Top Ten: Songs That Drive Me to Tears Edition

1. Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans

2. Sarah McLachlan - Prayer of Saint Francis

3. Judy Collins's version - Bird on a Wire

4. Neil Young - Philadelphia

5. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna

6. Pretty Much Anything Michael Giacchino wrote for Lost

7. Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl

8. Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to be Loved)

9. Nelly Furtado - Like a Bird

10. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City

There's plenty more, but why push it?

Top Ten: Driving Music Edition

We all compile the soundtracks for our lives. I have mental playlists for cleaning, cooking, exercising (seriously), showering, pondering, and you get the idea.

These are the top ten musicians and artists who automatically get cranked up when I drive alone. Don't judge me.

10. Journey

9. Pink (Yeah, I know.)

8. Genesis or Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins (They're the same, right?)

7. Guitar-based singer/songwriters

6. Radiohead

5. Back Sabbath

4. Anything Motown

3.Bruce Springsteen

2. Piano-based singer/song-writers

1.Bob Dylan

What about you?

The Teen Library Turns 1: Librarian Edition

We're walking and feeding ourselves now, what a milestone!

Before working in a teen library, I had not picked up a book written for teens in years. Even when I was a teen, I usually chose adult books (being the precocious jerk I was). I now read teen literature almost exclusively. Though I miss grown-up books sometimes, the teen books I have read unexpectedly turned out to be some of the greatest pages I have had the pleasure of turning. I will adapt this post for the Teen Library blog, as well as for the birthday party on Monday. Reply with the top ten books from The Teen Library you have read since October 2008.