Music in Writing

Discuss the July 2017 Book of the Month, My Trip to Adele by A.I.Alyaseer and R.I.Alyaseer.

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PRAXIDES wrote:It's my first time to read a book that is blended music. I did not find it fascinating at all. I kept on turning the pages for the next chapter without reading the musical notes.
Maybe because you're not a fan of Adele or you do not listen to her songs at all. Maybe if your favorite songs will be used and blended in a story, you will see the significance of the songs to the story.
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First time. I think it might be because it's pretty challenging to be mixing in two varied art forms.
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the combination of music and writting is more better and the content in the song is well understood and the writting brings a briter understanding of the song
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I usually find the blend of music and writing distracting, especially when I'm not familiar with the song. If music is going to be incorporated, I usually prefer it to be kept succinct and at the opening or closing of the chapter the way some authors choose to feature a quotation. That way, it tells me what the author is thinking of or being inspired by without hindering the flow of the story. I've also seen some authors create a playlist of music that inspired them and include it at the end, sometimes with scene or chapter markers to show how the songs fit the story or characters.
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My Trip to Adele was the first book I read that had mixed both music and literature. I think it was nice and refreshing ,but if overdone can become really distracting to the story being told.
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It's my first time reading something like this and I loved it. I'd definitely be open to reading more books like this.
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It's quite a unique approach, and it's definitely the first time I've encountered such a mixture. though a bit irritating at times, the songs were all quite apt, and I enjoyed the way the book was written
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I think that good writing can be like good music-- a little addictive and gets stuck in your head. So, blending the two makes sense to me, but sometimes I think it can be a little distracting from the story. However, there are certainly stories that really pull of the rather interesting blend of music and writing.

Blues for Zoey, by Robert Paul Weston, is a ya that uses music in the plot.
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It's very difficult to blend music and writing well together for the obvious reasons that they're two completely different sensory experiences. Describing sounds without being cliche is hard enough, but when you have to actually describe music without sounding generic, that's when it gets hard. I think David Mitchell did it well in Cloud Atlas. The authors here did an all right job of it imo.
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I remember reading a book called "Small Town Girl" by LaVyrle Spencer. It's about a country singer who struck it big, who returns to her hometown to care for her mother and encounters a former love interest who grew up to dashing and all that. The main character was a composer, so the lyrics were, I'm guessing, original. I enjoyed that one.
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I think that there is some potential to create a really creative story intertwining the two works of art. In this case, it felt a bit forced, so I was not very impressed. Still, I think it is a unique idea, and I give the authors credit for trying it out.
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I think blending music and writing is creative, however, I found myself skipping over the lyrics in the book.
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