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#endofyearbooktag with tarot!
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The Library Tag
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20 Booktube Questions Tag
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@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil 5 күн бұрын
Oh gosh the old papers are completely delicious! ❤❤❤❤❤ just seen what you wrote in the description box too and feel so honoured. That’s so kind ❤❤
@megadele65
@megadele65 6 күн бұрын
It was really wonderful to see so many of the papers and pictures and artifacts from your grandparents. And I drew a lot of inspiration from your art ideas as well. My father who passed away last year was an architect, and when I cleared out his house, I took a big box of his old blueprints. They’ve been sitting in my closet for the past year, but after watching your video, I’m getting ideas about using them in some type of collage art piece. Thank you so much for sharing these special memories!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 6 күн бұрын
@@megadele65 thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. It’s been a lot of fun to explore their lives in this way because I’ve definitely learned things about them that I didn’t know as a kid. Making art of some of your dad’s blueprints sounds pretty cool. 💜
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 6 күн бұрын
The 8th edition is gorgeous 😍💕 Wow, you have a lot of cool artifacts from your grandparents. I don’t know much of anything about my grandfathers, so it’s nice to see. I loved seeing the photographs too ❤ Very handsome people!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 6 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission yeah, I’ve got almost nothing from my mom’s side, but my dad’s mom was a hoarder. There were some definite downsides to that, but this was one of the upsides. I’m glad she kept some of this stuff.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 5 күн бұрын
⁠@@NicoleACottageWitch yeah… I can see how there could be a downside to that as well lol
@madwitch9977
@madwitch9977 8 күн бұрын
I'm re-reading the Brontes...I'm enjoying Villette currently. Now I've never read Virginia Wolfe but she is on my list so I will pop your recommendations on the list 📚
@RumatAfrica
@RumatAfrica 8 күн бұрын
Hi Nicole - A Cottage Witch! Great content you got there. I think all this channel needs is a little push to get things moving. I can help with that. My info is on this very channel I'm using to comment.
@mizanurrahman-nn4vy
@mizanurrahman-nn4vy 14 күн бұрын
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@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 15 күн бұрын
Was so excited to watch this. So good! I want to read everything I haven’t already read (which is quite a lot, so thank you 😂) I want to get that Stephen Fry book for my daughter! I bought his Mythos Book and the companion deck (after seeing it on your channel) as gifts for her birthday. You’ve reminded me I need to add a Nobokov to my list for the year I haven’t read yet. I’m so impressed with all you’ve read this year, with or without children 😂 it’s still impressive. I hope I can read more than I did last year, only because the amount I want to read is overwhelming lol I’ve screen shot your list in the description and printed it out! (I hope that’s not creepy lol) ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 15 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission no it’s not creepy-I’ve screenshotted a few of your film suggestions! I love Stephen Fry’s writing. I read Mythos but haven’t read the others in that series yet. I find his writing style so engaging and the poetry book is just fun, as it should be!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 15 күн бұрын
⁠ ok lol I need to get better at listing my books and films in the description. I always tell myself I’ll do it later, and I never do, because I’m always going something else. What I’m trying to say is, I appreciate that you do it. Excited for the Stephen Fry Mythos book. It’s so pretty and I can’t wait for her to see it!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 15 күн бұрын
@ you don’t have to! I just add the screenshots to my photo roll, where they still sit. I only have these lists because I have to keep things organized before I press record or I’ll lose the plot altogether!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 15 күн бұрын
😂❤
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil 15 күн бұрын
Nicole it’s so impressive! Amazing goals
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 15 күн бұрын
@@CandySoulAndSoil thanks! It’s a lot of fun.
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary 18 күн бұрын
Epic list xo
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 18 күн бұрын
@@TheLinguistsLibrary thanks! 💜
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 20 күн бұрын
I need to read ‘I Who Have Never Known Men.’ Also really want to read Knife. Re: James Baldwin: What’s weird is, I’ve watched a handful of his interviews, and loved them. He was so brilliant and articulate, but I’ve actually never read his works. I was going to read Notes of a Native Son last year, but when I looked through my entire library, I couldn’t find it, and I could have sworn I’d bought it. That’s how out of hand my library has become 😂 Ugh!! I need to get on that. How Jesus Became God sounds good!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 20 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission James Baldwin is just as brilliant in fiction. I’m sure I’ll read all his books eventually. I sympathise with losing track of books! I’m doing some major spring cleaning and organizing these days because I’ve just got books falling down all over the place!
