Welcome back, all!
For this round of recs, I have a couple atmospheric reads for the fall and spooky season. Plus, there’s some non-fiction and something for all the crocheters out there.
Any recommendations you’d like to pass along? Leave them in the comments!
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AHH! That’s What I Call Horror
It’s October! Of course I needed to include some horror. This is an anthology where all of the stories are set during the 90s.
With fourteen horror stories set during the decade of flannel shirts and neon dolphin Trapper Keepers, Ahh! That’s What I Call Horror features a PHAT (pretty horrific and terrifying) collection of totally rad horror and weird fiction authors exploring the darker side of what many consider a time of relative peace and prosperity. With Communism falling and Clear Channel rising, the horror of the 1990s requires peeling back layers of safe, sanitized media to reveal the nightmares waiting beneath. When it comes to ‘90s horror, this is one anthology guaranteed to be all that and a bag of haunted chips.
You won’t need a dial-up connection to reach the beyond in this time-warp to the ‘90s. With undead grunge rock icons, menacing action figures, family sitcoms gone very wrong, and more: these terror tales will return you to the end of the old millennium.
How will you get back?
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Dungeons & Dragons Crochet
It’s that time of year when I start thinking about gifts and gift books! If you’re a crafter with a D&D fan in your community, or know someone who embodies both, this is a great option. I also like that there are more than just amigurumi.
Crochet your favorite creatures, wearables, and household items with twenty patterns inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse.
Dive into a world of crochet and adventure with this delightful collection of patterns. Dungeons & Dragons Crochet gives fans and crocheters of all skill levels a chance to bring their favorite in-game elements to life. Create your own Schools of Magic’s symbols granny sqaures, arm yourself with the Gloves of Missile Snaring, and pack your belongings in the Bag of Holding. In addition to the lore-related items, you’ll find a beastiary of iconic creatures to make your own, including the dangerously cute Owlbear Cub, the menacing Mind Flayer, and the fiery Red Dragon.
Filled with gorgeous photography and step-by-step instructions with pages that lay flat when open, Dungeons & Dragons Crochet will have adventurers everywhere picking up their new favorite the crochet hook.
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The Fabric of Civilization
This one is for all my fashion and textile nerds out there. I’ve talked before how I gravitate toward niche non-fiction, books that really take a deep dive into a particular thing.
“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself…[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth” (The New York Times)
The story of humanity is the story of textiles―as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture.
In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo’s David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code.
Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world’s most influential commodity.
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Portrait of a Witch Undone
For all my local, New England history and mystery nerds who are obsessed with the unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft! This is a fictional recounting of the heist with a witchy twist.
For fans of Starling House and A Discovery of Witches with a Thomas Crown Affair twist: a contemporary New England coven hides the mysteries that lurk in the marshes north of Boston—and how they are connected to the largest unsolved art heist in modern history.
Once, Maeve Ryan was the strongest witch of her generation. But Maeve messed up a spell to contact the Lady of the Fens, an eerie Revenant who lures the unwary to their deaths in the brackish marshlands of the North Shore. Maeve destroyed her reputation, hurt her best friend Ash, and tainted herself with unbound, wild magic that transforms witches into insane Revenants.
With unbound power eating away at Maeve’s mind, all she wants is to get rid of her magic. Forever. But Ash’s research into how the spell went awry leads in an unexpected direction: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and a link between the Lady and a decades-old art theft worth $500 million. When Ash disappears through a stolen painting’s empty frame, Maeve has to follow.
Inside is the Other Marsh, a haunting, deadly realm where only the Lady’s rules apply. Within this half-world lie secrets about North Shore’s history, Maeve’s failure, and the fate of the masterpieces that disappeared over three decades ago. But as Maeve fights toward the truth, she risks her friendship, her coven, and her life against enemies hiding in plain sight.
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Thank you, I need all of these, stat!
Ooo. The Fabric of Civilization looks really good!
I am in the middle of The Fabirc of Civilization and I recommend it! If you’re at all into fiber arts (or even if you’re not), it’s really fascinating, and it’s crazy how for granted we take fabric for nowadays. It’s also a partly a history of the Industrial Revolution, trade, science, math…I just wish it had more pictures!
If you like The Fabric of Civilization you will also love these other two books. They’re almost as engrossing as a good romance novel 🙂
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle, by Clare Hunter and The Secret Lives of Color, by Kassia St. Clair.
@Mabry thanks for the recs!
Fabric of Civilization is on sale at Kobo Canada for $2.99!