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A Thousand Threads: A Memoir | Neneh Cherry

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I thought Neneh Cherry's memoir sounded like a niche choice for the #WomensPrizeNF shortlist, but you don't need to be a fan to get a lot out of this book. It's a time capsule. It's the emerging music scene and countercultures of NYC in the 70s and London in the 80s. It's Jazz history. It's about being bi-racial and with family ties to three continents. It's about food, friendship, addiction, the AIDS epidemic, art, and an unconventional life.

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Leniverse

A Thousand Threads: A Memoir | Neneh Cherry

Yes!

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BacklistReader

RoseBlood | A. G. Howard

May #bookspin #doublespin picks

Got Color Wheel (Red) and Small Book (under 300 pages)

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bibliothecarivs

Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd | Mark Blake

Recent acquisition:

📖 Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake

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BethM

We Will Rock Our Classmates | Ryan T. Higgins

Last night we reached (conservatively) 4,000 books before kindergarten, but didn‘t realize it until tonight 🙂 #1000booksbeforekindergarten #raisingreaders

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 1d

AmyG Wow! Does he start in the fall? 1d

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1d

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MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🎉🙌🏻 1d

BethM @AmyG no he‘ll be in 4k in fall. I‘m think we can get 5-5.5k in before kindergarten 23h

DogMomIrene 🙌🏼 Woot! Makes me so happy to see your little man reading so much with you, and that there are so many children‘s books for you to choose from. 22h

BookmarkTavern Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉 15h

BethM @DogMomIrene thanks! Children‘s lit has definitely expanded since I was a kid! 10h

Reggie Congrats! He‘s gotten so big. He was just a baby a couple of years ago. 9h

BethM @Reggie I know 🥹he‘s only 4.5 but he‘s a tall kid! 8h

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jdiehr

Scar Tissue | Anthony Kiedis

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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, baby!

VERY heavy on the drugs.

I met Anthony back in the 90s, but, alas, our brief encounter was not mentioned in the book 😂

BittersweetBooks This book has been on my TBR since high school 🫣 (aka when it was published) 1d

fredthemoose I enjoyed this one. What a wild life. Flea‘s pre-RHCP memoir was good, too

Acid for the Children: A Memoir

Ruthiella He‘s saving your meeting him for his second memoir! 😜 1d

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jdiehr @Ruthiella Right?! ? At one point in the book he gives a "if you're reading this..." to a girl he met in Kentucky. That was the point when I stopped reading a memoir and started reading a fantasy ? 18h

BarbaraBB You met him?!?! Tell me everything! I‘ve had a crush on him since the 80s and especially in the Californication era. “Young Kentucky girl in a push up bra”… that must be you!! 16h

jdiehr @BarbaraBB No, I'm not the Kentucky girl!! But his shout out to her made me wish he was shouting out to the girl he met in LA and posed for a picture with (me 😄) 15h

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Rich Mullins | James Bryan Smith

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Rich Mullins was a Christian musician in the 80s/90s, who died in a car accident in 1997. This book, written by a good friend of his a few years later, is an odd sort of biography. It doesn't really outline his life or career, but rather looks at key aspects of Rich's faith and beliefs through his lyrics and writing. I grew up on Rich's music and it definitely has shaped the way I view God and His love; Rich's lyrics still can hit me sideways ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) sometimes. I've read this book before, but it had been several years. Taking time to read it during an especially busy and stressful time in my life was so beneficial. Smith does a great job of not portraying Rich as some kind of hero or saint. This book encourages readers not to follow Rich and his teachings, but rather Jesus and His, with Rich's lyrics as a tool that sometimes illuminate some aspect of them.

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) book that won't appeal to everyone, but for me it's an incredibly grounding and encouraging read.