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil 22 күн бұрын
Lots of great book Nicole
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 22 күн бұрын
@@CandySoulAndSoil thanks! 💜
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary 22 күн бұрын
impressive
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 24 күн бұрын
I’m sorry about your phone 😩 I want to read the Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree and Bliss, although they all sound intriguing. You’re going to Iceland? COOL!!! Good for you! That’s awesome 😊
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 24 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission we’re madly planning now before all the affordable housing is taken! It should be an adventure.
@MeadowlarkMystic
@MeadowlarkMystic 25 күн бұрын
Enjoyed your deck shares, especially the deck you made with herbs.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 25 күн бұрын
@@MeadowlarkMystic thank you!
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary 26 күн бұрын
This was a great haul! Happy 2025 xo
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 25 күн бұрын
@@TheLinguistsLibrary thanks! 💜
@geminigreywolf6655
@geminigreywolf6655 27 күн бұрын
My husband got me the Witch Sister tarot for Yule. So I just started working with it yesterday. I’m doing a deep dive. Just the first day I’m finding I can really work with it intuitive. I’m still doing the deep dive though. Love it.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 27 күн бұрын
@@geminigreywolf6655 I find it surprisingly intuitive for a portrait deck. In glad you’re enjoying it! 💜
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
Agree on Craft Decadence keywords. Nothing like it!
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil Ай бұрын
lovely decks Nicole x
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@CandySoulAndSoil thank you!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
I’ve been meaning to read Janet Frame too! I have a copy of House on Mango Street but haven’t read it yet. That’s the portrait by Branwell isn’t it? On the cover of the Juliet Barker book. Yeah… I really need to read that one too 😩 What a gorgeous copy of Fathers and Sons! I also wish I could read Russian. What a great haul!! ❤❤❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission yes it’s the Branwell painting. Their eyes look a bit strange but I kind of like it. The Cambridge companion is sooo good and Juliet Barker has an essay in it. Next year might be my Russian-reading year, what with Fathers and Sons and Doctor Zhivago on my list.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
I like it too! It’s spirited somehow. I have the Gaskell biography on Charlotte, but I haven’t read it yet, and a bio on Emily but I forget the author now. And then there’s the book on Branwell by Daphne Du Maurier and of course the Cambridge Companion, but I’ve heard good things about the Juliet Barker book. I miss reading the Russian classics/modern classics! I was so immersed for such a long time I decided to branch out and expand my reading 😂 I read War and Peace twice which I’m sure.. took a while 😂 But I’m probably going to be doing the same this coming year especially considering my daughter is interested now. ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@ the Gaskell one I haven’t read though I’m curious about it. I know there are opinions about portraying things in a certain light, but since she actually knew Charlotte, it could be interesting. Maybe I’ll have a split Brontë/Russian lit year! I haven’t read Gogol yet either.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
@ yes exactly, she knew her. Opinions are to be expected, I haven’t read it either! Well I have to read Shirley soon, and believe it or not I’m itching to read Wuthering Heights again. My bf got me a large annotated and illustrated edition of it for Christmas last year, much like the Frankenstein one I shared. And I haven’t read it… so… sounds like our reading goals might be similar. And I haven’t read much Gogol either but I know Nabokov really liked him! I only read a small collection of short stories. I mean it was tiny, maybe it was only one! And I can’t remember it! I think I put off reading Dead Souls years ago because I heard it was unfinished and I guess I had a bias. lol Is that true? I have to look it up again
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@ I know almost nothing about Gogol, but he’s Russian so I’ll probably like him! And this Cambridge companion is really making me want to read all the other Brontë novels. I need more time!
