#the lodestar of ys

[luxpenumbra]

get to know you gameeee tag 9 ppl + answer qs

thank u @hawkeyequeerce this has been incubating in my notes app so she is quite long

last song listened to: at the time I started writing this: sincerity is scary by the 1975 (I'd been listening to albums all the way thru today, so I started w I like when you sleep and I was half thru brief inquiry)

right now: run to the water by +live+ off of the distance to here

currently reading: i'm wrapping up a reread of the lodestar of ys by amy rae durreson, it's a pretty short read and one of my recent finds! I'm super in love with how she describes the world and builds atmosphere. she makes me want to tear pieces off of a loaf of bread and be able to eat cheese and be somewhere & sometime where I can hear birds + feel a spring thaw, and somehow she manages to do this during a wartime story and I would not have it any other way.

I'm thinking about jumping back into murderbot diaries after this and/or tamora pierce's beka cooper trilogy. it's reread season here babyyy

currently watching: actively? nothing. attention span? never heard of her. 

passively (ie i'll get back to them soon?eventually): x-files, teen wolf, pjo show, httyd race to the edge (doing it for my siblings in penance for every time I swear in front of them because if I don't want to hear babies say fuck I have to watch my language in return which is fair), dr who, winx club. I wanna watch doctor slump bc it has park shin hye AND park hyung sik and they were academic rivals (oh my god they were academic rivals) but I haven't gotten to it yet

currently obsessed with: hibike euphonium (getting a new season!! kyoani it's been 7 years and i'm still ur bitch), these babes [see stentor below thx journeytothemicrocosmos], old enamelled jewelry, the part in this tornado loves you where neko case says "my love / i'm an owl on the sill in the evening / but morning finds you / still warm and breathing"

tagging not quite 9 ppl @squimbz @the-dot @gaylord-nelson @emilyofmindelan some of whom I know but that's ok! + anyone else who wants to

[magpiefngrl]

2023 Book Review

Photo Credit (original): Ed Robertson

I read 95 books this year. Here's some of what I enjoyed and what I didn't, in genre or arbitrary categories:

Fave SFF books

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)

All Systems Red (Martha Wells)

The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins)

Mammoths at the gates (Nghi Vo)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Amberlough (Lara Elena Donnelly)

Fab m/m romances

Seven Summer Nights (Harper Fox)

The Lodestar of Ys (Amy Rae Durreson)

The Scottish Boy (Alex de Campi)

Magician (KL Noone)

Heated Rivalry (Rachel Reid)

Also Role Model and The Long Game (Rachel Reid)

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (KJ Charles)

The older ones

(recently published books can feel very samey after a while. The irony of these being old books but feeling like a breath of fresh air)

Tam Lin (Pamela Dean) (1991)

Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner) (1987)

Wise Children (Angela Carter) (1991)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) (1981)

(more books under the cut)

Best atmosphere

The Likeness (Tana French)

The fun rereads

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (MXTX_

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MXTX)

The King of Attolia (Megan Whalen Turner)

Empress of Salt and Fortune (Nghi Vo)

The Ruin of a Rake (Cat Sebastian)

The unexpected delight

(it's a biography, and I never anticipated feeling so engrossed in one of them)

The invention of Angela Carter (Edmund Gordon)

The one that hurts so good

Checkmate (Dorothy Dunnett)

Didn't quite love the books but adored the characters

The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater (my typical experience of her stories)

The meh

Bardugo's Nikolai duology

Schwab's Darker Shades of Magic

The dreadful and my only DNF

A Taste of Gold and Iron (Alexandra Rowland)

Most bitterly disappointing

The third installment of Hall's billionaire series How to Belong with a Billionaire.

