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barbwire
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#4 of 2026 (#3, Goodness and Light, isn‘t in the Litsy catalog, apparently.). One of my favorite nerd-out re-reads.

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ncsufoxes
Deep Cuts | Holly Brickley
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Pickpick

Read in December, listened over audio. I really enjoyed it, especially the earlier music references. As a teen who spent many hours listening to my dad‘s old record collection from the 60-70s, I totally related to the feelings the author evoked. As a Gen Xer I didn‘t get some of the later music references because I don‘t listen to a lot of current music. I had my set preferences in college (grunge, punk) & now I have a preteen that listens to

ncsufoxes lots of Taylor Swift & Olivia Rodrigo. Although they have been exposed to a wide variety of music (except country & most pop music) 4d
Billypar I just started this one, but the print version: seems like a promising start. I'm always curious in music-centric fiction what kinds of references I'll see: usually 'deep cuts' are avoided in favor of more mainstream references. But besides the pop superstar level, I think the list of 'mainstream' artists that almost everyone knows is smaller than ever in the age of unlimited access via streaming and shorter attention spans! 4d
AmyG I love Olivia Rodrigo! 3d
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monalyisha
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We rented out the local bookstore-bar to celebrate my upcoming Big Birthday with friends this weekend. They‘ve also told me I‘m in charge of picking the Bathroom Song. This is a big responsibility, as it plays on repeat for the whole day. 😅 I think I‘m going with “Tom‘s Diner” by Suzanne Vega & DNA.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7f9sC9fvtjYSZYOLSmKJlq?si=CEYn7sEKR5eqsHj9TZeXvw

Thoughts? What would YOU choose?

📸: random bathroom selfie 😆

IriDas Happy birthday. I know nothing about bathroom songs so no clue. 4d
Tkimsal Happy Birthday! I nominate “Rent” by Pet Shop Boys because it‘s on my mind right now and… well, they say we don‘t buy food, we only rent it! 4d
Billypar Happy early birthday - what a fun idea! Tom's Diner is a great choice. I haven't given thought to good bathroom songs before, but I might consider Androgyny by Garbage? Lol 4d
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Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 Tom‘s Diner is a great choice. 4d
Sapphire Happy Birthday 🎉 4d
marleed Happy Birthday! 4d
RaeLovesToRead Happy Birthday! 🎉🎉 4d
PurpleyPumpkin Sounds like lots of fun! Enjoy and happy birthday. 😘🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁 4d
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳 Happy Birthday 🎶☕🎶🎂🎶🍰🎶📚🎶💝. 4d
AmyG Happy BIG Birthday!!!! 3d
dabbe HB, and you are adorable! 🤩😍🤩 3d
LeahBergen Happy birthday!! 🥳 3d
KT1432 Happy birthday!! 3d
monalyisha @Billypar I support that! I once brought a Garbage album to my dad‘s house to enjoy while I was visiting (my parents are divorced). He asked what I was listening to and when I told him he said, “Yes, it is.” 😆 3d
Clare-Dragonfly Ooh, that‘s a good song choice. Right now I‘d probably pick something from Florence and the Machine‘s newest album but if someone suggested Tom‘s Diner I bet I would change it. 3d
Billypar @monalyisha That's a great story! 😅 I got my dad into alt rock a bit when I was in middle school, and he liked the song Only Happy When It Rains so much that he bought their debut album for himself(!) I'll always regret that I could never get him into rap though. 3d
monalyisha @Billypar What a success story! 3d
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Happy Birthday! I can't get over how much you look like a friend of mine from high school in this photo! It's tripping me out. 🤣 As for bathroom song, I'm not familiar with the concept. 3d
CarolynM Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful weekend of celebrations 🎉 3d
monalyisha @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Love a good doppelgänger! A “Bathroom Song” is literally just a song that plays in the their bathroom, which plays on repeat for the entire time they‘re open. It‘s funny, and strange, and I kind of love finding out what song it‘s going to be that day. 3d
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I think I'd remind everyone of one of my favorite 90s tunes, Divine Thing by The Soup Dragons. 3d
Bookzombie Happy Birthday! 2d
REPollock Happy birthday! 2d
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tournevis
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Bowie would be 79 today. I miss him. The tagged book reveals so much about him, it's my favourite of the 12012 books about Bowie out there.

