October Book Recommendations
Spooky and spoopy season is upon us!
Lil Ube Reads is a monthly newsletter, featuring seasonal book recommendations and bookish updates from Jenna. Click the subscribe button below to be notified of future posts!
Happy fall, y'all!
The leaves are changing color, the temperatures are finally dropping, and cafes are selling pumpkin-apple-chai-spiced everything! 🍂 To celebrate the spooky/spoopy season, I've got book recommendations for you as well as a few updates about my reading life.
🧹For those of you who are looking for a cozy witchy fantasy, I recommend The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. This book is great for people who loved the theme of found family and want to see more stories featuring orphaned children and misfits, just like The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. There's a romantic subplot, a fun little twist, and an adorable dog named Circe!
👻 I'm not the biggest fan of horror, as I get easily scared and am very prone to nightmares. But this year, I finally ventured out of my comfort zone and tried a juvenile horror book! (Ok, so I maybe just tip-toed out of my comfort zone...) If you're like me and can barely cope with the adult horrors of our real world like climate change and capitalism, then Nightbooks by J.A. White is a good scary book for you! It follows the adventures of a young boy who loves writing scary stories and includes elements from Hansel and Gretel as well as One Thousand and One Nights. It was also adapted into a movie by Netflix back in 2021!
😱 Finally, if you're looking for something actually scary, not-so-cozy, and meant for adults, then look no further than Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Although it is not officially categorized as a horror book and is more of a sci-fi thriller, I personally got the creeps and would describe the book as fast-paced and paranoia-inducing. The production of the TV series adaptation completed in April 2023 and I’m eagerly awaiting the announcement of the premiere date!
In my own reading life, I'm a little everywhere. Currently, I've got 7 books in-progress and I just can't seem to find the drive to finish one. It's so easy to just start another book! Hopefully by next issue, I'll have brought that number down to 3... but we'll see. This may be a little too optimistic.
I hope that one of these recommendations resonated with you but if not, there’s many more recs to come in the future!
This is the first issue of Lil Ube Reads, my newsletter focused on sharing my seasonal recommendations and bookish updates, and I'm so grateful that you took some time to read this! ✨
Stay cozy and far, far away from cannibalistic frogs,
Jenna
“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Read these books before? Got any other recommendations? I’d love to hear your thoughts! 💖
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