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A Musical Feast: January 2015
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. State of the TBR. One of my goals for the year is to reduce my TBR (to be read) pile from two and a half shelves down to one. This bookcase is now supposed to house all of the dissertation books that don't live in my office, and space is already getting cramped - and I'm only one month into the project! And Crime and Punishment. The only book I own that comes in a box! The third and...
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A Musical Feast: August 2015
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Thursday, August 27, 2015. A Natural History of Dragons. Oh, Marie Brennan's book was so, so close to making my list of the best of the year. Victorian gentlewoman goes off adventuring for scientific study of dragons? But Oh, how I wish there weren't a but! I'm definitely going to read the next two in the series, and hopefully they get a bit better. Hopefully Isabella learns a bit about privilege and oppr...
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A Musical Feast: 2011
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. I have fond memories of reading. I Capture the Castle. While overseeing orchestra rehearsals, and slowly but joyfully struggling through chapters of. While huddled under the covers in my very cold St. Louis apartment that winter. I'd finish. In January, and it would kick off my newfound love of classics and eventually lead to the start of this blog. Favorite books of the year. From my personal collection.
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A Musical Feast: Shadows on the Moon
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Friday, July 24, 2015. Shadows on the Moon. Zoe Marriott's Shadows on the Moon. Isn't just Cinderella set in Japan, but Cinderella as you've never seen her before. I could say the same thing about Malinda Lo's Ash. And actually, they end in a similar fashion (though Ash. S ending is more subversive). It's not the ending, though, that sets Marriott's retelling apart; it's Cinderella's agency. Harry, A History.
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the bower: spring & summer reading, part 2
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Spring and summer reading, part 2. I started reading a few passages of Elder Thaddeus' Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives. More in this post. To my children, and just had to re-read it myself. It may very well be a "read every year" book. How many "read every year" books am I allowed before I don't have room for new books? Hmmm Where was I? Oh, yes. Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives. I also read The Bronze Bow. And I want to read all of his books. The End. Read by Juliet Stevenson...
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A Musical Feast: December 2014
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. How does one measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.) I sometimes feel as if my life is measured in cups of tea, concerts and services sung, and books read. This year was marked by all these things - sometimes in a big way - and by some pretty spectacular additional landmarks. Countless. Great tea, awful tea, and about a bajillion cups of Tw...
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A Musical Feast: September 2014
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Saturday, September 27, 2014. Turtles and treachery, volcanos and violence against books. I expected Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary. Is a less-skilled reproduction of Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief. Which reminds me that I really do need to read that series. One of my goals for the year was to read another novel by Shusaku Endo. In the past two years, I've adored Silence. It is full of Endo's characteristic ho...
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A Musical Feast: March 2015
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Monday, March 9, 2015. A pair of YA book reviews: critiques of misogyny and of publishing. Bennett Madison's September Girls. Also got on my to-read list through recommendations by other book bloggers. While almost as unlike September Girls. As can be, it too engaged in critique: a meta-commentary on the YA publishing world. After high school senior Darcy Patel (a queer woman of color as protagonist! Itself i...
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A Musical Feast: October 2014
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Monday, October 13, 2014. The Legend of Luke - a disappointing tale of revenge. With The Legend of Luke. The Legend of Luke. Jacques really disappointed me because so much pain and death in this book was unnecessary and due only to a lust for revenge, and Luke's actions were glamorized without any questioning of their repercussions or his motives. Saturday, October 11, 2014. Hooray, it's fall break! Having pu...
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A Musical Feast: July 2015
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8220;You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Harry, A History. Melissa Anelli, webmistress of Harry Potter fan site the Leaky Cauldron, wrote a book about the Harry Potter phenomenon and fandom. Part memoir, part social history, I couldn't not. Read it once I heard about it, and picked it up from the library before the summer was done so that I could pass it along to husband when I finished and before he moves away for his PhD.
