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		<title>It&#8217;s not too late to read the best books of 2019!</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Hawk in the Woods]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here at Word Horde, we think we put out some of the best books of the year. Every year. And we&#8217;re not alone in thinking this. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the praise Word Horde books received as we moved into 2020&#8230;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here at Word Horde, we think we put out some of the best books of the year. Every year. And we&#8217;re not alone in thinking this. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the praise Word Horde books received as we moved into 2020.</p>
<p><a href="https://litreactor.com/reviews/a-hawk-in-the-woods-witchy-shenanigans-and-spooky-folk-songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Max Booth III</a> said the following of Carrie Laben&#8217;s <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/a-hawk-in-the-woods/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Hawk in the Woods</a></em>, &#8220;Consider this book the <em>Geek Love</em> of witchcraft. [&#8230;] This is the best debut novel you&#8217;ll read all year.&#8221; And Max also names Carrie Laben&#8217;s A Hawk in the Woods one of the best weird and dark books of 2019 for the <a href="https://www.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2020/01/01/forbidden-tomes-running-down-the-best-weird-and-dark-fiction-of-2019" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">San Antonio Current</a>, saying, &#8220;Laben’s novel is a gloomy celebration of black magic and everything that comes with it.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://apps.npr.org/best-books/?fbclid=IwAR0jG3WC4fRI0eKFxQe1eulQDs_YNAMwU1S7VVJXRlws39z0g22cmOOJRc0#year=2019&#038;book=298" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NPR</a> and <a href="https://vernacularbooks.com/2019/11/27/books-to-give-thanks-for/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vernacular Books</a> both picked Craig Laurance Gidney&#8217;s <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/a-spectral-hue/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Spectral Hue</a></em> as one of the best books of 2019, as did <a href="https://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-pleasures-of-reading-viewing-and_24.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rosanne Rabinowitz</a> and <a href="http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/my-2019-favorites-sff-novels/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bogi Takács</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://litreactor.com/columns/the-best-horror-novels-of-the-last-decade" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LitReactor</a> called Nicole Cushing&#8217;s <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/a-sick-gray-laugh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Sick Gray Laugh</a></em> and John Langan&#8217;s <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/the-fisherman/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Fisherman</a></em> two of the best books of the decade!</p>
<p><a href="https://signalhorizon.com/the-best-books-of-2019/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Signal Horizon</a>&#8216;s Carson Winter picked Nicole Cushing&#8217;s <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/a-sick-gray-laugh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Sick Gray Laugh</a></em> and Brian Hauser&#8217;s <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/memento-mori/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows</a></em> as two of the best books of 2019</p>
<p><a href="https://www.tbnweekly.com/special_sections/article_9506b0b0-184f-11ea-9c1e-1f57645de523.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TBN Weekly</a> recommended Jeffrey Thomas&#8217; <em><a href="https://wordhorde.com/books/the-unnamed-country/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Unnamed Country</a></em>, as did Paul StJohn Mackintosh of <a href="http://greydogtales.com/blog/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grey Dog Tales</a>, who writes, &#8220;“This is a modern classic of writing about another country or culture on the level of Lafcadio Hearn or ltalo Calvino.&#8221;</p>
<p>And we had a nice write-up in the <a href="https://www.petaluma360.com/entertainment/10505603-181/the-buzz-word-horde-titles?sba=AAS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Petaluma Argus-Courier</a>, too!</p>
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