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Week of Dec 27-31, 2010
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Monday
"Written in Reverse"
by Spoon
Spoon - Written In Reverse by badicalbeats
"I'm writing this to you in reverse
someone better call a hearse"
This song seems tailor made for Gabrielle Zevin's fantastic ode to the afterlife, Elsewhere. Young Liz is living her life in reverse, from death to birth, along with everyone else in her backwards island realm. And I'm pretty sure there are plenty of hearses called for in this one . . .
by Spoon
Spoon - Written In Reverse by badicalbeats
"I'm writing this to you in reverse
someone better call a hearse"
This song seems tailor made for Gabrielle Zevin's fantastic ode to the afterlife, Elsewhere. Young Liz is living her life in reverse, from death to birth, along with everyone else in her backwards island realm. And I'm pretty sure there are plenty of hearses called for in this one . . .
Tuesday
"I Remember"
by Yeasayer
04-yeasayer-i remember by bedwettingcosmonaut
"Even when you're gone
your eyes running through my head ....
You're stuck in my mind all the time"
There seems to be a recurring trend in YA fic these days of narrators speaking from beyond the grave. Authors like to make dead people talk -- and they like even more to make them sound confused about the very fact that they're dead. In Christopher Pike's Remember Me -- published over 20 years ago now! but somehow popular once again -- young Shari undergoes a similar shock, and is forced down memory lane . . . and toward her killer.
by Yeasayer
04-yeasayer-i remember by bedwettingcosmonaut
"Even when you're gone
your eyes running through my head ....
You're stuck in my mind all the time"
There seems to be a recurring trend in YA fic these days of narrators speaking from beyond the grave. Authors like to make dead people talk -- and they like even more to make them sound confused about the very fact that they're dead. In Christopher Pike's Remember Me -- published over 20 years ago now! but somehow popular once again -- young Shari undergoes a similar shock, and is forced down memory lane . . . and toward her killer.
Wednesday
"Where is my mind?"
by The Pixies
Pixies ♫ Where İs My Mind by Kingofdream
"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground ..."
When Aaron of Thomas Sniegowski's The Fallen begins (after a seriously bad headache) to understand languages he's never before learned -- and even to interpret the sounds of farm animals as speech! -- he starts to question his own sanity. He has every reason to, I should think. Animals don't talk to people, Aaron. And so it becomes time for Aaron to ask himself, as The Pixies did before him:
"Where is my mind?"
by The Pixies
Pixies ♫ Where İs My Mind by Kingofdream
"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground ..."
When Aaron of Thomas Sniegowski's The Fallen begins (after a seriously bad headache) to understand languages he's never before learned -- and even to interpret the sounds of farm animals as speech! -- he starts to question his own sanity. He has every reason to, I should think. Animals don't talk to people, Aaron. And so it becomes time for Aaron to ask himself, as The Pixies did before him:
"Where is my mind?"
Thursday
"Double Trouble"
by Roots
Double Trouble- The Roots by candyflipped
In Sara Shepard's The Lying Game, a young murdered girl does not go as quietly as her murderer would have liked. As it turns out, her long lost perfect twin has stepped right into a life left vacant by her sister's sudden death. And so the murderer must keep a close watch, surely rather confused, as the deceased strolls quite undead around town.
Can the twin pull off the perfect butterfly image of her sister? Can she escape a second helping of murder -- at the hands of the same killer?
by Roots
Double Trouble- The Roots by candyflipped
In Sara Shepard's The Lying Game, a young murdered girl does not go as quietly as her murderer would have liked. As it turns out, her long lost perfect twin has stepped right into a life left vacant by her sister's sudden death. And so the murderer must keep a close watch, surely rather confused, as the deceased strolls quite undead around town.
Can the twin pull off the perfect butterfly image of her sister? Can she escape a second helping of murder -- at the hands of the same killer?
Friday
"Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"
by of Montreal
of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse by Polyvinyl Records
"Come on mood shift
shift back to good again...
come on, be a friend"
Aoife Grayson's fate is a tragic one: every member of her family has gone insane on their 16th birthday -- a milestone that happens to be approaching for The Iron Thorn's heroine. In this dark, steampunk novel scheduled for a Feb 2011 release, Caitlin Kittridge delves into magic, witchcraft, paranoia and individual will power. And Aoife will need a ton of the latter. You can just hear her echoing of Montreal's lyrics -- begging her brain (and her destiny) to be a friend . . .
by of Montreal
of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse by Polyvinyl Records
"Come on mood shift
shift back to good again...
come on, be a friend"
Aoife Grayson's fate is a tragic one: every member of her family has gone insane on their 16th birthday -- a milestone that happens to be approaching for The Iron Thorn's heroine. In this dark, steampunk novel scheduled for a Feb 2011 release, Caitlin Kittridge delves into magic, witchcraft, paranoia and individual will power. And Aoife will need a ton of the latter. You can just hear her echoing of Montreal's lyrics -- begging her brain (and her destiny) to be a friend . . .