Things are tough out there, beloved patrons–tensions are high, emotions are volatile, and those of us with autumnal allergies are sniffly and miserable. So, with that in mind, please enjoy these five things to make you smile before we get to the books: This plush orange, who seems very content with life: 2. The Giant … Continue reading Five Book Friday!
As our regular readers are already aware, we here at the Free for All are celebrating All Hallows Read all month long. In that spirit, I thought I’d tell you a scary story here today. So “gather ’round while I elucidate…“** It happened one weekday afternoon. There were the steps, the door, the gateway to… … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: The Unshushed Library – A Frightening Tale
Ah, dear readers, it’s fall. The crisp cool nights and warm-ish days have arrived and I couldn’t be happier to welcome my favorite season. I also couldn’t be happier that our wonderful blogger-in-residence Arabella got the ball rolling on All Hallows Read. For those of you who remember our celebrations last year, I hope that … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Haunted Humor
Welcome again to the Romance Garden, where some romance aficionados from the Library Staff bring you the books that made their hearts skip a beat…and offer your mind a little dirt in which to grow… As the days grow shorter and chillier, it seems even nicer to have even a mental garden around which to … Continue reading The Romance Garden!
Today is our final Five Book Friday before All Hallows Read, which gives us one more chance to sing the praises of the scary and the ghoulish and the eerie in literature…and a brief moment of panic about what on earth we’ll find to talk about after the candy-coma wears off?* But until there, here … Continue reading A Final, Frightening Five Book Friday…
This is a very tricky post to write without getting mired in a vast quagmire of spoilery-spoilers, but we’re going to give it our best shot. Crimson Peak has been touted as several things, all at once: a horror movie, a gothic romance, and, perhaps, most interestingly, as a feminist revisionary tale. While the jury still seems to … Continue reading At the Movies: Crimson Peak
As the days draw ever darker, and the time ever nearer to All Hallows Read, we thought we’d offer you some interesting facts about fright itself…and some interesting books inspire it! 1) Many fears tend to be common in people regardless of their culture or nationality. An estimated 4% of the world’s population suffers from arachnophobia; … Continue reading A Frightening Five Book Friday