Music Mondays

#MusicMonday is a trending topic on Twitter so I’ve given it a bookish twist here on the blog with music-inspired bookish posts. We’ve got song and book pairings, authors who are also musicians, reading playlists — any connection between music and books!

See below for previous posts, and join in with the hashtag #MusicMonday or share your own posts in the comments!

Music Monday: Cover Match-Ups May 30, 2021

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Hello all and happy Music Monday!

I’m sure others have had this idea before but while listening to music the other day I felt inspired to match up album artwork with book covers, especially because there are so many beautiful albums!

This was a fun way to highlight some of my current listens and beautiful books. Let me know if you’ve listened to or read any of these!

Cover Match-Ups

A Wider Space by Groenland x What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster

Album artwork for A Wider Space by Groenland. Abstract illustration with cloud-like shapes in pink, orange, and blues.
Book cover for What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster. Yellow text over colourful illustrations of people's faces, each lying down and looking up. Only silhouettes visible and in colours of blue, purple, pink, orange, and yellow.
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Music Monday: Musical Haikus #7

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Each time I bring back this series, I have a different title for it. 😛 At some point I’ll make a decision and have some consistency.

It’s been so long since my last Music Monday and haikus! I still have many verses saved from my last brainstorming days so here are some poems for you all.

For these musical haikus, I take 5- and 7- syllable phrases from songs I’m currently listening to and mix and match them to create new poems! For more of my poems, check out the haiku tag.

Photo of a Jewish woman with curly hair waving at the camera. She stands in front of a large window and is bent at the wait with a wide smile on her face.
Photo of Sister, a Black woman with a large afro wearing a fur coat and laughing with her mouth open and eyes closed.
Photo of an Asian man playing the violin. He has dark hair and a beard and mustache, and has his eyes closed in concentration. He stands outside with mountains in the distance.
Photo of Begonia, a white woman with reddish blonde hair, sitting in a squat against a green background. She has a kerchief over her hair and wears a pink shirt and green tights.
Graphic with a photo of a man looking into a pond with a sad expression. Only his head is visible and there is a blue cloudy sky above him and pink flowers surrounding him.
Photo of NIKI, an Indonesian singer, standing in front of a grey background and looking over her shoulder at the camera. She has shoulder length dark hair and wears a sleeveless black shirt and red makeup around her eyes.
Photo of a Black man with dyed green short-cropped hair. He has a hand over his face and the index finger is bandaged.
Black and white photo of a white woman with short blond hair. She stands in front of a wall with her hands clasped and an intimidating look on her face. She wears a white tank top and black pants.
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