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A Cute Little Bookstore in Agricola Street Books

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I had a chance to visit a cute and cozy little used bookstore called Agricola Street Books. I was there during their book buy-back weekend, and while I waited for them to value my book for store credit, I made a quick walk around video, being very TikTok mind-oriented these days. When they were done, I basically had enough for the one thing I saw in the store I wanted, and made an impulse buy, something I rarely ever do. But for things Van Gogh, it’s easy to Tan Gogh and buy!

I edited it later, narrating it and putting the appropriately named Literature voice effect (voiceover) on it. It’s a female voice, but you see how effective and nice these voice effects are to keep a clean and even sound. And maybe you can understand why I prefer to use them rather than my own voice.

Charming little bookstore, don’t you think?

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What If Cross-Genre Covers Were More Prominent in Literature?

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For more writings on this blogIn music, there is a thing called covers, where musicians perform their own interpretations of pieces. Often, these are songs, by different artists other than the original ones, and in the same genre, so rock covers are still rock. However, covers could involve instrumental pieces like classical, jazz, or other wordless compositions. They could be by the same artists later in their career. But for me, the most interesting and fun covers, whether I like them or not, are ones in different genres. For fun, I’d like to share some examples from a Switched on Pop podcast I recently heard on Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and wonder why such covers aren’t more prominent in literature with the classics now in the public domain. The podcast episode was the third of four, but the entire series was magnificent and I would highly recommend it!

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