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Finally Fall Tag

I snagged this tag from Becky over at Becky Bookstore.

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1. In fall, the air is crisp and clear: name a book with a vivid setting!

The Wheel of Time series has an incredibly vivid setting. Robert Jordan’s worldbuilding is incredible! I just started book three and I’m currently trying to convince basically all my writer friends to read the series with me

2. Nature is beautiful… but also dying: name a book that is beautifully written, but also deals with a heavy topic like loss or grief.

Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is one of the most brilliant stories I’ve ever read. The story itself is gruesome and disturbing, but the writing itself is beautiful (I mean…if describing a man turning into a giant cockroach and leaking brown fluid from his injured roach body can be beautiful…I guess I mean that the writing is skillful and you want to reread sentences over and over, for how gritty and evocative they are). This book has themes of male disposability, body horror, and death.

3. Fall is back to school season: share a non-fiction book that taught you something new.

What I learned in this book is that the very basis of mental health treatment-the biomedical model-has almost no evidence backing it up. In fact, it was invented AFTER a medication was invented to treat depression. A medication, by the way, that was originally supposed to treat tuberculosis and was made from German rocket fuel left over from WWII.

So they created a theory to justify selling the pill.

All of the research is compromised by profit motive. Patient treatment is compromised by profit motive.

More people need to talk about this.

Maybe for no other reason than this: patients should be aware of the profit motive compromising research and treatment models, so that they can make more informed decisions.

4. In order to keep warm, it’s good to spend some time with the people we love: name a fictional family/household/friend-group that you’d like to be a part of.

These books were such a huge part of my childhood and I read them for years. I read them from second grade up until…hehe…well, into high school. I secretly read them for comfort, even as I decked myself out in Hot Topic tripp pants and emo kid black eyeliner.

My favorite was Claudia. But I also had a strong parasocial relationship with Dawn. I even tried to go vegetarian in 6th grade so that I could be like her.

I always wanted to be part of such a tight-knit friend group, and especially one that knows everybody in the neighborhood, AND has this whole entrepreneurial venture going! I’ve definitely never been as attached to a group of fictional humans as I was to the girls in the BSC.

5. The colourful leaves are piling up on the ground: show us a pile of fall-colored spines!

6. Fall is the perfect time for some storytelling by the fireside: share a book wherein somebody is telling a story.

This is one of my absolutely favorite novels. It’s so beautiful and atmospheric. It’s the perfect gothic romance for the fall season.

During the Romantic literary era authors often experimented with POV. In this book, the majority of the novel is the housekeeper (who witnessed the events between Catherine and Heathcliffe)relating the events to a tenant of Heathcliffe’s. Every night, the housekeeper and the tenant sit together and she tells him the story of the tumultuous doomed love story of childhood friends turned starcrossed lovers.

7. The nights are getting darker: share a dark, creepy read.

This is just a cheesy haunted house book I bought in the supermarket. I started reading it about a year ago. It’s been my go-to ‘pick it up and read when I’m bored with everything else’ book. I am finally just about to finish it.

It’s not anything thrilling or anything. It’s a standard just-entertaining-enough book. It does have some creepy moments though. The climax of the main story (there’s one longer story and three short stories) is a tad lackluster, but there were enough scary moments leading up to it to make up for that. If you want some creepy fluff, this is a good one.

8. The days are getting colder: name a short, heartwarming read that could warm up somebody’s cold and rainy day.

Okay, I know this is a Christmas read, but I read Christmas romance all year round. This is a really cute and sweet novella by a romance author I really enjoy.

9. Fall returns every year: name an old favorite that you’d like to return to soon.

My husband got me this gorgeous special edition of Frankenstein for my birthday. He got it from Juniper Books and it is so pretty! It’s a perfect excuse to reread one of my favorites