🔖📺 Read How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family.
In the world of Hill House, devotion to family is a tender kind of madness that exists just on the other side of mourning, a ghostly insistence that the love that binds us is also the thing that keeps us chained.
I’m having one of those days where you give yourself credit for every single thing you do. So here’s what my work task list looks like today so far.
✅ Download Word.
✅ Install Word.
✅ Download report with comments.
✅ Open report.
✅ Get paper from studio.
✅ Put paper in printer.
✅ Print report.
Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding 📚
Want to read: The Brain that Loves to Play by Jacqueline Harding 📚
Feted my kid thoroughly and now I am so tired.
Tonight I’m very obsessed with the idea of reading The Secret Garden as a child as a gateway to a love of Gothic literature. 📚
My kid is 7 today. I love him so much.
Finished reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 📚
Keeping this Gothic train rolling. This one is excellent, of course.
📚💬 “When I am afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I can see chairs and tables and windows staying the same, not affected in the least, and I can see things like the careful woven texture of the carpet, not even moving. But when I am afraid, I no longer exist in any relation to these things.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Substitute depressed or anxious for afraid here and it’s exactly how I feel.
