That’s true :o The only music is in the electronics/music section.

He is sososo pretty *swoon* I definitely had a poster of him on my wall when I was in high school

I totally remember the hay room! I used to watch Trading Spaces with my mom back in Jr. High. Good times.

I grew up in Yolo County so the YOLO craze was weird for me

Who are your fave K-Pop groups, Jezzies? I love so many, but my #1 is CNBLUE *swoon*

Oh my God, I love K-Pop so much (especially BIGBANG!) I really want to go to a concert. Now that I’m living in SoCal I hope I have the opportunity - not that I have anyone to go with :(

It’s based on a book. You can read the book’s description on Wikipedia to decide whether you’re interested in seeing it or not (so you don’t get a nasty shock when you get into the theater)

lol. I’m pretty sure it’s her nickname though.

Good to know! Thanks.

If anyone here hasn’t read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, I highly recommend it! I bring it up because it’s about a woman who joins an academic who is investigating a supposedly haunted house, all set in the 1950s. It’s a great read for October.

Ooh, what’s the title & author of that?

That sounds awesome! I’ll have to check it out.

To be fair, the girls who made the pictures were children, so that’s pretty impressive, imo. Not impressive enough for anyone to believe them though...heh

Ooh. I want a glow-in-the-dark book!

Yep. Spiritualism had surges in popularity after the American Civil War & WWI. lots of young men lost their lives in those conflicts and there were plenty of frauds ready to defraud grieving families :[

Definitely. I mean, William James (father of American psychology) was a big believer. I don’t think he was stupid. As someone living in 2015, however, it’s very weird for me to see authors taking such an ambivalent (or even somewhat credulous) stance.

It’s on my list! A lot of the fictional books I’ve read were YA (lol), but I’ve read some non-YA too. Sarah Waters’ Affinity was very good (of course, because it’s Sarah Waters!) and I liked John Harwood’s The Seance (among others)

Yes and no (lol). I think what’s happened with this topic is that the early & mid twentieth century writers on the topic (almost all men) completely eviscerated mediums & Spiritualism, so in the past few decades there’s been a more nuanced approach to the subject, led largely by feminist academics. I mean, I can…

I’ve read a few nonfiction works on Spiritualism lately and it’s a very weird line. Despite my interest in the subject, I don’t believe in Spiritualism for a second and that made certain books very eyeroll-worthy for me.

Arthur Conan Doyle was an interesting man. He believed in the Cottingley Fairies too.