Beatles references in current literature

[KelMar]

There was a similar thread a while back and I was going to post this there but then I got a scary red message advising me to reconsider. Anyway, I read quite a bit and three of the fiction books I read this month have Beatles references in them. In the first one, a dentist is trying to build up his practice and gives a patient the White album cd because she said she liked the Beatles.(Now that I think about it I am not sure that had been issued at the time this part of the story was taking place. Hmm...) In the same book a girl can hear her boyfriend singing off-key to "Good Day Sunshine" as she's arriving home. In another, the main character refers to a woman's life as "an Eleanor Rigby existence". In the one I am reading now a girl stupidly gets in a strange man's car and when she tells him her name is Sadie he replies "Sexy Sadie?" (Bet you didn't see that coming!) Also, back in December the author of a true story I was reading said that when she dies she doesn't want a funeral, she just wants her friends to get together and listen to the White album. Not bad for a band that broke up over 40 years ago!

[Bobber]

Always ignore scary red messages.

[Normandie]

Sophie Kinsella (Madeleine Wickham), author of the Shopaholic series and several other books, has at least one  fleeting  Beatles reference in several of her books. Can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head but of course as a Beatles fan they've all jumped out at me.

My kids have noticed more than one reference to the Beatles in Goosebumps books. Maybe R. L. Stine's a fan. 

[KelMar]

Sophie Kinsella (Madeleine Wickham), author of the Shopaholic series and several other books, has at least one  fleeting  Beatles reference in several of her books. Can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head but of course as a Beatles fan they've all jumped out at me.

My kids have noticed more than one reference to the Beatles in Goosebumps books. Maybe R. L. Stine's a fan. 

I noticed a reference in a kid's magazine I was processing not too long ago (I work at a library). I can't remember it exactly but they were trying to illustrate some scientific principle and they had this scenario of the Beatles writing a song, with Paul calling Ringo on the phone to discuss it. I thought "No, no...he'd be calling John not Ringo!" Obviously written by a very casual fan.