Showing posts with label halloween reads. Show all posts
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Thursday, 30 September 2021

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Sapphic YA for Halloween

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Sapphic YA for Halloween


October starts tomorrow, and Halloween is just around the corner, so everyone will start putting together their TBRs for the month of all things spooky! So I thought I'd help you along with a list of sapphic YA horror and supernatural reads perfect for this time of year.

Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre SullivanPerfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan

Everyone in Ballyfran has a secret, and that is what binds them together...

Fifteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfran, a strange isolated town, a place where, for the last sixty years, teenage girls have gone missing in the surrounding mountains.

As distance grows between the twins - as Catlin falls in love, and Madeline begins to understand her own nascent witchcraft - Madeline discovers that Ballyfrann is a place full of predators. Not only foxes, owls and crows, but also supernatural beings who for many generations have congregated here to escape persecution. When Catlin falls into the gravest danger of all, Madeline must ask herself who she really is, and who she wants to be - or rather, who she might have to become to save her sister.

Dark and otherworldly, this is an enthralling story about the bond between sisters and the sacrifices we make for those we care about the most.
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Friday, 28 September 2018

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Halloween Themed October Reading

Halloween Themed October Reading

October is just round the corner, and so Halloween isn't far away, either! So I thought I would try and read books throughout the month that fit! Here is a rough TBR for October, full of stories of witches, of ghosts, and scary stories!

There are a quite a few on this list, and I'm not the fastest reader, so I probably won't get through all of them. But even so, I've got a month of exciting reading ahead! Without further ado, here is my Halloween themed October reading!

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft ed. by Jessican Spotswood & Tess sharpe
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft ed. by Jessican Spotswood & Tess sharpe

A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era.

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba the Wicked Witch. Willow. Sabrina. Gemma Doyle. The Mayfair Witches. Ursula the Sea Witch. Morgan le Fey. The three weird sisters from Macbeth.

History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried, unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.

Bold. Powerful. Rebellious.

A bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. A witch’s healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. In a terrifying future, women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. In a desolate past, three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. Somewhere in the present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane.

From good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. The collective strength of women working together—magically or mundanely--has long frightened society, to the point that women’s rights are challenged, legislated against, and denied all over the world. Toil & Trouble delves deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures and feminist points of view, to create modern and unique tales of witchery that have yet to be explored.
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Saturday, 1 October 2016

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Halloween Reading

I don't normally make too big a deal of Halloween on the blog. I'm not a fan of horror, generally, so reading horror for Halloween just doesn't really work for me. But I have a copy of As I Descended by Robin Talley, and as it's a retelling of Macbeth with ghosts... I thought I'd save it for the end of the October and read it for Halloween. And then I thought, if I'm reading that, why not just have a whole month of reading books that in some way fit in with the Halloween theme? So here are a list of books I'm hoping to read this month. We'll see how I go!

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Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, edited by Jonathan Stroud

Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, edited by Jonathan Stroud

Under My Hat is a YA anthology full of witchy stories by various authors such as Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Frances Hardinge and Margo Lanagan. The perfect read for dipping in and out of throughout October in the lead up to Halloween!
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