Alphabet Challenge Round 19 or Sing Me a Song I Don’t Know the Words To

S is for Songs of Love and Death, an anthology edited by George R. R. Martin. I loved the concept of stories about star-crossed lovers. I think it’s a theme you don’t see enough of in popular literature. The stories dealt with Victorian England, contemporary America, interstellar travel, royals, peasants, ghosts, magic and mere mortals. Despite such a wide range, they all fit together because of the universal emotion that dominates the story.

While everyone loves a happy ending, you don’t always get one in the real world. I liked that there was a balance of happy endings and doomed romances. That’s the point of star-crossed lovers; fate is against them and that can’t always be rewritten.

My favorite story was The Wayfarer’s Advice. It epitomized the theme for me. I strongly recommend reading it. The other stories I especially liked were Rooftops, Blue Boots, Courting Trouble, The Demon Dancer, and Kaskia.

A - American Virgin by Steven Seagle

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C

D - Divergent by Veronica Roth

E - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

F - Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

G - The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham

H - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

I - I Do But I Don't by Kamy Wicoff

J - Jane Austen Made Me Do It edited by Laurel Ann Nattress

K

L - A Little Night Magic by Lucy March

M - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen

N - Naked City edited by Ellen Datlow

O - One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde

P

Q

R - Reality Bites Back by Jennifer L. Pozner

S - Songs of Love and Death edited by George R. R. Martin

T - The Tao of Dating by Ali Binazir

U - Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman

V

W - White Girl Problems by Babe Walker

X - XVI by Julia Karr

Y - Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison

Z - Zoo Story by Thomas French

Current Background Sound: Stairway to the Skies by Within Temptation