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REVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DIVINATION

I found the Ultimate Guide to Divination! Take a peek into my thoughts.

Although I’m more experienced with witchy/new age topics, I prefer reading books for beginners. I find that they’re not only easier to follow, but I am introduced to things I’ve heard about but never cared to learn. Additionally, it can resonate with more of my beginning readers.

I’ve found my niche–Tarot and dowsing but The Ultimate Guide to Divination opened up a whole new avenue for me to…

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REVIEW: Crystals for Positive Manifestation; for Energy Healing

I’ve decided to combine this review to encompass two books I got for review: Crystals for Positive Manifestation: A Practical Sourcebook of 100 Crystals and Crystals for Energy Healing: A Practical Sourcebook of 100 Crystals.

Although each book has a different author (Sarah Bartlett for Positive Energy; Ashley Leavy for Energy Healing) I want to review the two of them together because they’re…

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REVIEW: Pagan Lenormand

It’s been ages since I got the Pagan Lenormand for review from US Games System and I’m so excited to finally share my experience with the deck with you.

I’m always pleased when I come across a deck or a book that I can gush about. The Pagan Lenormand is one of those decks.

As always, I want to address the quality of the cards; after all, you’re going to be working closely with them, so you…

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New Blog: New Age Madness

New Blog: New Age Madness

I’ve created a new blog, New Age Madness, where I will be posting–you guessed it–new age everything! I’ve been receiving Tarot and divination books and decks for a while now but they just don’t fit with this site. I will now be posting those reviews on my new blog.

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Lenormand Cartomancy Deck

The deal with the Lenormand Cartomancy:

I absolutely love the book that comes with this set. For me, surprisingly, the book overshadowed the cards. Usually I tolerate the book. I scan the intro and forward; but this time I read it word-for-word with the TV off.

The book starts off by introducing a story by R. H. Gronow, Captain of the Grenadier Guards from 1865. He recounts a meeting he had with…

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Audiobooks

It wasn’t until late last year that I started listening to audio books. I didn’t think I could possibly enjoy having someone else read a book to me. I get pleasure out of trying various positions in which to read, turning the pages of the books, and I feel like the book is MINE.

When I read audio books I feel a sort of detachment. One where there one more person in the room with me and they’re…

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REVIEW: DREAMING WAY LENORMAND

REVIEW: DREAMING WAY LENORMAND

What is Lenormand? I recently became aware of Lenormand (well, about two years ago). At first I didn’t even know how to spell it, but when I started looking into what Lenormand is, I fell in love; as I did with the Dreaming Way Lenormand deck. I own two other Lenormand decks: Under the Roses Lenormand; and Maybe Lenormand, the first Lenormand deck I purchased before I started reviewing Lenormand.…

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REVIEW: GHOST TAROT About Lo Scarabeo and Llwellyn Lo Scarabeo supports masterful works of Tarot art. With the exception of very few I love most of their work and the authors that they support.

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THE LITTLE WHITE BOOK OF SPELLS

THE LITTLE WHITE BOOK OF SPELLS

First impressions (and it’s physical resilience when tossed in my purse) The Little White Book of Spells is absolutely adorable. This sturdy, hardcover book was able to survive the black hole of swirling confusion that is my purse. Good job, buddy! And I’m so happy it is sturdy because I brought that thing with me everywhere. When The Little White Book of Spells starts, it doesn’t play around.…

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Do I Review Tarot or YA?

Do I Review Tarot or YA?

I wanted to let you all know why I review such vastly different books than YA and divination decks. I know it’s confusing; like, is my blog for YA Fiction or does I just do Tarot and New Age? It’s odd, I know, to review Tarot and New Age and YA on the same blog. I do it because they’re all important things in my life. I started reading Tarot a bunch of years ago because I’d been collecting them.…

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TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual Assault

A year ago Black Friday I went shopping to Barnes and Noble, as per usual, but I went with a plan. I gathered my family members with their 30% off coupons and we went store-to-store buying me all the books I wanted. It was fun, getting all these hardcover books that ordinarily I would never get. And, I met one of my first YA Fantasy writers through my Black Friday post: Taran Matharu. It was his…

