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“Someone should tell you you're beautiful every time the sun comes up. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Wednesdays. And at teatime. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year's, and on the eigth of August, just because.” —Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story •——————————————————————————————• Soo many great books have released recently and I just want all of life to pause so I can read them IS THAT TO MUCH TO ASK!! This is my next rainy day read. I’m marking it now! It seems the perfect book to snuggle up with in the nook and listen to the rain on the windows while I read 😌 •——————————————————————————————• #anatomyalovestory #danaschwartz #historicalfiction #historicalfictionbooks #gothic #gothicbooks #beautifulbooks #booksbooksbooks #bookspines #barnesandnobleexclusive #bookish #bookishpost #bookishlove #reader #readersofinsta #yalit #yabooks #yabookstagram #ya https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbf5UcJr5Zw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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》𝕄𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕙𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕓𝕔 QOTD 》Have you broken your January tbr yet? Because I just did lol. #moodreading My January tbr turned tbc because there’s no way Wuthering Heights is going to be the closing act for The Song of Achilles. I don’t have enough tears for both tragedies. As one dear book friend Leda @ledawyn gently pointed out, I shouldn’t do that to myself. & so, for the next few days, I will be comforted by Jane Austen (books & films), hot tea & chocolate. Heathcliff will have to chill on the moors until later this week. Now, I need Mr. Darcy to watch me awkwardly from the corner of the room & Colonel Brandon to whisk me up in his arms whenever my mind strays to the moment Achilles realizes it’s Patroclus… Ugh, I can’t… 😭😭 xo Noelani from the gates of Troy & into the drawing room still launching the ships #wutheringheights #emilybronte #booksinbed #gothicbooks #monthlytbr #tbrlist #tbrpile #toberead #bookstoread #whattoread #whattoreadnext #currentreads #instabookstagram #igreaders #classicbooks #classicliterature #goodread #moodreader #readerofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkIfBVPiHb/?utm_medium=tumblr

Alongside the 199 year anniversary of the death of Percy Shelley, this week also see the birth of other notable instances of 18th and 19th century Gothic horror 9th July 1764, birth of English author and pioneer of the Gothic Novel Ann Radcliffe. Best known for the work ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho’ published in 1794, and cited as the archetypal Gothic Novel. Radcliffe’s technique of matching supernatural and psychological terror, alongside vivid descriptions of travelling within gothic landscapes, propelled the Gothic novel into respectability in the 1790s. 9th July 1775, birth of English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, known as M.G. Lewis, and often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, due to the success of his gothic novel, ‘The Monk: A Romance’ published in 1796. The scandal and controversy of the novel's themes of perceived blasphemy, violence, immorality and supernaturalism; resulted in harsh critiques of Lewis being a ‘reckless defiler of the public mind’, and devoting the ‘fruits of his mind to the propagation of evil’. Despite these criticisms the novel was very highly successful, absorbed by an 18th century reading public eager to be terrified and scandalized by the new gothic fictional form. 10th July 1792, birth of Captain Frederick Marryat; British Royal Navy officer, friend of Charles Dickens and author of the gothic novel ‘ The Phantom Ship’. Marryat is also credited as an early pioneer of the sea story. The Phantom Ship tells the story of the legend of the ghost ship the Flying Dutchman, and its Captain doomed to sail for eternity, and the quest of the Captain’s son who pursues his father in order to save his soul, (continued in the comments) #gothicliterature #gothicliteratureart #gothicstyle #gothicbooks #gothicbookshelf #percybyssheshelley #gothicnovel #gothicnovels #annradcliffe #themysteriesofudolpho #supernaturalnovel #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #georgiangothic #georgian #gothiclandscapes #matthewgregorylewis #gothicfiction #gothicfictionbooks #classicliterarure #classiclit #pageturners #captainfrederickmarryat #phantomship #gothichistory #theflyingdutchman #phantasmagoria #gothicart #gothictales #ghoststory https://www.instagram.com/p/CRHLpsElJdm/?utm_medium=tumblr

QOTD: “They said, in dusty little towns around the country, that witches could turn into balls of fire and fly through the air”. 🏚 “Mexican Gothic” ~By Silvia Moreno- Garcia ~ An eerie, mysterious, petrifying, spine-chilling yet glamorous novel. 🥶 ~ “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno- Garcia has been the most anticipated book of 2020. This book has also won Goodreads Choice Awards. It’s one of the most trending and reviewed book on Instagram. ~ When you watch a horror movie, there’s a lot to it- music, characters, effects, location etc. When you read a haunted novel, it all depends on the writers ability to keep readers engrossed with words. I am amazed at how descriptive this book is, Silvia Moreno- Garcia has so beautifully written this novel, as a reader I was terrified and thrilled. 😱👻 ~ This story is about Noemi Taboada, a glamorous young girl from Mexico City. When Noemi receives a letter from her newly wed cousin Catalina from High Place, begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it is clear to Noemi that her cousin is in danger and she sets out her mission to rescue her cousin from her mysterious husband. Noemi’s stay at High Place is filled with unusual, terrifying, paranormal activities. 😳 ~ I loved the writing, exceptional! I loved the characters, I loved the balance of glamour and bizarre. My favourite characters are definitely Noemi and Francis. 🙌 ~ I’d rate this book 4.2/5. ⭐️ If you’re in mood for a new-age haunted Novel, pick this one up! #mexicangothic #silviamorenogarcia #gothicbooks #hauntednovel #horrorstories #horrorbookstagram #horrorbooks #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramindia #bookstagrammerindia #bibliophile #bestbooksof2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNW-TMrrD6t/?igshid=1d7lq8rg32o8b