Biggest book hangover

Seven Summer Nights and Heated Rivalry

Best book boyfriend

ILYA ROZANOV

Most bonkers book

The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins)

The "not sure I liked it but it'll definitely stay with me"

Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh)

The writing craft book that actually offered a new insight

The Heroine's Journey (Gail Carriger)

Overall, a decent year. My goal of completing series I'd started in the past and hadn't finished meant I subjected myself to some less enjoyable books, but I also read some excellent romances and fantasy novels, and I really enjoyed reading some older books, a practice I plan to continue.

past years

2015 2016 2019 first half of 2020 top 5 books of 2020 2021 2022

[idanwyn-et-al]

(XIV||20)27. Alluring. (Free Prompt)

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As easy as it was for her to talk anyone’s ear off, at any time, for any reason, she still hadn’t told him yet.

After Anne-Sophie and Oberic had their spat in the Crystarium, she had kept tabs on him. It was not terribly hard to do, even in a city that diverse: a Hume six-and-a-half fulms tall wearing antique armor with a dialect to match, offering to lead expeditions throughout Lakeland and Il Mheg made him stand out plenty. Besides---as she’d remind him later once they had made peace---she’d found him from a few stray tales and a magicked mirror back in Eorzea, so tracking him within the same realm was child’s play in comparison.

Still, once the knight-scholar had returned to the Bookman’s Shelves ahead of her quarry, she took a few days to explore. Many mysteries had been calling to her from the old manuscripts about the fallen kingdom of Voeburt, alluring in their vagueness that plagued contemporary writing in any world, in any time. Small hamlets were mentioned in passing, as if the reader would obviously know that the best lettuce came from Sud-am-Mein (why?), whereas one should take pains to avoid the cobbler’s shop in Hinterburg (again, why? Whom had they wronged?!). Though this was a problem the erudite Hyuran woman was long-familiar with, it was even more irritating when she had no frame of reference, no lodestar by which to orient her mental compass in order to make educated guesses about any of these now-drowned or levelled villages.

There was one place that the new documents referred to---the ones left by “the elf man in the long dress”, as Nee Ys not-so-helpfully had called him---called Wolekdorf, that evidently was still somewhat intact. Early one morning after her swim in the lake and exercises in the clearing behind the Bookman’s Shelves, Anne-Sophie donned her dress armor and set out on foot, having only a crude map and the mysterious assistance of Nee Ys to guide her. The dress armor was in case she happened to encounter any other mortals on her journey; it was always proper to make a good first impression, after all, and the armor was as functional as it was flashy, being embedded with magicked threads and aetheroconductive metals.

Ignoring Nee Ys’s suggestions that she “ignore that boring old bird’s nest and go play in Lyhe Ghiah instead”, something that she knew would lead to Nee Ys and their fellow Fae keeping her enthralled forever, Anne-Sophie climbed higher into Il Mheg’s mountainous regions. Carpets of blushing flowers gave way to spring green grasses and countless narrow, clear mountain waterfalls that sparkled spectrums in the sunlight. As the sight of ruins came into view, she sighed. It was foolish, but somehow, she had been hoping that this last outpost had been spared the same fate as the rest of Voeburt, and though these, at least, were not beneath the lake nor overgrown with plantlife, they were still ruins, slowly succumbing to the twin powers of time and the elements.

The air whistling through crumbling crenellations and splintered apple groves smelled clean and sweet, with an undercurrent of---musk? Something akin to chocobo, but not quite the same; any son or daughter of Ishgard knew the scent of chocobos well, and this was not it. Her armor, well-forged so as to be quiet in comparison to many other makes, clanked as loudly as infantry gear in the silence, and she felt foolish for having worn it. Once she was perhaps a hundred yalms from the central group of buildings, she pulled out her spyglass, peering through it and gasping, “Amaro!” There they were, dozens of them, most of them sleeping on great nests within dilapidated walls. Though she was used to seeing them in captivity, she’d heard that there were some who lived in the wild; it seemed she’d found where.

After another bell or two of careful inspection from a distance, she was forced to conclude that, indeed, there were no other mortals present. No other knights or villagers magicked to stone, awaiting someone from a distant star to awaken them. As she made her way back to the Shelves while the sun began its descent, she felt the strange, sweet, sleeping melancholy of Wolekdorf swimming inside her blood like an alchemical solution. She would have to tell Oberic when they met up once again, after she apologized for acting like a chocobo’s ass in the Crystarium.

