Books I've Read So Far This Year
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nekosenseiIt's been a while since I've done one of these posts....
1. Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
2. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
3. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
4. Invader by C.J. Cherryh
5. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
6. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
7. Weird Illinois by Troy Taylor
8. Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft by Denise Zimmerman -- Hey! I had to get started somewhere, right? I think this book was a good overview and it gave some useful information, but there was also a bit of fluff mixed in. *cough cough* Crystals. *cough*
9. Wild Child by T.C. Boyle -- I picked this one up at the library thinking it was a novel about the wild boy of Aveyron, a feral child who was reputed to have been raised by wolves. Once I got the book home, I discovered that it was a collection of short stories. "The Lie" and "Sin Dolor" were enjoyable yet disturbing. I also liked "Wild Child" because I thought it was a good portrayal of what happens to children when they're exposed to languages too late.
10. Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler -- I'm surprised that I managed to find this at my local library. I've had to request many of these books through inter-library loan. Anyhow, what I liked about this book was that the opening chapters did a good job describing the history and evolution of both Wicca and other Neo-Pagan movements. (Also, I had no idea that there was a link between sci-fi and paganism, but it kind of makes sense now that I think about it. And at the time the book was published, there were three well-known sci-fi authors who were also pagan. One Adler named because she was "out" but she didn't want to out the other two).
10. The Spiral Dance by Starhawk --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fuzzyscribble recommended that I read this book when I expressed an interest in Paganism. Good choice. I got it from the library using inter-library loan (I've been doing that for a ton of books lately). After reading it, I decided that this would be a nice book to own since I wanted to try some of the exercises in it so I purchased both this and and Scott Cunningham's Guide for the Solitary Practitioner from Amazon.
11. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris -- This is the eighth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Honestly, I was kind of luke-warm on this book. The plot seemed all over the place to me and I got the impression that she was setting things up for the next book in the series, Dead and Gone. Oh...and while I'm on the topic, I bought Dead and Gone in paperback while I was shopping yesterday. I plan to read it on the plane to and from San Francisco.
1. Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
2. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
3. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
4. Invader by C.J. Cherryh
5. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
6. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
7. Weird Illinois by Troy Taylor
8. Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft by Denise Zimmerman -- Hey! I had to get started somewhere, right? I think this book was a good overview and it gave some useful information, but there was also a bit of fluff mixed in. *cough cough* Crystals. *cough*
9. Wild Child by T.C. Boyle -- I picked this one up at the library thinking it was a novel about the wild boy of Aveyron, a feral child who was reputed to have been raised by wolves. Once I got the book home, I discovered that it was a collection of short stories. "The Lie" and "Sin Dolor" were enjoyable yet disturbing. I also liked "Wild Child" because I thought it was a good portrayal of what happens to children when they're exposed to languages too late.
10. Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler -- I'm surprised that I managed to find this at my local library. I've had to request many of these books through inter-library loan. Anyhow, what I liked about this book was that the opening chapters did a good job describing the history and evolution of both Wicca and other Neo-Pagan movements. (Also, I had no idea that there was a link between sci-fi and paganism, but it kind of makes sense now that I think about it. And at the time the book was published, there were three well-known sci-fi authors who were also pagan. One Adler named because she was "out" but she didn't want to out the other two).
10. The Spiral Dance by Starhawk --
fuzzyscribble recommended that I read this book when I expressed an interest in Paganism. Good choice. I got it from the library using inter-library loan (I've been doing that for a ton of books lately). After reading it, I decided that this would be a nice book to own since I wanted to try some of the exercises in it so I purchased both this and and Scott Cunningham's Guide for the Solitary Practitioner from Amazon. 11. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris -- This is the eighth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Honestly, I was kind of luke-warm on this book. The plot seemed all over the place to me and I got the impression that she was setting things up for the next book in the series, Dead and Gone. Oh...and while I'm on the topic, I bought Dead and Gone in paperback while I was shopping yesterday. I plan to read it on the plane to and from San Francisco.
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Date: 2010-06-03 12:25 am (UTC)*Cough* stay away from Cunningham LOL
Spiral Dance was awesome...
Laurie Cabot - the Witch of Salem (yes MA) has three really good books. She is a great person -- I just feel so at ease when I am around her. She gave Roger and I blessings the day we were married, which was cool --
Another Author I would recommend is chris penczak.
On Paganism it's self and the idea of Polytheism I would remcomend two books.
A World Full of Gods by Michael Greer
The deities are many by jordan Paper
I Highly recommend those two books, they really are the best books on the subject.
Another favorite of mine is
Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch -
Ronald Hutton has written some really great books on Druidism -- One of the many books that I am in the process of reading is. Blood and Mistletoe He writes about druidry and Celtic/British/someIrish paganism and how it's practiced. He is a scholar first and some of his writing can be academic,. but surprisingly good.
Books I've Read So Far This Year
Date: 2010-06-04 02:45 pm (UTC)I also recommend "it's easier than you think" by Sandra Boorstein. It's on Buddhism...but very applicable to pagan meditation too.