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Songs I listened to recently

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“Simply put, Bach could authentically express sadness without being sad.” This chapter on why certain music hits us in the brain vs. hits us in the heart is a great start to the book. It‘s also been fun to find the songs and artists online and listen as the authors mention them. #music

Our local symphony recently had Jeffrey Biegel as a guest performer. They performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. It was a fantastic, dynamic, invigorating performance. This is Jeffrey Biegel with the Brown University Orchestra playing a similar arrangement.

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Scavenger hunt: group

#HauntedShelf #RestlessSpirits

I listened and I loved her voice - there was something purely comforting about it (perhaps because she‘s from the PNW?). Her childhood is heartbreaking. Her mother? Yikes. I‘m not familiar with her music, and I got confused by when she was coming out with albums (I didn‘t follow the timeline very well once she was in BC). But I don‘t think I would have stuck with it if I was reading it myself. Something didn‘t attach.

This was just fun. Ozzy gives advice on various topics along with quizzes and medical miscellaneous 🖤
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong
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It was Dylan Drakes who put this on my radar. And when Drakes writes that those teenagers really act like teenagers, he's right. So if you're not up to this, maybe save it for another time. But it's exactly that what makes those characters so real, so believable, so true. I mean, how did we act when we were 18? So yes, I was so proud of them while watching them grow and shine.
I may have also started to listen to some Mariachi songs.

A risky move for me, a mood reader, to try to choose 10 books I‘ll definitely read by the end of the year. As Beth Orton would say (in the spirit of number 9 on my list), “can‘t pin this butterfly down.” Yet, here we are!

1. All Fours
2. The Rachel Incident
3. Wild Dark Shore
4. Rapture
5. Mina‘s Matchbox
6. Small Things Like These
7. Normal Rules Don‘t Apply: Stories
8. Lost Evangeline
9. We Oughta Know OR Pretend We‘re Dead
10. On Mysticism

Another great book by Angie Thomas. Thomas does an amazing job with creating complex characters who are dealing with real life issues. I also loved the character dynamics.