I have two new-ish videos to share. I am a bit remiss at sharing one, but I have vowed never to view it myself so I forgot it existed.
The other one is more recent.
Halloween song
HoneydukesI feel like I'm reading all the time but don't feel like a reader anymore. It's all either fanfiction or fluffy romance books and that's life. 2021, babeyy!
Link to Video - Literary Nunnery Roundup 2021
Comforting Rereads mentioned in this video:
Sammy Keyes by Wendelin van Draanen
Chronicles of Elantra by Michelle Sagara
Sharon Shinn
Courtney Milan
Jasmine Guillory
Terry Pratchett (not mentioned)
Janette Rallison (also not mentioned)
Shannon Hale (not mentioned, to my shame)
New Romance Novels mentioned in this video:
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle (forgot to mention, but pretty sure it was a double check-out as well)
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
New (to me) YA Standout Novels that I said I'd put in the blog post, but I'm realizing there were enough "fine" ones that this list will be long
Better than the Movies by Lynn S Painter
Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
You Have a Match by Emma Lord
Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass (modern Persuasion retelling)
What's Not To Love by Emily Wibberley and the other guy
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon
Between You, Me, and the Honeybees by Amelia Diane Coombs
More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed Masood (this one stands out because it was the first modern arranged marriage YA I've read -- they're Muslim)
Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Solomon
How to Speak Boy by Tiana Smith
10 Truths and a Dare by Ashley Elston (sequel to 10 Blind Dates, which I reread since it's a Christmas book)
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey (this one might be the favorite)
Fanfictions mentioned in the video...available on request.
Also, note! I joined Storygraph for 2022. I've never used a book thinger before (and I already burned out of reviewing the one book I've read so far this year) so who knows what will happen. But it could change this game a bit.
I had a whole concert last month. I didn't do a great job recording but there is a recording. It was a fun time. The crowd was very rowdy.
You can see the setlist in the video description on that link.
I also sang a solo in church last month. My sister Kyra Moon Music arranged the song on my request.
I think I'm ready for No-Performance November.
I am remiss in publishing Windervision performances! So here's some of them.
In July I called the rain by performing Drought by Vienna Teng.
DroughtDid some other things too, including drums on Endless Love.
Then came another performance opportunity. I finally performed the song I'd been working on in voice lessons for a while, One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man.
fun times!
Well hi hello. Turns out I have been remiss about putting some recent performances on the blog, despite having published them to YouTube a while ago.
Oh wait. I just remembered that I'm embarrassed by them.
Carrying on.
I did a couple of little ditties for an open mic last month, based on songs I was into in childhood. The first was "Since I was Two" which is from the computer game Math for the Real World, an educational game whose premise is that I'm a band manager and helping a band go on tour around the country, and using ~math for the real world~ by correctly counting out change and navigating pay phones and post offices. And you also perform the songs.
This particular song was a girl bragging about how good she is at math.
Next I sang one that regular readers of the blog may recognize from last year -- "One Little Star" from Follow That Bird. Once again not including the trio harmonies in the last verse even though it's my favorite part.
So here's those.
Since I Was Two / One Little Star
That's not all that happened at that open mic, actually. I also decided to hop on with City of Stars (that's a band) and give a little, uh, color to their performance of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Boy were there some mic issues though, right?
Speaking of City of Stars, I guess I'm kinda in it? Here's a link to a Latin Night concert we did a couple weeks later.
Let's see what else the summer brings, shall we?
Link to my newest video!
Short and sweet! If you've ever wondered what life is about, etc., you'd need to ask for it separately.
Where has my old friend gone, lost in a February song?
Here's a song for February. It's not a love song, just a breakup one. I'm not happy with my performance but I do not care enough to improve it more.
Chosen because the original has ukulele chords and it has Carly Rae Jepsen in it. It also, of course, happens to parallel life things, but less than you might think.
Hello!
Here's the link to a video where I talk about these books:
And here's the books! With pictures, when I have them.
I prepared three Christmas songs this year that I will now share with you in the spirit of the season.
None of them are perfect, but they don't need to be. It's all right to showcase that I am a work in progress and celebrate the small successes. Also, I had to do three because I haven't posted anything since September, so I gotta catch up.
I was asked to provide an organ solo version of O Come, All Ye Faithful for our ward Christmas program. I knew about it for weeks but when the time came to show the music chair what I'd come up with I still only had the intro in mind. We pulled something together and I got my sister Kyra (a professional arranger -- check out Kyra Moon Music) to help me with the third verse. And so it was.
