlight lady 17. July 2019 Tales 3

A couple of months ago, in the master’s fiction subject, they asked us to write an autofiction story. It took me a while to make up my mind, but I decided to write about the hardest experience I’ve had to face in my life, my face-to-face encounter with death. I think it’s about time I ...

Happy third blogniversary!!

by moonlight lady 15. July 2019 Diary 0

It’s easy to say, but I can hardly believe it. Three years ago I wrote the first post on this blog. Today I read that small text and I remember perfectly the emotion that ran through me. I didn’t know what I was doing nor where it was going to take me, but I really ...

The day we could have been stroke by a lightning

by moonlight lady 11. July 2019 Diary 0

Last weekend we had one of the classic summer storms in Valencia: it was sweltering, it rained a lot and there was an electric storm. It was also one of those storms that deceive you and that ignores the weather predictions. We wanted to go to Olocau to see the Iberian ruins on Saturday, but ...

The Turn of the Screw – book review

by moonlight lady 09. July 2019 The Reading Corner 0

Before starting with this review I would like to ask you something: If you have read the book, contact me so we can talk about it! On this occasion I will review the novel by Henry James The Turn of the Screw. It is possible that this is the most difficult book I’ve reviewed since ...

One day at Download Festival

by moonlight lady 04. July 2019 Music 0

Last Saturday, in the heat wave, we were in Madrid to attend the Download Festival even if it was just for one day. It was my birthday gift, so imagine how excited I was! I will tell you a bit about the experience and show. You can also see an IGTV video on my instagram ...

A Court of Thorns and Roses – review of the book series

by moonlight lady 01. July 2019 The Reading Corner 0

A Court of Thorns and Roses is a juvenile fantasy saga written by the American author Sarah J. Maas. This is not going to be a normal review for several reasons: The first three books form an initial trilogy that I read a couple of years ago but I never review waiting for the fourth ...

The Man in the Black Suit – book review

by moonlight lady 27. June 2019 The Reading Corner 0

This book contains a story by Stephen King called “The Man in the Black Suit“. It is a short story awarded with several prizes which he wrote as a tribute to the story of Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown“. About the book This edition from the publishing house Nórdica Libros is a collector’s item. ...

Esclavos de ceniza (Ash Slaves) – book review

by moonlight lady 25. June 2019 The Reading Corner 3

Esclavos de ceniza is a novel by the Spanish author Carlos Moya Chinillach. It is not his first novel, but it is his first foray into the world of fantasy. Synopsis In a post-apocalyptic and dystopian future, where the world is dying, a young Magical Blood princess decides to take action to try to ...

Vuelo de Brujas – book review

by moonlight lady 17. June 2019 The Reading Corner 2

Vuelo de Brujas is an anthology stories exclusively written by Spanish and Latin American authors. It is one of the books that I bought at the book fair and I came to it in a curious way. I was reading the summary of a witch-themed book that had caught my attention when I heard a ...

7 things you didn’t know about me

by moonlight lady 12. June 2019 Diary 0

I have a broken vertebra Do not be alarmed, it’s not as serious as it seems. I was born with it like that. The last sacral vertebra doesn’t have the body joined to the joint facets, this causes the vertebra to move from its site affecting the intervertebral disc and the nerves that come out ...