Finished reading: A Court of Mist and Fury (a Court of Thorns and Roses, 2) by Sarah J. Maas 📚

🔖📚 Read To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe by Ed Simon (Literary Hub).

I love that Simon is able to draw lines from Poe’s work to his burial, from his burial to his exhumation, to multiple author’s taphephobia to Barthes and the death of the author.

Finished reading: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang 📚🎧

I love what I know of Esmé Weijun Wang, as a teacher, writer, and fellow traveler through the wilds of chronic illness. She reads the audiobook and her sweet voice lends such warmth to her beautiful essays.

🔖📚 Read New NC law means teachers are providing fewer books for their students to read.

This bill requires schools to publish a complete catalog of all texts available to students. It creates an administrative burden and has a chilling effect on students’ access to materials.

Finished reading: The Cloisters by Katy Hays 📚

This is on the list of key titles for gothic fiction at NoveList Plus. It definitely skews more dark academia than traditional Gothic. More ambition and dangerous thirsd for knowledge than dread and family secrets.

Almost every gothic novel since Rebecca is Rebecca, and Rebecca is Jane Eyre. 📚

Finished reading: All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles 📚

Listen, I already knew KJ Charles was great because I read most of her Society of Gentlemen series and loved it. But after reading this bit of gothic perfection, I want us to become best friends.

📚 This has been a good week in book news for me. Kresley Cole announced a new series spun off of Immortals After Dark and preorders are open for Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows epistolary follow-up.

Finished reading: Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas 📚

Finished reading: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett 📚

There are some authors whose writing (and fine, online presence) makes yyou want to be friends with them. For me, Kristen Arnett is one of those writers. Maybe someday.