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There are so many songs about the moon I could have chosen to accompany this book, but it's a marvelous morning for a Moondance, so the romantic, mystic, Celtic soul of Van Morrison it is💚🩵💚
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“If you can smile today, maybe you can laugh tomorrow.”

This thought of the main character sounds hopeful - it is hopeful - I fear it is likely to be unfulfilled.

While reading I'm listening to Norwegian composer/pianist Ketil Bjørnstad's album "The Nest", which hits the right note of melancholy and light ??
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? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_noyS9yFqEsSrN8V5wQxVHcnlOIUZ9FDE8&si=i...

My posts have been sadly deficient of David Bowie for too long! 😄

Driving to work on Tuesday, I was amused when David came on my playlist singing the line:
💬 Where the fuck did Monday go?
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🎙️ David Bowie 🧑🏼‍🎤
🎵 Girl Loves Me
💿 Blackstar
📽️https://youtu.be/BFD4BMlka9Q?si=1lAX2Ne3LwH-4Tio

I've been meditating on what the right soundtrack for Her Majesty's Royal Coven would be, and then it just seemed obvious on several levels!

🎙️ Siouxsie and The Banshees
💿 Juju
🎶 Spellbound
📽️ https://youtu.be/TjvvK-Rj0WI?si=th8ueXO_kbWLacwW

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"I am the man in the book you're reading
Waving to you from the page
I am the man in the book you're reading
Staring into your eyes
....
Books crawl down from the shelves
Read themselves to you
Read themselves at you
In the library of force"

?️ John Cale
? Library of Force (Featuring Man in the Book Excerpt)
? M:FANS
?️ https://youtu.be/gC4wK7FEihI?si=eR-6s3GPIizf01fV

Another bookish song, though a bit unsettling ?

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"She's psychokinetic
And you're really gonna get it,
She's a teenage rock and roll girl.
She's a mistress of chaos
And she's here to dismay us,
Oh, Carrie you're a rock and roll girl"

Listening to Sultans of Ping, and this bookish song came on ?
? Teenrage Rock and Roll Girl
? Teenage Drug
?️https://youtu.be/O4GSvGlkFoE?si=18sfKFeei9ipLg5O

Now, then, where's me jumper? ?
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
"You may have picked up a stone from the beach and taken it home, or carried a small pebble with you as a reminder of a visit to a place of special significance; maybe you have visited ancient monuments made of stone, or you are simply intrigued by the tales and myths that surround stones."
Yep to all this!

Soundtrack:
?️The Supremes ?
?Stoned Love
?️https://youtu.be/D2ce7FWOAM8?si=sZ0su3DcEuVbx32b
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#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

A koto plays a part in the plot of "The Honjin Murders", though as I'm near the beginning of the story, quite what its significance is I've yet to discover. However, the mention of the instrument immediately made me think of the sublime "Koto Song" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, so their album "Jazz Impressions of Japan" is now my soundtrack ❤️ ??❤️

https://youtu.be/LbdD9gPnhhM?si=mh0jsYkKny4gLWLQ

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It took me a while to get through "The Man Whom the Trees Loved". It's a slow paced novella that I found rewarded my patience with it. There's an initial section focusing on the eponymous man, a retired forester whose cottage on the edge of the New Forest allows him access to the trees he loves, and which come to love him in turn with an inhuman jealousy that threatens to possess and subsume him into themselves.
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11th October is Thich Nhat Hanh's birthday, in commemoration of which the Plum Village Band has released an album of devotional and contemporary classical music, chants and prayers, produced by Jack Penate (Mervyn Peake's nephew).
The track "Arrived" is gorgeous: https://youtu.be/wbtWMiz8nXU?si=wjPgcYu9dTkC5Z5m

I've a couple of Thich Nhat Hanh's "How to..." books, and it seemed appropriate to order "... Listen" ?

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