#MonthlyNonfiction (March) @julieclair
#GottaCatchEmAll - Band/Musical Group @PuddleJumper
#Read2025 - 24/100 Books off my TBR @DieAReader
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Desha I have always loved Rich Mullins…he‘s one of my favorite Christian artists! 2d

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BarbaraJean I had never heard of this book and now I want to track it down! An approach to Rich‘s life through his faith and his writing—pointing to Jesus above all—sounds like such a Rich Mullins approach. Rich Mullins‘ music was so meaningful for me in high school and college (still is) and I was devastated when he died. That year I had a campus radio show with a friend and the week Rich Mullins died, we just played his music for the full hour. 💔 2d

DieAReader 💖💖💖 1d

TheAromaofBooks @Desha - His music has always meant so much to me!! 23h

TheAromaofBooks @BarbaraJean - I definitely recommend picking this one up if you enjoy Rich's music. I was a teen when he passed, and it devastated our whole family. My parents and I got to see him in concert shortly before that, when he was traveling with Mitch McVicker. 23h

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I just found the audiobook on Hoopla! 10h

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Billypar

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist | Liz Pelly

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#tuesdaytunes @TieDyeDude
I always felt a little guilty for using Spotify given the little to no pay that artists receive. But Pelly's book details a long list of other problematic behavior. I never listen to the Spotify-made lists much, but they are a huge part of their business model. Artists get added to them based on less than transparent ways involving their record labels or sometimes from the artists themselves paying for the privilege 👇

Billypar Or some artists agree to make generic 'chill vibes' music for small amounts of money and without their identity linked, which supplants authentic ambient artists from playlists. And if all that's not bad enough, there's a whole phony music pseudoscience underlying all this that tries to identify the least offensive, most homogeneous music possible to promote while generating ever increasing fake subgenre labels to trick people into thinking 👇 2d

Billypar they've discovered some kind of new, niche musical scene that doesn't exist. The whole thing is demoralizing, and it sounds like Spotify's employees who may have joined out of a genuine love of music are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their tech-bro leadership. I may be too addicted to delete my account, but this definitely reminded me of how important it is for music fans to find other ways to support our favorite artists. 2d

CSeydel It‘s so frustrating because they really have a good service. I don‘t feel guilty about making playlists and listening to them — much of what I listen to on Spotify, I already own on CD or cassette (or both!), anyway — but I‘ve definitely started to be more cautious about Spotify-supplied playlists. And more intentional about buying concert tickets and merch rather than just streaming. 2d

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Billypar @CSeydel Yeah, concert tickets and merch are really the best ways. I also do like Bandcamp - I think the streaming payment is only marginally better, but it's great for discovering new indie artists and makes it easy to buy their songs, albums, and merch. 1d

CSeydel @Billypar Yes, everyone always recommends Bandcamp, and I made an account. I‘m sure it‘s better for discovering new artists, but most of the artists I usually listen to aren‘t on there - I thought it would be a replacement for Spotify, but it‘s very different. 1d

Billypar @CSeydel Oh yeah, it doesn't replace Spotify by a longshot for me either. But I'm very happy with the artists/albums I have found there. 1d

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Kristy_K

Sing!: Why and How We Should Worship | Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty

If no else hears, are you really off key?

#haikuaday
#haikuhive

@dabbe
@TheBookHippie
@TheSpineView
@JenlovesJT47
@lil1inblue
@debinhawaii
@bellabella
@julieclair

Bookwormjillk Love that one 2d

bookandbedandtea Love it! Keep singing 😊 2d

TheBookHippie Love!!! 2d

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dabbe You hit me right in the ♥️. For me it was Olivia Newton-John. 🎤🎶🎤 2d

TheSpineView 💜🎶💜 2d

bellabella Ooh, love that. I sing all the time when I listen to music, but I'm no Celine Dion!
I like the tagged book, too. 😉 Haven't read it, but I listen to the Gettys. 2d

JenlovesJT47 Ahh I love this 💛💛💛🐝 2d

DebinHawaii This is perfect! I‘m just like Whitney Houston (in my head!) 😆 2d

Kristy_K @Bookwormjillk @bookandbedandtea @TheBookHippie @bellabella @JenlovesJT47 Thank you!! 11h

Kristy_K @dabbe @DebinHawaii Both icons as well! We‘d make an amazing band lol. 11h

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Suzie

Daisy Jones & The Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Where I read about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Thanks to Taylor Jenkins Reid for Daisy Jones & The Six
https://www.suzs-space.com/daisy-jones-the-six-by-taylor-jenkins-reid/

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