Reading List by Jennie for October through December

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

This was my annual “spooky Halloween read.” I have a hard time judging it, having spoiled myself on the twist long ago. I find it hard to believe that this twist wouldn’t have been obvious even if I hadn’t known, but who can say? For the uninitiated: the story is narrated by Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood, who lives with her older sister Constance and her Uncle Julian in an isolated mansion. Some years before, the entire Blackwood family...