Challenge Corner discussion

It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song, indulging what she knows to be her most annoying habit. But something is different tonight. The guy beside her at the bar, fellow student Joe Morrow, is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night.

Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Is their collaboration worth its cost? Or is it holding Percy back from finding her own voice?

Moving from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of talent, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard.

(Just popping in to say I thought this book was AWESOME. *sidles off to guiltily think about writing a late review...*)

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "(Just popping in to say I thought this book was AWESOME. *sidles off to guiltily think about writing a late review...*)"

Good to know, Ellen! :)

I plan on starting this one late - on 4/29

I'm trying to get all our quest books done first! lol

Stopped at New York

(view spoiler)[I am conflicted. I do like how she and Joe met and how their relationship is going. Zoe is clued in to how Joe feels and how Percy really feels too. It's cute how she is so clueless. I like both of their characters, Zoe and Percy. (hide spoiler)]

Stopped at The Heart of the Matter

(view spoiler)[I don't know what to say about this book. I have the hard copy but I've been listening to the audiobook and I think I've lost a lot. I love how the chapters are song titles. I learned what Deep Cuts are. I couldn't figure out what "cutting" had to do with the book and its theme. lol But I finally figured it out. There's just SO much information overload to me. I don't know I guess I'll see how I feel by time it ends. (hide spoiler)]

Stopped at The Weakness in Me

(view spoiler)[I think it was terrible that he used what SHE wrote without letting her know/asking her, etc. I would be so angry! (hide spoiler)]

of course I'm still behind lol
starting tomorrow

stopped at New York

oof (view spoiler)[ I am struggling with this one. I'm finding the writing odd. the long arguments over music and artists. I love songs and I thought I would know a lot about this timeframe of music but it is just not pulling me in

I honestly don't like Joe much. I thought he was selfish about Zoe and that's probably why she cut it off so exact with him

and now he's kind of make Percy side with him even though he won't let them be together.
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through New York (stopped at SF/NYC/LA/MIA)

it's a quick read
(view spoiler)[ but it still feels like a drunken college dorm argument between 3 people about music and life, with other people in the party yelling their opinion in the margins.

I still really don't like Joe. I can't say I like Percy, at this point. I like Zoe. I feel like she had some great advice and is really out there trying on life. I liked Raj but also wondered why Percy wasn't working on herself. (hide spoiler)]

and done

(view spoiler)[ this did conclude better than I thought it would. I found her job interesting, was glad that she was finding herself outside of Joe and Zoe but their relationships still felt toxic and co-dependent.

but ugh, I never did like Joe, never liked their banter about music and their drama. this was just not my thing. . . . (hide spoiler)]