Like Wicked Appetite! Cupcakes and witches, but of course! I also think The Heretics Daughter might be up my alley! I am so glad that Crystal wrote about Wicked Appetite. I love Evanovich for a light read, and her Stephanie Plum series albeit predictable and chick lit-y is one of my favs.
I haven't read the rest in the Wicked Appetite series, but I remember it being fun; I think I read two of them. Don't think those would be your thing. I toured The House of Seven Gables years and years ago. It's location and Hawthrone are some of those facts that are easy to overlook or forget unless you are from New England, for sure. I love Conversion because it is so much like Mean Girls drama related to the Witch Trials but more relevant for modern day.
I'm due for a The Crucible reread. I am definitely not one to read spooky books, but some of these sound interesting. I'll be passing the suggestions on to another friend of mine who loves creepy stories. I'm sure she'll love it. Great post, Christine! Hey Avhlee, thanks so much! Thanks for sharing with your friend too. Hope you are having a nice weekend. Aww such a wonderful post from my two favorite bloggers!! I've been to Boston at least 3 times and never made it. Great book suggestions obvi : xx.
I hope you make it to Salem! Where in MA is the wedding? I am dying to get back to Boston as well as Northampton where I went for undergrad. I bet you'll have a blast and get to see the leaves change! This list is great and perfect with fall on the way! You know, I'm not much for the fall season, but the history of Salem does intrigue me.
I think I'd read any book with magical cupcakes. Janet Evanovich is actually one of my all-time favorite junk food authors. I knew you'd love cupcakes ;. Girl, I am so ready for some spooky reading paired with apple cider, falling leaves, and a cool breeze. I will definitely add some of these books to my TBR list for this Fall!
I fully trust any recommendation by you or Crystal! Plus, unlike Florida, I can apple pick once again. Be still, my heart. I was stoked that Crystal offered to write up a guest post for me. Hint, hint So, what are the best books on the Salem Witch Trials? Uncover Salem books for adults and teens, both fiction and nonfiction.
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What a figure, I thought, for the terrifying dislocations of the Reformation. How might it have been understood, how might people have looked for a scapegoat? Writing in the Brexit era, with looming climate catastrophe and the rise of populism, the parallels with contemporary Britain were inescapable. The books and stories below variously, wonderfully, follow the threads of the witch-hunt.
King James I had the book burned. My Lancashire grandmother liked to say that we were descended from her but she told a lot of tales. The book bristles with magic — there are talking heads, raining teeth and deals with the devil, but there is also a fierce analysis of power and its abuses. A daughter of the sun, she is banished to Aiaia where, part-god, part-herbalist, she teaches herself magic.
Acrasia is wily; she stupefies men with sex and turns them into pigs, but her bower is all music, all delight. In the intro, Boyer and Nissenbaum state that up until the time this book was published almost no other historians had explored these issues before and explained the only one that had come close was Charles W.
Upham in his book Salem Witchcraft. When they realized this, it encouraged them to write this book to give readers a more thorough understanding of the trials. Boyer, who passed away in , was a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin who earned his Phd from Harvard.
Nissenbaum is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received a doctorate of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published in , instead of looking at the big picture or listing the chronology of the events, this book explores the personal lives of the people involved in the trials to form a sort of psychological profile of the colony at the time. The chapters are divided by the roles each group of people played in the trials, such as the accusers, the victims, the clergy, the judges and the elite the wealthy outsiders and government officials.
The book really helps the reader understand what life was like for these individuals at the time and puts their actions into perspective. It brings a much needed humanizing aspect to this complex topic. Despite the fact that Foulds is not a historian and mostly writes on travel-related topics, she does a great job of delving deep into the lives of the people involved in the trials and exploring their personal stories. Published in , this book explores the psychology and social issues behind the Salem Witch Trials.
The book theorizes that the trials were caused mostly by issues such as fear, religion and politics. The book explains that the trials were the result of a repressed society acting out its greatest fears and lashing out against those they deemed responsible for their suffering.
A Delusion of Satan also details the similarities between the Salem Witch Trials and modern day witch hunts such as the communist scare in the s and the Islamophobia brought about after September 11, Published in , this book suggests that the community of Salem was living in a constant state of fear at the time and this fear is what set the stage for the mass hysteria and the witch trials.
Norton argues that the people of Salem felt they were under attack and believed the Devil was responsible for their suffering. Salem residents at the time were suffering from numerous problems, from disease outbreaks to war to crop failures, and they believed at the time that witches and the devil were often behind such unfortunate events.
The book is laid out chronologically to help readers understand these events as they happened. Norton is a historian and a professor of American History at Cornell University. Published in , The Devil in Massachusetts takes the dialogue of the Salem Witch Trials court records and uses it to tell the story of the trials in a dramatic narrative. Many authors of newer books on the trials have cited The Devil in Massachusetts as one of the first well-researched and investigative books on the Salem Witch Trials.
Starkey, who died in , was a former newspaper editor who later became an author. The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is a play that first premiered on Broadway in Although the play is set in Salem in and depicts the events of the Salem Witch Trials , it is actually an allegory for the Red Scare that took place in the United States in the s.
In the Crucible, Miller was comparing the witch hunt in Salem to the witch hunt for Communists in the s. The Crucible is both a blessing and a curse for anyone interested in learning more about the Salem Witch Trials. On the plus side, it was responsible for kick starting a renewed interest in the witch trials and it fueled the start of the tourism industry in Salem. Yet one major drawback is, because it is based on the trials many readers mistaken believe that the play is historically accurate and think many of the things that happened in the play actually happened in real life.
As a result, a lot of myths and misunderstandings have stemmed from this play as well as the movie adaptation released in Miller took a lot of liberties with the story, which he had the right to do as a playwright, and injected his own theories, ideas and events.
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