Another sennight had come and gone, and she still hadn’t found the words. She would start to tell him, then change her mind, not wanting to spoil the moment, wanting to protect him from something he likely knew within a bell of awakening. Anne-Sophie hoped she could find her courage, find the right hoop on which to stitch the picture of words for him. Perhaps it was better that he saw it for himself; it might make the other secret she had discovered easier to bear.

((tagging @knight-in-voeburt​ , as usual, who also gave me the word!))

[rosebramblewolf]

heres another book recommendation: the lodestar of ys by amy rae durreson. currently free on kindle. i downloaded this last night before bed and proceeded to read the entire thing in about 4 hours before drifting off to sleep, caring deeply about this world and the people in it, emotionally satisfied but wanting more Immediately. i bought the 99¢ prequel novella this morning and read that before getting up.

guys the worldbuilding is incredible, the characters are all so well-drawn and interesting, and i need to know what happens next

[airmanisr]

Lockheed 18-56 C-60A-1-LO Lodestar 42-55884 in Tucson by Johnny Comstedt Via Flickr: C/n 18-2274 built in 1942/1943 to USAAF marked 42-55884, in 1945 converted to 18-50 and registered YS-22, in 1947 N66322, in 1971 N30N. In Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 18. October 2017.

[magpiefngrl]

July Books

Photo Credit (original): Ed Robertson

Jul 2023

I know I do this bi-monthly but I'm off work with plenty of time in my hands and in a great mood to talk books, so let's do a monthly recap.

In July, I read 10 books, 2 of which filled 2 categories of my Reading Challenge. I didn't read any physical books but I finished a series I began years ago (Checkmate!), for which I'm nothing short of ecstatic. Overall, I'm doing OK as regards my 2023 reading goals.

I've been incredibly thirsty for romance this month: 7 out of the 10 books!

I loved:

Seven Summer Nights by Harper Fox (historical m/m romance) (magical. wrote a rec for it in July's newsletter)

The Lodestar of Ys by Amy Rae Durreson (fantasy m/m romance novella--available FREE) (enjoyed it so much that I'm currently rereading it)

The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi (historical m/m romance) (used to be a stucky fic. Sexy af)

Not a romance: I really love Tana French's prose. Absolutely adore. I read her second novel, The Likeness, a murder mystery, which was wonderful.

What's next?

Planning to finish my current 650-page literary novel. Though, more likely, I'll read even more romance, which is the way my summer is going :D

[magpiefngrl]

8, 12, 17! for the book asks 🥰

Hello, hello! Thanks for the ask and for the excellent questions!

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

I did, some of them. I posted about this year's reading goals in January and I'll make a more detailed post later in the month, but as you can see from the crossed out sections, I did pretty well in two out of three. Namely, I wanted to read series I'd left unfinished and I managed to read most of them, which makes me very happy. And second, I'd created a reading challenge to inspire and motivate my readings and I did very well there too.

12. Any books that disappointed you?

Yes, unfortunately. I won't talk here about books I DNF'ed or books that I just didn't like, but about books I had high expectations of.

The biggest disappointment of the year, in this regard, is the final novel of Alexis Hall's Arden St.Ives trilogy. I... I don't know what that book was. It wasn't romance (and it was marketed as such), it wasn't sexy, it wasn't what I expected in any way or form. I loved the first two novels, and the main pairing is one of my faves of Alexis Hall's works, but somehow this potential got all squandered. I honestly don't remember feeling so disappointed about a book in years.

I was also not happy with Rule of Wolves by Bardugo, the second in the Nikolai duology.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Yes! I won't mention the books from authors I love that I expected to enjoy, but the ones that were a surprise.

They were three:

A Lodestar of Ys is a free m/m romance novella, which I got mainly because it was free and I saw a good review. It turned out to be one of my favourite books of the year. I already read it twice and I'll definitely revisit it.

Heated Rivalry is an m/m hockey romance. I bought it ages ago because of some good reviews, but didn't read it because I don't actually like contemporary much and I know zero about hockey. It's a very exotic sport to me. Anyhoo, lately I've seen it recced to high heavens--I'm talking rave reviews all the way. So I finally read it with scepticism and, turns out, it deserves all the rave reviews.

