Saturday, 10 April 2010

Hour 9: Update and mini-challenge




UPDATE

Title of book(s) read since last update: Music and Silence.
Number of books read since you started: 1.
Pages read since last update:20 .
Running total of pages read since you started: 249.
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 40 minutes.
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 3 hours 40 minutes.
Mini-challenges completed: The intro one, the nominees, book title sentence and this song one.
Other participants you’ve visited: None this round, I've been distracted by the football match.
Prizes you’ve won:

MINI-CHALLENGE

Excellent books + song challenge over at alita.reads. Here’s how to play:

* Pick up a book that you’ve read today, or are currently reading.
* Choose a song that goes with the book – could be that it fits the overall feel of it or even a certain scene.
* Create a blog post answering the following:

  • Book title
  • Soundtrack song
  • Why you chose that song
My entry then:

Book title: Music and Silence
Song: Heima by Sigur Ros.
Why I chose this song: Sigur Ros always evokes empty, frozen landscapes that go well with the Denmark-set narrative of this books. This song is also full of yearning and subdued tragedy, much like Rose Tremain's sickly-sweet and aching prose here.

4 comments:

  1. Ohhhhhhh I love Sigur Ros! Great pick! Thanks for participating :)

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  2. Hope if you are distracted by it that your team is at least winning!

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  3. a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a page. . .
    continue on to the final sigh of contentment
    and then do it again. :)

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  4. The reading will stop
    Tomorrow
    Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
    your book count will be higher
    Just keep thinking about tomorrow
    all the great books you will have to talk about
    with your blog friends
    If you get blurred or sore, or sleepy
    Just stick up your chin
    and grin
    and say
    My TO BE READ PILE, Tomorrow
    will be smaller than it was before
    and your spirits will soar
    because then TOMORROW, TOMORROW You can go shopping TOMORROW at Amazon and BUY SOME MORE!

    :D lol

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