The Literary Life of Enya

For a batch of people, Enya’s euphony is considered a blameworthy pleasance but determination has ne'er been thing blameworthy astir it for me. This is partially due to the fact that determination are hobbies from my past that are much, overmuch much embarrassing than the information that I downloaded Enya’s euphony videos from Limewire. I was, for example, a immense instrumentality of the philharmonic CATS. You cannot shame me, I americium immune. I person ne'er claimed to person blase philharmonic taste. Enya’s euphony makes maine consciousness the aforesaid mode contiguous arsenic it did arsenic a young teenager: that there’s magic successful the world.

If you aren’t acquainted with Enya, present are the basics: Enya is among the bestselling philharmonic artists successful the world. Her euphony is often classified arsenic New Age, which is not a classification she readily accepts, she characterizes it arsenic simply ‘Enya.’ “Enya” is technically a trio of radical — Eithne Brennan (who records euphony arsenic the more-phonetically-spelled ‘Enya’) and Nicky and Roma Ryan, her shaper and lyricist respectively. Enya seldom gives interviews and has ne'er been connected tour. It’s a precise specific, curated benignant of fame that I’m not definite exists anymore. Her societal media accounts were concisely precise progressive during the pandemic and person since stalled retired (which is simply a enigma that haunts maine to this day). It has been 7 years since Enya’s past album, and earlier that it was a further 7 years betwixt releases. As an Enya fan, you get precise bully astatine waiting.

Enya is simply a precise backstage person. I could not ideate her penning a memoir, though I’d beryllium archetypal successful enactment to bargain it. It is hard to ideate her doing thing normal, similar buying shoes, but it is casual to ideate her sitting successful her castle with its literate sanction and relaxing successful beforehand of what is surely 1 of galore fireplaces with her cats and a bully book. Enya does not person a Goodreads relationship but based connected the books she’s mentioned successful the fewer interviews that exist, I consciousness equipped to marque a mates of suggestions.

Even earlier Enya recorded “May It Be” and “Aniron” for the 2001 movie adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, 1 of the fewer things 1 could conjecture astir her was that she was a fan. Her 3rd album, Shepherd Moons, contains an instrumental way called “Lothlórien,” which is the location of the Galadhrim elves. She is nary alien to singing successful phantasy languages having done truthful successful some Sindarin (Elvish, for the uninitiated) and Loxian, a connection invented by her lyricist, Roma Ryan. I deliberation she mightiness bask a much modern epic travel similar The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.

She has stated successful interviews that arsenic a child, she work “all the boarding schoolhouse books” and, successful fact, attended a boarding schoolhouse — truthful however astir a modern boarding schoolhouse book? I don’t privation to scare Enya but I deliberation Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas would beryllium an absorbing prime for her. Or Donna Tartt’s unthinkable enactment of acheronian academia, The Secret History.

Enya lives successful an actual castle that she renamed Manderley, aft the location successful Rebecca. It’s unclear if she’s a large Daphne du Maurier instrumentality oregon a large Hitchcock instrumentality oregon both. Either way, I would urge she effort thing similar Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Working connected this database brought maine backmost to the hours I spent arsenic a young teen Googling each operation of words to get the latest quality astir 1 of my favourite performers. It’s been a portion since the past clip Enya has had thing to announce, truthful I anticipation that wherever she is determination are bully books there.

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The Bookish Life of Dolly Parton

The Bookish Life of Angela Lansbury

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