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Thanks for doing our tag! This is such a great video!

Reney and Raina! LOL! I love that the dog gets in the act - it's going to her head, all this fame! 😂

Missed this somehow! We had an unseasonably warm fall too in New England. And yes: when I lived in Buffalo, I remember blizzards on Halloween 😂 👻 I missed out on Persephone’s Garden, but I took advantage of Black Friday and got her Artemis deck ❤ Curious to hear your thoughts on The Monk if you read it! I didn’t realize until Cambridge Companion, how satirical it was. It explains some things!

Thank you for sharing your practice ❤

You get a gold star for #gothlitnovember 🌟 Was so excited to tune in! So many of these (trying to recall them all lol) sound interesting. I want to get my hands on Monkey Beach and Bad Cree. And yeah, I had the same experience last year: I think a couple of the books I read were definitely more folk horror. But that’s ok! I bought another Melville work which is considered gothic. It’s called Pierre; or, the Ambiguities (weird title I know) only when it arrived I was disappointed in the font size. I don’t know how I’ll possibly read an entire novel in footnote size. Maybe I’ll share photos. I need to read up on Melville. Not to speak for him; I wouldn’t classify him as a downright abolitionist, but I think he was trying, and I think he had a heart, for sure. Interesting: the nods to Turn of the Screw. My daughter is reading that now, and I may reread it. That one actually scared me, which was fun. Yeah, there’s really not much to like in most of the characters in Wuthering Heights, but it’s so damned readable. It’s a force of nature! And as I’ve already mentioned, (read this in an essay) man and nature were not separate entities at all in this work. Pretty cool. I’m half way through or maybe more, of the Cambridge Companion. Thank you again for taunting me with it! Because I decided to pause in reading Madwoman in the Attic (again). I need to read Shirley! Apparently it’s about Emily, if I’m remembering this correctly.

So nice to see you 😊 The Gothic Tarot IS fun. I didn’t bring it out this year, I don’t know why. It’s so charming. VC Andrews was huge when I was in middle school. I read some of her stuff, maybe just one series, but not Flowers in the Attic. My friend gave me some of the synopsis and it horrified me; it was too much for my little mind 😂 Glass, Irony and God is SO good! I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Hope you enjoy it, and the Dylan Thomas ❤

Your collage work is gorgeous!

Aw man I hope you like The Bell Jar this time around. I've been seeing so many people hate on it recently and am blown away but that's what makes the world go 'round!

I just gotta say I love love love your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them for me and everyone. You always have a great selection of stuff, it’s very unique, I just love that. Plus your background looks really cool. 😎 and I am especially interested in the books you show because I’ve never heard of any of them. Thank you. Love you. And a happy silly season 🎅🎄

It sort of makes no sense that I didn’t pick up Persephone’s Garden. It’s lovely, and so me. Lol I’ll remember not to spend a stupid amount on horseshoes 😂 Those Rowan berry beads are gorgeous. I need to sit and listen to the Moby Dick opera myself. I think I told you I watched some clips and I know I’ll love it.

I’m with these people on staying home to consume less 😂 I love how many tags you participate in. I need to start to diversify my reading. Amazing recs 🖤

Writing all of these down! How did you read so much on top of Tom Jones?! 😂 I’m in awe. I have a couple of Vandana Shiva books I need to read. I might have to read Walking the Twilight Path! Joyce Carol Oates is intense. I have Bellefleur on my goth lit TBR (which I forgot to include) and I’m not sure I’ll have time for, but we’ll see. It’s been a long time since I’ve read Poe’s poetry, but I think I agree: I like it best. It’s nuts I haven’t read Frenchman’s Creek yet. I’ll look for a copy of On a Woman’s Madness. Bend Sinister is interesting because I believe it was his only ‘political’ novel, as he hated political novels. And of course Nabokov would use the index in an expansive way and turn it into art. I haven’t read Pale Fire yet; I’ve been saving it, because I know it will be a favorite. Have you read Series of Unfortunate Events? It’s like Nabokov for kids. My daughter wanted to read the series with me a few years ago. She stopped after 4 or 5 books, but I continued on. The Italo Covino book sounds like a trip! I’ll have to check it out. I haven’t read Ghandi’s autobiography, but it sounds interesting, and I should.