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Recap & What's to Come

Recap & What’s to Come

So I got a whole bunch of no-reading done last week. I had emergency oral surgery and to celebrate the infected tooth being removed from my mouth I vowed to read as many books as I could. Whelp, Codine had other plans for me. I got absolutely no reading done, but much sleeping and healing. I have a reading journal that I’m just dying to write in this January but I haven’t finished a book yet so I…

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Ten books that are on my TBR list since like, ever

This one is a whopper and would be better executed when looking at my bookshelves but I’ve gotta work with what I have. City of Bones series by Cassandra Clare: I’ve read the first five (books 1-2 of The Mortal Instruments, and the Infernal Devices trilogy) but I have yet to finish it. I enjoyed the books that I’ve read in the series so far but it wasn’t one I could marathon; thus, it’s being…

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TBR Thursday

I have a huge TBR list. Well, actually it’s books on books scattered all around my house, and I keep adding more. To combat the endless stream of books coming into my life, I’m going to resolve to read a book I buy every month, to put those purchases to good use. Here’s what I’m planning on reading in the next week, while I heal from my outpatient .tooth extraction to combat the raging infection.…

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Was excixited to see @piercebrownofficial but I forgot my muscle relaxer at home and my back won't let me stand anymore. Was fun seeing him. I'll get a signature whenever he comes in this area again @books_inc #irongold #backproblems #redrising #goldenson #funanyway

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Bookish Resolutions 2018

2018, woo hoo! Hopefully this year will be better than the last two. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is “Bookish Goals/Resolution” which I am psyched about. I try to do these every year but I didn’t do it yet so when I saw this subject I was SO excited. Following are my bookish Goals/Resolutions for 2018″ in no particular order. Meet my (realistic) Goodreads goal of 50 books read this year. Follow my…

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Since Black Friday I’ve kinda been going book crazy. Nothing new about that except that I’m buying new books….from a new book-bookstore: Barnes and Noble. Duh, only the best bookstore to ever exist.

I’ve never bought so many new books before but the coupons

I have haven’t given me a choice not to buy these books. I’m going to attempt to BookTube again (I totally FAILED last time I tried) so that I can do a book haul. Now, I have two more coupons left which means I may acquire a 14th and 15th book since Black Friday. Oops. I’ve also been frequenting library book sales and have several hardcover books in MINT condition.

The following is a working list of the books I’ve gathered so far:

The Book of Dust

The Fallen Kingdom

Otherworld

Warcross

This Mortal Coil

Diary of a Haunting: Book of Shadows

Royal Bastards

Dividing Eden 

The Siren

School of Good and Evil

Dazzling Heights

The Empress

Renegades

All the Crooked Saints  (Cheating a bit with this one, I bought it a while ago at Kepler’s at an author’s signing.)

Wonder Woman

Whew! That’s a lot of books to acquire when I already have so many books that I cannot fit them all in my house (a bookcase in my garage houses all my comic books and some odd books that I’m no longer interested in).

Acquired from BN.com

Got the first through #booksfortrade on Twitter, bought the second from BN.com, and got this one from BN.com as well.

Super excited about this one. Haven’t read anything by these authors. Got in-store

While I love Mari Lu I never finished her Legend series. I bought this book anyway, in the hope that I’ll love this like I loved her first two books in the Legend series

Last nights haul (12/20/17), part of my Black Friday haul

Haven’t read the first, got the second at a library book sale, got this on Black Friday from Barnes and Noble 2017

Super. Duper. Good. Ties with Renegades for the best book of 2017

This paperback book was in bad condition. I convinced a woman to buy this book in hardcover at a library sale, when I wanted it. Oops. I’m just too good 😉

The first was about a realistic world in our universe, something I rarely read. Loved it, though. Got the first from BF 2016

Best book of 2017 that I’ve read. Royal Bastards ties with it. Also from BN

I really enjoyed the first, Diabolic, so I bought the second to, at the very least, keep up with this collection. First book was from Black Friday 2016 Haul from Barnes and Noble

I got this at a book premier at Keplers. I rarely buy a new book without a coupon but this was SO worth it.

I wasn’t impressed when I read Red Widow but I’m going to try again to read a novelization of a comic book. Black Friday 2017. Red Widow from Black Friday 2016

I Love You, Black Friday Since Black Friday I've kinda been going book crazy. Nothing new about that except that I'm buying new books....from a new book-bookstore: Barnes and Noble.