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Sara Raztresen

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Sara Raztresen is a Slovenian-American author dealing in the surreal--from magical realism to high fantasy, with a little dusting of magical topics in her nonfiction, as well. Themes of religion, romance, and the horrors of everyday life especially interest her, and she believes genre lines were meant to be bent and broken. She draws on the culture and folklore of her heritage and reimagines them in her works.

She's a graduate of the Popular Fiction and Publishing in Emerson's MFA program (Class of 2020), and her published works include "The Gray Mile" in Waxing & Waning: A Literary Magazine, "Čarovnica" in The Paragon Echo: A Journal of Literary Nonfiction, several short works in Rhode Island College's Shoreline, and her first novel, Quaran
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Escaping the Cauldron by Kristine McGuire
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My favorite part about this book is that the author went back to witchcraft and wishes she never wrote this thing. That's what I call a true happy ending.

I appreciated the author's care not to try and marginalize witches by insisting they aren't all
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Not the worst thing I've ever read. Certainly not the best, either. It's easy to tear through a 258 page book in a night when every Goddamn sentence is its own line.

Cole felt like the author's very shallow understanding of the MC in American Psycho.
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“astrology is here seen as a stupid distraction from useful and necessary actions.”
Sara Raztresen, Discovering Christian Witchcraft: A Beginner's Guide for Everyday Practice

“Despite what Protestant denominations say, Mary’s role is considered, by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to be “inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it.”7 The Catechism also states that "Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power,” as all her power to help the church members still comes through the grace and power of her Son.”
Sara Raztresen, Discovering Christian Witchcraft: A Beginner's Guide for Everyday Practice

“She said that to cut him, but it cut her, too, and then she felt nothing more. Maybe she’d grown too used to how her fun made her feel, because in the absence of all that danger and excitement, there was only emptiness—a coldness she didn’t recognize anymore.”
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Sara Raztresen Sofia wrote: "I read your response to my challenge question and I'm wheezing, thank you for the high praise! I look forward to talking more about books with you in the future."

Aayy! Thanks for accepting (and for sharing some solidarity with me on that Whole Situation™ that was that book lol). Looking forward to more book-talk with you as well! :D


message 1: by Sofia

Sofia I read your response to my challenge question and I'm wheezing, thank you for the high praise! I look forward to talking more about books with you in the future.


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