The Amberlough trilogy. I expected it to be decent. It was recced by a fandom author (currently published to much acclaim) years ago (you might see a pattern here), and I expected it to be good, but I ended up appreciating a lot more. Compared to some of the bland US SFF stories I've come across recently, this is miles better.

2024 end of year book ask

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[magpiefngrl]

23 books in 2023

thanks for the tag @bloody-wonder! I chose pretty randomly from throughout the year, mostly the good ones, but I've included some disappointing ones to spice things up lol

👍 liked it 👎 didn't like it 😐️ it was OK 🤯 memorable/stood out for some reason 💦 steamy 💤 forgettable

Swordspoint 👍👍

The library at Mount Char 🤯

The secret lives of country gentlemen 👍👍💦ish

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 👍 👍

The Scottish Boy 👍💦💦💦

Seven summer nights 👍👍

The Lodestar of Ys 👍👍 💦

Tam Lin 👍

Wise children 🤯

Chronicle of a Death Foretold 🤯

Rule of Wolves 👎 💤

A Husband for Hartwell 😐️💦💤

Red white and royal blue 😐️

A Taste of Gold And Iron 💩

How to Blow it with a Billionaire 👍 💦

How to Belong with a Billionaire 👎👎👎

The Likeness 👍👍

All Systems Red 👍👍

Daughter from the Dark 🤯

Checkmate 🤯

Some Desperate Glory 🤯

Gallant 👍

Ocean's Echo 👍

Tagging anyone who wants to do this! Yes, I mean you, if you're wondering x

Tag me so I can see too, I'm very nosy about books.

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[magpiefngrl]

mid-year book freak out tag

Let's talk about books! Thanks for tagging me @bloody-wonder ❤️😘

1. Best Book You’ve Read So Far in 2023?

I've read 48 books till now but nothing leaps to mind as The Best. Like a novel that knocked me out, you know? If I had to choose one, I'd say Seven Summer Nights, a romance by Harper Fox, because I adored the first half and because it's the only book so far that gave me a book hangover.

2. Best Sequel You’ve Read So Far in 2023?

The 2nd novel of Alexis Hall's trilogy, How To Blow It With A Billionaire, was delightful. Judging by the title I'd braced myself for angst, but instead 90-95% of the book was Arden and Caspian falling in love and getting closer (until the last chapter and the inevitable heartbreak). It is one of the most skillful, heartwarming and sexy relationship progressions I've read.

3. New Release You Haven’t Read Yet, But Want To?

This has been on my sights since 2021 but still haven't got around to it: She Who Became The Sun.

4. Most Anticipated Release For Second Half of 2023?

There's nothing that I'm truly impatient about. The first that comes to mind is KJ Charles's A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel.

Also, A Power Unbound by Freya Marske. I can't say I was blown away by the first two novels, but I have a feeling the ship in this one is my kind of ship.

I'm curious for a lot of books, but not eagerly anticipating them.

5. Biggest Disappointment?

Oh boy. I left a long review on GR about it and I still cry bitter tears about how let down I was by Alexis Hall's third installment of his Billionaire series. Like I said above, I really enjoyed the second book. It ended in heartbreak but I assumed we'd see the pairing work their way through their issues together and end up HEA. What I did NOT expect was that they'd be apart for most of the novel, only getting together at 90%. I don't want to be (even more) spoilery so I'll say nothing more. Just that this book had the promise of being truly spectacular and it turned out all over the place, and it hurts.

6. Biggest Surprise?

The Lodestar of Ys by Amy Rae Durreson, a short novel I got because a GR pal left an enthusiastic review and said that it was available for free. I don't know the author and mostly read it for research and was not prepared to enjoy it as much as I did. The writing is solid, the worldbuilding fascinating, the rivalry between the ship is realistic and convincing as is their growing attraction to each other. Good smut, which isn't normally the case with pub romance. Becomes a tad too cute for my tastes towards the end, but still a great read. And free!

