If you clicked on this link, you either want to know more about the Mad Hatter or you want ideas on how to celebrate this fun day! Good thing I have both for you. Mad Hatter Day is just one of many bookish holidays. There are too many to count! If you’re interested in other bookish holidays, you can find some in another Book Riot article, 10 of the Best Bookish Holidays and How to Celebrate Them. In that article, there is a short intro to Mad Hatter Day.

This holiday appears to be a favorite due to the popularity of the Alice In Wonderland movies and books. I’m sure you may know a few things about this holiday already, but I hope I can surprise you with a little bit of history. Whether you’re a fan of the Mad Hatter or you just really like a good top hat, most people can find something to like about Mad Hatter Day. But first…what is Mad Hatter Day?

Welcome to October, my favorite month! Why do I love this month so much? Incredibly, it’s not because of Halloween, which is what most people expect. In fact, I’m not a big fan of Halloween as a holiday, but the overall vibes of this month do speak to me on a deep level. I once lived in Pennsylvania, and October was by far the best month to experience. The air is crisp but not yet too cold, and the leaves are changing colors and look so vivid and gorgeous, not to mention the fact that I do love to embrace my basic girl side and enjoy all the seasonal pumpkin treats this time of year has to offer.

And even though I don’t love Halloween in and of itself, I do love a good scare, too. In Japan, there’s a phrase, “dokusho no aki,” that roughly translates to “autumn reading,” which is yet another appropriate vibe for this month and perhaps why we’ve got a slightly heftier roundup of new manga releases!

No matter which October vibes you’re here for — the cozy ones or the creepy ones — we’ve got plenty of new manga picks for you! For the former, check out a series about a quiet and anxious girl pursuing her dream of becoming a rockstar, an adorable manga about cat hijinks, and a whole slew of gentle romance series. For the latter, there’s a new Junji Ito collection based on real-life scary tales, an atmospheric adaptation of Kafka stories, and a witchy culinary spinoff of the popular series Witch Hat Atelier. Happy dokusho no aki to all!

Horror fans, this is the month where we all grow into our full power. October is the time of year when we get to emerge from the shadows and love scary stories with our whole chests. From October 1st to October 31st, the whole world has a hunger for everything horror. Everyone is craving thrills and chills, and they’re everywhere. In abundance. Skeletons have come out of the closet and are hanging in front yards. People are proudly displaying cobwebs in their windows. Spooky soundtracks are on every radio station. Ghost stories have now become a part of polite dinner conversation — at least for the rest of the month.

This October is especially sweet, with all sorts of treats and tricks in store for readers. What can you expect this month as we count down to Halloween? So many scary things! Think haunted schools, horrifying vampires lurking in the shadows of a high-rise apartment complex, exorcisms, aliens, and other horrors you can’t even imagine. Yes, this October is the best month for horror readers for a number of reasons. Eight of the best reasons to be excited about October are right here, just waiting for you to add them to your TBR.

My town has a new library, and it is one of the best things that has happened to me this year. I’m not exaggerating. The old library was tiny and dark, and it didn’t have the resources it needed to serve the community. The new library, which was under construction for several years, finally opened in July, and it’s everything. I go there to work a few times a week, and I see more people every day than I saw at the old library in a week. It’s big and airy and has about a million things I love, from a fabulous teen room to laptops you can check out to a free puzzle swap table. There’s even a balcony.

But my favorite thing about the new library is the circulating zine collection. Currently, the library has about 50 zines in circulation, although the collection keeps growing. A lot of them are written by people in the community (including me!), although there are some from further afield, too. I’ve gotten in the habit of checking out a few zines every time I’m in the library.

Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: literature books   95 Hits Stewart Maddox Friday, 06 October 2023 The film that caused a US moral panic Arts How The Exorcist tapped into our darkest fears Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: arts   81 Hits Stewart Maddox Friday, 06 October 2023 Stella Zhong at Chapter NY Arts September 8 – October 21, 2023 Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: arts   74 Hits Stewart Maddox Friday, 06 October 2023 Rose Wylie at David Zwirner Arts September 8 – October 14, 2023 Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: arts   96 Hits Maxwell Abbey Thursday, 05 October 2023 Cooking with Madame d’Aulnoy Literature Photograph by Erica Maclean. The fairy tales of Mary-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Baronesse d’Aulnoy—first published in French in the 1690s—are full of jewel-like foods, poisoned drinks, and violent feats of baking. The cooking is extreme. In one story, “Finette-Cendron,” a Cinderella figure, pleases her fairy godmother by baking her a cake with “two pounds of butter”; later, she serves her a feast made from two chickens, a cock, and “two little rabbits that were being fed up with cabbage.” In another story, “Belle-Belle,” a cross-dressing girl kills a dragon after getting him drunk on a lake-sized wine cocktail spiced with “raisins, pepper, and other things that cause thirst.” In a third, “The Bee and the Orange Tree,” a princess brings her shipwrecked sweetheart “four parrots and six squirrels cooked in the sun,” along with “strawberries, cherries, raspberries, and other fruit,” served on plates of stone, and using large, “very soft and pliable” leaves as napkins. Lest anyone find d’Aulnoy’s repasts and their power unrealistic, the opposite is true, as I discovered while attempting to re-create the food with my friend Celia Bell, whose novel, The Disenchantment, published this May, was inspired by d’Aulnoy’s life and work. Our leg of lamb was big enough to feed an ogre. Photograph by Erica Maclean. The Baronesse d’Aulnoy was an influential early author of fairy tales and a pioneer of the genre, who lived from the early 1650s until 1705, mostly in Paris. The term fairy tale itself is said to have come from her decision to call her works contes de fées (“fairy tales” in French). Despite the diamonds, ogres, fairies, and woodland adventures that populate her writings, d’Aulnoy was concerned with marriage and its consequences; the relation between the sexes; and female education, empowerment, independence, and sexuality. Her witty, aristocratic tales traffic in the kind of doublespeak inherent to fairy tales that allow their writers to uphold myths and social mores while also speaking “harsh truths” and “open[ing] spaces for dreaming alternatives,” as the writer Marina Warner puts it in her book of fairy-tale theory, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. Continue reading Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: literature books   84 Hits Stewart Maddox Thursday, 05 October 2023 Saltburn is 'deliriously enjoyable' Arts It's a 'treat' to spend time with these 'deliciously awful' people Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: arts   75 Hits Oscar Lewis Thursday, 05 October 2023 Ramble Reacts: The Geordie Boys smash PSG! Soccer Marcus, Luke and Andy are here to pick through the wreckage left in Newcastle’s wake, after the Geordies welcomed PSG into their house and then gave them a right shellacking.  We chat about the fired up crowd at St James’ Park, how they turned in such a performance and what’s wrong with Kylian Mbappe. Plus, Jürgen Klopp wades into the replay debate and FIFA dream up their maddest idea yet.  Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: patreon.com/footballramble. ***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Continue reading Copyright © Book Riot 0 Tags: soccer epl   96 Hits First Page Previous Page 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 Next Page Last Page