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I love Tom Cox's cat books, if you haven't read those already - they are laugh out loud funny and even better, there are 3 or 4 of them! Love the sound of The Fortnight In September, I'm going to check it out now.

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Intriguing! Must read The Light Eaters! Thank you, Mel!

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Absolutely please keep writing these monthly book reviews. I love them! Both VILLAGER and THE FORTNIGHT IN SEPTEMBER are now on my list. If you're going goth but you're a lightweight (like me!), I cannot possibly recommend highly enough the work of Leanna Renee Hieber. I'm so sure you'll enjoy her work that I am including a link. https://www.leannareneehieber.com/ Her first non-fiction work is A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: True Stories of America's Ghosts. The stories themselves are fascinating but the way Hieber weaves in feminism and the voice that women found, through ghost storeis, in times when women's voices were gagged and shamed, is downright brilliant. Ghosts, afterall, can do all sorts of shocking, unacceptable things and inspire fear in a way that living women could not. Her other fiction series are an absolute escapist joy to read. In fact, it might be time for me to read another! They're a bit spooky but not what I would truly classify as horror. Very goth though. Must. Go. Do. Formatting. Work...Must. Not. Start. Reading. 😂

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