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I only read 60 pages of this novel but I know I won't like. I am so sdisoppeinted because I like witch stories and the cover is amazingly beautiful.

I‘d call this more a creative essay than a novel. The story moves slowly & the author invests a lot of time in descriptions, historical detailing & visual overlaps. I loved it because I am interested in #feminist history and the way that religion tried to suppress female knowledge & traditions by casting aspersions on women with the superstition based fear of “witches”. A depiction of what can happen to our communities when we let fear creep in.

My boyfriend picked this for me in a book shop a few weeks ago, purely because he says I cackle like a witch when I laugh. As it turns out it‘s actually an incredible read! A raw, brutally honest and at times darkly humorous account of the witch trials. Really enjoyed reading this one.. might have to get him to pick books for me again #pick #witchtrials

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I'm putting snaps on a stack of dice trays this afternoon, which would be a really boring task if I didn't have audio books. #AudioCrafting #Studio42Books

I just finished the tagged book, about a servant woman caught up in the witch trials. I was disappointed. While the book was well written, I don't think it brought anything new to the table. I didn't connect with the main character and wasn't invested in the outcome at all. 😕

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My first pumpkin carving, for some early practice. — I‘ve finished through the 2nd hour of Daemonologie. — I‘ll skip reviewing; it was interesting for the curiosity of how King James wrote this book on witch hunting. Scary stuff!

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When classrooms dumped these from their libraries I grabbed several copies and kept one for myself.

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I enjoyed it, well the history part 😅😂🙃🖤

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I‘ve been working on a bunch of small pumpkin stencil drawings tonight, including the can art for Big Rig: Tales from the Patch. I‘m excited about these preparations, and will add the bonus crafting scores for each finished carving, as ‘to be carved‘ later on. — 1 hour (in 3 readathons) as halfway through Daemonologie.

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Bk2 of my #BookMail is this gorgeous edition of the historical witchy novel.Set in East Anglia in 1645, Martha is a midwife, healer & servant,living peacefully in her village of Cleftwater. But she has not spoken a word in years. Witness to a witch-hunt led by Silas Makepeace, she‘s enlisted to search the accused women‘s bodies for evidence of witchcraft. Desperate to keep her own secrets, she revives a poppet of her mothers in hope of protection.

The time when Kepler's mother was put on trial as a witch.

Although the core story sounded interesting and it was put into context well, I found the book a bit of a chore to get through. It was never so bad that I wanted to abandon it, but I was never really looking forward to picking it back up again either.