Tomoko Ninomiya’s Nodame Cantabile: Experiencing One Work in Three Different Mediums
The Manga Volumes 1-25 Published in English by Del Rey Some would argue that because this work is originally a manga, this medium is the best one for it but […]
Category Archives: Music
Yash and Janet’s Fanmix for The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
The Book Wars’ first ever fanmix! Woo! The songs can be found here, and our rationale for why these songs remind us of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black […]
Books of Wonder: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
When I was casting my eyes about this past summer, wondering what might be the final book of wonder in my posts during December, lo and behold in my mum’s […]
Snapshot Review: Audiobook of Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
This is an audiobook review because I couldn’t resist. I do want to point out that Nafiza has already reviewed this book (and she did such a nice job too!). Audiobook […]
Retelling: Cruel Sisters: short story from song
The bare bones of the Twa Sisters ballad goes something like this:* two sisters walk by the water’s edge the elder pushes the younger in the younger sister drowns Most variants, […]
Secret knowledge: poems and songs in novels
When I was a kid and reading Redwall for the very first time, I was entranced by the poem that old Methuselah discovers graven into the wall behind Martin’s tapestry. I […]
Ballads: fairy tales and music
I realize that my title above is a little simplistic; ballads are rather more than fairy tales set to music. I could have said that ballads are the fairy tales […]
The Sound in Silence: In Praise of Song in Books
Or, The post with many links. I was on a rereading kick lately and came across, in the Vancouver Public Library, a few new Ellis Peters mysteries I’d never read […]
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan: A Review
Hardcover, 592 pages Expected publication: February 24th 2015 by Scholastic Press Source: Publisher Echo opens with a fairytale, scribed in a book Otto bought from the gypsies. When he loses his […]
Review: Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater
Hardcover, 357 pages Published July 1st 2014 by Scholastic Press Source: Publisher “Wait —” Sam said. “Have you seen Isabel yet?” My fingers still felt the shape of her. “Da. […]
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