Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Thanks, Marie & Charity for being so quick to respond!

Charity has picked Music for our October read.

Do we have a musician in our midst?
Has anyone read many of the books on this shelf? Which would you recommend?

I love that this is something different. I am looking forward to reading:

Where She Went
The Disenchantments
This Lullaby
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

If I can find one of these at the library I will read:

Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Bea wrote: "The Cellist of Sarajevo"

That was an excellent book. I might re-read that.

Ooh fun!!!

Finally a reason to re-read all my rock star biographies!! Slash, anyone?

I'm going to start with The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music. I've seen the movie, so now the book :)

Lynn B - That sounds really interesting.

Bea - OOH, I forgot about that one....it is on my TBR, maybe I should read that one. :)

LynnB wrote: "I'm going to start with The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music. I've seen the movie, so now the book :)"

Lynn, I have not seen the movie, but I did find the book interesting, challenging, and very moving.

Gemma wrote: "Oh, perfect! I picked by Morrissey's Autobiography the other day at a thrift store, so that's top of my list."

Gemma, I might try Eleanor & Park also.

For those looking for a suggestion, I liked Bel Canto.

Another book I would recommend that should be on the list [has genre Music - 8 users], but, at 700+ pages of the list, I am not going to check is Antonietta by John Hersey. I gave this one 4*.

I think I'll go for Will Grayson, Will Grayson and The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records.

The book I'm currently reading, NOS4R2, is on this shelf which I think is a bit odd as so far it has as much to do with music as my singing does.

Wow, went through ten pages of this shelf and only found one book on any of my shelves. Seraphina is on my TBR, so I may give this one a try. I do love music but I'm not a fan of non-fiction so probably why I didn't find much right off the bat. I may have to dig a little deeper to find something here.

Well since I don't have any of these books on my TBR list (at least not in the first 10 or so pages) I'm going to methodically work down the list. :-) Assuming my library has them on hand.

For October I will be reading by Sarah Dessen.

Karen wrote: "I think I'll go for Will Grayson, Will Grayson and The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records."

Karen, I thought Will Grayson, Will Grayson was wonderful, and it is a fun, quick read.

I'm going to attempt The Piano, which is the opposite of most cases as this is the book adaptation of a movie. I also got Music and Silence from the library.

Yay, the library books have arrived. Of course, so have the September books!
For Music, I will be reading Love, Janis and How to Kill a Rock Star.

Charity, what a wonderful choice. Any shelf that has An Equal Music by Vikram Seth is worthy in my world. I may be 'forced' to re-read it for the 9th time. I have 3 copies...must be nuts!
I think I will also read Will Grayson, Will Grayson and maybe Bel Canto.

I guess I never remembered to post a list here. I thought I had one ... somewhere ... Man! Rolling down the river for a week sure has gotten me out of the habit of a lot of organizational things that are usually routine for me.

So ... I'll try to get some of these, probably whichever arrive(s) first from the library:
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
The Sky is Everywhere
If I Stay
An Equal Music

And I suspect someone must have put 1Q84 on this shelf. At least four of us read it during September and October. I don't have the energy to hunt through 70 pages to see if it's there, but if someone happens to spot it, we should probably include it. Even though we started in September, most of us read most of Book 3 in October.