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Books Read in 2015

  1. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
  2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  3. Make Your Own Rules Diet by Tara Stiles
  4. Rue des boutiques obscures by Patrick Modiano
  5. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
  6. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  7. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
  8. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
  9. The Buddha in Attic by Julie Otsuka
  10. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
  11. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  12. Yoga from the Inside Out by Christina Sell
  13. Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
  14. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  16. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
  17. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  18. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
  19. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  20. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
  21. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  22. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
  23. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
  24. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  25. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
  26. Henry and June by Anais Nin
  27. Isla and the Happy Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
  28. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
  29. The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
  30. Paris by Edward Rutherfurt
  31. Macaron Murder by Harper Lin
  32. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
  33. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
  34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  35. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  36. The Martian by Andy Weir
  37. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  38. 10% Happier by Dan Harris
  39. Nod by Adrian Barnes
  40. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  41. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
  42. The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak
  43. The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
  44. Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith
  45. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  46. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
  47. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
  48. My True Love Gave to Me by Stephanie Perkins and others
  49. Winter Town by Stephen Emond
  50. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
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loveorchestralmusic

Respect, very good!

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Optimizing Your Musical Set-up

Vocalists: Drink water, don't yell too much.
Horn players: Get a nice instrument, grease things.
Woodwinds: Get a nice instrument, get functional reeds, maybe replace the pads.
String players: Get a nice instrument, get a nice bow, pay $100 for strings, replace the sound-post, replace the bridge, re-hair the bow, get a new tailpiece, whoops looks like you need new tuning pegs, whoops now you need new strings to go with the new strings, whoops time to re-hair the bow again
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theboywhoreadsbooks

5 easy steps to stop people from interrupting you while reading

1. Make it obvious you’re going to read a book. Hold the book in front of their face, maybe give them a little tap with it.

2. Put yourself in a chair and mark your territory, use barbed wire if needed.

3. Open your book on the first page and glance around the room. Show the people you will destroy them if they disturb you.

4. Text, mail, kik all the people you’re baiscally dead for the next hour or so.

5. Kill every person on earth and forget about steps 1 - 4

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Review: The Name of the Wind

Go read this book. 

You won’t regret it, I promise. My only regret is not having read it sooner.

At face value, The Name of the Wind is nothing groundbreaking - Kvothe could easily be mistaken for a very stereotypical fantasy hero. You know the type - through various seemingly coincidental events, our mysterious hero with an oh-so-tortured past, who just happens to be a little bit better than other people at stuff, is launched on a single-minded quest to defeat the forces of evil. However, as the novel continues it becomes clear that this is not the case. Yes, Kvothe is exceptionally intelligent - one of his many talents, alongside having an amusingly mispronounceable name (Kvothe as in ‘quothe’, we are told) - but really, The Name of the Wind is a story about one man, pursuing his dreams against all odds.

Actually, scratch that. It’s a story about storytelling - and this was one of my favourite elements. Rothfuss firstly transmits the main narrative through an older Kvothe, telling his life story. In addition, there is frequent discussion of stories told about Kvothe, and how they differ from the truth. In essence, The Name of the Wind is less concerned with Kvothe’s ‘true’ story, and more concerned with how an individual can become a legend. To what extent Kvothe’s own account of his life is doctored… well. I suppose that’s open to individual interpretation.

Rothfuss delivers an engaging fantasy world, and one which is incredibly convincing; in fact, I found The Name of the Wind to be beautifully written. Heartfelt without being melodramatic, and sophisticated without being overly flowery, this is a book I became emotionally involved with from an early stage. Fantasy aspects such as ‘magic’ (which I use as a general term), although clearly defined, still retain a level of mystery, and I have finished this first book of the Kingkiller Chronicle with just as many questions as I have answers.

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Walking into a restaurant after an orchestra concert feeling like the angel of death in all your black clothing.

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Humans are inherently lonely cause no one can “hear” your thoughts except you. Even when you express some through words, you cannot describe the full gamut of your mind.