Tag: Music

• The Best Book and Song Pairings from Taylor Swift’s New Album, Midnights

  

  Didn’t get a ticket for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour? Don’t despair. Think of all the money you saved when jamming out instead to Midnights along with a good book instead. The librarians at Libby, an app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more that let’s you borrow from your local library for free, went track…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  November 19, 2022

  #books, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Music, Musician, Non-fiction

  #books, "Along for the Ride", "Anti-Hero", "Beach Read" Emily Henry, "Before the Devil Breaks You" Libba Bray, "Bejeweled", "Daisy Jones & The Six" Taylor Jenkins Reid, "I'm Glad My Mom Died" Jennette McCurdy, "Isla and the Happily Ever After", "It Happened One Summer" Tessa Bailey, "It Starts With Us" by Colleen Hoover, "Karma", "Labyrinth", "lavender Haze", "Maroon", "Mastermind", "Midnight Rain", "Mocking Jay", "New Noon" Stephenie Meyer, "Question…>", "Snow on the Beach", "Sweet Nothing", "The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers", "The Invisible Life of Addie Larue: V.E. Schwab, "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" Taylor Jenkins Reid, "Vigilante Sh*t", "You're On Your Own Kid", :ibby Library app, Adam Sass, Fiction, Humor, Joe Skelley, Music, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, OverDrive, Sarah Dessen, Stephanie Perkins, Suzanne Collins, Taylor Swift, V.E. Schwab

• Windy City Blues

  In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 15, 2022

  Amazon, American History, Architecture, Audiobooks, Authors, Berkley, Blues, Blues Highway, Chicago, Fiction, History, Jewish, Judaism, Music, Musician, Random House

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, #netgallery, #ReneeRosen, Architecture, Authors, Blues Highway, Chess Brothers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Dollface, Fiction, fun, Jazz, Music, musicians, New Orleans, Renee Rosen, Willie Dixon, Windy City

• Old School Love and Why It Works

  

  “We’ve had hard times, but we have resilience and we always knew we wanted to be together,” says Rev Run, front man of Run-DMC about how he and his wife make their marriage work.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 1, 2020

  Anderson Bookshop Naperville, Author event, Authors, Book signings, Chicago, Culture, Family, self-help

  Family, Hip Hop, Joseph Simmons, Justine Simmons, Marriage, Music, Old School Love, Relationships, Rev Run, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Vows

• Night Moves

  

                “I didn’t decide to write this book, it was already written,” says Jessica Hopper, a Chicago based music critic with a career encompassing over the last two decades, a time when she not only wrote for New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Buzz Feed and Bookforum, was an editor at Pitchfork and Rookie and editorial…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 7, 2019

  Book signings, Chicago, Women and Children First

  Chicago, Music