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Thanks to Kim and Amy for taking the time to answer some questions! You can check out the website for their Twisted Lit series, or it's Facebook page.
1. Okay, let's start with a this-or-that question. Halloween
or Thanksgiving?
Kim: No contest: Halloween. I’d prefer the opportunity to
dress up like a Victorian vampire over eating turkey any day of the year.
Amy: Thanksgiving. I love
that there’s very little build-up, a lot of sitting around involved, and I
believe mashed potatoes trump most Halloween candy.
2. I absolutely love reading mysteries in the fall, and I
read Pride & Prejudice every
Christmas. Do you have any fall favorites or rituals?
Kim: I like reading Gothic novels, like The Monk and The Castle of
Otranto, in front of my fireplace. Every year at Christmas, my family and I
have a tradition of watching Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Nutcracker ballet.
Amy: I don’t have any
rituals, per se, but I have come to embrace football season because it gives me
uninterrupted time to read when everyone else in my house is glued to the TV!
3. What's your favorite spooky read?
Kim: Stephen King’s The
Shining still terrifies me. Also, anything by Poe. (Try reading The Tell-Tale Heart out loud before bed
— I guarantee you’ll have nightmares).
Amy: Amy: I love all the spooky
Victorian stuff; Henry James’s The Turn
Of the Screw, The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins. But I’ve got to say, James Dickey’s Deliverance is the book that had me most freaked-out in the midst
of reading it.
4. Horror
movies: yes, no, or only if I can peak through my fingers?
Kim: Yes, I love the thrill of a good horror movie!
Amy: Only if I can peak
through my fingers, but still ... it’s a small form of torture to feel that
much unnecessary stress!
5. Of course I can't forget to mention that you have a book
coming out this winter. Can you tell everyone a bit about Anyone But You?
Kim: We decided to create a back story that explained why the
Montagues and Capulets (in our case, the Montes and the Caputos) so detested
one another. In fact, we weave back-and-forth in time between not one, but two love stories in our spin on
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. One
story takes place in the 1930s and 1940s, while the other is set in modern-day
Chicago. You’ll have to read the book to find out how they’re connected!
Amy: There’s also a lot of Italian comfort food that factors
in. You’ll want to devour this book, in more way than one!
Don't forget to check out Debz' Fall Festival post!
3 comments:
Fun answers!
These books do sound fun.
I'm with you. I like mysteries in the fall. So why P&P for Christmas?
I think it's the fact that I can snuggle up under a blanket with some tea and read it at Christmas (and totally swoon over Darcy). I actually have time to enjoy it :)
These books look amazing! Love all of there fun answers. Who doesn't swoon over Darcy? :)
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