Autumn is my favorite season. I started to describe why, but hit 'backspace' pretty early on in my phrasing, as it quickly entered the realms of cheesy and cliché. I could use succinct bullet points, but that would be boring. What I will say is that I have a particular fondness for October, and today I searched for quotes about this month. There are, I was surprised to learn, quite a few of them. Common terms were gold, dying/dead/death, maple. Most had a somber or even sad t

I generally dress up for the holiday, but I've never worn a costume that was directly connected to a book or author—actually, on second thought, that's not entirely true: I have (I was Offred from Handmaid's Tale). But that was more due to the show having been adapted for Hulu that year than it was about the book. (For the record though I did read the book when I was 10 or 11 and it was memorable and a compelling read.) In addition to it being a timely pop culture pick, it wa