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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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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: 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: 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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Seattle Art Museum – Bronze Sculpture | Katherine's Atelier
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Literature and the arts. My Reading List, A-D. My Reading List, E-I. My Reading List, J-O. My Reading List, P-Z. Seattle Art Museum – Bronze Sculpture. October 29, 2013. September 6, 2014. Indian on Horseback, by Alexander Proctor. 1898. Bronze. I am eternally obsessed with two deep desires-one, to spend as much time as possible in the wilderness, and the other, to accomplish something worthwhile in art. – Alexander Proctor. Posted in American Art. Why does art captivate us? November 3, 2013 at 7:09 am.
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A Musical Feast: February 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. Friday, February 20, 2015. Watership Down and the prize-winning re-readability of children's books. I've fought (and conquered! I honestly don't remember how I discovered Watership Down. Probably my parents got it for me - I imagine them looking up similar books about animals for their Redwall. Loving daughter. (How did they find it? Did they already know the book? Did they ask around? The Dark is Rising.
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A Musical Feast: 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. 8211; favorite and/or best books of the year. 8211; from my personal collection. Tortall and Other Lands, Tamora Pierce (Kindle). The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison. The Very Dead of Winter, Mary Hocking. Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel. Moominpappa's Memoirs (Moomins #4), Tove Jansson. Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan. The Rector, Mrs. Oliphant. Watership Down, Richard Adams (re-read). Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld.
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A Musical Feast: 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. 8211; favorite books of the year. 8211; from my personal collection. Graceling, Kristin Cashore. Street Magic (The Circle Opens #2), Tamora Pierce (re-read). Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte. Rose Under Fire, Elizabeth Wein. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read). Magyk (Septimus Heap #1), Angie Sage. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (re-read, I think). A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin. The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton.
