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🍭 The Man with the X-ray Eyes (I was a kid.)
🍫 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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I tag @NataliePatalie.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Will be trying to catch up today and read a bunch while home with my youngest who is now sick. Lots of Minnie Mouse and cuddles for today. Here is the prompt “Wicked” for #OminousOctober the only book in this series I liked. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

I loooooove Wicked!

#OminousOctober #photochallenge #wicked #scarathlon #teamslaughter
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @Clwojick

Honestly, I anticipated struggling my way through this book that was on my TBR so long that I donated my original copy unread - then couldn‘t resist this beauty at thrifting prices. I‘ve seen the touring musical several times and enjoyed reading this book for the whole story. I think I‘ll read Son of a Witch next October!

My favorite book with a #witch. 💚

#OminousOctober
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Mom and I had tickets for this in March of 2020 and we are finally here!!

Although this is my favorite musical I have never been able to bring myself to read it! #beenonmyshelf4ever #bookmoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Thrift store book haul from Saturday. $1.50 for the lot!

I‘m always on the lookout for leather bound volumes in good condition. I‘m pretty picky when it comes to paperbacks. I actually prefer paperbacks because they are so much easier to travel with and I can fit more on my bookshelves. But even when they are really cheap ($.10 each at the thrift store), I only want copies that are in like new condition. This helps me limit myself!

About last night...🤗
#musicals

My God. Don‘t read it. Go watch the musical and enjoy it. Skip this hyper sexualized shit. No one will ever be able to convince me that Old Greg wasn‘t 100% fondling himself while writing this book. I‘ve decided I will never be a Maguire fan. He just isn‘t for me.

“Ah, we‘re slow learners,” Nanny countered, “but they (men) can‘t learn at all.”

2/2 #basicwitchswap
@DebinHawaii you clearly read my answers carefully because I asked for mahogany obsidian & now I have this beautiful sphere to set on my desk to help manifest my creative ideas. The turquoise pouch you wrapped it in is beautiful. The Taurus oil smells lovely. I‘m looking forward to finding different ways to use it.
Deb, you really spoiled me! I cannot thank you enough, I hope you love yours too. Happy Halloween + Samhain 🔮✨

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

🎃 Oh gosh, so many right now 🤦🏼‍♀️ Just started the tagged, even though I'm also in the middle of reading Once & Future Witches, SBC's Guide to Slaying Vampires, the Puma Years, and #DoWRTR

🎃 I'm visiting one of my best friends in FL for an event at the Kennedy Space Center! 🚀🧑🏻‍🚀

🎃 Flexible work hours ☺️

Finally got to see our first (masked) show of the 2020 season! 😅 Wicked is one of my favorite musicals, it was such a great performance! It's made me want to read the book now. I've had it on my TBR shelf for years, this may finally be the season that I read it 💚

Im almost finished Wicked its been a chore. It is such a boring book and the characters are so flat I cant stand it. I desperately need to find a good book to read.

My heart is so happy right now!! 💚💖💚

On page 144 of wicked an nothing interesting is happening yet when does it get better

Starting Wicked Tonight DNFed it many years ago and want to give it another try

I‘m late but this prompt was a little tricky for me because I recently moved and have still been unpacking but haven‘t really established a cohesive aesthetic so here is one corner I have put together. Special mention to Wicked photobombing 😂 #readathon #deweyaug

Day 31 #MayCharacters
Prompt: Musical

Okay so I'm cheating a little on this one because no one in the book is actually musical but the musical adaptation of this story is one of my favorites 💕

Thank you @Eggs and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for hosting this monthly photo challenge! I've had a ton of fun with the daily prompts 😄

I switched to red tea tonight. I probably won‘t finish WICKED before I fall asleep, but I‘m hard into it now. I forgot how skillfully Maguire manages POV here, and how good it gets once Elphaba finally begins to speak.

Green tea felt like the most appropriate beverage tonight.

I‘m over halfway through my WICKED reread now, and while I still love it, I don‘t think it‘ll retain its Top 16 status. (My faves make a Top 15, now.) I expected that and I‘m at peace with it. It‘s been twelve years since I last read it, and this is only my fourth time overall. I‘m so fickle that the faves that STAY faves in the long term are pretty rare.

Saw the novel Wicked posted by @xicanti and had to buy the whole collection. 🙈

My dad needed help with something at a venue right near this public art, so I paused and read a nice chunk of my book while I waited for him to show up.

Back in the day, I set April aside for rereads. I let the practice drop off a few years back when my reading priorities shifted a bit, but this year I want to focus on rereads again!

