And as it turns out, the titular novel and the other four books in the sequence are also spot-on selections for this winter in particular, the Winter of Dystopia 2017 CE.
Frigid, familiar, spooky - it was a spot-on choice for a holiday read that wasn’t “merry” at all. I read The Dark is Rising years ago, and although its plot details had faded, I remembered its cataclysmic snowstorm, among other wintery elements. The right book always seems to find me, and did so again earlier this month, when I learned through Twitter of a virtual book club, #TheDarkIsReading, dedicated to Susan Cooper’s beloved novel, The Dark Is Rising. For me, reading about winter thus became an essential and compulsory corrective to the still-green outdoors as the holidays approached. When you grow up in Florida, like I did, weirdness is plentiful but winter is scarce. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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