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: Musical Haikus Round 6

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Time for some more nonsensical poems! 😛

I’ve done several versions of these musical haikus now, where I take lyrics from some of my favourite songs that fit 5- and 7-syllable phrases and work them into poems. And now we’re on round 6!

Check out this week’s poems below and let me know what you think!

Photo of Charlotte Cardin, a white woman with dark brown hair wearing a blue hoodie and looking down.
Photo of a Black man with dyed green short-cropped hair. He has a hand over his face and the index finger is bandaged.
Photo of a woman with long black hair looking at the camera. She stands in front of a pale pink background and wears a dark grey turtleneck and red lipstick.
Photo of Kwaye, a Black man, shirtless and holding his arms crossed over his chest. The photo is rotated so that he appears sideways and is cast in red light.
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 Tayla Parx, a Black woman, looking at the camera with only her neck and above showing. The photo is tinted pink and she has a large afro digitally covered in flowers and leaves and with a guitar sticking out of it.
Close-up black and white photo of a Black woman's face. She is looking over her shoulder and wears a brimmed hat over her long dark hair.
Photo of Swinomish/Iñupiaq woman, Black Belt Eagle Scout. She has long dark brown hair and bangs and stands against a painted canvas of a blue sea, wearing a black-spotted white shirt and long necklace looking into the camera.
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Music Monday: On the Way to Birdland by Frank Morelli

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Book cover for On the Way to Birdland by Frank Morelli. Illustration of a black silhouette of a boy walking off into the distance. Scene is shot from above and the ground is blue with octagon-like shapes in a slightly darker blue breaking up the space.

Title: On the Way to Birdland
Author: Frank Morelli
Genre: YA Fiction
Publisher: Fish Out of Water Books
Publication date: June 8, 2021
Format / source: eBook / ARC from author
Purchase: Fish Out of Water Books
Content warnings: addiction, kidnapping, PTSD, terminal illness
Rating: ★★★★☆

A big thanks to the author for an e-ARC of this one to review! Much of the main character’s journey in the book is inspired by musicians, his brother and John Coltrane, so today’s review is a perfect tie-in for Music Monday!

On the Way to Birdland comes out tomorrow – check out the link above to pre-order!

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