#autumn krause

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🥀𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖙 𝕿𝖊𝖆𝖒 𝕬𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙🥀

Hello lovelies! Just popping in to announce that I'm part of a new street team for Grave Flowers by Autumn Krause! As a lover of gothic romance books, Autumn is an auto read for me and when I heard of her new book I just knew I had to get in on it!

I'll be posting on here and on my instagram: @ashley_dang096 !

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New Young Adult Releases! (October 3rd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth

Kween by Vichet Chum

Up in Flames by Hailey Alcaraz

Beholder by Ryan La Sala

Love in Wonderland by Abiola Bello

And Don't Look Back by Rebecca Barrow

The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge

The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

Plan A by Deb Caletti

The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra

Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

A Twisted Tale Anthology by Various

The Spells We Cast by Jason June

How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch & Beth Revis

Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn & Love Dunn

The Glass Scientists: Volume 1 by S.H. Cotugno & Sabrina Cotugno

New Sequels:

Silence & Shadows (Blood & Moonline #2) by Erin Beaty

Prince of Thorns & Nightmares (Princes #2) by Linsey Miller

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Happy reading!

[eggcatsreads]

𝔹𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔻𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕝 𝕂𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝕐𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕖 by Autumn Krause

🍎🍎🍂🍎🍎/5

Pub Date: October 3rd, 2023

“Maybe poetry wasn’t there to let you escape. Maybe it was there when you couldn’t escape.” Not only is the main character a poet, but so is this entire novel. Reading this book felt like reading poetry, so lyrical and haunting that it almost didn’t feel like reading at all, but instead simply an experience. As Catalina tracks the Sap Man to rescue her brother - a literal journey into Hell - we watch John slowly descend into making the deal that creates the monster. The dual timelines and narratives beautifully show the symmetry in the journeys for both characters and how they end up at the same place at the end. Wordplay and artifice are huge theme in this novel, as it’s not until the deals are signed that the characters learn the truth of them or what they actually agreed to. I honestly think I’ll be thinking about this book for a while to come, and I will never see apples - or apple orchards - the same way again.

Thank you Netgalley, Peachtree Teen, and the author for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review. ❤️

[Also posted to Goodreads and Instagram]

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#BookReview #BeforetheDevilKnows You'reHere by #Autum Krause #darkfantasy

from Good Reads: A deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tales of Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan with Faustian elements, and centering a fierce Mexican-American poet on a quest to rescue her brother. 1836. Wisconsin Territory. All Catalina has left is her little brother—Mama died years ago, and Papa was buried just yesterday. She and Jose…

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Before The Devil Knows You're There by: Autumn Krause

Published by: Peachtree teen Publication Date: October 3 2023 This book made me distrust apples for a solid week after I finished it. I adored this story and couldn’t put it down. When my eyes were bleary from reading all night, I kept reading because it was that good. It follows a girl and her quest to save her family. Her father and her brother are the most important things to her. He’s…

[alintalzin]

This was a good book.

A Dress for the Wicked #OutOfContext

[johanna-swann]

For real though, is anyone else getting the feeling that the powers that be of 911 got a reality check over winter break and now they're using 8b as a testing ground to see which new directions they could take the show without making too many permanent decisions yet?

They brought Tommy back and established that there are complicated feelings between Buck and Tommy, but haven't got them back together either. -> Depending on the audience's reaction they can give that relationship a proper ending with closure (instead of whatever 8x06 was) or get them back together.

They moved Eddie to Texas and gave him some plot & screen time, but in an extremely self-contained way where what happened in LA and what happened in El Paso wasn't connected in the slightest. -> Depending on the audience's reaction they can bring him back by the end of the season or leave him in Texas (they have lined up more than enough arguments to justify it).

They put Ravi in every episode they filmed this year (serial killer arc was mostly filmed in autumn) and wrote a lot of scenes that put him either into focus or established him as a fully-fledged member of the 118. -> Depending on the audience's reaction they can up him to main for season 9 or keep him on the payroll as a recurring character.

They killed off Bobby which is a more drastic and permanent decision, but it also saves them a lot of money. -> Depending on the audience's reaction they might decide to reduce Athena's screen time and importance in the future or keep her as a main. (If the show survives the firefam's patriarch's death and Peter Krause's exit, viewers might be open to accept Athena being downgraded to a side character.)

