Hi everyone,
I hope everyone had a fantastic spooky month! I had lots of fun participating in the Gothtober readathon, where I learned that OH BOY my brain is not in the mood to read classics right now. But I read some really fantastic books this month so the good won out over the bad!
I am going to be a little quieter on here next month, as I have some very exciting news!! I am a judge for both the British Fantasy Awards AND the Aurealis Awards (the SFF awards here in Australia!) So I have a ton of things to read for judging and need to focus my time on that. I’ll have a few reviews I’ve already written, and I’ll be here for #5OnMyTBR every week but that’s it. I’ll be back in December with lots of best of 2020 lists, and some most anticipated lists for 2021!
Books read
I had a pretty good October, managing 9 books and 2 novellas. And yes I counted Phoenix Extravagant last month and I’m also counting it this month, but that is because I read half of it in each month. My favourite book of the month is definitely Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett, but I also loved White is for Witching, The Ghost Bride and Fingersmith!
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Ghost Bride by Yangze Choo
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
Books hauled
Another batch of books from the library this month (first row)! Someone please stop me, I need to read the books I own (like the second row, which all arrived this month….)
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
Luster by Raven Leilani
The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J Hackwith
Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
My blog posts
Book reviews
A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe
The Midnight Bargain by C.L Polk
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
#5OnMyTBR
Misc
The Rocky Horror Picture Show book tag
My favourite horror (and favourites of the future)
Community
It was another awesome month in the blogging sphere, I was particularly excited to see some very unique and fun content between bloggers and some very amazing authors this month!
- We all know I love gothic books and I love gay books so The Alliterates post about gay gothic books made my day and there are so many favourites (and hopefully soon to be favourites!) on their list!
- I had the absolute most fun reading Lili’s (@Utopia State of Mind) post with THE Chloe Gong pairing YA novels and classic Shanghai foods!
- Okay yes I love gothic books so here’s another post all about them! Kristen (@Kristen Kraves Books) posted about some favourite gothic books as well as some on their TBR!
- More incredibly fun and unique author posts with Kate (@Your Tita Kate) who did The Poppy War book tag with the author of The Poppy War!
- I always love Laura’s (@The Book Corps) recommendation posts because their taste in books is SO GOOD, and this month they spoke about 2021 releases they’re exited for! Bring on a new year! (Please god just make it not be 2020 anymore).
In addition to all the books I need to read for judging in November, I’m also going to be loosely participating in the Clear Your Shit readathon! I probably won’t be following the prompts, but just generally pushing myself to try clear some of the books I have on my physical TBR.
Anxious Nachos 