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$18.00 The Gorgon’s Guide to Magical Resistance edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff 134 pages / November 2022 / PB: 9781947544437 …
VizBig vol 8 out of ??? ... we enjoyed the anime years ago and are finding the manga addictive.
this one turns up here & there, including as a candidate for Modern Witch's witchcraft & occult media awards
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We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar …
This book reads from cover to cover like an exciting novel. I consider it right at home as a compendium to A People's History of the United States.
When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their …
(Sue Monroe recommended on FB 1/23/24). This book appears on bookwyrm but not bookrastinating?
Three stars, three and a half for engagement.
Aside from the need to suspend disbelief regarding everything from how & why our heroine wasn’t busted while sleuthing, how she lived on cigarettes and hardly any food, to how neatly she put the pieces together, to the use of “carriage return” for “enter” (1998 wasn’t THAT long ago) on a computer, we’d guess that one’s response to this story may well hinge on one’s experience and/or feelings regarding the college environment.
To us it mostly felt rather cookie-cutter and shallow. (If you think that was a gratuitous use of “rather,” brace yourself for the prevalence of “quite” in the novel.) Granted, it’s been decades since we’ve been an undergrad, but we can’t imagine such casual classroom operation, not just on one occasion but regularly. There was absolutely no sense of academic rigor. Characters seemed mostly almost caricatures, like paper doll people. …
Three stars, three and a half for engagement.
Aside from the need to suspend disbelief regarding everything from how & why our heroine wasn’t busted while sleuthing, how she lived on cigarettes and hardly any food, to how neatly she put the pieces together, to the use of “carriage return” for “enter” (1998 wasn’t THAT long ago) on a computer, we’d guess that one’s response to this story may well hinge on one’s experience and/or feelings regarding the college environment.
To us it mostly felt rather cookie-cutter and shallow. (If you think that was a gratuitous use of “rather,” brace yourself for the prevalence of “quite” in the novel.) Granted, it’s been decades since we’ve been an undergrad, but we can’t imagine such casual classroom operation, not just on one occasion but regularly. There was absolutely no sense of academic rigor. Characters seemed mostly almost caricatures, like paper doll people. Don’t even get us started on Lily’s smoking; likely it was a facet of some light modern version of a hard-boiled detective trope, but it felt ridiculous. Do so many people still smoke in the South West of England? And everywhere! At restaurants, in the academic buildings, wherever.
We did like Lily’s family, especially her Mum, her younger brother Nat, and her mom’s friend Sue, but not enough to subject ourselves to any additional books in this series.
In some ways, though, the writer can tell a story. It was often difficult to put the book down, even with our various dissatisfactions.
The cover blurb from BBC Radio 4: “Twin Peaks condensed into book form” is probably telling, but we never watched “Twin Peaks.”
Three stars, three and a half for engagement.
Aside from the need to suspend disbelief regarding everything from how & why our heroine wasn’t busted while sleuthing, how she lived on cigarettes and hardly any food, to how neatly she put the pieces together, to the use of “carriage return” for “enter” (1998 wasn’t THAT long ago) on a computer, we’d guess that one’s response to this story may well hinge on one’s experience and/or feelings regarding the college environment.
To us it mostly felt rather cookie-cutter and shallow. (If you think that was a gratuitous use of “rather,” brace yourself for the prevalence of “quite” in the novel.) Granted, it’s been decades since we’ve been an undergrad, but we can’t imagine such casual classroom operation, not just on one occasion but regularly. There was absolutely no sense of academic rigor. Characters seemed mostly almost caricatures, like paper doll people. …
Three stars, three and a half for engagement.
Aside from the need to suspend disbelief regarding everything from how & why our heroine wasn’t busted while sleuthing, how she lived on cigarettes and hardly any food, to how neatly she put the pieces together, to the use of “carriage return” for “enter” (1998 wasn’t THAT long ago) on a computer, we’d guess that one’s response to this story may well hinge on one’s experience and/or feelings regarding the college environment.
To us it mostly felt rather cookie-cutter and shallow. (If you think that was a gratuitous use of “rather,” brace yourself for the prevalence of “quite” in the novel.) Granted, it’s been decades since we’ve been an undergrad, but we can’t imagine such casual classroom operation, not just on one occasion but regularly. There was absolutely no sense of academic rigor. Characters seemed mostly almost caricatures, like paper doll people. Don’t even get us started on Lily’s smoking; likely it was a facet of some light modern version of a hard-boiled detective trope, but it felt ridiculous. Do so many people still smoke in the South West of England? And everywhere! At restaurants, in the academic buildings, wherever.
We did like Lily’s family, especially her Mum, her younger brother Nat, and her mom’s friend Sue, but not enough to subject ourselves to any additional books in this series.
In some ways, though, the writer can tell a story. It was often difficult to put the book down, even with our various dissatisfactions.
The cover blurb from BBC Radio 4: “Twin Peaks condensed into book form” is probably telling, but we never watched “Twin Peaks.”
Adding some L Carrington to my TBR on Bookrastinating after an interesting post of a piece of her work on JAS Shekhinah page
This series was recommended somewhere so I got it from the library. Story told in first person by a young lady who's a college lecturer in England on various literary topics but she smokes like a chimney and in general seems pretty shallow. But the story moves quickly and I'm curious to see how it all works out.
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of …
(found on bookrastinating landing page)
My ebook shows as 108 pages, which seems short, and we're on page 18 of that. Felt like a little bit of a slow start at first, which was due more to our not remembering the details of The Lightning Conductor and being distracted by trying to create context. LG, the first book, was ever so sweet though! Recommended as a period piece & lovely escape novel.
A charming little companion to the Matthews' deck of the same name, accessible whether you are new to their brand of Celtic/Arthurian scholarship or not, although a grounding in the Arthurian traditions as well of course as in Tarot is recommended. There are newer editions available, which might be better if you don't already have a copy (probably bought this one in the early 90s; it's a 1990 edition) as they are active scholars and always updating their vision.
One of those lightweight little fast reads that sets you up to want to learn more about the people and places it describes. I hope there are more of these about ancient places in Central and South America, even North America, because why not?
