We did some travelling in the latter half of May, and on our return, I started in a new position at work, and these elements conspired to make May and, to a lesser extent, June, rather slimmer pickings on the reading front than usual.
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Right now, I want to talk about a common subgenre within horror, which I am coming to call the “woman-in-house” novel. These are not simply haunted house novels; they are not simply feminist horror novels; these are not simply gothic novels. They display a constellation of traits that makes them identifiable as the same kind of thing.
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Included in here is a wider variety of books than I normally read, because we have two novels that I read for the literature class I taught this past semester. Teaching literature is really different from teaching composition, and while I’d gladly do both going forward, I definitely need more practice as a literature teacher.
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We’re here! It’s the ‘20s and the similarities to the last go-round continue to be striking and troubling.
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It’s been a long month and my bones hurt constantly and I didn’t read as much as I’d have liked to, but here’s a book round-up anyway.
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