I have a very, very deep love for ABBA. I won’t try to explain it because if you’re not an ABBA fan, you’ll never understand (and why waste my time when I could be singing along to excellent tracks such as Bang a Boomerang?).
I’m not sure if I’m doing this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic right, but I figure if Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid can pose for a photo in tin foil, then anything goes. So, I’ve taken ten ABBA songs and matched them (very loosely) with ten books.
1. My Love, My Life – Wilful Disregard by Lena Andersson
2. Waterloo – The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood
3. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! – What Nora Knew by Linda Yellin
4. When I Kissed the Teacher – You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik
5. Money, Money, Money – The Darlings by Cristina Alger
6. Why Did it Have to be Me? – Delicacy by David Foenkinos
7. I Do, I Do, I Do – Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
8. So Long – Apron Anxiety by Alyssa Shelasky
9. The Name of the Game – Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
10. Our Last Summer – Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
OMG. I love you so much right now! It’s my birthday and what better way to celebrate than with an epic pic of ABBA, and an equally awesome list of song and book pairings!
Happy birthday! (and I knew I’d have at least one fan of this post in you!)
This post resulted in me celebrating by listening to ABBA on full volume and dancing around my apartment. It was great 🙂
Happy birthday!
Thanks! 🙂
#4, #5, #6. YES!
Truth be told, I could have come up with a book for every single ABBA song if pressed.
I think a follow-up post is required…
I just love the “Mamma Mia!” Abba songs, and that’s about all I know about their music. 😀
They have a very extensive back catalogue!
Have loved ABBA forever, and will love them until the day I die.
Have always said that they’re the only band I’d camp out for a week for… I kind of miss the ‘camping out’ for tickets thing.
Saw them at the Bowl. Best night of my young life.
Am so jealous.
I love Abba songs. They would make excellent books!
Certainly enough to begin a hundred books about relationships!
Brilliant post! Plenty of Abba love here. That picture is quite extraordinary 🙂
You just have to wonder what happened the day of that photo-shoot – wardrobe department cutbacks? Publicist absent? Directive to support the aluminium industry?
Aha I absolutely ADORE your ABBA-only variant on this week’s TTT, your suggestions work so well with the books!
Some of them were a bit of a stretch (well, really only Seating Arrangements, which isn’t the jolliest of wedding stories!).
Lovely idea & list! I <3 ABBA 😀 their songs only get better with time!
ABBA is just too perfect. Bonus points for an amazing picture! LOL, love the tin foil.
Hahaha, that pic cracked me up :p I love all of your pairings, they are perfect!
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ha! fun post! 🙂 My TTT
My mom is a huge fan, so of course I grew up hearing a lot of their music! Great picks! Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier. 🙂
*feeling very old now* 😀