Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by the Total Book Geek. The purpose of this bookish variant is to match a book with a particular song; whether it is character defining, a narrative element, or just an overall book defining track.
So why am I doing this? Well if I had to choose to only have one of the five traditional senses, it would be sound perception above all else. And hey I think it’d be neat to share music I listen to on a daily basis!
This Week’s Song: Pompeii – Bastille
Book Selected: What We Hide – Marthe Jocelyn
Initial Thoughts:
I just realised (well not really just realised but it’s been simmering) that I haven’t posted for this meme in a while. With the recent read of What We Hide by Marthe Jocelyn; for which the review can be found by clicking here. The pair just seemed to match up in my head and I just had to write this entry. Easy.
Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by the Total Book Geek. The purpose of this bookish variant is to match a book with a particular song; whether it is character defining, a narrative element, or just an overall book defining track.
So why am I doing this? Well if I had to choose to only have one of the five traditional senses, it would be sound perception above all else. And hey I think it’d be neat to share music I listen to on a daily basis!
This Week’s Song: Into The Well – Mree
Book Selected: The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare –
M.G. Buehrlen
Initial Thoughts:
With the recent completion of Buehrlen’s 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare, the time-traveling antics experienced by Alex is very reminiscent of the overall mood created by Mree’s Into The Well. If you would like to read about my review of 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare, feel free to click here. Selecting the book cover will link you to its respective Goodreads site.
My thoughts on the opening instrumental tracking is in line with whenever a Descender/Transcender enters Limbo, Polestar and the forest of lights (the gathering of the white emitting soul marks; the passing of a soul). With the addition of the overlapping vocals and smooth tones transitioning in-and-out, there’s definitely an ethereal and surreal feeling associated with imagining an expanse forest of swaying white, wispy soul marks (particularly Alex’s own level of 56 souls floating about). Considering she’s been reincarnated and currently living her 57th life, the memories of her past lives in each soul is not truly gone but rather just a distant memory. Once the beat drops and the lyrics begin does it begin to really drive the idea of Alex time-traveling into one of her past lives. The tangible familiarity within seconds of recollection is simply relatable to the lyrics of Into The Well.
Excerpt of Lyrics:
I know that I’ve been sleeping
and I know that I’ve been dreaming
But now the sun is streaming
and I swear that I’ve been here before
Not just the act of being
Caught somewhere in between
and I just can’t fight this feeling
I swear that I’ve been here before
are they mine?
These memories reside inside my head
Afterthoughts:
Welcome back to another week of audible shareables. Happy listening.
Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by the Total Book Geek. The purpose of this bookish variant is to match a book with a particular song; whether it is character defining, a narrative element, or just an overall book defining track.
So why am I doing this? Well if I had to choose to only have one of the five traditional senses, it would be sound perception above all else. And hey I think it’d be neat to share music I listen to on a daily basis!
This Week’s Song: Pentatonix – Say Something (Original by A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera)
Book Selected: Dublin in the Rain – Andrew Critchley
Initial Thoughts:
A stellar novel requires an equally stellar track pairing, right?
I’m pretty sure this song can be used for many romance-oriented novels but I found this particular cover to be a striking example of the core relationships and the engaged contemporary issues in Andrew Critchley’s Dublin in the Rain. With Kirstie taking forefront in this cover, it’s quite the homage to J.P’s mother and Sophia in the delivery of the song to drive the meaning and allowing the perspectives to resonate.
If you’re interested in learning more about Critchley’s Dublin in the Rain, you can read about my review here.Or you can click on the book cover to be redirected to Goodreads.
There is just so much ear candy in this cover of Say Something that lends itself to the lyrics as it relates to the pivotal stages in Jonathan Paul Melton’s (J.P.) life: as a child and as an adult. In both stages of life, there’s a nod to the parallelism and redemption drawn by the generation gap and the eventual fates of what would be the song’s general meaning. As a child, the playback would occur from his mother’s perspective toward Jonathan’s father – ultimately leading to divorce as the marriage was unsalvageable. In his adulthood, it’s the unexpected death of his and Sophia’s child that begins this song from her eyes as she falters in loving him as he grieves. But Jonathan is not his father. With the theme of redemption, J.P., who was once taking two steps forward and one step back, gains insight from self-reflection and proceeds with the once unimaginable: he says something. Haaaaaa, I’m so cheesy.
Afterthoughts:
Pentaholic? Indeed – since their debut on The Sing Off!Feeling all the feels. All of it.
To be honest, I wouldn’t have imagined this cover to being a nice match for this book if it wasn’t Kirstie being the predominant lead. I mean, the song is nice in itself but the choice wouldn’t have been as compelling otherwise. Just my two cents (which is rather biased, derp.)
thoughts and afterthoughts. 