Hot Girls Read Podcast

Ayesha

Maybe it’s the new job in the literary world but I have been busy reading! With so much time spent commuting, I have been catching up towards my reading goal. I just finished Codename: Vol 1 by Nehemiah Russell, an author we featured earlier this year! This one is for lovers of comics, dystopian stories, and supporting indie authors. Following up, I started Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards. This is actually a book/author represented by an agent at my new company and it didn’t take much to convince me to read…ha! Designed to be interactive for readers, this story reminds me of Janice Hallett’s The Appeal. Stay tuned for my thoughts once I’ve finished it!

Julia

There is no better way to dive into the fall season than by reading the witchiest, cosiest, spookiest and most haunting stories! Shirley Jackson (author of The Haunting of Hill House) is a master of the creepy, the spooky, the gothic – and the american short story. I went to Shakespeare and Co. the other day to pick up a copy of one of her most famous longer titles, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, but since I couldn’t find a copy there, I came away with a collection of her short stories which I am highly enjoying. The first few stories I have read are quite short but atmospheric. The haunting is more psychological than physical. An emptiness, an oddness, pervades each sentence. Many of the characters are 30 something year old women living in NYC – a very relatable setting for me – and the urban gothic, handled with such a light touch, is the spice I needed for this very time of the year. I simply can’t wait for the colder weather, the fog, the grey, the moodiness of a city dressed in autumn!