All of these books sound interesting. I love Emily Brontë’s poetry! I have a beautiful edition. I bought Russian Gothic thanks to you. I included it in my TBR video which I filmed, but haven’t posted yet.

I need to chill on the book buying too 😂 I’ve been wanting to film a haul for ages, but I keep buying books so I don’t know where to start. The Impressionists Tarot! I still lament my decision not to get it when it was in print. My copy of the Gothic Lit Tarot is supposed to arrive this week! I almost didn’t get it, but …. How could I not?? 😂 It’s ok, you can blame me 😂 Stoked you got the Primordial! It’s so wild and unique. I love Bea Nettles. I have the menstruation deck too ❤ Omg lol I was wondering what that sound was. I thought it was birds.

I can see how your "vampire costume" deck is one you'd want only in small doses 😅 Enjoyed your VR, Nicole!

Off to read the description box! This was awesome. Love all the subcategories in contemporary! I found a Gothic Western, quite accidentally 😂 it arrived today.

Still really want that Cambridge Companion to Gothic Lit! I have the Virginia Woolf one ❤And woah, Gothic Bodies sounds cool!

Sorry for all the comments lol but it’s so funny: I was JUST thinking of the King’s General the other day. I read it YEARS ago, and loved it, but I can’t remember why it’s Gothic. I’ve read a ton of her works.

I’m pretty sure I also have those Melville short stories (is it SAD I’m losing track of my stock?) After finishing Moby Dick, I’ve thought more than once it’s sort of Gothic. Do you agree??

Oh man, I was considering rereading Beloved too!

Yes, exactly! November is MEH 😂

Woot, awesome decks! Hope you had fun with the creation process. I know I always do, even though MPC can be a pain sometimes 😆

A great reading list

Notes about Gothic Literature ✓American Gothic Fiction Alan Lloyd-Smith (library textbook): “the message of Gothic…is that it isn’t so much a matter of whether you can repeat the past as whether the past will repeat itself in you” (p.1) “But in this enigmatic American erosion the Gothic object is allowed its own life, remaining stubbornly resistant to interpretation, however persuasive” (p.74) “A all these instances suggest, domestic Gothic is intimately bound up with the idea of the house, gender, and the family, which becomes, through metaphor, a way of externalizing the inner life of fictional characters” (p.102) ‘“The past isn’t dead,” says one of Faulkner’s characters, “it isn’t even past,” which might serve as a motto for American Gothic itself as it explores the tensions between a culturally sanctioned progressive optimism and an actual dark legacy.’ (p.118) ✓Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic, Edited by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte “Initially, it is fair to say, the Gothic emerged as a way of responding to the unfamiliar by demonizing and even fetishizing the “unknown” - be it human or landscape. Often this monstrous presence was figured as an Indigenous one - a danger lying just beyond the garrison but not sufficiently removed. Over time, Canadian writers began to appropriate this force, to bend it to a national purpose, and to map the parameters of an identity that might embrace what was resonantly local so that the Gothic became a way to insist on, rather than deny, a colonial history. In effect, the gothic mode was used to articulate a suitably “haunted” version of the Canadian identity, one that lent the Canadian locale a “feel” of authenticity because it had been rendered “(un)homely” (that is, both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time).” (p.xvii) ‘“The white Canadian looks at the Indian. The Indian is Other and therefore alien. But the Indian is indigenous and therefore cannot be alien. So the Canadian must be alien. But how can the Canadian be alien within Canada? -Terry Coldie, Fear and Temptation’ (Brian Johnson, p.25). “Since 2001,,...much important work has been done on the Gothic in English-Canadian literature, including Justin Edwards’s Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005) and a 2006 special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly, guest edited by Marlene Goldman and Joanne Saul. Most relevant to this essay is Jodey Castricano’s ‘Learning to Talk with Ghosts: Canadian Gothic and the Poetics of Haunting in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach,’” (Jennifer Andrews, p.206). ✓Gothic Literature by Sue Chaplin “Recent work in Gothic criticism has argued that the Gothic ought not to be defined in terms of its emotional or aesthetic effect, or even regarded as a literary ‘genre’ at all (that is to say, as a class of texts conforming to particular conventions of content and/or style). Rather, it should be considered a ‘mode’ of writing that responds in certain diverse yet recognisable ways to the conflicts and anxieties of its historical moment and that is characterised especially by its capacity to represent individual and societal traumas” (p.4) “These Gothic interventions into other genres of literature are discussed in Part Three…and it will be seen that during this period the mutable quality of the Gothic became, paradoxically, one of its characteristics features; ‘paradoxically’ because the very quality of mutability is what makes it so difficult to ‘characterise’ the Gothic, to identify its defining qualities as a literary category.” (p.20) Painting: The Passage of St Gothard by Salvator Rosa Byron’s poems Giaour and Manfred Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother “Gothic tends to foreground what other forms of writing (the realist novel, for example) often seek to conceal: that its narratives are not necessarily trustworthy; that literary conventions bear a slippery relationship to the ‘truths’ they mean to communicate.” (p.182) “In [Jane Eyre and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’], women are portrayed as susceptible to madness, but their mental trauma is not depicted as somehow innate to their femininity; rather, it is related to and emanates from social situations that render the female protagonist vulnerable, alienated and desperate.” (p.213)

