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Foreground music
Geometrie di una Nuova Passione by Piero Fissore, via Flickr Last week I asked y’all what music, if any, you like to listen to while you are reading. The overwhelming response was you prefer not to...
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Truth
I’m not daring anyone to tell the truth, but I’m feeling like telling the truth this weekend. Truth: I only have read six books so far this year, five last month, one this month. I am not really a...
View ArticleMatching music with books you’re reading
Sometimes I try to match music with the books I’m reading. Today is such a day as I’m reading two short novels by Haruki Marukami. If in a feed reader, you might need to go to my blog to see the embed...
View ArticleBeach House – Depression Cherry
Love this group…the perfect wind-down music for a day. Album comes out next Friday.
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Currently | Laptop down, post still up
Time and place | 9:45 p.m. Saturday night as I start this, on my wife’s laptop as my laptop is broken. I accidentally kicked over the laptop table, with the laptop on it, last week when I went to open...
View ArticleMy Top 20 Albums of 2015
In alphabetical order, my top 20 albums of 2015 (with notes as appropriate) are: Africa Express – Africa Express Presents…Terry Riley’s C in Mali: Riley composed this work in the 1970s and it centers...
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Saturday Spins #2: case/lang/veirs
During each Saturday Spin, I bring you what’s been spinning on my virtual turntable this week. case/lang/veirs by case/lang/veirs: This one, I’ll be honest I haven’t been spinning all week and only...
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All The Books! All The Life! June 2016
All The Books! Last book read: City of Jackals, the fifth in the Makana series by Parker Bilal, the pen name of British-Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub. On hold: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E....
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This, that, and the other
Since we’ve been having a heat (and humidity) wave here in northcentral Pennsylvania, my brain is a bit scattered. So I bring you a little bit of… This, that, and the other At the beginning of June, I...
View ArticleStill Rumpole, “antiquing,” and Labor Day plans
All The Books! I’m continuing to read John Mortimer’s Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories and I finished the first in the Quinn Colson series by Ace Atkins, The Ranger. I’m still enjoying...
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Fabulous Friday/August 2016 Wrap-Up
Each and every Friday, Michelle of the blog That’s What She Read shares what makes that Friday a Fabulous Friday for her and has a Mister Linky where you can share your own post of what makes your own...
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Highlights From The Readathon Playlist
For tomorrow’s readathon, I’ve compiled a playlist of almost 16 hours of music to cover the time I’m participating. However, since I use Google Play Music, many of you won’t be able to access the...
View ArticleThat’s A Wrap For October 2016!
All The Books! All eight of them: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris The Forsaken by Ace Atkins The Redeemers by Ace Atkins The Innocents by Ace Atkins Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky...
View ArticleMy Top 20 Albums of 2016
I really couldn’t limit it to only 20 so that’s why I added 21 (one extra because I forgot at least one after I already had compiled the list) honorable mentions. So I’ll start there… 21 Honorable...
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