The book he sings about at arm's length, as a critic, Celine Dion reads aloud. Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. 6. But since this book was about music with which I had an uncomfortable relationship, the songs of Celine Dion and in particular her album Let's Talk About Love -- indeed, it was as much about that uncomfortable relationship, and all such aesthetic conflicts, as about the music itself -- my listening process was unusually fraught. I moved up from there to giving the album a semi-nightly audition on my bedside table from my laptop computer's tiny speakers, hoping to absorb and adjust myself to its musical values subconsciously in my sleep. I know I had opinions about my neighbour because she played Feist's last album (the one with the Bee Gees "Inside and Out" cover, not the one with "1, 2, 3, 4") almost every day for months - not so much because I disliked Feist as because my neighbour's attachment to "Inside and Out" and "Mushaboom" seemed tantamount to an addiction. Claire Kann's debut novel Let's Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. She's SMILING. I began by listening to the album primarily on my iPod as I walked around town, secure that what I was hearing was opaque to anyone who saw me. 3. 13. The latest installment in 331/3, the book series that celebrates significant pop records, is unlike any of its predecessors in that its subject, the titular 1997 Céline Dion album, is abhorred by its author. It's an obvious choice, but a case of one of my most notorious fellow anti-sentimentalists grappling with sentiment and having ultimately to admit that it defeats him. 12. Oprah-meets-Celine zone in its own way. The Mountain Goats, For TG&Y Now let's talk about the story. a bullseye hung upon your soul," as Joe sings here. Carl Wilson and Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste links: the author's blog It's a gorgeous, haunting song, still. Elvis Presley, It's Now or Never USA Today Pop Candy podcast interview with the author, Previous Book Notes submissions (authors create playlists for their book) “Let’s Talk About Love” was first published by Continuum, in 2007, as part of a series of short books about a specific album or artist. But unlike the other books in the 33 ⅓ series, Dion’s album is barely touched upon as Wilson chooses instead to examine what “taste” is and how people form critical opinions in culture. Elliott Smith, 2:45 am I thought those stereotypes were unfair, and was interviewing Dion fans deliberately to undermine those notions. « older | ... Other books in Continuum’s 331⁄3 series (short volumes devoted to single albums by canonical musical acts) have … Praise for Let's Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community: Before Tin Pan Alley, though, the parlor song, borrowing liberally from Italian opera and Irish ballads, reigned supreme. Alice is a biromantic asexual. What: Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann Who: Swoon Reads When: March 13th 2018 How: A copy of this novel was provided by Pan Macmillan Australia for review. Exclaim! Ryan Dombal talks with Carl Wilson about the newly expanded version of his essential 2007 book on Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love and the changing ideas of taste in the 21st century. the author's Said the Guests post at Said the Gramophone In the meanwhile, though, I made some substitutions, some related to the content of the book, others to the writing process, and some simply to survive a summer of being barricaded at my desk with a looming book deadline. So it goes for Alice, whoâs biromantic (i.e., capable of falling for multiple genders) but asexual (i.e., doesnât feel that kind of attraction, period). About Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love. Elliott Smith, 2:45 am 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2004 Edition), Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week, Book Notes - Carl Wilson ("Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste"), Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, The Bryant Park Project interview with the author, the author's Said the Guests post at Said the Gramophone, USA Today Pop Candy podcast interview with the author, directors discuss their film's soundtracks. But eventually I found out. The dynamic between "alternative culture" and the "mainstream" too often carries that sour defensiveness into so-called adulthood. I was pretty tuned out on hot new trends while I was holed up with the book. Big Bill Broonzy, Old Folks at Home Let's Talk About Love divided music critics. ***Let’s Talk Love introduces you to The Love Vixen and gives you a peek inside her life. Thank you Claire Kann! My upcoming book about how to manifest your ideal relationship is a little over 1 month away in being published! It makes sense, then, that when Alice develops heart eyes for Takumiâa certified cutie and culinary whizâshe worries sheâs setting herself up for another letdown like the one that recently left her reeling. About Let's Talk About Love. It was the model I needed at that moment, to realize that the project of the book was really to meet people with cultural models unlike your own on equal terms and see what you could learn from one another. Jay-Z, Umbrella Composing a book that questions the basis of musical aesthetics -- that is, why we like and dislike the music we do, individually -- I even found music with music too distracting. This book is simply DELIGHTFUL. There were parts that explained exactly how I feel! Macleans.ca review Or put another way, what's so great about small, inhibited feelings? The Savage Critic(s) review, The Bryant Park Project interview with the author The Magnetic Fields, The Book of Love Elliott Smith serves as Celine Dion's foil in the early part of the book, partly because they met upon the field of not-much-honor at the Oscars in 1998 and Dion roundly trounced my own little indie-songwriting hero. Book Reviews. Part of the problem was that I lived in an apartment in a poorly soundproofed building, and my neighbours and I can hear too much of each other - from intimate details (a compromise you get used to) to the music that's playing. “Let's Talk About Love” is a studious, A-plus paper on the topic of “taste,” but it's also very dry, very quote-heavy, and very resistant (to use one of the author's, Carl Wilson's, own key words) to its own innate charms -- those charms being its personal touches: the book sparks to life in moments (like when Wilson flashes back to his ex-wife's performance of Buddy Holly's “Oh Boy” to express her feelings for … Of course his archness protects him from being too personally implicated - oh, it's all formal exercise, folks - but here is a song that makes me cry with its ultimate surrender to the mystery of "things we're all too young to know." 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