I've always had difficulty reading books since everything has to be described to you directly, and I find that a little bit jarring and find it hard to become invested in the story.
I'm a much bigger fan of music and video games to tell stories.
Music because i can associate characters/settings with instruments and motifs and better understand the emotions because of the tone of the music.
Video games because as a player I can find myself more immersed and understand the world building more.
Im a very big fan of Rain World, Hollow Knight, Epic the Musical
I'm not sure how anyone could give a book recommendation from this, but it never hurts to try, does it? Most books don't get me invested enough to even finish them.
by Flammulated_Owl
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The Great Passion – James Runcie
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father’s insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he’s bullied by his new classmates. But when the school’s cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil’s beautiful singing voice and draws him from the choir to be a soloist, Stefan’s life is permanently changed.
Over the course of the next several months, and under Bach’s careful tutelage, Stefan’s musical skill progresses, and he is allowed to work as a copyist for Bach’s many musical works. But mainly, drawn into Bach’s family life and away from the cruelty in the dorms and the lonely hours of his mourning, Stefan begins to feel at home. When another tragedy strikes, this time in the Bach family, Stefan bears witness to the depths of grief, the horrors of death, the solace of religion, and the beauty that can spring from even the most profound losses.
Joyous, revelatory, and deeply moving, The Great Passion is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of what it was like to sing, play, and hear Bach’s music for the very first time.