Musical Moments: Guest Post: Hallowed Playlist by Cynthia Hand

I cannot tell you how excited I am to be part of the Hallowed Blog Tour and it is my great pleasure to welcome Cynthia Hand to Book Angel Booktopia today to share the playlist for Hallowed: 

Songs from Cynthia Hand’s Hallowed Playlist 

I don’t write to music. I’m too easily influenced; if the mood of the music changes, so does the mood of my writing. Can’t have that. But I do like to listen to music to get me in the mood for the book. If I can I like to write in the Pepperdine University library, which is about a half hour from my house, a lovely drive through a windy canyon road that finally opens up at the ocean. I love this drive. It calms me, helps me to prepare myself to write, let go of all the mundane things that are going on in my life and think about my story. I almost always listen to a CD on this drive.

My Hallowed CD had a lot of songs on it, too many to share hear, but I’ll give you a taste. I’ll try to keep the spoilery bits of what I would say about the songs out. (and the super spoilery songs from my playlist out, too. You can find the Grooveshark version of this playlist over on my blog, www.cynthiahand.blogspot.com, in the sidebar, bright pink.) When you read the words, try to picture me in my little red car winding through the canyon, belting out these lyrics at the top of my lungs. J



This is like my theme song for Hallowed. It’s got it all: the rain, the sense of the world crashing down, the idea of falling which is so evocative of angels, plus the gorgeous cello. Love this song.

Find the Lyrics HERE:

Find the Lyrics HERE

My Clara and Tucker song.

(It fits so perfectly)

Find the Lyrics HERE

If We Kissed by Spain

(I can't find a music video for this one - I tried everywhere [ : ( ] 

Christian’s song

I know

If we kissed

Then love

Would follow

Follow

Through the rain

And the snow

I know

If we touched

We'd lose

Our sorrow

Sorrow

Oh the rain

Could never know

Sorrow

Oh the rain

Could never know

This song KILLS me, can almost bring me to tears every time I hear it.

The High Countries by Sandra McCracken

(no music video for this one either [ : ( ])

She and I get the same sort of inspiration. . . This is the title of the last chapter of Hallowed.

A bus station, in the steam from the rain

In a line of pale strangers, should I go or stay?

The whole field of vision fades beneath me now

And the houses spread for a million miles in this gray town

And the weight of glory, if you held it in your hand

It would pass right through you, so now's your chance

Would you fall to pieces

Would you fall to pieces

Would you fall to pieces

In the high countries?

We are just pilgrims of the great divorce

I am witness to the light and I am captive to my own remorse

The weight of glory, if you held it in your hand

It would pass right through you - but now's your chance

Would you fall to pieces

Would you fall to pieces

Would you fall to pieces

In the high countries?

You drink the cup to the bottom but it burns in your hands

The cup was poured out on the maker instead

Out on the green plains, I am but a ghost

Bound up with all that I call mine, and still the light grows

Would you fall to pieces

Would you fall to pieces

Would you fall to pieces

In the high countries

In the high countries

In the high countries?

Huge thanks to Cynthia for sharing these amazing music choices. Believe me they really go well with the book. 

Title: Hallowed

Series: Unearthly

Author: Cynthia Hand

Publisher: Electric Monkey

Publication Date: 2 Jan 2012

Synopsis from Goodreads

For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.

If you missed it yesterday, you can find my review HERE