And one that jumped out at me is Valentine, by Snail Mail. At the same time, several major album releases have come up, and we're frantically trying to assess, "Is the Adele record one of the best of the year? Is the Silk Sonic record one of the best of the year?" These late-in-the-year albums can run the risk of getting lost in the shuffle. We are coming up on the end of the year, which means the whole NPR music team has been picking over the year in music to identify the best songs and albums. It's called The Fergamerican National Anthem: A Civic Story, and he recently shared an amazing tweet pairing Fergie's audio with a tour through each page of the book. The reason I bring it up again is because YouTube star Rob Anderson created a children's picture book that commemorates this moment. Fergie performed an infamous rendition of the national anthem that year. You're watching the NBA All-Star Game and then this happens. Glen Weldon The Fergamerican National Anthem: A Civic Story by Rob Andersonįergie’s star spangled banner but it’s a children’s book /JIKGlh4k8C- Rob Anderson November 9, 2021
It might not work for listening around the house, so save it for a long trip.
The book, and the audiobook version, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor, cast a spell. The mystery of it starts to give way to something more concrete and more dark. But then he starts interacting with someone else who lives in the house, and we, the readers, start to intuit a lot of things about what's going on. It is such a dreamlike setting that at first you almost wonder if it's going to work as a narrative or if it's going to do more Murakami dream logic stuff, which really isn't my bag. He's lived there for as long as he can remember, which isn't very long. For all he knows, the house is the entire world. But somehow I never got around to her 2020 novel, Piranesi, which is about a credulous young man who lives in a massive house made up of vast halls and vestibules that are lined with statues. Norrell, both the 2004 novel and the 2015 BBC adaptation. I loved Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr.
Bloomsbury Publishing Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke