"Eight Days a Week"

 Some times it feels like I am not reading enough, and then some times I feel like I am reading Eight Days a Week. At this time, I am on schedule to read 50 books in the year 2025. I have finished numbers 6 through 10 and present them here.

Outlander (#6)

Written by Diana Gabaldon; published in 1991; BJ Score 3.0 (Great)

This becomes book  #76 on my bucket list. Recommended by both my niece Lori and Vermont friend Tommy Bumps, I decided to read the first book in the series. It is well written and I like the story concept. What I did not know that it was a Romantic novel with a little too much sex for my normal taste, but the overall concept and narrative outweighed that. I may read a few more from the series.

Migrations (#7)

Written by Charlotte McConaghy; published in 2020; BJ score 4.0 (Excellent)

This novel was recommended by author Emily St John Mandel. It is hard to explain the story but it is a beautiful read. It took me only 6 days to complete. Set in the future, the story follows a young lady living in a world where almost all animals are extinct. She follows what may be the final migration of the Artic Tern. Excellent book and I highly recommend it myself.

Unsolved Mysteries (#8)

Non-fiction written by Joel Levy; published in 2016; BJ score 2.0 (Good)

Non-fiction book on sale at B&N. It had some good items but most I have read before. May be used as a reference...

Ready Player One (#9)

Written by Ernest Cline; published in 2011; BJ Score 3.5 (Great to Excellent)

I had seen the movie which was directed by Steven Spielberg, so I got the book from the library. I enjoyed it very much, but it helped that I grew up in the 1980s, there is plenty references to pop culture. BTW, the book is very different from the movie...but with the same characters and a much different story line. It was worth reading.

The Angel's Game (#10)

Written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; published in 2008; BJ Score 4.0 (Excellent)

A library pickup of an author I had read before and loved. The first novel was The Shadow of the Wind. This is a follow-up to that book and is a excellent read. The first book was on my bucket list. Now I want to visit Barcelona.

My reading has slowed down lately and I will have to read Eight Days a Week to get back on schedule for my Goodreads Goal. If you have never visited Goodreads, it is a great site for making goals and reading lists.

About Title

"Eight Days a Week" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon based on McCartney's original idea. It was released in December 1964 on the album Beatles for Sale, except in the United States and Canada, where it was first issued as a single A-side in February 1965 before appearing on the album Beatles VI. The song was the band's seventh number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, a run of US chart success achieved in just over a year. The single was also number 1 in Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The Beatles recorded "Eight Days a Week" at EMI Studios in London in October 1964. The track opens with a fade-in, marking one of the first times that this technique had been used on a pop studio recording. The song was reissued worldwide in 2000 on the Beatles compilation album 1. It also provided the title for director Ron Howard's 2016 documentary film on the band's years as live performers, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.

Paul McCartney has attributed the inspiration of the song to at least two different sources. In a 1984 interview with Playboy magazine, he credited the title to one of Ringo Starr's malapropisms, which similarly provided titles for the Lennon–McCartney songs "A Hard Day's Night" and "Tomorrow Never Knows". McCartney recalled: "He said it as though he were an overworked chauffeur: 'Eight days a week.' When we heard it, we said, 'Really? Bing! Got it!'"

McCartney subsequently credited the title to an actual chauffeur who once drove him to Lennon's house in Weybridge. In the Beatles Anthology book, he states: "I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, 'How've you been?' – 'Oh working hard,' he said, 'working eight days a week.'" In a 2016 interview alongside Starr and Ron Howard, in preparation for the release of the documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, McCartney reiterated that he had heard it from a chauffeur who was driving him to Lennon's house while he was banned from driving. Starr has said he is not the source of the phrase.