They already tried to fix some of the things all of us criticised during 8a: They brought a lot of side characters back even when they really didn't need to be there (like Hen's mom in 8x13 or Sue in 8x12), they gave some of the plots an aftermath instead of going the zero consequences route (Maddie struggling to go back to work, the next 3 episodes allegedly showing the fallout of of Bobby's death in detail, the ongoing Bucktommy situationship), they made room to shake up the established (predictable) relationships and dynamics and really changed the status quo by killing off Bobby, ...

So yeah. I don't think it's too far out to think that 8b is an experiment to see where they can take the show in season 9 (while also saving money).

[beforeviolets]

okay I just finished Before the Devil Knows You’re Here and now I’m CRAVING more books that center American folklore! (especially diverse ones please!)

the only other ones I can think of right now are:

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott: adult magical realism, reimagining of Baba Yaga as a Jewish mother in Russian pogroms, modern day queer siblings, a cross country road trip in a house on chicken legs, puppet shows, Americana and American folklore, sapphic golem-ish character

The Diviners by Libba Bray: YA, historical horror, 20’s setting, diverse cast, mysteries abound, American folklore, what values are the American Dream built on anyways?, occult and mystical elements

and of course

Before the Devil Knows You’re Here by Autumn Krause: YA, historical horror, Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed, apple folklore, Mexican-American MC, creepy forests, Faustian deals

any other recs? 🙏🏻

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

Some books by Asian authors to read this may!

Edit: thank you @linkedsoul for letting me know that I misused the term AAPI in the original post. I’m very sorry about that, and have changed the title to accurately reflect what this list is.

[gimmeshelter]

favourite first watches of april !

tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul, 2004)

ginger snaps (john fawcett, 2000)

mandragora (wiktor grodecki, 1997)

magnolia (paul thomas anderson, 1999)

meantime (mike leigh, 1983)

autumn sonata (ingmar bergman, 1978)

ashes and diamonds (andrzej wajda, 1958)

julien donkey-boy (harmony korine, 1999)

limbo (tina krause, 1999)

[gorgeousgalatea]

You know what I'm trying to finally write again and anywhere is a good place to start so here are some bite sized reviews of my bite sized YA binge (including two other books I read a few weeks earlier):

The Narrow, by Kate Alice Marshall: This was a book I borrowed after skimming it with a strong impression I would enjoy it, and thankfully I was right! The main character is the daughter of two well off but neglectful parents who spend way more time on her deeply troubled brother, to the point where she doesn't find out they forgot to pay for her final year at boarding school until she's already arrived. Fortunately the wealthy parent of a sickly student is willing to cover her tuition, as long as she rooms with and takes care of that student for the year. Pity she's pretty sure she's the reason that student is sick. Oh, and their dorm room is haunted as hell.

The Narrows deals a lot with the subject of abuse--both romantic and familial--while couching it in an atmospheric ghost story. I liked the tone and the characters, and one thing I really enjoyed is that it used its first person narrative to paint a very familiar romantic fiction picture of the main character having no one else to relate to or rely on other than their new love interest who is ~the only one who understands them~, and deliberately made that the product of her own insecurities. The ghost and possession element also explored sense of self and identity in a way that pinged pretty hard with my ozqrow days. Bittersweet ending, but would recommend for anyone into sapphic ghost stories.

Before the Devil Knows You're Here, by Autumn Krause: Ehh this was the mediocre apple story. I loved the summary--the main character's struggling single father passes away suddenly, and before she even has time to mourn, the monster her father has been warning her about her entire life shows up on their doorstep to steal away her brother as well, so she sets out to find the monster and save her brother. I dunno, the problem could be me, that summary had me expecting Guillermo del Toro style Labyrinth--which I am now realizing someone could say "don't you just mean Pan's Labyrinth" and no, I mean the relationship with maturity and sexual awakening where the monstrous is outwardly monstrous--and that's...really not what it was at all. It was "what if Johnny Appleseed made a deal with the devil," which kudos, I have not seen before, but wasn't really into in its execution. I do appreciate a heroine with guile, though, and she does have that.

