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tkayaeve's review against another edition
4.0
Historically I haven’t been a fan of essays, but I enjoyed this one.
woolfinbooks's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.5
zonderling's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25
spestock's review against another edition
4.0
This is a collection of essays about witchcraft, about women accused of witchcraft, about women executed for witchcraft. It is also a collection of essays about feminism, and social justice, and the marginalized in society, which is to say, it is also a collection of essays about witchcraft. Very well-written and engaging.
stevia333k's review against another edition
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4.0
ps: i first want to say that feedback i got from suggesting this book was that the part about visiting that prague torture museum made this book uncredible. i don't live in europe (no conocía europa) so IDK for sure what that feedback meant, but based on trip advisor sites, it's an expensive tourist trap near a bridge used to get out of the rain, it excludes people who have mobility problems, the museum doesn't have much in way of exhibits, it's one way, it's dimmly lit. i mention this because this is one of the opening scenes of the book, and the author talks about her marital problems a lot (which is fine, but maybe it's more memoir for some of y'all, y'all's mileage will vary.)
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the first 37 minutes are triggering as hell, so if you can speedread thru those as quick as possible, it will help you get into the rest of the book. like regained my ability to cry some sort of water out of my eyes for the first time in years because of how painful it was.
good book, makes me excited to follow up by listening to other witches. it would be nice to explore how being outside of the christian/catholic patriarchy interacted with what we'd today call either "queer" or "2-spirited" "witches". i've had some bad interactions with green witches on tumblr because they'd be calling autistic kids curses upon their parents, so i appreciated this book a lot. i also want to mention that this book focuses a lot on how we process stories from centuries ago. while i think the language might have been too cryptic at some points, i was fortunately able to decypher what it meant such as "says more about you" vs "says more about you[r processing schemas]". so yeah, this book is like a neat little reading list & that's kind of inspirational to me.
that being said, as the author does a lot of talk about the connection between catholic recuperation of witchcraft, along with the rad-to-trad pipeline & how she sometimes struggles with that, this book has helped illuminate the pipeline between witchcraft & catholicism, which has proven important when talking about feminism. it should also be mentioned that this also means that i need to investigate the line between syncretism/assimilation such as say by crypto-jews, but applicable to the peoples christian euro-american colonizers, versus recuperation such as involved in the patriarchal imperialism involved in taking over the roman empire.
so yeah, audiobook was nice.
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the first 37 minutes are triggering as hell, so if you can speedread thru those as quick as possible, it will help you get into the rest of the book. like regained my ability to cry some sort of water out of my eyes for the first time in years because of how painful it was.
good book, makes me excited to follow up by listening to other witches. it would be nice to explore how being outside of the christian/catholic patriarchy interacted with what we'd today call either "queer" or "2-spirited" "witches". i've had some bad interactions with green witches on tumblr because they'd be calling autistic kids curses upon their parents, so i appreciated this book a lot. i also want to mention that this book focuses a lot on how we process stories from centuries ago. while i think the language might have been too cryptic at some points, i was fortunately able to decypher what it meant such as "says more about you" vs "says more about you[r processing schemas]". so yeah, this book is like a neat little reading list & that's kind of inspirational to me.
that being said, as the author does a lot of talk about the connection between catholic recuperation of witchcraft, along with the rad-to-trad pipeline & how she sometimes struggles with that, this book has helped illuminate the pipeline between witchcraft & catholicism, which has proven important when talking about feminism. it should also be mentioned that this also means that i need to investigate the line between syncretism/assimilation such as say by crypto-jews, but applicable to the peoples christian euro-american colonizers, versus recuperation such as involved in the patriarchal imperialism involved in taking over the roman empire.
so yeah, audiobook was nice.