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"[Music is] an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach -

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"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind." - Johannes Brahms -

The Goose Girl

Title: The Goose Girl

Author: Shannon Hale

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Young Adult

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

      Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue, though it may take some time before they can taste it.

    Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life listening to her aunt's stories and learning the language of birds, especially swans. As she grows up, Anid evelops the skill of animal speech, but she never feels quite comfortable speaking with people. 

    So when Ani's mother sends her away to be married in a foreign land, she finds herself at the mercy of her silver-tongued lady in waiting, who leads a mutiny that leaves her alone, destitute, and fleeing for her life. To survive, Ani takes on work as a royal goose girl, hiding in plain sight while she develops her forbidden talents and works to discover her own true, powerful voice. 

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"A Quality

 Which music sometimes has, being the Art

 Which is most nigh to tears and memory." 

 - Oscar Wilde -

Sonnet 10 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 10

by William Shakespeare

For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,

Who for thyself art so unprovident.

Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,

But that thou none lovest is most evident;

For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate

That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire.

Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate

Which to repair should be thy chief desire.

O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind!

Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?

Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,

Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:

Make thee another self, for love of me,

That beauty still may live in thine or thee.

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“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy – 

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 "The rotation of the universe and the motion of the planets could neither begin nor continue without music... for everything is ordered... according to the laws of harmony." - Attributed to Plutarch -