Anti-Musical Monday (1)

I have no song to share this week because:

1. It's spring (not that you can tell from my banner)! The weather is more beautiful than my computer, which I have seen far too much of lately due to the three papers I turned in last week.

2. I'm finally out of my reading slump! I didn't post that I had one, but I did. While I've been crazy busy this semester, great books can usually wriggle into my schedule, but I've started and put down a lot of books over the last few months. I'm not going to jinx my shiny new literary love and tell you what it is, though, just in case it doesn't end up working out. I'm fickle.

I'm going outside. And I'm reading. (But first I have to go to class. Sigh. I want a Nature Day.) Enjoy your Monday :)

Musical Monday (34)

Every Monday I post whatever song I can't get out of my head or just can't get enough of because Mondays can often be less than marvelous, and music is happy--even when it's sad. If you'd like to join the party, just make your own Musical Monday post and leave a comment!

Bookduck hasn't been very bookish lately, and I apologize for that. Book-related posts can be expected again in a couple weeks, when I have Spring Break, time to take a breath, and post something besides a weekly song.

This week's song is, ironically, "Excuses" by Deas Vail.

Enjoy!

Deas Vail "Excuses" from Mono Vs Stereo on Vimeo.

Wishing you a Marvelous Monday,

Where I've been

Hi, everyone! Sorry Bookduck hasn't been very bookish lately. I'm taking quite a few credits this semester, and my freetime is small. I miss posting and reading and commenting and all that good stuff I haven't had time to do.

I have been blogging lately, but not at Bookduck; my American Lit class requires me to maintain an online reading journal in blog format. (I'm not inserting the link because it's pretty boring, unless you're dying to discuss Phillis Wheatley's poetry with me.)

In other literature-related news, my first painting assignment of the semester required me to draw inspiration from a work of literature, and I chose Paper Towns by John Green. (Which, if you haven't read it, is fantastic.) (Yes, I'm the only student who selected a work of YA fiction.) I'm finishing that up tonight and crossing my fingers for good things at critique this week.

I'll leave you with some links I've found interesting over the last few weeks:

Literary classics= VIDEO GAME GENIUS (at Kiersten Writes; probably one of the funniest things I have ever read)

So, YA Literature Is Going Down the toilet (an intelligent, funny defense of YA lit at Maggie Stiefvater's blog)

"Young Adult Lit Comes of Age" (article at the LA Times)

Musical Monday (33)

Every Monday I post whatever song I can't get out of my head or just can't get enough of because Mondays can often be less than marvelous, and music is happy--even when it's sad. If you'd like to join the party, just make your own Musical Monday post and leave a comment!

Hi, all! Sorry I haven't had the time to post anything more exciting lately than Musical Mondays. College is time consuming.

Today is a special Monday for me because it is the last Monday I'm ever going to spend as a teenager. I turn TWENTY on Thursday. TWENTY! Two decades of existence. I have to pinch myself to believe it. I'm playing with my university's Jazz Ensemble on my birthday because it happens to be Swing Night at the campus coffee shop. People will show up, and they will dance. Every now and then we'll play music from a CD player so us jazzers can dance too :) I don't think it'll be a bad way to spend a birthday.

This week's song is "Green Screens" by Sleeping At Last. Interesting lyrics, a wonderful, musical sound, and fun animation in the video all influenced me to save this song for birthday week :)

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying March!


Wishing you a Million More Mondays,

Musical Monday (32)

Every Monday I post whatever song I can't get out of my head or just can't get enough of because Mondays can often be less than marvelous, and music is happy--even when it's sad. If you'd like to join the party, just make your own Musical Monday post and leave a comment!

Happy First Day of March!

Today's song is "Sunny Day" by Joy Williams because it's a happy song. The chorus demands sunshine, and so do I. I don't know what the weather is like where you live, but it's cold and there are huge piles of snow where I am, and I am ready for spring!


Wishing you a March Monday (which you already have),