I have Wonderland on my list of books to read. I want to get through The Beast v.2 before I read it. I had a bit of a freakout when I discovered the book because it seemed a lot like what I was working on, but I’ve been continuously reassured by the best people on how it’s okay if it’s like what I’m working on and that it’s not my book.

David, writing the Book Notes essay for the book is my favorite form of procrastination. I spend a lot of time debating whether the essay should be about the music I listened to while writing or about the music the main character talks about in the book. So many very important decisions to make.

More importantly, how far are you on the accompanying Book Notes piece for your book? The invitation is open…

That’s OK, we’ll write ours and then ALL WILL BE RIGHT WITH THE WORLD. No pressure.

I hope lots of others do want to read about it, but sometimes I wonder, ergo one of my working titles, “The Only Girl in the Record Store.” Nice to know you are there too, albeit perhaps rifling through a different section.

There was another memoir I read too that was good, but I can’t remember the title or author. She was a drummer in bands, in Brooklyn. She got married at the end but it didn’t solve everything. There’s also “I Don’t Care About Your Band” but it’s not really about music (and not really my cup of tea either).

Also, I meant to say, years ago I began tracking my “own” writing hours in my time-tracking spreadsheet for work (freelance writing/editing), as if I’m my own client, and that has made me really value my own writing time … to the extent where I now sometimes resent my well-paying corporate gigs, but that is a first-world problem.

“Goon Squad” is probably one of my all-time favorite books, but not because of the music involved. The music, it seems, is kind of incidental.

I have read The Importance of Music to Girls and found it lacking. I wrote about it here, if you’re interested.

It makes me so damn angry that it’s this hard to find these kinds of books. Clearly there is an audience and yet publishers don’t want to give us what we want! Damn them.

I’m writing a memoir, partly about music, but I don’t have a blog. It is really hard to find books about women/girls and music. Ten Thousand Saints was about music but not really “women and.” Of course, “Goon Squad,” but again more “by a woman” than about female relationships with music.

I have a book in my nightstand (now ON it, next in the reading list!) called “The Importance of Music to Girls” by Lavinia Greenlaw that I found at the record store. But obviously haven’t read it yet.

Oh and a friend spotted “We Hope You Like This Song: An Overly Honest Story About Friendship, Death and Mix Tapes” but I found it disappointing. OH and “Go Ask Ogre,” which is a bit raw but interesting, by Jolene Siana.

That’s about it, which is kind of a drag.