50 Book Challenge Update

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#9 Origins (by Cate Teirnan)

This is another of the 'Sweep' series books ... the silly teen Wicca ones. This one is about the lead character's ancestor living in Scotland during the late 17th century. Silly, teen book describes it pretty well. It amazes me how well this author writes teens. She even captures their flawed reasoning processes. It was fun, and it took me only a few hours to read.

#10 The Principa Discordia

This was a great book! Everyone should read it 5 times! LOL It enlightened me on a lot of things I see around the internet ... particularly the sacred cow gag.

#11 Triumph of the Moon (by Ronald Hutton)

I am so proud of myself on this one! This book is amazing and so full of information, I feel like I just took a college course in the history of British Pagan Witchcraft. I found it really interesting, especially after reading Drawing Down the Moon, to find out how the British Pagan Community seemed to develop exactly opposite from the American Pagan Community. In the US, the non-withcraft Pagan faiths had the public eye first, and Wicca came to the forefront later, and it Britian, Wicca was in the public eye first. This book belongs on every Pagan's bookshelf.



Read

1. Industrial Magic (Kelley Armstrong)
2. Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch (Lora O'Brien)
3. Book of Shadows (Phyllis Curott)
4. Changeling (Cate Tiernan)
5. Strife (Cate Tiernan)
6. Witches Almanac (Elizabeth Pepper & John Wilcock)
7. Drawing Down the Moon (Margot Adler)
8. The Goddess Re-Awakening (Shirley Nicholson et al)
9. Origins (Cate Tiernan)
10. The Principa Discordia
11. Triumph of the Moon (Ronald Hutton)

In Progress

12. Guardian of the Balance (Irene Radford)
13. Living Druidry (Emma Restall Orr)
14. Witch Crafting (Phyllis Curott)
15. The White Goddess (Robert Graves)
16. Tapping the Dream Tree (Charles De Lint)

To Be Read

17. The Golden Bough (James Frazer)
18. Mastering the Tarot (Eden Gray)
19. The Good Luck Book (Bill Harris)
20. Teach Yourself Fortune Telling (Rachel Pollack)
21. Sisters of the Dark Moon (Gail Wood)
22. To Stir a Magic Cauldron ($RW)
23. To Light a Sacred Flame ($RW)
24. The Chalice and The Blade (Riane Eisler)
25. Witch: The Wild Ride From Wicked to Wicca (Candace Savage)
26. Fanny (Erica Jong)
27. The Onion Girl (Charles de Lint)
28. The Pomegranate: International Joural of Pagan Studies
29. Memory and Dream (Charles De Lint)
30. Hades' Daughter (Sara Douglass)
31. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-Century Massachusetts (Richard Weisman)



--Phae