#ARichLife Day 6: #Pumpkin on display in this bookstore at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Cannot remember which one - there are around four or five bookstores at Pike Place - which I absolutely love.

#ARichLife Day 5: #Earthy

#ARichLife Day 4: #Twilight
My fave lines:
When someone you haven‘t seen in ten years
appears at the door,
don‘t start singing him all your new songs.
You will never catch up.

#ARichLife Day 3: #Grateful for the books that made us. Kwaymullina‘s piece is one of my absolute faves in this collection of essays on books that define you. My feature of the book here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-n0g

#ARichLife Day 2: I thought this set up of #Apples in our hotel in Ferrara last year (around March) was clever. Couldn‘t stop looking at it, so I took a photo.

#ARichLife Day 1: #Harvest

#HauntsAndHexes Day 31: #Fog

#HauntsAndHexes Day 30: #Eyeballs

#HauntsAndHexes Day 29: #Whispers

#HauntsAndHexes Day 28: #Devilish

#HauntsAndHexes Day 27: #OrangeCvr #OrangeCover in more ways than one, lols.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 26: This #BlackCvr #BlackCover illustrated version of Kafka‘s Metamorphosis is a rare find while book hunting at Half Price Books in the Bay Area over the summer. Cannot wait to go back in a little over a month‘s time to spend our December holiday in California with family.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 25: I love receiving #treats from friends - this one is from my lovely sister who is now a Chancellor at Kalba University in Sharjah. 🌷

#HauntsAndHexes Day 24: Our college graduate had a #Tarantula - err Spiderman themed birthday cake last year here in the Emirates. Looking forward to spending our baby gay‘s 24th birthday in the Bay Area with family this year. Cannot wait! 🕷️🕸️

#HauntsAndHexes: A positively #chilling adaptation of Atwood‘s classic dystopian novel. I found the graphic novel to be eerie, striking, and effective. It has allowed me to experience the story again in a more visually affecting way, amplifying my horror and indignation. See here on how I featured the original Atwood novel and this adaptation here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kt1

#HauntsAndHexes Day 22: This picturebook weaves #Spell(s) Of Song And Prayer For Protection. Told in verse, this is a powerful depiction of womanity coming together in quiet song, prayer, and poetry for protection and deliverance. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-mfI

#HauntsAndHexes Day 21: Quoted from Connelly‘s The #Scarecrow when I featured photos from my visit to the Swarovski‘s Museum – Crystal Dome in Innsbruck, Austria back in 2018 here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j3n

#HauntsAndHexes Day 20: In this delightfully strange novel, the art of making #potion(s) has been described in such detailed and exquisite fashion. My full review posted in 2011 can be found here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-1yo

#HauntsAndHexes Day 19: this book has been described as an “elegant #nightmare by Audrey Niffeneger. Looking forward to reading it.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 18: #Scream(ing) Staircase is the first book in the Lockwood & Co. series. Jonathan Stroud never fails - exquisite balance between plot and character, depth and British humor at its finest. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-aEj

#HauntsAndHexes Day 17: #Thriller of sorts - reading this as part of our book club read for the Emirates Literature Festival in 2023. The time travel bit was interesting but then it got tiresome fast enough.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 16: #Blood - reading while on the train from Tours back to Paris last year. Didn‘t finish reading it though, will have to go back to this soon.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 15: #Darkness

#HauntsAndHexes Day 14: Oftentimes, humans are more #terrifying than ghosts or ghouls.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 13: I bought this #Creepy compendium of true stories at Powell‘s this summer. Perfect for Halloween.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 12: #Cauldron - Fats shared how she got her copy of the Prydain Chronicles (one of my fave series of all time) here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-cKZ

#HauntsAndHexes Day 11: #Bones - I have yet to continue this epic Dandelion Dynasty series of Ken Liu. I only managed to read the first book in the series.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 10: I love Edward Gorey. He does not balk at the gruesome, the violent, the #bizarre. Yet, one would see that the narratives are strangely understated. He manages to provide a strange aesthetic to the weird and the odd – providing it with a subtle sense of the uncanny and the profound, and a kind of deliberately beautiful strangeness and celebrated ambiguity. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-5Cv

#HauntsAndHexes Day 9: #Apparition - found this image in the internets, and yes, this is so me. Lols.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 8: #Grave of dreams.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 7: #Web

#HauntsAndHexes Day 6: An entire #JackOLantern or pumpkin-themed books on Goodreads. Over 100 in total.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 5: It is clear that the ‘weird tales‘ in this collection go beyond the mere presence of ghosts, #zombies, glittering vampires in highschool, or werewolves with six-pack abs. China Mieville‘s Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary perfectly sums up the collection in this blurb I took a photo of and edited using an app. My feature here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-8Fh

#HauntsAndHexes Day 4: This #Werewolf poem was shared by Fats in GatheringBooks back in 2013. We just celebrated our 15 year Blogiversary, it is quite amazing. https://wp.me/pDlzr-6Cj

#HauntsAndHexes Day 3: I remember my colleagues in Singapore and myself (I am the witch in black lols) dressing up in #Costume as part of our annual corporate staff lunch. We were the organizers, and our theme was, as to be expected, Happily Ever After, fairytales. 🥰 This must have been in 2016 or 2017. Fun times.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 2: Found #Ghoul(s) on film in this occult bookshop, Treadwell‘s, in London, when I was there two years ago. The other titles on display are equally esoteric.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 1: Still my favorite #Witch book of all time. As I noted in my review: It is an unapologetically sensualized and fierce re-assertion of one‘s forgotten existence in this fictionalized narrative of a Black slave #witch in the history of the Salem trials. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-o4p

#Falling Day 30: #Sunset

#Falling Day 29: We have a #College Graduate! Our college kid (who graduated Magna Cum Laude) is the one on the far right with the short hair and the bright smile. 🎉🎊🥳👏🏼

Started this #EuropaCollective title for October around five days ago. Premise is good, first few chapters were promising, then it becomes staggeringly technical and sounds more like a lecture or crash course in art history. Not sure if it‘s worth powering through. It is beginning to bore me. I am with @Suet624 on this one. 😢😭

#Falling Day 28: #SchoolDays - pandemic style.

#Falling Day 27: When your finance officer‘s sister is into #Baking and she brings you this delicious slice of sunshine along with this beautiful note. I love my office sisters.

#Falling Day 26: #Stargazing

#Falling Day 25: #Harvest - every Tuesday since the beginning of the year, I have been sharing quotes from tagged book on GatheringBooks without fail. David Whyte‘s voice is luminous.

#Falling Day 24: #WalkingHiking up the road.

#Falling Day 23: #Twilight

#Falling Day 22: This #CountrySong by Bob Dylan was illuminated by Caldecott medalist Jon J Muth of the Zen shorts (panda series) fame. The result is exquisite. My review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-dh6

#Falling Day 21: #Soup

#Falling Day 20: I was able to hunt this #RedCover book down while in Seattle during the summer. I hope to read it soonest.

#Falling Day 19: #AutumnRain