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[Book Tag] The Piano Playlist

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Welcome to my first official BookTwitter Blog post! Well or more Book Tag post.  I had no idea that Book Tag's are a thing but here we are. Thanks for the tag to Haadiya for the tag on Twitter. Pls go and follow her here and check out her brilliant blog here . Thank you also to Moi at Bookish Blunders for starting this tag and making the wonderful artwork to it :)   Here are the rules :  - Post the rules in your post.  - Answer all the questions and if you’ve never heard any of the songs, listen to them before you answer the questions.  - Link the creator and the person who nominated you (see above). - Nominate 8 people. Only 8. (Why? There’s no Symphony no. 9, so)  - Use the featured image I’ve posted on this tag. (artwork by Moi from Bookish Blunders) Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata: A book you read that had an unexpected plot twist near the end This is a hard question... I guess it'll be a German book here called Gut gegen Nordwind  by Daniel Glattauer (the English translation

[book-review] Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard

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Why not think that sometimes—just sometimes—you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes. Today I want to talk about a book, that made me fall deeply in love with reading again. A book I read in a day. A book that's full of love, thoughts about life and one of the most wonderful love stories I have ever read. Today I'm talking about "Gabriel's Inferno" by Sylvain Reynard. I first read it in March 2020. I found it due to Twitter. A trailer on the movie was released by a wonderful site called Passionflix. I was immediately hooked and went to check out the book. I found it, ordered book 1 & 4 and started as soon as it arrived. Damn, what a good read! I had some time off on my second job by that time so I had the whole weekend to read. Managed in a day though.  I’m going to be thrown out of Paradise tomorrow, Beatrice. Our