Sing the Four Quarters

majkia

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

I've liked Tanya Huff sci fi but never really connected with the characters in this one. Meh.

#ReadYourKindle @CBee

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majkia

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

Will only have time for two this month.

#Readyourkindle
@CBee

CBee Perfect! 😊 3mo

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Leniverse

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

📚 Quarters quartet by Tanya Huff. Or at least the three first ones. A fave from my teen years.
✍️ n/a
📺 Quantum Leap (another teen fave)
🎤 Queen
🎶 Quite a Feeling (Sahara Hotnights) Queen of the Night Aria from Mozart (Lucia Popp or Diana Damrau)

#ManicMonday actually on a Monday! #LetterQ @CBee

vivastory Queen 👏 👏 1y

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AliD73

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

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I enjoyed this one. This is the first book of a four volume series. This tells the story of Annice, who renounces her royal heritage in order to become a bard with the ability to summon spirits from all four elements (“quarters”). To the dismay of her female lover, she becomes pregnant and has to go on the run as an outlaw when she rescues the father of her unborn child from execution. Excellent LGBT themed fantasy novel with great world building.

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ssleif

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

Just started this one, and already not sure if I want to continue. This was recommended as high-fantasy and queer-inclusive, which it is. Very Valdemar, in a good way. I dig the voice, the style, the world.

But I'm really really not interested in a pregnancy story? Particularly one where it's the POV Character (cis female) that's pregnant, and that is fulfilling for them?

Nothing wrong with the book, that's just something I don't enjoy... Hmm.

ssleif If anybody sees this and wants to chime in and reassure me that this is not the focal point of the book, or something like that, I'm all ears. Like, if there happens to be a time skip after another week of story time, and like skip till after she has a kid, that'd be fine with me ... Though it would probably make for a less well paced and constructed story. XD 4y

Kenyazero I haven't read this one yet, But I loved a different book in the series, Sing the Four Quarters. 4y

ssleif @Kenyazero Which book did you read? I think this is the first in the Quarters series, but I really only got a couple chapters in, maybe, just until Annice Makes it back to the Bardic College, has the pregnant confirmed, and decides she wants to keep it despite royal edict. I know the person recomended Sing the Four Quarters to me really enjoyed it, but we never spoke specifics, just that there were LGBT/GRSM MCs in the series. 4y

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ssleif I've put it down for now, but I do like the world and voice, so I might read the wiki or something. Fast forward, or skip to another in the series... 4y

Kenyazero @ssleif 🤦‍♀️I meant to say the quartered sea. It‘s the fourth book. I haven‘t read the rest of the series yet, but enjoyed that one. The world captivated me. 4y

ssleif @Kenyazero XD Sweet, I'll give that one a shot then. 👌👍 TY! 4y

Kenyazero @ssleif I hope you enjoy it! 4y

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

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If I‘d read this at a decent pace, I suspect I‘d be in love with it. It‘s set in a wonderfully queer world, there‘s tons of magical music, and there‘s a big familial conundrum at its heart. On top of that, Huff eschews the expected plot where two people fall in love because they made a baby. Annice and Pjerin work towards mutual respect and potential coparenting, not twu wuv. Whee!

Alas, I read it too slow for love, but I did like it very much.

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

I‘m ready for the final push! As long as nothing unexpected comes up, I should be able to finish this before I take Casey to puppy school this afternoon.

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

No walk past McDonald‘s is complete without a free coffee and a chapter or two of my current read.

I‘m still enjoying SING THE FOUR QUARTERS a lot—and I‘m still reading it so. damned. slowly. Every time I try to sit down with it, something comes up. I hope I can make a big push through the back half tonight and tomorrow.

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

It‘s been ages since I did one of these. Here goes!

1. Fantasy

2. Sarah Monette/Katherine Addison

3. even this page is white by Vivek Shraya

4. I avoid topics, not genres: American political nonfiction and Nazi romances. (No one‘s ever had the poor taste to rec one to me, but I snarl whenever I remember the hoopla in Romancelandia a few years ago.)

5. Done!

#hellothursday

wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 📚 5y

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

Supper involves curried tuna, kale slaw, and a book I took a break from a couple months back. I‘m looking forward to diving in again!

I‘ll probably have the beer a bit later. It was part can-buy (because PRETTY) and part brewery-buy. Driftwood‘s responsible for the Cry Me A River gose, aka the Locke & Key beer, and that‘s biased me towards them.

xxjenadanxx I‘ve never heard of curried tuna before but it sounds and looks delish! 5y

xicanti @xxjenadanxx I made it for the first time tonight. It wasn‘t quite as flavourful as I expected, but the raisins added a nice punch. 5y

xxjenadanxx I‘ll have to remember that in the future! 5y

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xicanti @xxjenadanxx it calls for 1 can of tuna, 1/4 cup of raisins, 1 tsp curry powder, and 1 tbsp mayonnaise, which I doubled because it was kind of dry. Good luck! 5y

wordzie 💝 The cover 5y

xicanti @wordzie Jody Lee‘s been one of my favourite cover artists since I was ten years old. Love her style. 5y

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

I desperately want to make some progress through SING THE FOUR QUARTERS this weekend. I'm loving it, but I've had so many other demands on my time that I haven't had the mental energy to sit and READ IT. And I loathe reading things slowly. Unless it's something like Genji or a massive chunkster, I get antsy when a novel takes me more than three days.

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

I'm doing the super early bedtime thing due to winter exhaustion/malaise.

This hot water bottle was the best thing I could've won in the family gift exchange. It's large and fuzzy, and it stays warm all through the night.

Alfoster For a moment, I thought that was a cute fuzzy pet!😂😂😂 5y

xicanti @Alfoster it DOES look kind of like a big, rectangular chinchilla! 5y

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

I've had approximately seven million cups of tea in the last two days, purely as an excuse to use my new mug. It's the MOON, y'all! THE MOON!

RealLifeReading Beautiful!!! 5y

Coffeedaily Lovely! Functional beauty makes a cup of tea a mini vacation. 5y

xicanti @RealLifeReading I'm deeply in love with it. 5y

xicanti @Coffeedaily I know it'll bring me joy for years to come. 5y

Lindy 😍 5y

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xicanti

Sing the Four Quarters | Tanya Huff

This is what breakfast-for-supper looks like when you're running low on actual groceries but you've got a lot of stuff you want to get out of the fridge.

I'm in a 90s fantasy mood, so I started SING THE FOUR QUARTERS while I ate. I know I've read Tanya Huff before, but I can't remember if Teenage Me liked her or drifted away, bored. I've got a good vibe from this one so far, even though I know a TSTL-level spoiler about the heroine.

RavenLovelyReads I love breakfast for supper- we had pancakes and hash browns last night. My boys call it “brinner” when we have breakfast for diner 😂 5y

xicanti @RavenLovelyReads brinner! I like it! 5y

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