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For this week's link-up, I've put together a soundtrack for my most recent read: The Golem & the Jinni by Helene Wecker. I have yet to post a review of this book, but I think the soundtrack below will give you a great sense of the book's atmosphere. It's a beautifully written magical realism novel set in New York City. The story gives a new life to well-known monuments of New York and the two main characters, Ahmad and Chava, captured my heart and mind. This soundtrack doesn't relate to any specific events (I don't want to spoil any plot lines), but it contributes to the overall feeling that the book portrays (a necessary component to any magical realism novel).
Dig Into Waves - Freelance Whales
we're all up top now and language is losing its edge
the seventy two of us speaking in glances and dancing
blur my skin melt my limbs with your scales
blend the fins and the teeth and the tails
London - She & Him
I can't shake the sadness
'cause it's never that small
but we're all sad together
so I'm not alone at all
Mountain Sound - Of Monsters & Men
some had scars and some had scratches
it made me wonder about their past
and as I looked around I began to notice
that we were nothing like the rest
Last Mistake - Hey Ocean!
I was trying to hear you through the crowd of people screaming
for their souls in a word that they would obey you
and I looked the other way, knowing
All Alone - fun.
and I feel so all alone
no one's gonna fix me when I'm broke
how do you cry with inanimate eyes?
you're never gonna smile with the way that you're wired
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