This unusual and lovely fantasy makes use of some genre concepts, like elves and goblins and a young man who unexpectedly ascends the throne, to tell a completely different story than the one you might expect ( Read more... )

Due to extreme busyness, I not only failed to write up most of what I read, I also failed to write down most of what it was. I know I read more than this in a month, however busy. Oh well.

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
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truepenny's Melusine is an intense fantasy novel with alternate narrators, the victimized and crazy wizard Felix and the cat burglar Mildmay. Felix is magically forced to break a valuable magical artifact, the Virtu; the enchantment he's put under also drives him insane, and no one believes that someone else made him do it. Meanwhile, Mildmay has very ( Read more... )