#ARichLife Day 2: I thought this set up of #Apples in our hotel in Ferrara last year (around March) was clever. Couldn‘t stop looking at it, so I took a photo.

#ARichLife Day 1: #Harvest

#HauntsAndHexes Day 31: #Fog

#HauntsAndHexes Day 30: #Eyeballs

#HauntsAndHexes Day 29: #Whispers

#HauntsAndHexes Day 28: #Devilish

#HauntsAndHexes Day 27: #OrangeCvr #OrangeCover in more ways than one, lols.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 26: This #BlackCvr #BlackCover illustrated version of Kafka‘s Metamorphosis is a rare find while book hunting at Half Price Books in the Bay Area over the summer. Cannot wait to go back in a little over a month‘s time to spend our December holiday in California with family.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 25: I love receiving #treats from friends - this one is from my lovely sister who is now a Chancellor at Kalba University in Sharjah. 🌷

#HauntsAndHexes Day 24: Our college graduate had a #Tarantula - err Spiderman themed birthday cake last year here in the Emirates. Looking forward to spending our baby gay‘s 24th birthday in the Bay Area with family this year. Cannot wait! 🕷️🕸️

#HauntsAndHexes: A positively #chilling adaptation of Atwood‘s classic dystopian novel. I found the graphic novel to be eerie, striking, and effective. It has allowed me to experience the story again in a more visually affecting way, amplifying my horror and indignation. See here on how I featured the original Atwood novel and this adaptation here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kt1

#HauntsAndHexes Day 22: This picturebook weaves #Spell(s) Of Song And Prayer For Protection. Told in verse, this is a powerful depiction of womanity coming together in quiet song, prayer, and poetry for protection and deliverance. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-mfI

#HauntsAndHexes Day 21: Quoted from Connelly‘s The #Scarecrow when I featured photos from my visit to the Swarovski‘s Museum – Crystal Dome in Innsbruck, Austria back in 2018 here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j3n

#HauntsAndHexes Day 20: In this delightfully strange novel, the art of making #potion(s) has been described in such detailed and exquisite fashion. My full review posted in 2011 can be found here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-1yo

#HauntsAndHexes Day 19: this book has been described as an “elegant #nightmare by Audrey Niffeneger. Looking forward to reading it.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 18: #Scream(ing) Staircase is the first book in the Lockwood & Co. series. Jonathan Stroud never fails - exquisite balance between plot and character, depth and British humor at its finest. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-aEj

#HauntsAndHexes Day 17: #Thriller of sorts - reading this as part of our book club read for the Emirates Literature Festival in 2023. The time travel bit was interesting but then it got tiresome fast enough.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 16: #Blood - reading while on the train from Tours back to Paris last year. Didn‘t finish reading it though, will have to go back to this soon.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 15: #Darkness

#HauntsAndHexes Day 14: Oftentimes, humans are more #terrifying than ghosts or ghouls.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 13: I bought this #Creepy compendium of true stories at Powell‘s this summer. Perfect for Halloween.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 12: #Cauldron - Fats shared how she got her copy of the Prydain Chronicles (one of my fave series of all time) here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-cKZ

#HauntsAndHexes Day 11: #Bones - I have yet to continue this epic Dandelion Dynasty series of Ken Liu. I only managed to read the first book in the series.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 10: I love Edward Gorey. He does not balk at the gruesome, the violent, the #bizarre. Yet, one would see that the narratives are strangely understated. He manages to provide a strange aesthetic to the weird and the odd – providing it with a subtle sense of the uncanny and the profound, and a kind of deliberately beautiful strangeness and celebrated ambiguity. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-5Cv

#HauntsAndHexes Day 9: #Apparition - found this image in the internets, and yes, this is so me. Lols.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 8: #Grave of dreams.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 7: #Web

#HauntsAndHexes Day 6: An entire #JackOLantern or pumpkin-themed books on Goodreads. Over 100 in total.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 5: It is clear that the ‘weird tales‘ in this collection go beyond the mere presence of ghosts, #zombies, glittering vampires in highschool, or werewolves with six-pack abs. China Mieville‘s Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary perfectly sums up the collection in this blurb I took a photo of and edited using an app. My feature here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-8Fh

#HauntsAndHexes Day 4: This #Werewolf poem was shared by Fats in GatheringBooks back in 2013. We just celebrated our 15 year Blogiversary, it is quite amazing. https://wp.me/pDlzr-6Cj

#HauntsAndHexes Day 3: I remember my colleagues in Singapore and myself (I am the witch in black lols) dressing up in #Costume as part of our annual corporate staff lunch. We were the organizers, and our theme was, as to be expected, Happily Ever After, fairytales. 🥰 This must have been in 2016 or 2017. Fun times.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 2: Found #Ghoul(s) on film in this occult bookshop, Treadwell‘s, in London, when I was there two years ago. The other titles on display are equally esoteric.

#HauntsAndHexes Day 1: Still my favorite #Witch book of all time. As I noted in my review: It is an unapologetically sensualized and fierce re-assertion of one‘s forgotten existence in this fictionalized narrative of a Black slave #witch in the history of the Salem trials. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-o4p

#Falling Day 30: #Sunset

#Falling Day 29: We have a #College Graduate! Our college kid (who graduated Magna Cum Laude) is the one on the far right with the short hair and the bright smile. 🎉🎊🥳👏🏼

Started this #EuropaCollective title for October around five days ago. Premise is good, first few chapters were promising, then it becomes staggeringly technical and sounds more like a lecture or crash course in art history. Not sure if it‘s worth powering through. It is beginning to bore me. I am with @Suet624 on this one. 😢😭

#Falling Day 28: #SchoolDays - pandemic style.

#Falling Day 27: When your finance officer‘s sister is into #Baking and she brings you this delicious slice of sunshine along with this beautiful note. I love my office sisters.

#Falling Day 26: #Stargazing

#Falling Day 25: #Harvest - every Tuesday since the beginning of the year, I have been sharing quotes from tagged book on GatheringBooks without fail. David Whyte‘s voice is luminous.

#Falling Day 24: #WalkingHiking up the road.

#Falling Day 23: #Twilight

#Falling Day 22: This #CountrySong by Bob Dylan was illuminated by Caldecott medalist Jon J Muth of the Zen shorts (panda series) fame. The result is exquisite. My review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-dh6

#Falling Day 21: #Soup

#Falling Day 20: I was able to hunt this #RedCover book down while in Seattle during the summer. I hope to read it soonest.

#Falling Day 19: #AutumnRain

#Falling Day 18: #Cinnamon

#Falling Day 17: #PumpkinSpice bundt - absolutely delicious. Looking forward to the peppermint one during the holiday season which we are spending in the Bay Area. Woohoo.

#Falling Day 16: #Bonfire

#Falling Day 15: #BigMoon of Kyiv is based on a poem written by celebrated Italian author, Gianni Rodari, over 70 years ago – and reimagined by Beatrice Alemagna. The book was inspired by the ongoing war in Ukraine and 100% of the proceeds from the book will go to Save the Children Fund. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pGU