7. Favourite New Author?

No one stands out. I guess Amy Rae Durreson (see above) is a new to me author that made me go and check out her other books, so let's go with her.

Oh I'm also really enjoying The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi so her too.

8. Newest Favourite Character?

Bucky Iain from The Scottish Boy, I guess?

9. Newest Fictional Crush?

No one. How weak has my reading year been??

💕Best Ship💕

Richard and Alec from Swordspoint. I refuse to read the sequels where they (I think?) break up. NOPE.

10. Book That Made You Cry?

I cry pretty easily and I'm sure I cried at a novel this year (if not more) but for the life of me I can't remember which.

11. Book That Made You Happy?

I had the most fun during my reread of Scum Villain's Self-Saving System. Gods, what I wouldn't give for more authors having so much fun with their stories.

12. Favourite Book Adaptation You Saw This Year?

I watched the final season of BBC's The Dark Materials early this year. It makes me happy to have such a great adaptation of one of my fave series of all times.

13. Favourite Review You’ve Written This Year?

I haven't written a lot of reviews this year. In the past there were times when I'd write long essays; now I'm all for short and sweet. Can't be arsed for more tbh. Unless I disliked the book and I need to rant.

14. Most Beautiful Cover?

I mostly read ebooks and I rarely notice covers. I did, however, notice the stunning cover of A Taste of Gold and Iron, which turned out to be a book I hated, so I'm even more distrustful of covers now.

15. What Books Do You Need To Read By The End of The Year?

I have a bunch of unfinished series to complete (see 2023 reading goals), so that's my first goal. My second target is reading some of the dozens of unread books I own (both on the shelves and my ereader). I do need to finish Checkmate, this is getting ridiculous, but I keep getting distracted by romance.

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Overall, it hasn't been a spectacular year. I've read a LOT--esp in June I couldn't stop reading--but I've reread a few series to complete them, which ranged from meh (The Nikolai trilogy and Darker Shades of Magic) to flawed-but-interesting (The Dreamer trilogy) to seriously uneven (the Billionaire series). Early in the year I finished JS&MN and Spinning Silver which were great, but they feel a long time away and nothing amazing has come since. Idk. Some of my reads were unusual and made an impression, but can't say I enjoyed them fully. The most satisfying books these past few months have been a few romance novels. Fingers crossed for a more exciting second half of 2023.

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[magpiefngrl]

2, 4, and 20 for the book asks! hope you're having a nice day :)

Hello! I'm indeed having a great day off :)) Thanks for the awesome questions!

2. Did you reread anything? What?

I love rereading! Nothing gives me more comfort than sinking into a world I know and enjoy. That being said, I will also pick up a book again if I want to continue with the series and I need to refresh my memory of what has happened before. This year I did go back and finish a few series I'd started ages ago, so I had to reread the first book before diving into the rest. I can't say I loved those rereads (King of Scars by Bardugo, A Darker Shade of Magic by Schwab).

As to the rereads of beloved books, I reread The King of Attolia, The Lodestar of Ys, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (3rd or 4th time, I've lost count), and I did a nice and thorough reread of Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (4 volumes) and The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (5 vol.) which I enjoyed immensely.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

I did, two actually. Both are pretty famous and I guess I came to them late, but hey I'm here now! lol

Rachel Reid is the first, a contemporary m/m romance author; she's written hockey romances so far. I adored Heated Rivalry and The Long Game. Role Model too.

Tamsyn Muir is the other. I read Gideon the Ninth, finally, this year and loved the strong voice in her narration. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

They were two: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske, because the dynamic of the pairing promised to be very much my kind of thing, and Starling House by Alix E Harrow, whose short works I adore and whose longer works I find meh. In both cases, I was left a bit lukewarm. Competently written stories, can't fault prose or anything, but they lacked the spark I needed to fall in love.

My other anticipated release (which I haven't got to yet) is Dark Heir and everyone seems to be incoherent about it, so third time lucky, I hope?

2024 end of year book ask

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[magpiefngrl]

1, 7 and 12 for the book asks 😘

Hello! Thanks for the ask x

I answered 12 here.

