April 2023 Reading

The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins  (1868) One of the first ‘Detective’ novels. This one felt really familiar to me and about 100 pages into it, I realized

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Music I Love: 1988

Fast Car– Tracy Chapman Great song with wistful/hopeful lyrics.  Simply Irresistible– Robert Palmer Oops… I realized I had written in an earlier post that it was Addicted to

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English

I saw a meme earlier with a man looking directly at the camera and the words printed:  Ok. So?  Is he suggesting he is morally

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Music I Love: 1987

Sweet Child O’ Mine–  Guns N’ Roses I wasn’t a huge fan of this song when it came out… I liked it, but didn’t love it.

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Music I Love: 1986

Higher Love– Steve Winwood This is a cool song with a great soulful sound.   The Way It Is– Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby also played piano on Bonnie

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Music I Love: 1985

Addicted to Love– Robert Palmer Cool song, but the classic video is kind of what seals it. Four models dressed in little black dresses, supposedly playing

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Music I Love: 1984

Careless Whisper– Wham!/George Michael George Michael made the list a bunch of times. I love this song.  Wake Me Up– Wham!/George Michael This was the first time

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“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.