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I got a shipping notification from eBay the other day and was like hmm, what did I buy during my summer heatwave induced bout of insomnia this time?

The answer was this edition of Witch Week! I love it but I‘m very hopeful for some cooler nights and some deeper sleeps! Otherwise who knows what other parcels will turn up?!

Some of my old favs with #Witch characters.

#Scarathlon #AutumnPlease #PhotoChallenge #TeamMischiefAndMayhem

Jones creates a school full of loveable and hateable students and tells this story in an interesting manner. I liked it a lot better now rereading it with my husband, but didn't care for this when I first read it as a teen. It's an interesting entry in the Chresomanci series. #Witches #Magic

I enjoyed this but it has a very different feel than the first three I read. The story is set in an alternate world where magic is illegal unlike the other worlds where it is openly practiced. I found this installment was slow to start and only got really interesting once the magic started showing up.
#BuriedAliveChallenge

Late night reading with my girl Sierra. This story has a different feel from the previous in the series so I‘m wondering what will happen next. #CatsOfLitsy

I‘ve gone and picked up two Instagram photo challenges for the month... cause I‘ve got all this spare time 😂

Please enjoy this green stack! Any favourites?

W is for Witch Week!

Cause what wouldn‘t be improved by a visit from Christopher Chant, amirite?!

You never quite know what is going to turn up when you buy books via eBay, but I was quite happy with this retired school book, first edition of #WitchWeek by Diana Wynne Jones

✨ Favourite Title for #RiotGrams ✨

Continuing with what *I think* is Book 3 of Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series.(It might be Book 4. It's not quite clear...) But this one is just right for the season!

My Halloween-themed #signedsundays photo:
Witch Week by the late, great Diana Wynne Jones.

I never met her. I bought this signed.
I am not Eva.
But I sure wish I knew what she said!

Gin & Tonic and children's fantasy about witches!

Yes, now I am being obnoxious and just showing off more of my various copies/covers for Witch Week. But can you blame me? Only awesome books can inspire so many amazing covers!

A school for witch orphans. Where magic is strictly forbidden. And yet magic keeps popping up. Time for a visit from the always well dressed and enigmatic Chrestomanci!

Obviously, someone in this class is a witch because people on the covers fly on brooms! Of course it's not that cut & dry in this fun Chrestomanci novel.