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#Movember - Music: I like when there is a prompt about music in the photo challenges because listening to music is equally as important to me as reading books. I usually do the two together. I have a playlist on my iPod titled ‘Music for Reading.‘🎶 Reading penetrates to some deeper part of my brain when I‘m listening to music simultaneously. Oliver Sacks understood - music wields a power over the brain. I say music communicates with the soul.🎵

#music #MOvember @Cinfhen

#SelfImprovementSept - Music: This is my iPod. A materialistic thing that I cherish, because it connects me to a primal love - music. Music - something so fundamentally intrinsic to my well-being that I never go anywhere without it! This iPod still travels well! 🎶

I miss Oliver Sacks and am savoring the last few books of his that I haven‘t read. Hope all you #24in48 people are still hanging in there (at least the ones like me who have no hope of getting to 24 hours, but still have fun trying 😁)! I‘m at 14:26:00.

The 90s were all about music for me. I lived in some headphone bubble with the songs that helped get me through life. I tried to make this playlist as exhaustive as possible but I've already left out a few ... like Bobby Brown 😂 I was so into alternative music & female singers & dreaming about attending Lilith Fair 😍 But not forgetting hip-hop & RnB. Had to make a playlist 🤓 https://spoti.fi/2Yzi1IS #90sSpringFling @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

I am going to be the singer in a newly formed band, so I‘m coming up with a list of songs to suggest at our meeting tomorrow. Can‘t wait! Any suggestions?

So, we have new neighbours (and they have a baby due in 3 weeks!), and we share a dividing wall...they‘re not noisy, but they‘re ‘present‘. I‘m super sensitive to noise and our schedules are overlapping. I usually read with silence in the house. Any tips of some background music I can download from Apple Music to set a good reading environment if I can‘t have silence!

Heard this song on the radio & thought I‘d share the #highlyrelatablecontent.

Other, lyrical gems:

“I'm working backwards, forwards
And left to right
And I'm pretty darn hard headed
But I can't make up my mind.”

“I like to figure things out and make everything right
But I'm secretly thrilled when everything's changing.”

Listen for yourself!:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbFxpvt0fWY

Why is music so powerful and why does it have such a hold over the human race? Oliver Sachs tries to answer from his neurological practice. More questions than answers, and despite Sachs's obvious compassion it does read a bit like a freak show at times

#Gratitude30 #November #Music #Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks has an incredible legacy, including this book.
I have learned so much from reading his works.

How is The City & The City like Musicophilia?

#coffeeandabook #mycover

1. I'm not sure I have a favorite but in 1988/89 these guys were my jam. #NKOTB4ever
2. I am doing a couple of challenges and I set a good reads goal that seemed insane but is almost completed
3. A half hour at lunch and a half hour with my morning coffee.
4. One burglary about 5 years ago
5. I was both a Guinness world record holder and in sports illustrated during the same year.
@MinDea #humpdaypost

1- this was hard cause I love so many and it depends on my mood but right now I am listening to a lot of Dallas Green (City & Colour and Alexisonfire) and Alkaline Trio.
2- just my goodreads one which is 300.
3- probably about 3 hours
4- not a lot but I assume the general amount for suburb 10 miles outside of Portland.
5- uh I‘ve never broken a bone and I have never had braces but have really straight teeth.

#humpdaypost

Some people hear music while others feel it. The beauty of words set to a melody is an expression of love in it's many forms.

a day late, but why not!

• currently listening to Kacey Musgraves‘ album Pageant Material and Shawn Mendes‘ album Shawn Mendes

• I don‘t have just one, but some longtime faves are Pink, Kate Voegele, Marianas Trench, and Stone Sour

• I don‘t subscribe to any, but I‘m thinking about trying Apple Music! Thoughts?

• @tournevis

#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

1. Pendulum by FKA Twigs
2. Ummm... depends on my mood 🤷🏾‍♀️
3. Again...depends on my mood but R&B, pop, and alternative are top 3
4. Just begrudgingly signed up for Apple Music
5. @Liatrek

#HelloThursday #MusicEdition

1. Lately, is been Tragically Hip's Phantom Power album, or my children singing the Little Einstein's and PJ Masks theme songs on repeat.

2. My Morning Jacket, the Hip, Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, Jenny Lewis.

3. Just about everything, depending on my mood!

4. Nope. I use Google Play Music a lot, but don't subscribe.

5. @teebe

#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn

#HelloThursday

I‘ve had the tagged book on my TBR for years! Love music! https://www.last.fm/user/iceboxwoman/

🎵This morning was the new NIN, followed by my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify
🎶The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Nine Inch Nails
🎵Rock
🎶I subscribed to Spotify Premium for the next 3 months. I probably won‘t keep it. I have a huge iTunes library.
🎵If you read this, tag, you‘re it! I love this topic!