One of my favorite things about this tag is seeing people alter it to fit their interests! This is such a neat TBR and I feel so honored you're participating. Tropical gothic as a subgenre? Yes please!

Urban Crow Oracle goes with all kinds of decks. I put it with Little Bird Tarot. It was perfect!

The crafted ends oracle is perfect for fall asthetic, enjoyed watching this Nicole 🌞

I love your Couples decks!

That Death Doula deck is fab! Thanks for participating ❤ It was great to see your choices

‘In my mind I live in a cottage in the woods’ ❤❤❤

That shadow myths deck (did i get the name right?) talk about nightmares! But it’s so interesting! I like it. Death Doula is a deck I continue to ‘almost buy’ and then I don’t. I don’t know why. I understand the concept and I love the images!

I hear you on envying people with tattered decks because I feel the same way. I’m just precious about things (and I probably have too many to be using any single deck consistently enough to beat up). I’m this way with my books too; I handle them very delicately while reading, but it doesn’t hamper my reading experience! Lol

omg Evil Roots! I'm so eager to see what you think about that book. It's been on my TBR for awhile now. This is such a cool book haul and v inspiring.

You always have the most interesting books! I can’t wait to read more Angela Carter. Maybe I should do that for #gothlitnovember. Ooo that Cambridge Companion to Ulysses! Want! Yes, that was me re: On Being Ill. I plan on talking about it a little if/when I get around to my books read recently video… I’m so bad at making videos lately 😩

This IS so exciting! And I’m excited for you! These decks are so cool. 😍😍😍

Fantastic wrap up! So many pretty covers.

Thank you so much for participating in bingo!! Happy reading 📚 ❤

Wowwww! 🥹 I love this so much! Thanks for sharing! 💗 Mari

RUclips just notified me about this video from you! WTH. I can't wait to respond. Thank you! This was such a fun video to watch.

Loved every minute of this. I find squirrels endlessly entertaining myself. They often distract me from my tasks when I’m working from home 😂So you have family members on your back too re: the amount of books in your collection? My mom still suggests I have too many. I love the library but I don’t use it enough. I’ll visit with my daughter, but I don’t take anything out, and this is because i have an overwhelming amount of things to read at home. I love that you still have such a detailed memory of story time at your public library ❤ and I’m sorry for your repressed childhood, that must have been something else… I can’t even begin to imagine. Your hair looks beautiful btw!

Hi! We love the name of your channel ! Thanks so much for doing our tag! We love the library and so glad to hear that you do too! That damn pandemic ruined everything. Ugh. Great video !!! 🐿️

I loved your choices! 😊 The whole video was cozy ❤

I love the Herbal Tarot.. 😍 well done you..

Beautiful decks - well done!

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That's so cool! Congrats! Love the card backs on the runes deck.

Thank you for sharing!

Gravity’s Rainbow is supposed to be super challenging. I’m so curious! 👀 I think I should look up the Louise Penny books, they sound like fun!

Ah!! I can’t believe you found that Nabokov book! I’ve looked for it too!