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You know a book is good when you treat it like the last bar of deep rich dark chocolate that you’ll eat for a long while. Honest to goodness realism and a fresh vibrant voice that brings dystopian sci-fi to life.

Sensory writing style that I prefer. Great narration of audiobook.
Losing interest because I know the story line already.

Listening to this on Audiobooks. Miller really breathes fresh life into a telling of an untold tale of one of the first Witch Goddesses. Miller details Circe's interactions in a sensory way that I can relate to.

The narrator, Perdita Weeks is doing a fantastic job of narrating this story and her powerful yet lyrical voice serves this tale very well indeed!

Really enjoying this lusciously written telling of one of the First Witches, as she discovers what she is and what her powers are. The lineage descriptions of who beget who etc, are not overly drawn out, but simply explained. The narrator Perdita Weeks has a powerful and lyrical voice that I allows me to really focus in on the content.

This book is akin to the most decadent chocolate dessert ever. Each time, I need even more time to absorb whether or not her poetry and ritual best serves my purposes/intentions and fits into my modality. I wish she had indexed all her rituals and assigned them suggested applications. At times I feel like I am lost in a chocolatier's shop and need to extract myself! -- lol

Writing Prompts

My House Rules:

Here I wake up remembering __________.
I will not permit _____________.
Where I welcome _____________.
I worship ___________.
Every guest is adorned with ____________.

I am the priestess of _________.
I am calling in ____________.
I am building my temple for ___________.
This is my year and I will ___________.
I am a wild witch of the earth and I know __________.

Quote, "the totality of the loss staring him down, unblinking, until the emotional hangover of the dream finally released its hold on him like a slowly lifting fog."

4.25 Take this lovely and nostalgic alphabet book outside or beside a window to read. And for a further enriched experience, read it aloud to a child and ponder each page, savoring and immersing yourself in a more resonant world. It is a lovely book which does invoke a wonderful sense of enchantment if one slows down and takes the time to ponder its felt-sense and relate it to one's experiences of being in nature.

Really enjoying being immersed in this wooded landscape of wild freedom and tamed constraint where Humphreys invokes a superb balance. It is a lovely novella that is speaking to me with its naturalistic style, reminding me of the essence of wild moments caught in time and placed on the shore of memory.

.... "let me tell you what it means to be a witch."

From the Table of Contents, I select these sections to reread:

The Preface: Of Shadows and Symbols

Heisenberg
6. If Science is Conscious of Its Limits ...

Schroedinger
9. The I that is God

Einstein
11. Science and Religion

Planck
17. The Mystery of Our Being

Pauli
19. Beyond the Veil of Physics

"Holy Virgin!" exclaimed the old woman in a tone of disappointment.

TO: indicates; aim, purpose or objective
LO: indicates information avail and info needed
PO: indicates possible solutions
SO: narrows possibilities towards a solution
GO: indicates the action steps that we will take.

Am very pleased to have discovered this author. Her writing style focuses on exacting insights into the human condition both of the interior worlds of her characters and their interactions with others and their surroundings. She accomplishes this without too much emphasis on one particular emotion at a time, rather it wholeheartedly embraces emotional ambivalence and explores moral relativism

Finding that I am more tightly focusing my reading due to time constraints. As such less fiction and more non-fiction, for the time being:

Currently reading an ARC of "Quanology: Evolution and You" by John Khury

Dipped into "States of Denial" by Stanley Cohen.

Better now. I am immersed in the reading, I find that I am very curious about how these tangled skeins will unfold into a tapestry.
It should have been obvious to me about the 'we.' The tale is being told via Walter Moody who is the sole audience p. 203 (narrative link)
Catton does a good job of providing well described nuggets of psychological type; each explains a lot about a character in one paragraph offerings.

This has the tone of a mystery/detective and it is not one of my fav genres. Mock Victorian prose is okay, except for the addition of the words: 'correlation' and 'jettisoned.' Both I believe would not have been in usage at that time. That threw me off of the immersion into the flow of the author's voice. Also what is it with the "We, will now present to you," narrative intrusion? Am I being too critical

Although I have finished this, I am going to reread it before I write my review. It is a very subtle and nuanced offering and deserves a deeper reading.