Not completely book related, but do you know this music group? 😂😂😂

Waiting at the train station so that I finally arrive home again.

Not shown the delicious 'Schokowuppi' I ate at the station. 😁

Many of Sacks‘ patients had #memory issues, but were reachable through music. #readingresolutions @Jess7

Feeling that Oliver Sacks itch.... #Libby to the rescue!

#freakyfriday #libraryhaul @LectricSheep @monalyisha @Clwojick

These look good!
(My daughter observed that Musicophilia would take ages to say because of the three rests and the minim. 🎼)

I don‘t only get books at the library. 🙂

Not book related but I just bought my first ukulele! I‘ve been taking lessons for about a month and decided it was time to use my own. It‘s so pretty!

Finally got my shiny new turntable!!! I'm really enjoying it so far. (It's been about five minutes.)

Here's my top #5bands 😁
🎵Florence and The Machine (Florence is a powerhouse and a book lover as well, and just adorable human being)
🎵Hozier (his music is poetry)
🎵Ben Howard (darkish and mysterious)
🎵Alt - J (mysterious and full of metaphors and pop culture refrences)
🎵 Bastille (their music sounds happy but lyrics can be quite dark, and also a lot of book, movie and mythology refrences)
@miralunasbooknook

Sure, I'll play along with #5bands!

🎵 Hanson
🎵 The National
🎵 Rilo Kiley (🙌🏻JENNY LEWIS 🙌🏻)
🎵 The New Pornographers
🎵 Something Corporate

I've been able to see all of them live multiple times, and while I don't really like going to concerts anymore, I would definitely drop anything to go to another one of these shows. I'm even seeing Hanson next month! 🤗 Sadly, 2/5 bands are no longer together, so no more shows from them, though. 😭

My birthday was in April. My husband got me tickets to Natalie Merchant. So excited! Any Natalie fans here?

So the best laid plans, etc. It was supposed to be a family weekend, the first time we'd be together since Thanksgiving, our new granddaughter's first visit, Aunt @Ambrosnazzy would get to meet her niece. But the baby has a cold, her cousin has strep throat, and we now have a weekend alone. Went for a walk this morning and then for ice tea and reading time.

It's Tuesday, which means it's coffee and books time with hubby. Cracking open my new nonfiction read.

#bookhaul Hubby suggested I needed to go book shopping, and, being the obedient wife that I am, I did😎 I wanted something nonfiction that I can sink my teeth into, and I hope this is it. The Patrick Taylor book is for hubby, as that's what he plans for his airplane read on our August trip. And I couldn't pass up the others.

I enjoyed this book. At first I wasn't sure I would as I went in expecting something similar to This Is Your Brain on Music. However this is much different, more an analysis of how brain disorders affect perception of music and how music in turn can help brain disorders. This isn't a book for everyone as it does read kind of as a lot of case studies. But I enjoyed it.

Back to my nonfiction kick. Let's see how this stacks up against other music/psychology books I've read.

Musicophilia just didn't do it for me, I much preferred Dan Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music. Sacks spends much of this book talking about clinical case studies of patients with different types of rare or odd brain maladies related to music. Some of the cases were interesting but often they sounded similar and started blurring together and my attention often wandered while listening. The recipe needed a few more tablespoons of music.

Phil is recording a band and the sounds are better upstairs so you know I have dudes rocking out in my living room and I'm ready for bed.

My next audiobook.

#riotgrams day 22 - Getting this #bookface shot in with less than 20 minutes to midnight. These are hard!

Just the way the title looks makes me happy. #musicnerd

Ah, Saturday morning.

Some cool fonts for #readjanuary #fortheloveoffonts ?? Is it just me or does YA use fonts more creatively? I had a harder time finding fonts I liked among "adult" books than I did YA.

Does anyone know if there's an app like Litsy for music? It's another big love in my life. I often put on playlists while I read, and I listen obsessively to certain albums while working or running or cleaning. I collect vinyl and I am helping out with a friend's music podcast. I used to be a DJ, and in some ways, I still am for any event at work. Give me a music app like Litsy! #musicophilia

#BookNMusic! While sipping my vanilla caramel tea and having #Coale cuddling up beside me, I happened to glance at my screen and #Spotify was playing this song ☺. It's part of a piano playlist for reading. A nice, soothing song 😌. #TheMrBookSealOfApproval #readingmusic

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

A heartwarming book - Sack's stories show the profound impact of music on even the most damaged brains, and how important music is to the human experience. 🎶

❤️😢 So beautiful! This is wondrous and and wonderful. http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/get-a-first-look-at-neuroscientist-oliver-sac....