Starting Pride Month off with an a sapphic fantasy audiobook and attempting to finish a library book from last month #WeekendReads
Really focusing on LGBTQ books for Pride Month. Fingers crossed for a bingo this time around! @TheAromaofBooks ##bookspinbingo
Bookspin: a historical fiction book
Double spin: Catfish Rolling
Okay I learned some important lessons about leaving a lot more open ended prompts for myself this month. Excited to try this again now that I know what will work for me a little better @TheAromaofBooks ##bookspinbingo
pickThis book is a history of witchcraft trails over the last 450 years. It contains lots of contemporary material and connections as well. Not surprisingly, whether 1600s or 2000s, witchcraft accusations are rooted in misogyny, control, hatred, and abhorrence of those in poverty.
pickAs World War I rages, there are evils-living and dead-that only a witch can see. Petra Kurkova, a born witch, has the ability to capture the dead on film. She is recruited to join a team of sorcerers headed to the frontlines, where the bloodshed has resurrected foul creatures.
Great blend of historical, fantasy, and horror. I highly recommend.
The Order of Seven Stars Book 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#SeriesLove2024 #ReadAway2024
#ReadYourKindle (March #16)
so-soFor most of this book I thought it would be a pick—and maybe it still should be—but I found the last couple chapters disappointing. The first 11 trials are real, riveting historical witchcraft trials, chosen to both be representative of other trials of their time and to illustrate turning points in the history of witch trials. But trial 12 is a fictional trial that represents the horrible treatment of “witches” in southern Africa—couldn‘t she…
Another irritating error. The Wiccan symbol is a pentacle, not a “pentangle”—seriously, how do you study witchcraft and get that wrong? Also, the symbol isn‘t approved for current service members (I don‘t even know whether that‘s a thing). It‘s approved for placement on grave markers of service members, after years of work, which hardly supports her assertion that the US government theoretically allows freedom of religion including witchcraft.
Hmm… no, it didn‘t. That wasn‘t added to the dollar bill until the 1950s. 🤔
I hate finding errors like this in books. It makes me suspicious of all the research. 🤨
It‘s nice to start a weekend trip with a new book!
