Lost in My Library

For almost a month now, I've been listening to the new Panic! at the Disco album, Pray for the Wicked, on repeat. I had to find a way to incorporate it into this blog, so I split up the album with Sky @ Sky's Reading Corner and we came up with books for each song! This was also inspired by Hannah @ A Clockwork Reader's video , and you can see Sky's post with the rest of the songs here . (Fuck A) Silver Lining - Final Draft This one was unexpectedly difficult to find a book for, but I knew the perfect one was out there, and I was right. FINAL DRAFT is one of my most recent reads, and when I finally considered it for this post, Laila's ambition and determination to be the best writer she could be through endless rounds of revisions instantly connected to this song and the desire to not settle for silver linings when gold is within reach. High Hopes - The Great Gatsby I could easily have paired every song on this list with THE GREAT GATSBY. Hell, I cou...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature by The Broke and the Bo okish . This week 's theme was Books and Music. I love movie scores. (And TV scores . I'm not picky .) I listen to the m pretty much all the time , because I can't focus on songs with lyrics when I 'm doing homework or reading. And even when I'm not doing those things, it's pretty awesome to walk down the street while listening to epic movie music. So when I saw that this week ' s theme for Top Ten Tuesday was Books and Music, I knew I wanted to do something with scores. But what? And then I started thinking - w hat if books had scores? I didn't have the patience to carefully craft a score for one existing book (because I'd spend WAY too long agonizing o ver it to make it PERFECT - althou gh I do want to do that someday ), but there are some plot points that happen in LOTS of books . I picked 10 of those plot points and selected one part of a movi e score for each of them. And be...