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil Ай бұрын
Ooo I just found the brontes book by Juliet barker for £1 in a charity shop here too! I was so excited ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@CandySoulAndSoil excellent! It’s a good one!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
Such great stuff 😊 I’m super excited for Brontës Cambridge Companion too! 😁 I hear you with the book and deck buying lately… what am I doing???😂 I’m definitely going to get Buffalo Hunter Hunter too. I had no idea there was an 8th edition Jonasa Jaus. The preorder is sold out. Ugh. But it’s probably a good thing. I have more than one edition of that deck. I’m definitely doing #gothlitnovember again next year. Can’t imagine not wanting to do it. ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I’m enjoying the Brontë book but I’m not exactly unbiased-I think I’ve read three or four biographies and all their novels. Yeah, 2025 needs to be a read my shelves sort of year-I’m also running out of shelf space! I think I was on the mailing list for the Jonasa Jaus because I wanted one if she reprinted but wasn’t going to pay $500. And I’m glad you’ll keep doing #gothlitnovember. It’s so much fun and really does liven up November nicely.
@ChanelChapters
@ChanelChapters Ай бұрын
I love when fiction books contain tarot
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@ChanelChapters me too. It’s just fun.
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil Ай бұрын
loved seeing and hearing about your books and decks Nicole. I hope goth lit November is on next year too it was so much fun. x
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil Ай бұрын
Loved this Nicole ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@CandySoulAndSoil thank you!
@CandySoulAndSoil
@CandySoulAndSoil Ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary Ай бұрын
Les hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes is far better title than The girl with the dragon tattoo!
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary Ай бұрын
Hi, 1:23 that owl is so cute!
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary Ай бұрын
I only have two tarot decks but I like them a lot-I am still learning. I have the Aquarian tarot deck, and Mythic by Tricia Newell 1986. Glad I found your channel!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@TheLinguistsLibrary it is! I love Mari in the Sky’s artwork.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@TheLinguistsLibrary I’m still learning too, always. It’s good fun. Glad you’re here! I enjoy your channel.
@TheLinguistsLibrary
@TheLinguistsLibrary Ай бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch Thank you🤗
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
Omg that Buffalo Hunter book you mentioned! I was searching for a book with Gothic elements which touches on this subject because it makes me so angry and anyway, I couldn’t find anything!! Wow! Jonasa Jaus is an incredible reader for me! You probably know this as I mention it often but yes, I would assume she’ll print another edition at some point. I still really want that interior landscapes deck. It makes me think a bit of where I grew up actually. That Yuletide deck does look cute! ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I’m a little apprehensive about just how horror-y the Buffalo Hunter Hunter book will be but it’s too interesting not to give it a try. Some woods bison have been reintroduced in Alberta but they’re still threatened, and I don’t think there are any wild plains bison here. The ranchers (mostly) don’t want them. It does kind of make me wish for a vengeance vampire!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
It’s just so uncanny you shared because as I said, I was looking for something like this, I just wasn’t expecting vampires! And I’m happy the bison still exist after all the horror. Omg I can’t imagine how that devastation affected them as the bison were so intrinsic to their whole way of life and spirituality.
@BeyondBooks-wt5il
@BeyondBooks-wt5il Ай бұрын
Thanks for doing our tag! This is such a great video!
@BeyondBooks-wt5il
@BeyondBooks-wt5il Ай бұрын
Reney and Raina! LOL! I love that the dog gets in the act - it's going to her head, all this fame! 😂
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@BeyondBooks-wt5il of course! Must credit the pup!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
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!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission if I do read The Monk next year, I’ll know so much more about it before reading it than I ever do for other books!
@AscensionWaves
@AscensionWaves Ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your practice ❤
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Yay! ⭐️ Folk horror is ok too, as long as it doesn’t get too gruesome! Yeah, I think Melville was sometimes trying to push back against easy stereotypes. It’s hard to explain why I like Wuthering Heights so much because the people are so horrible to each other, but I love it anyway! Glad you’re enjoying the Cambridge Companion. It’s so interesting. I’ve read all the Brontë books but it’s been such a long time since I read Shirley that I can’t remember. Maybe I’ll reread that or Vilette next year. I haven’t even cracked open The Madwoman in the Attic. I’m sure I’ll enjoy it but it’s a little intimidating!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch Madwoman in the Attic is a pretty engaging read. I’m about half way through, but I don’t foresee finishing it this month because I set it aside for Shirley (which I’m not reading yet) and Cambridge Companion just fit so nicely with my books this year.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
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 ❤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission yeah I’m not sure Flowers in the Attic is hugely child-friendly, from the synopsis. Good to know you like Glass, Irony, and God. I’m looking forward to it. 💜
@paintedsouldesign6419
@paintedsouldesign6419 Ай бұрын
Your collage work is gorgeous!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
@@paintedsouldesign6419 thank you!
