What’s Scarier Than 2020?
Books spookier than the state of the world. Or maybe as spooky as the state of the world. We’re deep in the season of goblins and ghouls so I thought I would share a few extra spooky reads to enjoy this Halloween. Thank you to everyone who has joined me in this 100 book list; you can find my full list of book recommendations here.
Finally, VOTE. The scariest thing you can do in the next two weeks is not vote. Make your voice heard! Haunt the polls!
The reason for much of the aggression between men and women is perhaps not such a secret.
Though the plot covers the Depression, this is really a book about childhood and that first encounter with evil we each must find a way to survive. It's a book about being forced to do battle with evil at a time in life when we have only a child's resources, a child's powers and a child's ability to persuade the adult world to listen.
Storytellers, here's a textbook on story framing and a bedtime story from Uncle Henry.
All societies contain traps that are intended to weed out threats to the social order. In the 19th century, the great fear was birth outside of marriage or illegitimacy. The mechanism of this trap was unique, but the results were the same: suffering caused by prejudice for an arbitrary reason.
For any new readers: My new novel, Tania the Revolutionary, is available on Amazon for Kindle and paperback or Barnes & Noble for eBook.