Queering Your Craft by Cassandra Snow5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Snow reclaims magickal practice as fully queer and queer-friendly. Then it’s about autonomy and taking charge of our lives. It is catharsis, first – something that helps us purge our emotions and heal. ![]() In a politically difficult and tense world, witchcraft is a secret weapon. Throughout the book, she weaves in her core focus of magick as a tool for personal empowerment. Snow offers a queer-inclusive overview of various aspects of witchcraft: elements, sabbats, moon phases, astrology, working with deity, divination, and how to use magick in your daily life in a true DIY fashion. Queering Your Craft is a fantastic introduction to witchcraft for queer people who feel called to the path. After enjoying Cassandra Snow’s Queering the Tarot ( here’s my review), I was eager to see what she wrote next. One of the newest books in the “witchcraft 101” world is Cassandra Snow’s Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft From the Margins, released earlier this month. I wish I’d had books like these as a baby pagan! ![]() I’m thankful to see so many of the new books in this category are less problematic than “the classics,” and many go beyond the basics and include brief overviews of a lot of the different aspects of magickal practice, like Tarot, astrology, herbalism, crystals, and kitchen witchery. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of “witchcraft 101” books, to update the reading list for my coven’s new members. ![]()
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The Lion Game by James H. Schmitz5/12/2023 ![]() These Are the Arts (September 1962, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction).Watch the Sky (August 1962, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact).Rogue Psi (August 1962, Amazing Stories).The Other Likeness (July 1962, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact).Novice (June 1962, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact).Swift Completion (March 1962, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine).An Incident on Route 12 (January 1962, Worlds of If).The Star Hyacinths (December 1961, Amazing Stories).(October 1961, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact) Gone Fishing (May 1961, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact).The Illusionists (retitle of Space Fear, 1960, Agent of Vega).Summer Guests (September 1959, Worlds of If). ![]() Harvest Time (September 1958, Astounding). ![]()
Halberstam breaks of the game5/11/2023 ![]() This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed. Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.The New York Times bestseller, now with a new introduction! The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions.The tactile authenticity of Halberstam's knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. ![]() A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. ![]() This is how it always is novel5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. This is how children change.and then change the world. This is how a family lives happily ever after.until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how a family keeps a secret.and how that secret ends up keeping them. “It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.” ―Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies ![]() Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award ![]() The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2017 Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So Far PopSugar’s Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far) “Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.” ―Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)Īmazon’s Best Literature and Fiction of 2017īustle’s 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017 The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick ![]() Dark force rising star wars5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() But after showing early signs of military genius, Thrawn is adopted into the powerful Mitth family and renamed Mitth'raw'nuru (later Mitth'raw'nuruodo). His birth name is actually Kivu'raw'nuru. Thrawn himself was born to a low class family. Thrawn's people have formed the Chiss Ascendancy, an oligarchy ruled by a handful of powerful families. ![]() Thrawn's distinctive blue skin and glowing red eyes mark him as a Chiss, a mysterious race who lurk in the Unknown Regions of the galaxy. Even now, Thrawn remains among the most popular and enduring Star Wars characters who hasn't appeared in a movie. ![]() In this period without new Star Wars movies, stories like Heir to the Empire and Dark Empire helped keep the franchise alive. “ Grand Admiral Thrawn's OriginGrand Admiral Thrawn originally debuted in the 1991 novel Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, one of the progenitors of what quickly became known as the Expanded Universe. ![]() The Passion by Jeanette Winterson5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. You can read this before The Passion PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Passion written by Jeanette Winterson which was published in 1987–. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson ![]() Joiry5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() 26, 2015: While skimming over the stories again, as part of adapting and expanding this review for another site, and with the benefit of a number of years of further reflection, I decided that this collection fully merits an additional star, raising it to five! Jirel's journeys through unnatural landscapes and her battles with supernatural opponents are still wonderful to read, and though newcomers Red Sonja and Xena are more famous now, Jirel rules as the archetypal, indomitable redheaded swordswoman in chain mail and greaves, swinging her "great two-edged sword." Were these stories written today, inevitably Jirel would have a lot of hot sex, but as they were first published in Weird Tales between 1934-1939, sexual attraction is mostly only vividly implied. Indeed, in Jirel's world, beauty = decadence = corruption. ![]() ![]() She's a good Catholic girl, stubbornly purposeful, relentless in pursuit of enemies or vengeance, hard-boiled and a little stupid, and cannot be distracted by mere physical attractiveness. Moore created Jirel, ruler of Joiry, in reaction to the beefy total-testosterone blood-and-thunder tales of '30s pulp magazines, but Jirel is no anti-Conan. ![]() The Hot Zone by Richard Preston5/11/2023 ![]() Others carried amulets or charms inside their space suits.” (p. The narrator states in the text, “People performed all kinds of small rituals before they walked through that steel door. Another factor to consider could be where the reader is from and their knowledge on these viruses, or the interpretation of this book between a reader who is religious and someone who isn’t. ![]() The age factor in the reader plays a big role and is essential to interpreting the book because young adults may have various different views on this deadly viruses compared to someone who is a lot older. The Hot Zone can be interpreted differently in various ways, for example if it was interpreted by someone in Africa who might have had a relative who contains the disease would feel a lot more sympathetic compared to an interpretation by someone who doesn’t know anybody with the disease who would just be a lot more cautious and defensive towards the virus. To contextualize that event, the author provides us with background information on multiple other outbreaks tracing back to Africa in the 1970s. This book also examines the outbreak that occurred at a monkey facility in Reston, Virginia in the late 80s. The author of this novel discusses the horrifying process and experience that ebola and marburg victims go through when they acquire these lethal diseases. ![]() The book “The Hot Zone” is a nonfiction novel written by Richard Preston in the mid 1990s. ![]() Where Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn Mills5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() We have assembled a Mother’s Day prize package from Q106.5 and anybody can win, whether you are a mother or not. We've planned flowers, cards, and other gifts for this year at Q106.5. While dates and celebrations vary, Mother’s Day traditionally involves presenting moms with flowers, cards and other gifts. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar. In the United States, Mother’s Day 2023 will occur on Sunday, May 14. The American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. Mother’s Day is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed in different forms throughout the world. If you are a mother, you have or had a mother.Īnd we would love to help you celebrate Mother’s Day with prizes.įirst from, the American tradition of Mother’s Day: If you’re a daughter or a son, you have or had a mother. ![]() This is a Book by Demetri Martin5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Martin calls his collection of palindromes "Palindromes for Specific Occasions," and includes a description with each one to clue readers into what it describes. But he adds that it's also a sequence of letters or words - even sometimes numbers - that reads the same forward or backward. Martin jokes that most of his material is short and inane, but his section on palindromes reveals his keen talent for wordplay.Ī palindrome is, at least functionally, "a phrase or sentence that you might say that might create awkward silence with other people," Martin says with a laugh. ![]() "Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron." ![]() "The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door." They range from tongue-in-cheek to wryly clever: "They are short little ideas, so I could just put a sentence or two, and then move on to the next one," he says. In another section, "Epigrams, Fragments and Light Verse," Martin echoes his stand-up style with brief but hilarious snippets. ![]() |