50 Book Challenge Update

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#19 - Eclipse (Sweep #12) by Cate Tiernan

Silly Teen Wicca Book ... I am almost finished the series. These last few are turning in focus from Morgan to a new witch discovering her powers named Alisa. While I did enjoy this one, and the one after (#13 - Reckoning), I feel it is somewhat of a cop-out. Kind of like the author couldn't think of anything else interesting to do with Morgan and her life, so she just switched to a new witch to pick up the slack.

#20 - Reckoning (Sweep #13) by Cate Tiernan

This one was entirely about Alisa (and from her point of view). An interesting direction, but I would have liked it better if the rest of the series hadn't been so focussed on Morgan. It would have been great if the other books had been from the other characters points of view. That would have made the whole thing a lot more interesting, and made for great character development. I feel a little silly figuring out how much better a series of teen books could have been, but on the other hand, why shouldn't teens have well written books to read? Do book about/for teens really need to be badly written? The more I think about this, the more I want to write my own teen fiction book just to prove that it doesn't need to be mediocre.

#21 - Living Druidry by Emma Restall Orr

I finally finished this one. I loved it. The way she describes her path is beautiful and poetic, and it seems the perfect calling for the artist in me. I am seduced. I picked up the Thorson's coffee table book on Druidry that Emma wrote. I want to pick up a couple of her other books as well. I don't really know what this will lead to for me, but I think it is important to explore it.



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)
16. Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
17. To Stir a Magick Cauldron (SRW)
18. The Good Luck Book (Bill Harris)
19. Eclipse (Cate Tiernan)
20. Reckoning (Cate Tiernan)
21. Living Druidry (Emma Restall Orr)

In Progress

22. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer-Bradley)
23. The White Goddess (Robert Graves)
24. Guardian of the Balance (Irene Radford)
25. Haunted (Kelley Armstrong)
26. Night's Child (Cate Tiernan)
27. Full Circle (Cate Tiernan)
28. Druidry (Emma Restall Orr)

To Be Read

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


--Phae