First up: Gregory Maguire‘s Wicked Years series. I‘m finally gonna read the fourth one.

And yes, I know you probably hate WICKED. I don‘t need to hear about it. It really bugs me when people go out of their way to tell me they loathe something I love.

This book is a major downer; the scope and magnitude of things gone wrong in Elphaba‘s life from start to finish is astonishing. Honestly, it was a slog. Also, I‘m not afraid of sex in books, but the sheer number of things described in sexual terms felt awkward. Like mountains, or a person going through great stress over a loved one‘s mortal peril and digging their nails into something. This happens a lot and the dissonance was distracting.

Got a new Kobo with some Christmas gift cards, so I guess I'm also finally reading this gem! It's been ages since I looked at my Kobo collection, and turns out that, like my physical collection of books, I have a lot of ebooks waiting to be read. Maybe I should stop buying until I've read them all?
(Nah! I don't have that kind of restraint.)
❤

#RememberNovember #Defiance

Alphaba sure knows how to defy gravity and social norms; but she‘s still so Popular

My #basicwitchswap 📦 is here!!!

Unintentionally seasonal reading

Ha-ha-hehe-haha-he!!

3⭐️s for now...
I‘m still not sure of my feelings towards this book... There were huge chunks of the story that just, didn‘t exist. Sometimes this worked in favor of the story, but mostly I found it a bit annoying. There were other moments where I wondered why exactly the author felt the need to write certain sentences. The Arjiki children are already pitifully disgusting beings, I don‘t need certain cringeworthy details just to make me go 😨🤢⬇️

I really need to get in some reading time this weekend. I feel if I set a goal with encouragement from something like the #24B4Monday Readathon, I‘ll have a better chance of actually accomplishing it. So my ambitious plans are to finish Wicked, start & finish Gone Girl, & start Mossflower to cleanse my palate before diving into all the creepy Oct. reads I have planned. I promised a few peeps Doctor Sleep was next, but we‘ll have to wait til Oct.😅

The only thing I‘ve liked better in the book than the play so far is that Galinda is actually quite intelligent; flighty and silly and caught on the idea of Society still yes but also clever and excitedly interested in architecture.
I think when inevitably I write a hogwarts au they will both be in Ravenclaw and everyone will be Baffled as to why Galinda is there.

I feel you, Elphaba, me too. 💚💚💚

Someone went to a lot of trouble to make me happy. HAPPY MONDAY!

My #basicwitch aesthetic ♑️ 🔮

Witchy books I‘ve enjoyed:
Wicked because there are 2-sides to every story & Elphaba‘s story is fascinating
Witchcraft Mystery series because Lily 💜
The Iron Druid series because druids are all about the earth

And what I‘m trying to reflect 👆🏻is the magic of the earth—it‘s 1 reason I was drawn to environmental law. But I‘m still a novice, still learning. And fascinated by crystals, tarot, moon, water.

1. Tagged. The only one I can think of that is any good (so far) is the one I‘m currently reading. 😅
2. The Princess and The Goblin. I think there is SO much potential for a truly dark, intense, mature take on this classic children‘s tale.
3. Oh I‘m sure I‘ll be adding several from everyone‘s posts. 😅
#SundayFunday
@ozma.of.oz

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This week has been busy! (Sorry no #ThoughtfulThursday this week!) Tonight is the opening night of OZ.ORG, for the #PhillyFringeFestival2020 💚 If you love the original story, you will love this new spin on the beloved classic—set in the digital age! I will be playing the role of the Newscaster, and I also assisted with directing. Each show takes place over Zoom, w/link emailed to you just before the show.

Link below! ⬇️ For more info!

Gift from the pop‘s 💚

I‘ve gotten to page 33 and I‘ve decided I‘m jumping into the book and stealing this poor girl away from these awful people. Just because she‘s got green skin and sharp teeth they‘re all acting like she‘s a monster and not a baby. At least Nanny is pretending but babies pick up on that sort of thing anyway.

Y‘all ever read the first page of a book and the time in which it was written and the author grew up in just smacks you in the face? Because that‘s what Wicked just did to me. Wicked; clearly written in the early 90s by a man who grew up in the 60s.

I was surprised to find this is the only book on my physical bookshelf with a map in it 🤔
The world is that of Oz, as I'm sure you are all already familiar with. Munchkinland, Emerald City, etc. The map let's you grasp the borders in the world, because the story is pretty dependent on geo-politics (if I recall correctly, it's been a while).