1. What’s something you read recently and enjoyed?

I've just posted a review of my month's reads and mentioned some of my latest faves. I'll answer here with a book I want everyone to read (I mean, it's free on Amazon, and Kobo and, I guess, wherever else people can get ebooks): The Lodestar of Ys, an m/m fantasy novella. It's got inventive world-building, good writing/pacing/dialogue, lots of chemistry between the leads, and some decent smut. Not perfect, but very enjoyable. I'm currently rereading it for the second time in a month.

7. What book do you love but usually not recommend because it’s weird or intense, etc?

There is a Greek magic realism novel that has been translated in English called At Twilight They Return. This is one of my fave books of all time; I've even tattooed an obscure line from the book on my forearm. I read it as a teenager and it was a formative experience. When asked for my Top 5 books of all times, or the 5 books to summon me, or whatever meme, this is always one of them.

But: it's meandering, non-linear, with a huge cast. It's not modern or queer or romantic or comforting. Some people adore it. Others will most certainly DNF it. I can't think of one of my online friends or followers who might be into it. But I love it.

Book Asks

[airmanisr]

Lockheed 18-56 C-60A-1-LO Lodestar 42-55884 in Tucson by Johnny Comstedt Via Flickr: The remains of c/n 18-2274 built in 1942/1943 to USAAF marked 42-55884, in 1945 converted to 18-50 and registered YS-22, in 1947 N66322, in 1971 N30N. In Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 18. October 2017.

[airmanisr]

Lockheed 18-56 Lodestar ‘N31G’ by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 18-2302. Built as a C-60A with the serial 42-55897 and delivered to the USAAF on December 22, 1942. It flew for the advanced glider school in Long Beach, California. The US Reconstruction Finance Corp. sold the Lodestar to the Defence Plant Corporation which leased it to TACA Airlines. TACA operated the Lodestar under lease to several of its subsidiaries, where it saw service in El Salvador (as YS-25), Costa Rica (as TI-73) and Columbia (as C-251). TACA also leased the Lodestar to Linea Aero de Columbia S.A. In 1947, the War Asset Corporation sold the Lodestar to Grubb Oil Co., and it was converted to executive configuration. It was later owned and operated by Dehli-Taylor Oil Corporation as N4495N. It flew as the personal transport for Columbia Gas Transmission's president until 1968. It received many of the popular Dee Howard executive aircraft modifications, including panoramic windows, new tail cone, wingtips and nose. In 1968, Houston businessman Paul F. Barnhart purchased the Lodestar and operated it as his business aircraft until he donated it to the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society in December 2002. It is on display at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. Houston Hobby Airport, Texas, United States. 18th March 2017 The above information is, in part, from the 1940 Air Terminal Museum website.

[airmanisr]

Main cabin of Lockheed Lodestar ‘N31G’ by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 18-2302. Built as a C-60A with the serial 42-55897 and delivered to the USAAF on December 22, 1942. It flew for the advanced glider school in Long Beach, California. The US Reconstruction Finance Corp. sold the Lodestar to the Defence Plant Corporation which leased it to TACA Airlines. TACA operated the Lodestar under lease to several of its subsidiaries, where it saw service in El Salvador (as YS-25), Costa Rica (as TI-73) and Columbia (as C-251). TACA also leased the Lodestar to Linea Aero de Columbia S.A. In 1947, the War Asset Corporation sold the Lodestar to Grubb Oil Co., and it was converted to executive configuration. It was later owned and operated by Dehli-Taylor Oil Corporation as N4495N. It flew as the personal transport for Columbia Gas Transmission's president until 1968. It received many of the popular Dee Howard executive aircraft modifications, including panoramic windows, new tail cone, wingtips and nose. In 1968, Houston businessman Paul F. Barnhart purchased the Lodestar and operated it as his business aircraft until he donated it to the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society in December 2002. It is on display at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. Houston Hobby Airport, Texas, United States. 18th March 2017 The above information is, in part, from the 1940 Air Terminal Museum website.