And here we are at the second-to-last song from The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack, The Perishers’ “Let There Be Morning”: This is a song about dying, but it’s also a song about making it through one more night, seeing … Continue reading
Have a little time, so I’m finally doing a non-guest post update! We haven’t quite finished going through the songs on The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack. Number 13 is Regina Spektor’s “One More Time With Feeling”: To me this … Continue reading
We’re up to song number twelve from The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack: Joanna Newsom’s “Sadie”: This is another song that’s more about the general feeling to me than a very literal connection to the story. The lyrics talk about … Continue reading
The eleventh song from The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack is one I’m sure many of you are familiar with, though probably not this version — Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over”, covered by Sarah Blasko: I love the original … Continue reading
We’re all the way up to song number ten on The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack, that being “(*Fin)” by Anberlin: Most of the lyrics to this song don’t fit the book literally, other than the chorus with its changing … Continue reading
In the ninth song from The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack, we have what I think of as the novel’s love theme: Ani Difranco’s “Falling Is Like This”… Now, I’ll admit part of what attracted me to this song was … Continue reading
Song number eight on The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack is Sarah Bettens’ “All Of This Past”: Keeping with the chronological pattern, to me “All Of This Past” represents the beginning of the Mortality section of the novel. Kaelyn is … Continue reading
Apologies for the slightly neglected blog — this has been a busy week for me! One of the things keeping me busy has been the Studio Ghibli film series showing at Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox Theatre this month. You’re probably familiar … Continue reading
The next song from The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack is “In The Sun” by Donna De Lory: I mentioned last week, when talking about “Stars All Seem To Weep, that there were two songs I associated with the end … Continue reading
The sixth song from The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack is Beth Orton’s “Stars All Seem To Weep”: It’s hard for me to say a lot about this song without spoiling major events for those who haven’t read the book … Continue reading
