Coming Up: Month-Long #Weirdathon

Thus far 2016 has been pretty busy, reading and otherwise. A visit from my parents, classes, ARCs…  But March is wide open, and it’s time to get weird.

Julianne at Outlandish Lit is hosting this month-long celebration of the weird and wonderful in honor of her three-year bloggiversary. There will be prizes. There will be Bookstgramming. There will be Weird-Offs. Sounds like a great time to me!

For this event, I’m going to Read My Own Damn Weird Books:

I had slated the five stories in The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt to be read as part of Deal Me In. Unfortunately, when I picked “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” for week 8, I realized that it was 180 pages long. That’s a little much for a weekly short story challenge. Instead, I figured that the novella/novelette  would be applicable for Weirdathon.

From the Obscure Literary Monsters list: Mrs. Caliban by Rachael Ingalls. This is definitely going to be the weirdest of books in my stack.

I thought about adding some classic weird, maybe The King in Yellow, but instead I think I’ll finish an anthology I already started: volume one of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Weird Tales. I read “The Sandman” last year and really enjoyed it.

I think I’ll also dip into Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay. Nonfiction can be weird, right?