What are you listening to

Ever since my visit to Hawaii in 2006, I have enjoyed listening to Hawaiian music (not the Don Ho Tiki style, but traditional and some contemporary artists). Think the music from "The Descendants".
I recently discovered TuneIn, and I often listen to the Aloha Joe's Hawaiian Radio stream: Aloha Joe's Hawaiian Radio - Lakewood, CA - Listen Online
Here's an all-time great Hawaiian performer, Cyril Pahinui (whom I sat across from on an airport bus, but didn't realize it until after he left!) D'oh!
Hi'ilawe - YouTube
 
Copy and paste the entire URL of the YouTube video, and then paste it into the "Insert Video" button (film reel).

E.g.

 
The soundtrack from the fairly new movie "The Book Thief". A truly amazing book which the film doesn't spoil in the slightest - it's absolutely just as good.

 
Patrick said:
Ooh, I have that book! I have yet to get around to reading it.
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I would thoroughly recommend it. Happy and sad in equal measure, it truly is a literary masterpiece and worth every drop of its international fame reputation. Telling the story of a very ordinary family from Nazi Germany, it is a stark reminder of the suffering of so many ordinary citizens from that country caught in a war they never wanted.

Some of the soliloquies by Death are very complex - but that is not a negative: there are passages in that book I could read ten times in a row and still not have fathomed all the secrets, understood all the meanings, interpreted all the words as they were meant. But those passages have been strictly limited. It is not a difficult read - the majority of the book is written as a very good, but quite normal, novel. It is a stunning book, and one of my personal all time favourites.

The film is also very good. I was deeply worried that it could never do the book justice, that it might spoil my memory of it. I was very reluctant to see it. The film, however, was every bit as good as the book. It did not spoil it for me at all, and I would thoroughly recommend both.



Another one of my personal recommendations is "One Son is Enough" by Peggy Woodford. Set in history Turkey - not a culture I knew an awful lot about - this book is not one of action and violence, but some of the most charming descriptions of every day life and vitality. The description in the writing is so evocative you can quite literally "see and touch the costumes and their rich colour, feel the hot sand under your feet, let the pungent smells in the narrow streets reach you and live with the despair of the boys trying to run evil and the angry waters" [taken from a review here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2GU...nnel=detail-glance&nodeID=266239&store=books]

Another wonderful book.

One Son is Enough: Peggy Woodford: 9781844281459: Amazon.com: Books
One Son Is Enough: Amazon.co.uk: Peggy Woodford: Books


And as for what I'm listing to now:

 

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