Spooky Reads To Enjoy This Fall

It’s fall in most parts of the world. I am spending a year on a tropical island 50km away from the equator. In a land where it’s always summer, I find myself missing the whole fall a-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c-s. I am beyond happy spending my days on a beach drinking coconut water. But sometimes, I do yearn for a warm fire and a hot drink keeping me warm from the cold sinister autumn air. So I’m turning to books to quench that need. So here is a list of all the spooky but not necessarily horror books that bring fall around me.

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Best Books to Escape into During the Lockdown

We are suffering from a global pandemic and while we all have the urge to refresh the news site to continue being updated on the latest news related to Covid-19, using a book to escape the situation for a while might be a good idea.

While escapist literature does not have a good reputation, escapism is not necessarily a bad thing. By escaping from the reality for a little while, we also ourselves to rest and then rejoin the world in a better shape than how we originally started. As C S Lewis eloquently put it, “The only people who hate escapism are jailers.”

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