50 Book Challenge Update

[pt_tangles]

#12 Tapping the Dream Tree (by Charles de Lint)

I loved this book. It has been too long since I read any really good fiction. This is a collection of short stories about a place called Newford. A magical city in the modern world. There are faeries, folks who slip back and forth between our world and the otherworld, people who can wear the skin of wolves, crows, and buffalo, and all sorts of other mystical, magical things. The writing style is very dreamy and makes you feel like you are missing critical parts of the world ... parts you could see if only you knew how to look for them.

#13 Witch: The Wild Ride From Wicked To Wicca (by Candace Savage)

This was a coffee table book on the witch as a metaphor for the fearful aspects of women. There is a lot of really interesting stuff in this short book. Her history is fairly solid, and we even get a bit of an in-depth look at some of the women who have had an important role in the development of feminism. This, more than a pagan-esque book, is a pretty heavily feminist book. She seems to be fairly disapproving of the Wicca and Pagan Witchcraft movements, feeling that followers are misguided in their attempts to reclaim the word Witch. I enjoyed the book, even if I don't really agree with her conclusions.



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)
12. Tapping the Dream Tree (Charles de Lint)
13. Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca (Candace Savage)

In Progress

14. Guardian of the Balance (Irene Radford)
15. Living Druidry (Emma Restall Orr)
16. Witch Crafting (Phyllis Curott)
17. The White Goddess (Robert Graves)
18. The Onion Girl (Charles de Lint)

To Be Read

19. The Golden Bough (James Frazer)
20. Mastering the Tarot (Eden Gray)
21. The Good Luck Book (Bill Harris)
22. Teach Yourself Fortune Telling (Rachel Pollack)
23. Sisters of the Dark Moon (Gail Wood)
24. To Stir a Magic Cauldron ($RW)
25. To Light a Sacred Flame ($RW)
26. The Chalice and The Blade (Riane Eisler)
27. The Pomegranate: International Joural of Pagan Studies
28. Memory and Dream (Charles De Lint)
29. Hades' Daughter (Sara Douglass)
30. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-Century Massachusetts (Richard Weisman)
31. Carpe Jugulum (Terry Pratchett)
32. The Witches Hammer (Jane Stanton Hitchcock)
33. Long Time Gone (Denis Hamill)



--Phae

Comments

[pjvj.livejournal.com]

Not knowing a fricking thing about him, do you think my 13-soon-to-be-14 year old son would like the first one? He likes fantasy novels.

[pt_tangles]

It depends on what kind of fantasy he likes. I love fantasy set in the real world, but if he is into the same sorts of fantasy as my brother (who is addicted to stuff set in the DnD world), then maybe not. A lot of the main characters are guys (if that is a factor), and it really isn't a heavy read at all.

--Phae