@thebaileygrind
@thebaileygrind 2 ай бұрын
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!
@butterflycucumbers6279
@butterflycucumbers6279 2 ай бұрын
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 🎅🎄
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
@@butterflycucumbers6279 aw thank you! That’s so kind. 💜
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission yeah I think you’d like the opera. Some of the feedback they got on early shows was that some of the language seemed “too modern” but those lines were always word-for-word Melville, or pretty nearly. And probably ranchers around me would say it’s stupid to spend any amount of money on used horseshoes!, even if it’s just a couple bucks. Oh, well.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
Haha! That’s too funny, they obviously didn’t know the novel
@thebaileygrind
@thebaileygrind 2 ай бұрын
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 🖤
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
@@thebaileygrind yeah, staying home is my default state so it’s probably a much harder suggestion for some people! And yeah, it’s fun to try to read a bit outside of what I might normally read. It does mean going searching for books that aren’t on display at a bookstore, but you can find some cool things that way.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Lots of audiobooks is the answer. Tom Jones I definitely listened to sped up. I can usually do 1.5-2x depending on the narrator but for parts of that one it was 2.5x because it was just so slow! It came up in the Cambridge companion to gothic fiction, though-Fielding wanted to be an ultra-naturalistic alternative to the pre-gothic romances that he didn’t think highly of! These were the first Joyce Carol Oates stories I’ve ever read but I am interested in more now. I read Unfortunate Events years ago and loved it. I remember thinking it was so clever and good fun. As memoirs go, Gandhi’s was interesting. He did t try to always make himself look good, which I appreciated, but he certainly lived an eventful life.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
Even so … that’s a lot of reading 😊 I’m still interested in Tom Jones when the time is right. I caved ….. I went ahead and got a copy of the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Literature. I agree with your words on Ghandi: I think if we look for perfection in all of our heroes and myths, there will be nothing left to look up to.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
@ I also don’t have kids. That’s a big time-saver!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
It’s true! lol
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I’m glad you like Emily Brontë’s poetry. That bodes well for me! And I couldn’t not get a book called Russian Gothic! What a thing! Looking forward to your TBR.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch My daughter when she was 7 used to read Emily’s poetry to me and it was eerie because she read every archaic word without a hiccup, and with a flow which was musical although she’d never read it before. I asked how it was, she was doing this, and she said, “I was born knowing this.”
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission that is a little eerie. Impressive, though.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I almost didn’t get the gothic lit tarot too but thought the same thing! But I had to get it.
@Peekaboorose
@Peekaboorose 3 ай бұрын
I can see how your "vampire costume" deck is one you'd want only in small doses 😅 Enjoyed your VR, Nicole!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@Peekaboorose thank you! Yeah, it’s a bit intense.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission really? The idea of gothic western has never even occurred to me. I’ll be curious what you think about it!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
Still really want that Cambridge Companion to Gothic Lit! I have the Virginia Woolf one ❤And woah, Gothic Bodies sounds cool!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
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.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission and I’ve only read the well known ones. But I enjoyed them so I’ve got to read more, finally!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
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??
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission it’s certainly got a haunting. And you could maybe make a Jekyll and Hyde comparison. It might require squinting in places, but I could probably be convinced.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission and I had to text my dad last night because I was looking for a book I was certain I had but couldn’t find, so I had to ask if he had it or if I was losing it! (Thankfully, he has it.)
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
Right, like there are gothic elements. Gothic is a bit difficult to categorize but I think it’s our habit of categorizing everything! It’s fun though.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
Ooo I meant to add: Pip’s story arc. That for me, was what stuck out as sort of Gothic.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission yeah ok, that could be a little Turn of the Screw.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
Oh man, I was considering rereading Beloved too!
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission do it! It’s incandescent but with its toes in the mud.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
I loved it when I read it a few years ago. I have to read more of her work. I read Jazz too, before reading Beloved. Oh man…. SO good, but also, not for everyone.
@NicoleACottageWitch
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 ай бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I’ve read all her novels and I think I need to reread them now.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 ай бұрын
Yes, exactly! November is MEH 😂