50 Book Challenge Update

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Well, I finally finished #15 Witchcrafting by Phyllis Curott. It wasn't half bad, actually. A good beginner book ... a little tedious in places for those of us who have been at this a while. But there are some interesting ideas and some very nicely written invocations and Sabbat poetry. It is worth the read (for me it is a little freaky at how much of myself I see in the author).

Now, I am still reading Mists of Avalon ... but taking my time, I want to fully enjoy it (and I am thinking that after that one, I may re-read Forest House ... I really loved that one). I have also started ... drum roll, please ... To Stir a Magick Cauldron. I figure that it will be a quick enough read, and I need to get up off my butt and review it for the website. After only one chapter in, I will say for it that it isn't as bad as Teen Witch (though, there are few that are), and I kinda like her little story-type bits at the beginning of her books ... I assume that they are meant to be guided meditations ... I am curious if her fiction books are any good (some of the crap that SRW writes seems like it already belongs in a fiction book).



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)
14. The Onion Girl (Charles de Lint)
15. Witchcrafting (Phyllis Curott)

In Progress

16. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer-Bradley)
17. The Good Luck Book (Bill Harris)
18. The White Goddess (Robert Graves)
19. Living Druidry (Emma Restall Orr)
20. Guardian of the Balance (Irene Radford)
21. To Stir a Magick Cauldron (SRW)
22. Haunted (Kelley Armstrong)

To Be Read

23. The Golden Bough (James Frazer)
24. Mastering the Tarot (Eden Gray)
25. Teach Yourself Fortune Telling (Rachel Pollack)
26. Sisters of the Dark Moon (Gail Wood)
27. To Light a Sacred Flame ($RW)
28. The Chalice and The Blade (Riane Eisler)
29. The Pomegranate: International Joural of Pagan Studies
30. Memory and Dream (Charles De Lint)
31. Hades' Daughter (Sara Douglass)
32. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-Century Massachusetts (Richard Weisman)
33. Carpe Jugulum (Terry Pratchett)
34. The Witches Hammer (Jane Stanton Hitchcock)
35. Long Time Gone (Denis Hamill)
36. Guardian of the Trust (Irene Radford)
37. Tailchaser's Song (Tad Williams)



--Phae