03. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song

[Marie (UK)]

I read The Iceberg this is a Memoir (so ME in the Genre) and also a personal book to match the personal pronoun of Me in the song

[LeahS]

I used Mi, a name I call myself for Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars and Re, a drop of golden sun for Here Comes the Sun, though in fact Mi would have done for both.

They were both excellent, linked by the striving of women for a different life, in very different circumstances.

[Anastasia]

I had fun with this prompt. Swing: A Mystery is written by the musician Rupert Holmes who wrote and performed "The Pina Colada" song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazHN...

The main character is a jazz musician. In the audio book, I am not sure if it is only offered as an audio book, the songs are performed, making this a mixed media book. I did not end up liking the story, but was impressed with the music being incorporated into the audio book so seamlessly. It added to the whole experience.

[NancyJ]

✅A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song - The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

Deer - reindeer
Historical fiction about reindeer herding in northern Sweden in 1851. Reads like a classic tragedy. 4 stars

[Hannah]

FA a long, long way to run

[Pam]

I read Mickey7 by Edward Ashton associating it with the phrase "Mi, a name I call myself". Each iteration is called Mickey. I really enjoyed the book and thought it was MUCH better than the movie adaptation Mickey17,

[NancyJ]

For round 2 I read Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes

[Ruth]

It took me ages to find a book to fit this prompt but in the end I read A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry and loved it. It's the story of a young man from Dublin who joins up to fight in WWI and is sent to Belgium but whilst on leave he is back in Dublin at the start of the Easter Rising. Highly recommended.

[Tracy]

I read The Names by Florence Knapp. It was an interesting premise: how will your (and your family's) life turn out, depending on the name you are given. I thought it was going to be more about how the actual name affects your life, but really it was about a particular person's reaction to the name the sets the life off in several directions.

Link: "Me, a name, I call myself"

* trigger warning: domestic emotional abuse