🍁☕ A Cup of Tea - October 2024 📚🍂
- Vanessa M Therrien
- Dec 27, 2024
- 3 min read
🦇 Happy Spooky Month Friends! 👻
A wee bit of housekeeping fun before we dive in - I've become an affiliate with Bookshop.org! 🥳 While I'll never discourage anyone from getting books via any avenue they prefer, I personally love this company because rather than subscribing to the "big corporate man" their inventory comes from local bookstores, and even better, they're climate neutral, which means getting a book from them supports the little guy and reduces your carbon footprint. 🌳
So now, with every book I share you'll find a link to my new little bookshop - which makes it easier for you to find the books I talk about, and if you purchase through my link, also sends a nugget of support my way so I can keep building up my bookish corner of the net. 📚🥰
Alrighty then, on to the goods!
🍁✨️ October Cup of Tea Book Club Pick ✨️🍁
This month we're reading the seasonal classic Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman! I think many of us will have seen the film, but either haven't read or didn't even know there was a book. I'm so excited to dive into the season with the magic of witches and cozy themes like love and family. As always, it's never too late to join us in the discussion, so grab your favorite cuppa and come hang out via the paid subscription on Substack or Patreon!
☕📚 Books I Read in September 📚☕
This book hardly needs any introduction, and people much cleverer than me have written countless reviews, so I'm only going to briefly talk about why I love The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien enough to have a tradition of reading it every year.
The Prose - No one turns a phrase quite like Tolkien
The Story - I think the modern epic fantasy genre - while I absolutely love it - has in a way become lost in the woods of its own epicness with the complexity of plot lines from a gaggle of character povs. It’s nice to come back to this book’s simpler but no less epic way of storytelling. It feels like the breath of fresh air Bilbo takes above the trees of Mirkwood.
The Characters - Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey, Gollum, and SMAUG - chiefest and greatest of calamities and one of the best dragons to ever grace a page.
I implore anyone who has never read this book to give yourself the pleasure of doing so. It is, in my opinion, the best gateway into not only Tolkien but also the more classic forms of fantasy storytelling.
🎃📚 September Book Haul 📚🎃
Some good seasonal gems in this stack! 👻
From Top to Bottom:
A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne - a cozy fantasy, sapphic love story, and the sequel to Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (which I haven't read yet - but planning to this season!)
The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig - a dark YA fantasy about a girl who becomes the ward of Death. Yeah, so in!
Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood - another cozy fantasy about a girl in a bookshop, I honestly picked this one up because the back blurb was practically describing my life in that moment, and I want to find my magic spark again too.
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett - another cozy fantasy ('tis the season, you know?) and the sequel to Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries which I read last year and LOVED. I can't wait to see what new shenanigans Emily and Bambleby get up to.
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