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The Summer I Wasn't Me by Jessica Verdi

"Just finished this book. I think you guys would all really love it. Sweet, funny, touching. Search for it online. Then order it read it pass it onto the next person. XO XO"

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Night Terrors of 1927

"I can't stop listening to @nto1927 new record #EverythingsComingUpRoses . It's so good. So proud of those guys! Make sure you check it out!"

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MERRY XMAS! I MADE US A BLOG!

True, I actually did make it ages ago, but it was on a secondary account, which was no fun! So I re-made the whole thing! and wah-la!

Now we have a place to talk about all the books and music Tegan and Sara suggest we check out :)

After each post there are comment boxes, and also an expandable chat box in the lower right corner. (they probably don't show up on mobiles though. poop.)

I've also made separate pages in list form of all the books and music and have linked them to their appropriate posts (figured this would be nice to pull up while browsing a book store). I also included links to Amazon at the bottom of each post so you can read more about the book, preview music, and buy them if you wish.

Anyways, if you check it out, I'd appreciate any feedback and/or suggestions of what to change or add. Also, if you're a T&S blog, shoot me a message saying hi, I'd love to follow you :)

Thanks for reading! Happy Holidays!

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Favorite Albums of 2014

"There were many fantastic records I loved this year. Which two got the most spins according to my iTunes? @taylorswift13 and @caribouband"

"Still loving @perfumegenius @sharonvanetten @FKAtwigs @LykkeLi @gravesmeredith @owenpallett @vynehall a lot tooooooooo #greatalbums"

"And the sound of cats meowing #greatalbums"

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Taylor Swift - 1989

Caribou - Our Love

Perfume Genius - Too Bright

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

FKA twigs - LP1

Lykke Li - I Never Learn

Perfect Pussy (Meredit Graves) - Say Yes To Love

Owen Pallett - In Conflict

Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited

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About to re read this incredible book on the beach. Please check it out! #kareliastetz-waters

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Little Brutes

Looking for fresh jams? Good ones? Check out a track from our bud @RachaelCantu and her new project @LittleBrutes https://t.co/Jgyrci5OIv 

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My Life in France by Julia Child

This was a total joy to read while lying in the South of France enjoying mid day drinks next to the pool, occasionally staring out across the Luberon Valley. Does that not sound delightful!? It was! What struck me most about this book was the discovering that Julia Child was a wonderful, ambitious woman with a deeply positive attitude about language, food and life! Such a trailblazer!

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100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl

So much to say about this little gem. I found it was easy to draw comparisons between The Music Industry and Theater World which allowed me to really go deep. I thought much about this line, “There is now a prevailing notion that audiences give artists ideas and feedback and also money–a completely one-way exchange–no wonder playwrights feel so constantly in debt: we are the world’s succubi!”

“How long have we been giving the audience responsibility for helping us to write the play rather than the freedom to enjoy it?”

Highly recommend it!

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The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster

I was very moved by this book. To write so intensely and honestly about a family member seems to me a terribly brave thing to do.

“Having money means more than being able to buy things: it means that the world need never affects you. Money in the sense of protection, then, not pleasure. Having been without money as a child, and therefore vulnerable to the whims of the world, the idea of wealth became synonymous for him with the idea of escape: from harm, from suffering, from being a victim. He was not trying to buy happiness, but simply an absence of unhappiness.”

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Ecstatic Cahoots & Paper Lantern by Stuart Dyber

“Until recently I rarely sought out short stories. With a handful of outstanding recommendations I have been converted. These two by Stuart Dyber were particularly killer.”

From the story, ‘Waiting’,

“Sometimes the wait is imperceptible, but it can also seem interminable- waiting for a phone call from a lover or from the doctor who may pause before delivering what feels more like a sentence than a diagnosis, the kind of call in which the undecided seems suddenly to have been decided long before, as if it’s no accident that in the mystical, kabbalistic workings of language,fate and wait are paired in rhyme”

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Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

“Terrific and strange.”

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The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide

You had me at “cat,” Takashi. Really a sweet story that I have thought of many times since reading it.

“Looking back on it now, I’d say one’s thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the sea of hardship, and even death.”

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She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya

“Deeply proud of Vivek and his newest book. Beautiful and gracious, I truly loved reading this book. The illustrations are also terrific.”

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Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr

“I took a short vacation this summer to Provence and this title came highly recommended from a trusted source. It was so enjoyable and had that mysterious quality that gives you the sense you’ve been transported elsewhere while reading it. It also had crazy detailed descriptions of meals that made me very hungry.”

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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

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The Informed Air by Muriel Spark

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My Struggle (Series) by Karl Ove Knausgaard

"I quite enjoyed the first two books and I’m about to dig in to the third one. They are long and filled with an almost absurd amount of detail but I can’t deny that I felt embedded in the story because of it."

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