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The Hunger Games playlist

Recently I finished the first book of the The Hunger Games trilogy. These days I read on the bus to and from work while listening to music. In reading, and thinking of the book when not, certain songs rose to the service that seemed almost tailored to the events or mood of the book. Some may have comparable images, some may be my subjective favoritism, some ought to be on the soundtrack for the approaching film.

01. Belle & Sebastian: "I Want the World to Stop"



02. Toni Halliday: "Time Turns Around"



03. Cerys Matthews: "Sweet Magnolia"



04. A Camp: "The Crowning"



05. Garbage: "You Look So Fine"



06. Guided by Voices: "Twilight Campfighter"



07. Peter Murphy: "I'll Fall With Your Knife"



08. Madonna: "Forbidden Love" (from COAD)



09. Tanya Donelly: "The Promise"



10. Phil Collins: "Against All Odds"



11. R.E.M.: "Half A World Away"



12. Tori Amos: "I'm On Fire"



13. Greg Laswell: "This Woman's Work"



14. Adele: "Set Fire to the Rain"



15. Whiskeytown: "Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart"



16. Belle & Sebastian: "Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John"



17. A Fine Frenzy: "Hope for the Hopeless"



18. Kate Bush: "Running Up that Hill"



19. Stevie Nicks: "Secret Love"



20. A.C. Newman: "The Heartbreak Rides"



21. Amy Winehouse: "Love is a Losing Game"



22. A Camp: "Golden Teeth and Silver Medals"



23. Nick Cave & Neko Case: "She's Not There"

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Book Review: David Mitchell: "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Having read "Ghostwritten" and "Cloud Atlas" I was expecting some jumps through time while reading this book, which never occurred. Being anchored to the lip of 19th century Japan was fantastic! The beginning was a loud and unfamiliar party of accents, dialects, terminologies, people meandering in and out, that sets the scene for the bulk of the book. Each page, each line, demands to be taken piece by piece, patiently and with full attention. Mitchell has written a trustworthy narration that recounts a few years on a Dutch trading post on an island off of Nagasaki with such sensation that I found myself wincing at times. This novel has grit, adventure, wit, and the sparks of clashing cultures. He incorporated near poetic tools to convey the bilocation most of his characters were experiencing with beautiful and frequently amusing prose. Thank you, David Mitchell, for a terrific and careful novel.



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