January Jinxed

Posted: 2020/01/30 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: E-Books, Fiction | Tags: Adrian Hyland, africa, audio books, australia, barcardi, Beijing, books, cancer, china, classic, crime, dominican republic, Early Review, ebooks, Edwidge Danticat, EM Forster, Fiction, haiti, india, ireland, Jonathan tel, Ken Bruen, Ken Gjelten, Laura Kalpakian, Lee Child, librarything, lists, Mary Dunnewold, memoir, murder, Music, mystery, NonFiction, Norway, reading, Ronan Bennett, series, short stories, Sigrid Undset |Leave a comment

January is a month of great indecision. I can’t decide if I want to say more…
If there is one thing I can say for the January books, it is that most all of the fiction made mention of great music. Some musicians I knew, some I didn’t. Some songs I knew, some I didn’t. I had fun looking it all up though.

Fiction:

• Sanctuary by Ken Bruen (EB & print). Music: Philip Fogarty, Anne Lardi, Rolling Stones, Snow Patrol, Johnny Duhan.
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (EB & print).
• Moonlight Downs by Adrian Hyland (EB & print). Music: Lucinda Williams, Slim Dusty, Nick Cave, The Warumpi Band, Ry Cooder.
• The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett (EB & print). Music: Charles Tenet.
• Graced Land by Laura Kalpakian (EB & print). Music: Elvis, Elvis, and more Elvis.
• The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel (print). Music: Leonard Cohen, Beethoven, and the fictional heavy metal band, Panda Bear Soup.
• The Passage to India by E.M. Forster (EB & print).

Nonfiction:

• Barcardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten (EB & print).

Series continuations:

• Master of Hestviken: the Son Avenger by Sigrid Undset (EB & print).
• The Persuader by Lee Child (EB & AB).

Early Review for LibraryThing:

• Fine, Thanks by Mary Dunnewold (EB). Music: Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, Mose Allison, Talking Heads, Aaron Copeland (can you tell, Dunnewold really likes music!).

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