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I Am Used to Going Astray

Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge

September 13, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

One year before his death in 1828 at the age of 31, Franz Schubert composed the song cycle Winterreise, 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music for voice and piano. Ian Bostridge, a tenor who has performed Winterreise many times, shares his obsession and fascination with this seminal work of the Lied genre in this book. In every one of the 24 chapters one song is discussed in depth, and the wide variety of topics touched on by the author is simply astounding. Much […]

The best #Pandemic read I could ask for

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

September 13, 2020 by Aquillia 12 Comments

Bingo Square: Pandemic This pandemic period, I did a great thing for my happiness: I read Gideon the Ninth. I’m going to eschew a plot description/blurb here and just say what everyone else has been saying: lesbian necromancers in space. Need a little more? Fine. Gideon is not a necromancer (but she is into girls). She hits things with swords so she’s recruited (unwillingly) to go to a big possibly haunted space castle/research facility with her worst enemy, her planet’s only surviving necromancer (who is into bones). […]

New crafts for a pandemic #How-To

Sewing for Dummies by Jan Saunders Maresh

September 13, 2020 by Aquillia 1 Comment

Bingo Square: How-To I decided this pandemic period that I would take up sewing! I love crafts and hate trying on clothes in stores. Also, I’d been gifted a sewing machine by my very sweet mother-in-law a few Christmases ago, and now I finally had some extra money to be able to buy fabric and get to sewing! Spoiler alert: it’s super fun and I have spent way too much money on cute fabric. Not knowing where to start (and not interested in taking classes, […]

A bit of a disappointment from a favourite author #BookClub

A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

September 13, 2020 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

Bingo square: Book Club I was super excited when my book club (internationals/ex-pats in my city who get together and read fantasy) agreed to read the newest Guy Gavriel Kay book. I’ve been absolutely loving GGK the past year or so (even if I haven’t written reviews of Tigana or A Song for Arbonne yet). Unfortunately, A Brightness Long Ago did not live up to my expectations. Set in Batiara, a world like Renaissance Italy, the story follows Danio Cerra as he saves a young female […]

The economics of fantasy tropes

Orconomics: A Satire by J. Zachary Pike

September 13, 2020 by Mobius_Walker 1 Comment

Gorm Ingerson is not the hero he used to be. Striped of all ranks and points and titles, Gorm will do anything to get back to the status he once held. That includes being willing (more or less) to go on a quest in service of a mad goddess with a band of other less than stellar heros. This questing group, made up a thief turned bard, a healing potion addicted ranger elf, a goblin squire, two warring mages, a silent weapons master, and a […]

Didn’t pay for this fantasy about economic warfare and rebellion #No Money

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

September 13, 2020 by Aquillia 2 Comments

Having reviewed Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett for the #Money Bingo Square, I’m going to continue the theme by reading a book I paid no money for (thanks, Tor Ebook of the Month club!) that was also largely about money: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. Baru is young when her home, the island of Taranoke, is conquered by the Imperial Republic of Falcrest, known as the Masquerade because of the masks their government officials wear. She goes to the imperial school […]

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