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 Okay so not a soundtrack, but just a song for a very particular relationship. I don't know why but when I heard  My Love Mine All Mine  by Mitski I couldn't stop thinking about the Witch of the Waste coveting Calcifer in  Howl's Moving Castle,  that is all. See also: Songs for TV Characters

  Painting above: Tom Thomson In Algonquin Park , 1914 Tanna settled down on the grass, pulling her shawls around her. "This is hardly the season for a picnic." She shook her head. "Of course you would not hear of it, Father. Truth is, you love the cold and feel at your liveliest in this weather." p. 356 of Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Danyel Smith's Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Shine Bright by Danyel Smith is excellent and absolutely one of the best books I read this year. I read it the first time via borrowing from the library and it's so smart and heartbreaking I had to have it for my own collection so I bought it. This book is absolutely why Gladys Knight & the Pips's  Midnight Train to Georgia was on my July playlist and Billie Holiday's  God Bless the Child is on my November playlist. I am the daughter of a Black Elvis fan […] The grisly conundrum of being a pop fan is that I want for those who concurrently partied with us and benefited from white supremacy to at least not have gone to the Klan meetings. p.50-51 Ella [Fitzgerald] as a human, with a life that didn’t in every moment exist to be in the service of people' s moods and fan worship, was, in her time, rarely explored. p.79 The 1973 song, a huge R&