I Fed Her to the Beast and the Beast Was Me, by Jamison Shea: The premise of this one is pretty straightforward--a talented black ballet student makes a deal with a dark entity to have the opportunity to actually make it into the prestigious Parisian ballet troupe she's been chasing after her whole life, and discovers that being part of a cult with monstrous powers is actually less toxic than being a girl of color in the Parisian professional ballet scene. I really liked this one, it wasn't afraid to have its leading lady be monstrous and cruel and wrong, and it also made it clear which parts of her mindset were just the product of spending so long in a cut-throat industry that spent every moment rejecting her. The ending was a bit too neat for me, but overall the atmosphere was great. Genuinely almost anything with a title like that is probably something I'll end up enjoying lmao

What Stalks Among Us, by Sarah Hollowell: Two best friends get stuck in an evil corn maze! This wasn't my favorite, but I still enjoyed it a lot; the main character's habit of self-censoring even among friends was very resonant with me. The story hits the ground running and has good momentum on exploring the mystery of the maze and how it came to be. The nature of the maze is ultimately rooted in [womp womp] trauma, so that's a major element of the story, and unfortunately there is greater focus on the main character's trauma with her best friend supporting her, but I guess that's to be expected in a first person narrative. It still is ultimately about their friendship! Which is portrayed as valuable as is without developing into anything else.

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, by Andrew Joseph White: Ultimately the most brutal of the books but I think that was what I liked about it. The main character is a trans boy in an 1882 London where mediums are a hot commodity but the women are only prized as potential baby makers for male mediums. The main character is caught trying to escape his conservative family and inevitable impending marriage, and sent to a corrective boarding school designed to turn mentally unwell spiritually sensitive women into demure brides. This boarding school is run about the way you would expect, and most of the story is the main character realizing just how bad it is and figuring out what can be done to escape. The exactly one way he's gotten lucky is that he and his future betrothed turn out to be t4t and are really quite cute together, but the main character is an aspiring surgeon and that means the story is not afraid to get visceral. Which really elevated the tone; there's room for a sequel in the ending to this one that I wouldn't mind reading.

[sakurabreeze]

Autumn by Jon Krause

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'Before the Devil Knows You're Here'- Krause, Autumn

Disability Rep: Dyslexia (LI)

Genre: Horror, Dark Fantasy, Gothic, Historical, Retelling

Age: Young Adult

Setting: 1830s America

Additional Rep: Mexican American MC, F/M

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and there are plenty coming out this month! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves this October.

✨ All These Sunken Souls (Anthology) ✨ The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosko Jackson ✨ Love in Winder Wonderland by Abiola Bellow ✨ Sinner's Isle by Angela Montoya ✨ Beholder by Ryan La Sala ✨ Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai ✨ The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker ✨ Flower and Thron by Rati Mehrotra ✨ The Misfit and His Dashing Devil by MN Bennet ✨ A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli ✨ Starling House by Alix E. Harrow ✨ Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle ✨ A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber ✨ Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare ✨ Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall

✨ Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros ✨ What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez ✨ Night of the Witch by Sarah Raasch and Beth Revis ✨ The Spells We Cast by Jason June ✨ The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado ✨ All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters ✨ Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause ✨ Thin Air by Kellie M. Parker ✨ If You'll Have Me by Eunnie ✨ The Space Between Here & Now by Sarah Suk ✨ I Loved You in Another Life by David Arnold ✨ Sleepless in Dubai by Sajni Patel ✨ The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold ✨ Brooms by Jasmine Walls ✨ Kween by Vichet Chum

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Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb:

Part dark gothic fantasy, part journey into the bizarre, this delicious blending of tall tales and Latin American surrealism will haunt you as you devour it!

"Highly imaginative and powerfully affecting."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

1836, Wisconsin. Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Harsh winters have brought the family to the brink of starvation, and Catalina has replaced her poet's soul with an unyielding determination to keep Pa and her brother alive.

When a sudden illness claims Pa, a strange man appears—a man covered in bark, leaves growing from his head, and sap dripping from his eyes. He scoops up her brother and disappears, leaving behind a bird with crimson wings. Catalina can’t let this man—if that’s what he is—have her brother. So, she grabs Pa’s knife and follows the bird.

Along the way, she finds help from a young lumberjack, who has his own reasons for hunting the Man of Sap. As their journey takes them deeper into the woods, they encounter strange beasts and tormented spirits. The more they uncover about the Man of Sap, the more they learn how deeply Catalina’s fate is entwined with his, planted long ago in cursed seeds.

An enchanting mixture of American tall tales and Faustian elements, Before the Devil Knows You’re Here centers a fierce Mexican American poet on a quest to save her brother. Autumn Krause’s vivid, haunting prose and rich symbolism make this a must-read for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig.

