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Rereading this again after 40 years. It still vivid in my memory & feels so modern and relevant.
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A witch-adjacent cat-botherer and firebrand based in Orkney--a voracious reader across genres. 🏳️⚧️ ally. I am the author of Ashes & Stones: a Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🔮🐈⬛🕸️🐈⬛❤️🔥
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20% complete! NorthSea Witch has read 12 of 60 books.
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NorthSea Witch wants to read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
NorthSea Witch wants to read Becoming Vegetalista by Stephen Buhner
NorthSea Witch wants to read Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther
NorthSea Witch wants to read Red Comet by Heather L. Clark
Red Comet by Heather L. Clark
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath is a 2020 book by Heather Clark that examines …
NorthSea Witch started reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine …
NorthSea Witch wants to read The theory of flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
The theory of flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma in hospital after a long illness, her family and friends …
NorthSea Witch wants to read Water Moon by Samantha Sotto
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto, Samantha Sotto Yambao
A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical journey when a …
NorthSea Witch wants to read Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in …
NorthSea Witch wants to read This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
NorthSea Witch started reading The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
I often choose my next book at random from the library shelves. I do this alphabetically. I was on O when I chose this book--a Kafkaesque allegory of memory and state surveillance. Despite being written 30 years ago, it's chillingly relevant right now.
NorthSea Witch finished reading Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn comes a breathtaking and spine-tingling novel about three teenage girls who …
NorthSea Witch finished reading Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to …
NorthSea Witch reviewed Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the …
Pure Medicine & the work of a master
This is the second time reading this cycle, and I have to say that revisiting this over the last two months--which is how long it took me to read all four books--has been a revelation. I appreciate that to say what she needed to say, at the time she said it, Le Guin needed the books to be very male centred, yet this culminates in the final book, Tehanu--to a story of survival, trauma and women's power. So grateful now that I am an older woman, to have these books