#backlogathon2022

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🔮 6th of October: What is your favourite kind of monster? (vampire, witch, fae etc.)

I've been reading The Odyssey recently, and because of that, right now the Cyclops is my favourite monster ^_^. I think it's totally fair and justified that the Cyclops ate Odysseus' men because Odysseus and his crew just WALTZED into the Cyclops' cave and ate all his food! Like, hospitality in the ancient world is one thing, but Odysseus was just a bastard in that case.

I used to like vampires because I would read my mum's collection of Anne Rice books, but Twilight and Vampire Diaries ruined the vampire concept - vampires are now tame and pretty -_-

Actually there is one light recently in vampire literature.... But I'll recommend it on October 10th ^_^

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Backlogathon 📚 +

Horrortober Challenge 🎃

👻 October 5th: What drink do you automatically associate with the spooky season?

Red wine 🍷 definitely. Something heavy, dense, like a cab sav or merlot. All those American drinks like pumpkin spice latte just sound too cutesy to my Australian ears 😂

Read today: The Mirror of Ink and The Lottery in Babylon

I have to read Borges slowly. The Mirror of Ink is literally 5 pages long and I sat for an hour, reading passages over and over. Reading end to end. Thinking.