Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Norway 1620, France 1731, Pennsylvania 1929, Lesotho 1948…

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

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This is the story of many women and men from across the centuries and around the world who have been tried for witchcraft, and the often surprising historical currents that led them there, and influenced whether they would be allowed to live or die. I was born about an hour away from Salem, Massachusetts, though I never went to visit until 2019. Of course I went in October, which is the absolute peak of their tourist station, and battled my way through a crowded open […]

Bubble bubble toil and trouble

The Witching Year by Diana Helmuth

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As is common, I had a witch phase when I was a teen. Or perhaps even a pre-teen! I had an alter. I cast circles. Earnestly called the corners. Bound people from doing harm. I watched my bootleg recording of the Craft so much I could deliver each line from memory. Being a witch was a thrilling secret, which came undone the second my sister gifted me a book of spells for my birthday. Suddenly, I felt like a fool. I cannot really explain why, […]

Get cozy, this is a long butt review!

C is for Coven: A Witchcraft Alphabet Book by Andrea Stein

Flora & the First Day of Spring: A Wheel of the Year Book by Kathleen Converse

What Witches Wear by Andrea Stein

Sunday the Sea Witch by Andrea Stein

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After reading Luke & the Longest Night: A Wheel of the Year Book I found more Moon Dust Press titles to read. I am not pagan or an earth-centered person/witch, or into wicca, but I do find it interesting and wish to know more about the subjects. Therefore, my local library was kind enough to find four more titles for me to read. The first book the publisher released in 2020 was C is for Coven: A Witchcraft Alphabet Book by Andrea Stein. It is […]

“READER, I RAN the f*** away.”

A Deadly Education (Scholomance #1) by Naomi Novik

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CBR Bingo – Strange Worlds Our heroine Galadriel, aka El, a sort of magical Wednesday Adams, is fighting for her life at a teacher-less school of magic, only this Hogwarts is actively trying to kill its students. They attend classes, sleep in dorms, eat in a cafeteria, and are trapped there with no contact with the outside world as they make their way through this distorted high school experience. Everything is leading up to their graduation day, which tests the seniors’ mettle and skill and […]

Trudging through Drudgery

The Ritual by Mo Hayder

Magnus by Arjen Lubach

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The Ritual (Mo Hayder) ***½ When it comes to thrillers and crime fiction, I’m stuck in a quandary in the sense that I usually like the idea better than the execution. My main problem is that so many books within the genre seem so badly written: the characters are flat, the prose is hokey and the authors always seem to want to outdo each other by coming up with either the goriest or the most outlandish plots. There are plenty of exceptions, of course, but […]

Poetry in the Marrow: Throwing the Bones by catherine yronwode

Throwing the Bones: How to Foretell the Future with Bones, Shells, and Nuts by catherine yronwode

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A few weeks ago, as I was cruising around online looking at Lenormand decks (the subject of another review), I saw someone describe themselves in their profile as “bonecaster”. Having spent many years among practitioners of non-mainstream faiths, I had seen the term before, but had pushed it aside. It sounded ghoulish and, quite frankly, intimidating. Like many Americans, I’ve always tried to think about death as little as possible. As I’ve aged, however, Death has come to visit more frequently, and I’ve begun discovering […]



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