Hello October!
Hello Durga Pujo!
Hello Festivity!
&
Hello Spooky Season!
I am happy you are back!
:)
October is a little bit of magic.
The festive seasons in India kicks off in all it's glory and Durga Pujo lights up my Bengali heart.
This year, I am hopeful and excited to actually step outside and see some of the pandals and Maa Durga.
I even have a few new clothes all lined up for Pujo.
:)
My reading too is shaped by both Durga Puja and Halloween.
So for the first half of the month and certainly during Pujo, I read some Bengali books and then its time to bring all the thriller and horror reads and going allll out with the Spooks.
I am so excited.
To kickstart my reading this month I've already started reading a creepy horror book.
This one.
The Girls are Never Gone: The Conjuring meets Sadie when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare takes an internship in a haunted house and finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit.
Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts.
Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she’s keeping her doubts to herself—because she’s the voice of Attachments, her brand-new paranormal investigation podcast, and she needs her ghost-loving listeners to tune in.
That’s what brings her to Arrington Estate. Thirty years ago, teenager Atheleen Bell drowned in Arrington’s lake, and legend says her spirit haunts the estate. Dare’s more interested in the suspicious circumstances surrounding her death—circumstances that she believes point to a living culprit, not the supernatural. Still, she’s vowed to keep an open mind as she investigates, even if she’s pretty sure what she’ll find.
But Arrington is full of surprises. Good ones like Quinn, the cute daughter of the house’s new owner. And baffling ones like the threatening messages left scrawled in paint on Quinn’s walls, the ghastly face that appears behind Dare’s own in the mirror, and the unnatural current that nearly drowns their friend Holly in the lake. As Dare is drawn deeper into the mysteries of Arrington, she’ll have to rethink the boundaries of what is possible. Because if something is lurking in the lake…it might not be willing to let her go.
Thoughts: I am a little over 55% in and I am very, very invested in this story and very curious to see where it goes. It's creepy and sufficiently spooky.
Plus it has nice representation of a queer characters and our main character is someone living with Type 1 Diabetes. So that's nice.
I am hoping to finish it up tomorrow and start on something new.
My sister has started this month with the new Richard Osman book. A sequel to the Thursday Murder Club and she's enjoying it very much, a review will be up soon.
:)
Today was a also a day of very happy mail.
We got this beautiful laptop case from this self-help group called Sampoorna who help empower women in need and make products out of pure jute. We found them though the girls at Karubasona who collaborated with them on this laptop sleeve. It features their art and the terrific trio of Feluda, Jatayu and Topshe.
:)
This was love at first sight and I am so happy we got it.
I hope the rest of October looks and feels just as good!
Have a great month ahead loves.
Happy Reading!
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