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I usually always play at least a couple wistful, melancholy folk music albums on Sunday nights. The sort of music that would make a perfect soundtrack to the stories of Alice Munro or the poetry of Emily Dickinson. After just playing a favorite (Vashti Bunyan's Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind) I decided to go off on a different tangent & turn it up to 11 with a favorite: the most recent Low album. RIP Mimi Parker.

πŸ“• Rascal, kind of a childhood favorite and the author was local.
✍️ Rosamund Pike
πŸŽ₯ Radio
🎀 Rainbow 🀘🏻 Red Hot Chili 🌢
🎡 Radar Love
#manicmonday #letterR @CBee

I listen to a lot of Spotify y'all
🎧🀘

My local members supporter radio station is playing all 70s music this weekend. They asked listeners to submit their 5 favorite songs of the decade. An impossible task, as I'd struggle with a list of the 5 best Bowie songs of the 70s. Nevertheless, above are the ones I submitted.

Today's book haul! I just started the Oliver Sacks one and I'm really enjoying it. πŸ€“πŸ“š

As someone who loves music, this is an interesting question. My top 5 most listened to albums, in no particular order:
πŸ’Ώ Nirvana: Unplugged
πŸ’Ώ Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
πŸ’ΏSharon Van Etten: Are We There
πŸ’ΏJoΓ£o Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
πŸ’ΏThe Cure: Galore
What are your 5 most listened to albums?

#20in4 wrap up

I read for 10h15m and finished 2 novellas. Got up to 75% in the tagged audiobook, 30% in my ebook and have only 100p left in my print book. So pretty good progress, and hopefully I'll finish all 3 of those before the end of the month.

Sleepy cat pic just cause #catsoflitsy

A small #20in4 update, but mostly an excuse to show off my new #audiostitching project. New-ish, this is almost 3 weeks of work. I'll be doing it for a while but I love it so that's ok.

I'm at 4h45m for the readathon so far. Definitely won't hit 20 hours but I've got 2 novellas finished, and up to 50% in the tagged audiobook.

It's #20in4 time again!

My goals are to hit 20 hours (who knows, maybe this time I'll make it) and finish 4 books. And make some good progress on my cross-stitch and the tagged audiobook.

Thanks @Andrew65!

I had a lot of fun with the music reading challenge so I thought I would try it again.

Just looked at my Spotify wrapup. I'm always a bit surprised by my most listened to artist. Lana Del Rey's Chemtrails Over the Country Club was one of my first favorite albums of the year, but I figured I have listened to others more often. Not surprised that WSIRN is my most listened to podcast. Backlisted was # 2. Also, if I ever write an autobiography I have found my title "Yearning & Wistful." Sounds like a Belle and Sebastian album.

#NovelNovember #Challenge2021 #ImpulseRead

Wasn‘t really wanting music today so I did some #AudioCleaning. It wasn‘t on my TBR however, I‘ll try not to be too annoyed with myself for straying.

I found this to be extremely interesting, although I could have gone without so many plugs for Sacks‘ other bodies of work. A little heavy at times but overall a great read.

Leon Fleisher was the most daughter after teacher at the conservatory I attended. He was also quite funny. #piano #quotsysept20 @TK-421

It‘s easy to become eagerly engaged in the mysteries and discoveries that the brain holds, especially with Sacks‘ descriptive style.

John Lee narrates the audio book with a soothing cadence, bringing a melodic rhythm to Sacks‘ words.

Outdated phrasing is sort of expected with older works and this book has terms we would no longer use. Besides that it‘s a very accessible book and highly recommended.

I've been quiet on Litsy because my beautiful sister & niece were visiting from Florida for 3 weeks. They left last night & I'm feeling blue 😭 I didn't get to take part yesterday but I'm here today for #belowzer00s ! I spent good chunk of the early aughts up until 2006 in Winnipeg, Canada so lots of clubbing & gigs in my early 20s. Good times πŸ’• This is some of the music that was a big part of life: https://spoti.fi/30cnHtu @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

#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 β€˜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 πŸ˜‚ I was so into alternative music & female singers & dreaming about attending Lilith Fair 😍 But not forgetting hip-hop & RnB. Had to make a playlist πŸ€“ 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 β€˜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 Iβ€˜d share the #highlyrelatablecontent.

Other, lyrical gems:

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

β€œI 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!

β€’ currently listening to Kacey Musgraves‘ album Pageant Material and Shawn Mendes‘ album Shawn Mendes

β€’ I don‘t have just one, but some longtime faves are Pink, Kate Voegele, Marianas Trench, and Stone Sour

β€’ I don‘t subscribe to any, but I‘m thinking about trying Apple Music! Thoughts?

β€’ @tournevis

#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

1. Pendulum by FKA Twigs
2. Ummm... depends on my mood πŸ€·πŸΎβ€β™€οΈ
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

Iβ€˜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 wonβ€˜t keep it. I have a huge iTunes library.
🎡If you read this, tag, youβ€˜re it! I love this topic!

Not completely book related, but do you know this music group? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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. πŸ™‚

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.)

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

🎡 Hanson
🎡 The National
🎡 Rilo Kiley (πŸ™ŒπŸ»JENNY LEWIS πŸ™ŒπŸ»)
🎡 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! πŸ€— 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.