Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spell the Month in Books — March 2026

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spell the Month in Books — March 2026: Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks . Each month one or two themes are suggested for the b...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in December 2024, Plus Stats for the Year

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in December 2024, Plus Stats for the Year:   December was a good reading month and three of my reads were Christmas books. I included some notes on my reading in 2024 at the end of th...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Shirley Jackson

Bitter Tea and Mystery: We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Shirley Jackson:   This is the first paragraph of We Have Always Lived in the Castle . It establishes the narrator and tells us a good bit about her.  “My na...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson:   Dark Tales includes 17 stories by Shirley Jackson. Most of them are fairly short, between 5 to 12 pages. One is 24 pages long, another is...

Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday "The Possibility of Evil" Shirley Jackson

Patricia Abbott: Short Story Wednesday "The Possibility of Evil" Shirley Jackson

Patti Abbott: Short Story Wednesday, "The Tooth" Shirley Jackson

 Patti Abbott: Short Story Wednesday, "The Tooth" Shirley Jackson

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson:   Reviewed by Christy             Shirley Jackson is known for her quiet horror, specifically the novel The Haunting of Hill House and ...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson: Reviewed by Christy             Shirley Jackson is mostly known for her work in horror – the novels The Haunting of Hill Hous...

1-Minute Book Reviews: The Haunting of Hill House

1-Minute Book Reviews: The Haunting of Hill House

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay: Reviewed by Christy H.               Schizophrenia is a mental disorder with symptoms that may include hearing voices, persec...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jack...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jack...: Reviewed by Christy H. Mary Katherine and Constance Blackwood are sisters. They live in a large, secluded house with their disable...