A 30-minute tangent episode in which we discuss our favorite cozy fall reads. Both Kaisha and Kelsey are wimps when it comes to being scared. Listen as they share funny lurker spider stories, discuss the importance of atmosphere, and swap tips and tricks for creating mood in writing.
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This month we will be giving away a lovely book box put together by the amazing author, Dawn Husted. To enter, simply interact with us on social media or leave us a review! We explain more about how the giveaway works toward the end of the show notes.
Listeners weigh in:
What are your favorite fall reads?
Let us know in the comments section below, or by tagging us on social media! Your response might be featured in an upcoming show and you will be entered into our monthly giveaway!
Kaisha’s Recommendations:
I love books which can bring me into a creepy atmosphere and state of mind completely:
- We Have Always LIved in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Books which I am excited to read this fall:
- The Half Drowned King Linnea Hartsuyker An exhilarating saga of the Vikings that conjures a brutal, superstitious, and thrilling ninth-century world and the birth of a kingdom—the debut installment in a historical literary trilogy that combines the bold imagination and sweeping narrative power of Game of Thrones, Vikings, and Outlander.
- Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
- The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirahk
Kelsey’s Recommendations:
My favorites bring the fictional world to life vividly:
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Taylor, Laini
- Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
- Brother Odd–Dean Koontz
- “How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.”
- Wuthering Heights–Emily Bronte
- “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
- Little Women–Louisa May Alcott
- “You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
Atmosphere is created by connecting the reader to something emotional in their lives, one that calls forth something specific, like Thanksgiving.
- I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced. –Hemingway
- Focus on engaging the senses.
- Pay attention–What are those things that evoke the atmosphere for you?
- Natalie Goldberg-Writing Down the Bones
September Giveaway:
We never actually announced our September prize! Since it is my birthday month, I grabbed two totally random books off of my shelf and bought copies to send to you readers:
- Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys, which I have not read yet, BUT the movie, OMG!
- Yoss’ A Planet for Rent because he looks like this →
- And also because the book is amazing and he is on my list for the contemporary writerly mé·nage à trois.
Our winner is chosen at random from the people who interacted with us over social media.
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- Don’t forget to enter our giveaway for October. This month we will be giving away a lovely book box put together by the amazing author, Dawn Husted! To enter simply interact with us on any of our social media platforms. A winner will be drawn at random on November first.
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