Music Monday (1): The Poppy and Rose by Ashlee Cowles

Today I wanted to start a new type of post on my blog called Music Monday, where I share songs that I thing accompany my current read quite nicely.

These will just be short little posts to quickly list songs that I think fit my read, like a tiny bite sized playlist.

I don't think that this will become a regular weekly thing that I do, because I only want to post when I feel that I have songs that really fit the writing. I've had this idea for awhile, but this is the first week that I actually feel like I'm reading a book that definitely should be accompanied by a little soundtrack.

This week, I'm reading The Poppy and the Rose by Ashlee Cowles, a story about Taylor, who arrives in Oxford for a journalism program--and to find our more mysterious trip her father took there prior to his death, and the story of Ava Knight, a titanic survivor. Somehow, their stories are connected, and the only way for Taylor to figure out how, is to keep reading Ava's memoir in Meadowbrook Manor, the place where Ava grew up.

The songs that I have chosen that I feel like perfectly accompany the story are two classic piano pieces: J.S Bach's Prelude No. 1 and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. I can only ever picture classical music when thinking about the titanic, and when I picture any Manor setting, in my mind, there's always piano playing mysteriously in the background.

So, if anybody reads The Poppy and the Rose I suggest doing so with classical piano playing in the background.