Review:

A unique dark gothic fantasy take on the story of Johnny Appleseed? I am in! The story follows Catalina, a young woman in 1836, Wisconsin who lives with her father and brother in a cable in the wilderness. They have been struggling to just get by, crops failing, and hunger gnawing at them... but their father has always told them to be weary of the Sap Man and his apples, apples that will kill them. When her father suddenly becomes sick, a strange man covered in bark appears with sap dripping from his eyes and kidnaps her brother. Catalina knows it is the Sap Man and now she must find a way to get her brother back. Along the way she meets a lumberjack also hunting this man down... and together they journey deeper into the woods and encounter strange beasts and tortured souls. The story is also told from the point of view of Johnny, the Sap Man, detailing his life from before he became what he was and the deal with the devil that he made, and ultimately the cost. Catalina must find a way to save her brother but there will be a cost to getting what she wants and that might mean making a deal with the same devil that made Johnny what he is now. This was such a fascinating story and honestly so unique. I love the take on the story of Johnny Appleseed and the gothic fantasy tones in this were amazing. I really had a great time with this one and think it would make a great autumn read! If you like gothic fairytales, a little bit of romance, and good atmospheric writing, pick this one up!

*Thanks Netgalley and Holiday House / Peachtree / Pixel+Ink, Peachtree Teen for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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Music in Nature Interpretation

A fun fact about me is that I have always been very drawn to two things: the outdoors, and music. In a grade twelve music class, I remember having to produce my own song for my final project. I recall when producing, though I spent hours and hours in front of my laptop, I could not figure out what was missing. Eventually, I realized that I was missing the sound of rainfall, to accentuate the feeling of a comforting, moonlit night. In nature, music is in everything. Of course, it is obviously in the song of a bird’s chirping (Gray et al. 2001), however it is also in the rustle of the wind through leaves in a forest, and in the sound of a pebble falling into a lake. As mentioned in the Gray et al. (2001) reading, even the sounds of whales have been recorded for their beauty, and for their use in stories as well. The natural occurrences of nature are more than what we as people interpret as simple background noise; they are their own compositions, and forms of music. Animals themselves in order to attract mates, will sometimes sing songs to find suitable partners. 

What people fail to recognize is the high presence of nature in music. In contemporary music, artists will very frequently sample the sounds of nature into their songs, to add to the emotional component and aspect of their pieces. If not in the music itself, references to the beauty of nature can be made in the lyrics as well. Take for example, in the lyrics of “Falling Behind” by Laufey, she mentions that “The sun’s engaged to the sky” to symbolise the beauty and relationship between the two, and how they cannot be without one another. Indigenous communities globally have also incorporated nature in their cultural music, ever since the prehistoric times (Gray et al. 2001). 

Personally, music is what helps me feel, while nature is what brings me to the present moment. One song which takes me back to natural landscapes is “Hawayein,” a Hindi song sung by Arijit Singh. When I was in first year, my mental health weighed down on me an exponential amount. In short, living away from home on campus was not a wise decision, especially considering I lived a commutable distance. Every week, I would go home on Thursdays, and be driven back Sunday evening. The drive from my home to Guelph was quite scenic, considerably when taking the backroads. In that moment, this song would frequently play as I stared at the autumn leaves changing and flying through the wind. All I could think of was how desperately I wished I could be at peace, floating gracefully like the leaves falling from the trees, allowing the winds to take me wherever they wish. The comfort this song gave me was like one I could not describe, however one thing is certain; it provided me with strength to experience its beauty while experiencing the beauty of the greenery we drove through. 

“Le jaaye jaane kahan, hawayein, hawayein

Where are the winds taking us

Le jaaye tujhe kahan, hawayein, hawayein

Where are the winds taking you

Begaani hai yeh baghi, hawayein, hawayein

These winds are rebellious

Le jaaye mujhe kahan, hawayein, hawayein

Where are the winds taking me

Le jaaye jaane kahan, na mujhko khabar, na tujhko pata

Where is the wind taking us, neither of us know"

Gray, P. M., Krause, B., Atema, J., Payne, R., Krumhansl, C., & Baptista, L. (2001). The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music. Science, 291(5501), 52. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A69270354/AONE?u=guel77241&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=fb9366a8

NOTE: I have translated the lyrics to the best of my abilities, it is a beautiful song though! Here's a link to it: https://youtu.be/cYOB941gyXI?si=9FDFjznDlJu8BvEb