Welcome to September...

Hi all! Autumn is here. The leaves will go brown, maple leaves will scatter the ground, the nights will arrive earlier and with a sudden added coldness to them. September has arrived. This also means we are en route to the three most important events of the year. 1: my birthday, 2: Halloween and 3: Christmas. Now when I put most important, I mean to me... You might be someone who does not celebrate Christmas, or Halloween or both even. That is fine. But I look forward to talk of all my favourite wintery foods and drinks - Sweet Potato, hot chocolate, celeriac and Baileys. Also, warm milk is the drink! It is really calming! I love nothing more than to sit down with either a nice calming warm milk, a hot chocolate or a tea (Assam or English Breakfast) and a book to match.

As Halloween is creeping towards us, I thought it seemed fitting that the new theme of the month for September and October is going to be Horror. I'm thinking horror, terror and Gothic. I am thinking extravagant architecture, spiral staircases in spine-chilling castles, grand houses haunted by past connections honestly the list goes on... For me, Gothic is good because it can rattle the heart. Horror is good because it can allow people to question what is wrong in society. I have read some horror that has made me rethink some things. The horror genre can get someone thinking the what ifs and the wrongs and rights in society. Horror and Gothic allowed me to think of evil in more than one way. Lately evil has been encircling this world with all the innocent people who suffer. You only have to ask me and I will proudly tell you that I stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, immigrants, the people of Palestine, disabled people and those who are BIPOC. I do not tolerate any forms of segregation or hate.

In gothic hate is not so much a thing as evil is. But bad things always happen and bad characters are always around. I am looking to reading some horror these next two months. Kickstarting off my horror theme, the author of the month is going to be the gothic author Daphne du Maurier. I cannot wait to get started on a novel of hers. I can only hope you are as excited to read my posts. My posts will be published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays each week. Here's to autumn and here's to September!


Until next time,


Thomas.

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