Musical Moments: Guest Post: Character Play-list by Ellie Phillips

It is my pleasure to welcome Ellie Phillips to Book Angel Booktopia today with the character play-list for  Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired Freaks

Image from Goodreads

Review HERE

Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired Freaks Blog Tour

I thought I'd start my blog posts on this tour with a Hairstyle of the Day. In Dads, Geeks and Blue-haired Freaks my main character, Sadie, gets given a calendar for her birthday called 'A Hairstyle a Day, One Year of Original Styles'. So I thought I'd do the same on my blog posts. I must add that I haven't actually tried any of them out!

Wednesday 6th June

Hairstyle of the Day:

I think if we're mentioning post-rock then we need to look at boys' hair and so I think today's hairstyle should be something around bald and beardy like these guys here:

Source

PLAY-LISTS

Wow - the iPod play-lists of my characters. I know my characters inside out, but it took me a while to think about what they might be listening to. Obviously Billy has very particular tastes, being an embryonic Post-rock god, but Sadie's playlist I thought would reflect her character which is understated but stealy and determined. Aunt Lilah - well I thought her taste would reflect her youth - as well as the playlist for her hairdressing salon - so nothing too exciting there.....Here we go:

Sadie :

Links to YouTube:

Katy B Katy On a Mission

Yasmin Light Up (The World)

Lewi White Young Guns

M.I.A. Paper Planes

Ciara Love Sex Magic

Amy Winehouse Back to Black and Stronger Than Me

Gyptian Hold You

Soundgirl Don't know why

Billy

YouTube Links:

Mogwai White Noise

Explosions in the Sky Your Hand in Mine

This Will Destroy You Quiet

Red Sparowes In Illusions of Order

Sigur Ros Glosoli

65daysofstatic Radio Protector

Aunt Lilah:

YouTube Links:

Whitney Houston Saving All My Love for You

Phyllis Nelson Move Closer

Dolly Parton 9 to 5, Jolene and Here You Come Again

Diana Ross Do You Know Where You're Going To

Luther Van Dross Never Too Much

Thank you to Ellie for coming up with such fabulous and diverse play-lists. I hope you have enjoyed.

Guest Mini-Review: Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired Freaks by Ellie Phillips

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Title: Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired Freaks

Author: Ellie Phillips

Publisher: Electric Monkey

Publication Date: 4 June 2012

Source: Review Copy

Rating: 3/5

Synopsis from Goodreads

Sadie Nathanson spends her life trying to survive the excruciating embarrassment of simply existing. It’s hard enough being a bit of a shrinking violet within a loud and outspoken extended family, but the unexpected card from ‘Dad’ on her 15th birthday is the last straw.

As ‘Dad’ was an Internet sperm-donor, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that this is a bad joke, probably set up by her ex-best-friend Shonna. But it starts Sadie wondering – just who was her father? Is he the cause of her worry crinkle and wonky bum? What would happen if she tracked him down?

So she decides to do just that. With help from her nerd cousin Billy, his friend Nodding Tony and a regular dose of ‘Haironomics’ (Sadie’s own hairstyle-related philosophy system), they uncover a lot more than they bargain for...

REVIEW BY MADISON

Although getting a birthday card from your Dad on your birthday should be completely normal, for Sadie it is anything but. You see, Sadie's Mum had artificial insemination via a sperm donor website. Therefore, you can imagine how surprised Sadie is to receive this particular birthday card.

At first Sadie thinks it is some kind of cruel joke, but then she starts wondering what it really would be like to meet her biological father. The things that go through her mind are completely understandable after all we all have certain traits that can be attributed to our parents, Sadie only has one half of the equation in order to figure out who she is.

I really enjoyed this book, it was a fun, light-hearted read that was refreshing. I especially liked the use of the different hairstyles Sadie's associated with each day, a quirky little trait that she used to show how her day had gone.

I really liked how this book made me giggle out loud at the things that happened and the things Sadie said.