DE/EN*; lots of fanfiction, some books and sheet music.
Experimenting with Bookwyrm, to get away from Goodreads and a manually kept text file with things I read.
I mostly keep to the Goodreads rating scale (2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = top), where I also hand out a 2/3 for a 1/2 when my reason to dislike is more personal than caused by the book. Bad spelling tends to get a downgrade.
*) and bits of Latin, NL, ES, …
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Kompositionsstil und Aufführungspraxis bei Johann Sebastian Bach (EBook, German language, ETH Zürich)
Ein Artikel aus dem Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis : eine Veröffentlichung der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Lehr- und Forschungsinstitut für …
rec: www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2011/08/the-book-of-druidry.html
“maybe don’t read this as first book” and “this is hard-to-digest esoteric teaching, not easy-reading literal statement of fact” (hmm, kinda like Steiner…)
ebook available for free here traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd. …
via Fediverse: wandering.shop/@youseeatortoise/110821221943156990
This book describes and expands upon the content of a film of the same name, …
I’m a bit too squeamish for some of the things, but I liked that the pagans won over the christians for once. (This was incidentally the point with which this movie was recommended to me.)
The sudden turn before the end surely caught me by surprise.
Some of the filming… was probably done cheaply.
The English of these Scotsmen was very comprehensible even to foreigners (though I still used subtitles, I could have done without for the most part).
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual …
URL: archiveofourown.org/works/24779923
This is more of an “it’s okay” than a three-star one but it paid attention to so many (not much) little details I’m rounding up. Despite the romancey bits and the… sudden implosion of plot. It evoked a carpet of detail/feelings, this is weird.
Presents a history of the Nordic warriors and explorers who plundered and traded their way …
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the …
In meinem Besitz befindet sich stattdessen der Mannheimer Duden („Der Große DUDEN“, Band 1: Rechtschreibung), 15. Auflage (1961) in Leinen gebunden. (Aber ich darf ja bei Gutles keine Editionen oder Bücher mehr hinzufügen… grml…)
Eric, stylized as Faust Eric, is the ninth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. It was …
I had already read this in German, decades ago, but this book will have the honour of being the first Pterry book I’m going to read in its native (and hopefully original) English.
King Lear, an aging ruler, attempts to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, who …
I do recall having read this. I know I’ve tracked it on Goodreads. So why did the latter lose my review? This makes me angry-annoyed.
From “Under the Ancient Oaks”:
「A book to avoid
I love recommending books that I find helpful. I generally ignore books I don’t like, but occasionally I come across something that needs a warning on it. One such book is The Celts: A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins.
Celtic scholar and author Danu Forest said “I don’t believe in being the Celtic Studies police but this really is toxic nonsense and poor scholarship that was only published due to its emergence from the Westminster bubble.”
This review https://nation.cymru/culture/review-the-celts-a-sceptical-history-by-simon-jenkins/ from Nation Cymru in Wales calls it “irresponsible” “lazy” and says “he makes elementary errors that could have been corrected by looking at Wikipedia. Overall, this is like reading an essay by a clever, ambitious but lazy and contrarian undergraduate, with far too high a regard for his own cleverness.”
Spend your money – and your reading time – elsewhere.」
