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2023 Challenge - Regular
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15 - A Book with a Song Lyric as Its Title

Technically, the song title is "Band on the Run." There are several books, however, including another biography of Paul McCartney called Band on the Run.


Technically, the song title is "Band on the Run." There are several books, however, including ano..."
But it doesnt have to be the title though, just song lyrics... I guess it depends how close you wanna stick to the prompt.
I was planning to read Kiss Her Once for Me anyways, so that will be my pick!

And as it happens, both Dio and Molly Hatchett have songs called "Eat Your Heart Out," and it's in the lyrics.
If you have a book you think must fit, go to lyrics com, and search. Select "lyrics" and "exact match."



Side note: I saw Delta Goodrem live last year when she opened up for Backstreet Boys! Her set was really good!
Edit: This could be a good opportunity to read a novel length fanfic, lol. Fanfic authors steal titles from song lyrics all the time.

aw I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I finally saw her live in London and Berlin in October last year, it still feels surreal. It's hard being a European fan of hers haha.

Ron wrote: "This one was easier than I thought:
The Highwayman
It's a poem in which Celtic artist Loreena McKennitt added music to. It's simple but it's good. First read the poem and heard the ..."
One of my favorites of McKennitt's!
The Highwayman
It's a poem in which Celtic artist Loreena McKennitt added music to. It's simple but it's good. First read the poem and heard the ..."
One of my favorites of McKennitt's!

Mine too! I love that one and her song 'The Mystic's Dream'. Funny, I haven't come across many people who listen to her music.


I don't know how my brain did not make this connection before, it's the more cowbell song!


"Wrong place, Wrong time" is a song by S-X
"Wrong place, Wrong time" is a song by Don Broco
Admittedly, I'm unfamiliar with both of the songs above. However, it fits!





Hope you enjoy. I just read it.

I have read a quarter of the book now and I am liking it, Young adult is not my favorite genre but Garrett writes it well.

It was not a bad book at all. It was enjoyable, just not my favorite.

I understand completely, there are times when I have read 2 books of the same genre but one was better than the other, because of certain elements I liked in one.
BTW, I made a Spotify playlist of the mixtape from the book. If anyone is interested in listening, you can find it here:

How wonderful, Anshita. I never think to do anything like that. Since you seem so into music, have you read This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You? The book encourages you to listen along to the songs on Spotify.
Sorry, outside the scope of this prompt.

Sorry, outside the scope of this prompt.
Slightly is, but I second that book. It's absolutely amazing! I read it last year and it's a book I'm more than open to reading again.

This is book #7 in the Bridgerton series and Hyacinth's story. I liked this book a lot! It’s my favorite Bridgerton since The Viscount Who Loved Me. Hyacinth and Gareth are a lot more sensible than Antony and Kate, which makes for a less funny book, but also a less frustrating one.


“Quiet� is also the title of a song from the musical “Once Upon a Mattress.�

Cool. I've never heard of that musical. I just don't follow them, but thanks for the heads up on that one.

Cool. I've never heard of that musical. I just don't follow them, but thanks for the heads up on that one."
Several friends were in our high school production, so I know it well. It’s a modern take on “The Princess and the Pea.� There’s also a song titled “Shy,� though the person singing it is anything but. Carol Burnett originated the role of Princess Winifred on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker played her in the 1996 reproduction.


I'm reading this one now.

The book is a middle-grade novel about a 12-year-old girl going through inpatient treatment for an eating disorder. The author is herself an eating disorder survivor and recovery advocate. I thought the book was beautiful and powerful, and also important. I'm glad it exists.

I read Foster by Claire Keegan, a beautifully written novella. A child is brought by her feckless father to spend the summer with distant relatives while her mother waits to give birth to the latest baby in a large family. Her life on the summer farm seems idyllic and she is given the love and care she lacks in her own home, but there are shadows, both in her foster family and in Ireland at large, in the 1970s. The author does an excellent job of portraying the girl's growth in understanding of the adults around her.

I don't know how or what to choose from.

Elton John- The Road to El Dorado
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury
Where Do We Go from Here?: How Tomorrow's Prophecies Foreshadow Today's Problems (Lyric in David Bowie's "Rock On")
Thunderstruck (AC/DC)

“The Road� is a song by Jackson Brown, but is also part of other song titles such as “I Play the Road� and “On the Road Again.�
It would also fit last year’s prompt of a book set on a train.

And this title reminds me of how much I did this The Darkness song! Gets stuck in my head every time. That falsetto is amazing
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As I was listening to my spotify a random song came on during my shuffle and the lyrics were "when it rains, it pours." The song is Live Like Legends by Ruelle.
Guess I found my book!
Even better, since I made the challenge even more challenging by doing mainly Indigenous authors/themes, this works perfectly.