AmyG 😢 Such a loss. 5d
TheBookHippie ☹️ 5d
dabbe Still what a loss. 😢 5d
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Lands
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TieDyeDude
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MTV's auxiliary 24-hour music channels have gone dark worldwide. The cultural juggernaut is now mostly home to reality shows and competitions, as it joins TLC and The History Channel as a station whose name has lost all relevance.
Is it a bad thing, though? I submit, for your consideration, the music video for Katy Perry's Woman World. Be warned, this is not safe for human consumption 😜
https://youtu.be/EVIJUH29pjU
#tuesdaytunes

TieDyeDude In all honesty, though, it is disappointing to lose a cultural icon. MTV was blocked on our TV for a large part of my childhood (not that we didn't find ways around it), and my musical tastes leaned more towards VH1 and CMT, but I remember, among other things, tracking the rise of Eminem, being traumatized by Black Hole Sun, and the twisted Celebrity Death Match. 1w
TheBookHippie I remember seeing Black Hole sun for the first and last times. So powerful. ♥️🙌🏼 Hair stood up on your arms good. 1w
TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude MTV didn‘t come out until I was a late teen. Senior in high school I think. It‘s fuzzy. 😅👵🏼 1w
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Texreader @TieDyeDude MTV in the 80s was the best. Banned as well, but yea, ways around that. 1w
Karisa I loved the videos on MTV too. Couldn‘t watch them on front of my religious parents but it was one of the perks of being a latch key kid. I was mesmerized by Losing my Religion, Jeremy, and Take on Me… so many great videos! 7d
TheBookgeekFrau I was 11ish when MTV first came out as an extra cable you had to order and pay an additional fee for, and it wasn't available everywhere, like where I lived 😤 I think I was 13 when it finally made it to my boondocks town 😂 7d
Amiable I‘m old enough to remember when MTV first came on the airwaves, and sitting on the floor with my sister watching music videos for hours. 7d
AmyG I was there from the beginning. My BF was one of the first to get cable in NJ as Cablevision was based in the town he lived in. My favorite memory…Headbanger‘s Ball. Everyone would be sleeping and I would get up (it was on at Midnight?) and watch in peace. I loved Soundgarden…Rusty Cage video was my favorite. Chris Cornell….be still my heart. 🤣 (edited) 7d
KT1432 I enjoyed MTV for what it was. I actually miss the days when guest appearances on there were the main medium of celebrities connecting to fans. 😅 7d
dabbe MTV first premiered when I was a junior in high school: 1981. Gen X was its target market. First video? “Video Killed the Radio Star.“ They played that and Steve Miller's (the cool one) “Abracadabra“ over and over and over ... and we all watched in absolute awe. Martha Quinn was my favorite dj. #nostalgia 🩶🤍🖤 6d
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick A sad day indeed. I was in diapers when MTV launched but it was always there for a long as I remember. I loved watching their early game show Remote Control. I was a huge fan of 120 Minutes & Alternative Nation. I looked forward to their Spring Break specials and the Rock & Jock sports. MTV Sports with Dan Cortese. 😍 The debut of The Real World and Road Rules. So many memories. 6d
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LaraReads
Graph Out Loud | Graphjam Com
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I'm on #storygraph and have been for a few years. I usually only use it for challenge updates and end of year graphs, but I'd love to keep up with any of y'all on there too. Different username, but my Litsy handle is in my bio. And maybe the link below will work too!

https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/yearsandcontinents

julesG I read your SG name completely wrong 🙈😁 1w
BookmarkTavern Followed! 1w
LaraReads @julesG yeah, it's kinda strange! It's a reference to a line from Veronica Mars and I just end up using it in places where LaraReads is taken, lol. 1w
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tpixie
Graph Out Loud | Graphjam Com
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I just started using STORYGRAPH last year.
I haven‘t used it as a social platform, but maybe I should!
Here‘s my handle. 🦋📕🦋

https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/tpixie

#storygraph

IriDas I followed. I‘m books_baseball over there. 1w
tpixie @IriDas great! I followed you! 1w
Chrissyreadit just followed you 😘 1w
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Astroneman I‘m Michela79 1w
mariaku21 Just sent a friend request 😄 1w
TheBookgeekFrau Done 😊 1w
tpixie @TheBookgeekFrau @mariaku21 awesome 💜🩵💜 1w
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BarbaraJean
Graph Out Loud | Graphjam Com
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I was just talking with a friend about how hard it is to find people I know on StoryGraph… I literally had NINE friends on my SG list: a couple IRL friends and a handful of Littens. So I‘m loving how many Littens are sharing their StoryGraph names here at the start of the year! Here‘s mine… feel free to add me!

CoffeeK8 Added! 1w
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KT1432 Added you! I have almost no connections on there lol but I want to prioritize Storygraph this year! 1w
IriDas I added. I‘m books_baseball over there 1w
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