Gothic Literature TBR 2024 ||

[@llukelara]

Omg this sounds like so much fun! The Monk by Matthew Lewis is one of my all time faves! I highly recommend. It is very sick and twisted…I’ve never read The Italian, but maybe I’ll read The Mysteries of Udolpho 🤔

[@thebaileygrind]

It is so much fun. I love that gothic literature is having its moment again. Ok I’ll keep The Monk on my tbr! Please come back and update me on your time with Ann Radcliffe 🙏🏻

[@Calluna.V]

Ooh, love that folks are expanding the possibilities! ❤🥀

[@thebaileygrind]

Same! It’s very inspirational and just adds more to my TBR hehe

[@teacupthestoryteller]

Sooo many amazing bookish things are happening in november and I wanna participate in all of them 🤭...just not enough time 😅 Great recommendations, thank you ☺ Villette has been on my list for way too long now. Would love to read it before the end of the year

[@thebaileygrind]

I know! I would love to participate in Victober but I kinda am with the gothic literature? hehe. Please let me know how you like Villette!

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

Brontës, madwomen, attics…I’m excited. 💜

[@thebaileygrind]

Our type of party 😹

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

@@thebaileygrind 100%

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Ooo any book that uses the word “baneful” in the blurb I’m in ❤

[@thebaileygrind]

😹 love you

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

I’ve been wanting to talk to you about Villette. I read it a few months ago and have so many feeling about it.

[@thebaileygrind]

Ok but are they good or bad feelings

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

@@thebaileygrind Both… I resonated so much with the character during her loneliness at that school, waiting for letters, thinking ‘today there WILL be something,’ only to be disappointed; I cried and cried. I admired the book, and was also annoyed at times and I still am unsure how many stars to give it!

[@thebaileygrind]

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ok, I'll try to make it through this time but the man falling in love with a child was hard to move past.

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

Oh… you mean what’s his face lol but she was an adult by the time they were reintroduced wasn’t she? I just thought that whole relationship was cringe anyway, and I get that feeling from Lucy … like there are undertones of hostility and I like that sort of realism.

[@thebaileygrind]

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission They were obsessed with each other when she was a kid. It felt groomy. Idk I'll reread and see what's up.

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

I’m so excited we are both reading Madwoman in the Attic. Yes: I started this last year … but it’s really not that grueling to read; I just had to pause to read Villette (didn’t want spoilers) and I stopped reading everything while I was busy with Moby Dick. I think I’m 200 pages in.

[@thebaileygrind]

It talks about Villette?! Ugh I might have to pause it again lol

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

@@thebaileygrind yes and I paused to read Villette and I completely forgot they discuss all of her novels … I haven’t read Shirley or the Professor 😩but at least I have them.

[@thebaileygrind]

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission gd it! They talk about so many novels this book will forever be on pause!

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

@@thebaileygrind I know. I think at this point, I’m just going to read the thing and not worry about spoilers anymore lol

[@HoneyLouWilson]

What are you wearing a top or dress? It looks so good on you. Also I ordered gothic literature tarot for this gothlitnovember

[@thebaileygrind]

A top! Thank you bb. Miss you. You should do a walk through or something and we will add it to the playlist!!! That’s such a synchronicity.

[@RoseHoneyRitual]

Edward Gorey tarot deck????!

[@thebaileygrind]

Oops!