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Category Archives: Music

Tomoko Ninomiya’s Nodame Cantabile: Experiencing One Work in Three Different Mediums

July 20, 2016by Nafiza 4 Comments

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 […]

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favourites, Manga, Music, Performing Arts, Review, This Month's Theme

Yash and Janet’s Fanmix for The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

March 31, 2016by Janet 3 Comments

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 […]

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Fanmix, Fantasy, Horror, Monster Girls, Music, Vampires, YA Romance

Books of Wonder: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

December 24, 2015by Janet 2 Comments

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 […]

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Diversity, Music, picturebook, Poetry

Snapshot Review: Audiobook of Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

December 20, 2015by stephiedror Leave a comment

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 […]

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Audiobook, Discrimination, Fairytales, middle grade, Music, Review, Snapshots, Social Issues, War

Retelling: Cruel Sisters: short story from song

October 8, 2015by Janet 6 Comments

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, […]

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Death and Mourning, Folklore, Music, Retellings, Short Stories, Short Story

Secret knowledge: poems and songs in novels

September 17, 2015by Janet 9 Comments

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 […]

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alternative media, Music, Musings, Poetry

Ballads: fairy tales and music

September 10, 2015by Janet 2 Comments

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 […]

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Fairytales, History, Music

The Sound in Silence: In Praise of Song in Books

September 3, 2015by Janet 1 Comment

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 […]

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Music, Mystery

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan: A Review

January 19, 2015by Nafiza 5 Comments

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 […]

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Fairytales, fantastic realism, Fantasy, Folklore, Historical Fiction, middle grade, Music, Realistic Fiction, Review, Review Copy

Review: Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater

September 14, 2014by Nafiza 6 Comments

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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Music, Review, Review Copy, Werewolves

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