You're invited to the masquerade: Let's read Poe together (last week of October)

hi everyone I hope you're having a great weekend so we're officially in October which for me is the best month out of the year I love the run-up to Halloween I love autumn it is time where we get to appreciate folklore magic and the Spooky side of life so every October I normally Focus my reading on Gothic literature and one of my favorite Gothic authors is Edgar Allan Poe as you can see from this very well-worn well-loved copy of his greatest works and poems tales and poems so this year I would like to invite all of you to pay homage to Poe with me by reading some of his tales and poems with me during the last weekend of October so this isn't a formal readathon there's no official prompts as I mentioned um I just want us to be able to appreciate his works so this is rather short notice I appreciate that um some of you out there are very organized and might already have your TBR sorted for October my invitation to you is just to read one of his poems or one of his tales and they're no more than a few pages in length so my personal favorites by him his out of his tails are probably a tie between The Telltale Heart and the mask of the Red Death if you went to an American School you've probably read some of his tales and poems um and if you haven't you're probably at least familiar with his favorite poem uh his most famous poem sorry the Raven so as I say I'd just like to invite you to read some of these with me and maybe we can have a discussion about them so I will be leaving my boxer in the About Me section and you know just send me a message if you decide to partake in this during the final week of October um if you don't want to or it doesn't fit in with your schedule that's absolutely fine um I as I say it is short notice um but I am going to put out videos the week before in the uh the week of just to tell you which poems and which Tales I am reading and you know if you don't read any of them yourself maybe you just like to leave a comment and we can have a you know discussion there um so I would like to end the video just by saying thank you to Alan at big hard books and Classics for giving me a nudge to do this we were having a talk about poem uh Poe um on one of his videos and uh what really sparked the inspiration for this was one of his the t-shirt that he was wearing um it was just a black T-shirt with the Raven saying Nevermore um so anyways yes so uh I hope you all have a great week ahead and I look very much forward I very much look forward to um what you all have to say about your October reading plans and let me know if you do uh decide to partake in this very informal uh reading group reading session whatever you want to call it but anyways I will see you all in my next video bye for now