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Her Majesty's Royal Coven: A Novel | Juno Dawson

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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BarbaraBB Oooh I loved Siouxsie and Spellbound 16h

StaceGhost My favorite ❤️ juju was the best album imho & I don‘t say that lightly! 15h

TrishB Queen 👑 no bigger compliment when I was in goth teenage phase for someone to say I looked like Siouxsie! 14h

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quietlycuriouskate @TrishB Ditto!😄 9h

Bookwomble @BarbaraBB @StaceGhost A brilliant track off a brilliant album! 8h

Bookwomble @TrishB @quietlycuriouskate High praises, indeed! 🖤❤️🖤 8h

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What's Welsh for Zen?: The Autobiography of John Cale (Revised) | John Cale

"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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Cathythoughts 😳 I like it though. 2mo

Bookwomble @Cathythoughts It's good, isn't it? 😊 I love John Cale 🖤 2mo

Leftcoastzen Oh goodness, I love Cale too ! Might be a tad dark for me currently.😄 2mo

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Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen M:FANS is pretty dark. I love his perversity, though, in leaving the Velvet Underground as he said Lou was taking it too mainstream, and then his first solo album, Vintage Violence, is such a perfect pop album. Maybe slip that one on? 😊 2mo

Suet624 Oh, I had no idea he had an autobiography! 2mo

Bookwomble @Suet624 It's been on my to-buy list for years - I should get around to buying a copy! 2mo

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Carrie | Stephen King

"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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Luke-XVX This takes me back. First band I ever saw live was Carter USM, aged 12 2mo

Bookwomble @Luke-XVX That must have been quite the experience for your pre-teen brain! 🎸🤯🎸 2mo

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Stones: A Material and Cultural History | Cally Oldershaw

#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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ShyBookOwl What a random micro-history! So cool 3mo

TrishB Oh my daughter would love this! 3mo

Cathythoughts Lovely ❤️ 3mo

Bookwomble @ShyBookOwl @TrishB @Cathythoughts It's a nice book as an object and as a subject concept, though the first chapter reads like a Wikipedia entry of factoids rather than a coherent article with a beginning, middle and end. Hopefully, the other chapters will flow better. I'll report in due course 🧐 📝 3mo

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The Honjin Murders | Seishi Yokomizo

#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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The Willows and Other Queer Tales | Algernon Blackwood

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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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Bookwomble The following section focuses on his wife, which despite the patronising Edwardian overtones, tells of her devotion and love as she tries to free her increasingly distant husband from the toils of the forest.
It's either a slow-burn story of the devouring of two innocent souls by an impersonal and implacable natural force, or a study of the descent of a couple into monomania, depression and madness. Both interpretations interleave and both are ⬇️ (edited) 5mo

Bookwomble ... melancholy and affecting.
I found the perfect musical accompaniment in "Watching the Snow Fall" by Bell Monks, released yesterday, with its slow, dreamy sound washes and nature imagery. #BooksAndMusic
You Tube video of opening track, Dim the Lights: https://youtu.be/MEx5HqRtBPU?si=jfaH4MMycxAR8yCQ
Bandcamp full album:
https://digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/watching-the-snow-fall 5mo

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How to Listen | Thich Nhat Hanh

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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kspenmoll Thank you for this! 6mo

Bookwomble @kspenmoll You're welcome 😊 The album is available to download from Bandcamp, if you're interested:
https://plumvillageband.bandcamp.com/album/a-cloud-never-dies
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Ever Fallen in Love - The Collected Lyrics of Pete Shelley: And Buzzcocks | Pete Shelley

“It's the aim of existence
to offer resistance
to the flow of time“

🎶I Believe🎶
📀A Different Kind of Tension📀
🎸Buzzcocks🎸
🎤Pete Shelley🎤

https://youtu.be/DRzScthaPOE?si=G6085Ylt31CXdfcU

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Luke-XVX I don‘t really care much for 77 era punk these days but I‘ll always make time for The Buzzcocks 6mo

Bookwomble @Luke-XVX I still like that era of music, but, yeah, Buzzcocks are a bit special 😊 6mo

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Damnation Alley | Roger Zelazny

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Lemmy! 🤦‍♂️ He's the obvious casting choice for Hell Tanner! And Motörhead the ultimate soundtrack! #BooksAndMusic
This was definitely a B-movie vibe, but amongst the general mayhem & violence, Zelazny slipped in some social commentary about war, human shortsightedness, & the brutalising effects of social deprivation. Writing in '69, he also anticipated the state response to pandemic being a mix of concern for the populace & profiteering off ⬇️

Bookwomble ... misery & death.
The thin plot is that nuclear war has created a radioactive wasteland separating the Nation of California from the city-state of Boston. The former has a vaccine for the plague devastating the latter, & Tanner can earn a pardon for his violent crimes & drug running, by delivering the medicine in an armoured vehicle through the nightmare of Damnation Alley. Definitely an inspiration for Judge Dredd\'s Cursed Earth saga. ⬇️ (edited) 7mo

Bookwomble There's a redemption arc of sorts, but Tanner remains an unlovable bastard!
A bubble gum book, but it is Napalm Flavoured! 7mo

RamsFan1963 @Bookwomble I've never read the book but I did see the God awful movie with Jan Michael Vincent and George Peppard. I still remember the lame effects, especially the giant scorpions. 7mo

Bookwomble @RamsFan1963 It's awful, isn't it! I remember watching it on VHS in the mid-80s and feeling disappointed as Zelazny was one of my fave authors. It says something that they've printed the name of a different film on the cover! As @The_Book_Ninja and I discussed in an earlier post, another 10 years and John Carpenter as director would have produced a much better movie. 7mo

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Damnation Alley | Roger Zelazny

Wow, the Casting team for the movie adaptation sure goofed when they cast Jan Michael Vincent as bearded, cigar-chomping, neo-nazi Hell's Angel, Hell Tanner. Even doing his best Clint Eastwood impression, he's too clean-cut. I had more a sense of him looking like Snake Plisken from the Escape from New York/Los Angeles films, but while he's a better fit, Kurt Russell is still too pretty. The perfect casting decision would definitely have been ⬇️

Bookwomble ... ? Ta-da!! Randall "Tex" Cobb's portrayal of Leonard Smalls, the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse from the Coen brothers' classic movie Raising Arizona! Unless I read something significantly to the contrary as I progress through the book, Cobb is playing the part in my imagination!
Soundtrack: Gotta be Highway to Hell by AC⚡DC!
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The_Book_Ninja Good call. I‘m a missive fan of Carpenter/Russell. The Thing is a work of art 7mo

Bookwomble [Note to self: Don't listen closely to AC/DC lyrics 🫠😟☣️🗑️] 7mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Yes, I love his Escape From films, and The Thing is a horror masterpiece. Carpenter would have done justice to this book, I'm sure. 7mo

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