#moonwise

[judgeitbyitscover]

Moonwise by Greer Ilene Gilman

Cover art by Thomas Canty

Roc, February 1991

Ariane came to visit Sylvie at midwinter, hoping to rekindle the old magic of their girlhood game: the Nine Worlds, a fantastical universe founded in a handful of marbles and a tarot of cards, whose myths and kingdoms the two friends had chronicled between them. But when Sylvie disappeared in a moonlit wood, Ariane followed her - not into the familiar ground of their fantasy, but into the thorns and winter of a Cloud they had never invented, a world where ballads were constellations and the moon hunted souls by night...

[hedydd]

"Si accucciò nella biforcazione di un ramo caduto, infangata di neve sporca, il fiato ghiacciato come una strega nordica. -- Guarda -- disse seria. -- Hai visto? C'è una lepre... sta scappando. È lì dove la pietra non c'era." #lasaggezzadellaluna #moonwise • • • #winterwoods #winter #snow #winterwonderland #nature #woods #forest #winterforest #hiking #january #snowday #wandern #winterwalk #silence #snowyforest #winterphotography #snowscape #moody #happy #myalmanacmoment #aseasonalyear https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMWtNvBpiZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dvlxzroiorm7

[nevadacitycraftfairlove]

I'm happy to bring you our next vendor for @nevadacitycraftfair holiday show! @moonwiseherbals makes an assortment of 'products for beauty, medicine and magick', using organic botanicals, many of which are grown in her own garden, as well as wild-harvest plants in season. Rachel Nelson of Moonwise Herbals is inspired by history and old folk ways in her creative process. Rachel says, "We have our ancestors to thank for the body of knowledge we have access to through books, our elders and even through tapping into the collective unconscious." Join us Sunday, December 9th from 10 AM to 5 PM and shop over 65 local makers of Nevada County and surrounding regions at the historic Miners Foundry Cultural Center. Located at 325 Spring St. Downtown Nevada City, CA. $5 G/A, Kids under 12 Free!🌲 #hempseedoil #bodybutter #moonwise #skinfood #organic#allnaturalskincare #chemicalfree #herballife #nevadacitycraftfair #minersfoundry #holiday #craftfair#madeinnortherncalifornia #californiahandmade #nevadacity #grassvalley#nevadacounty #minersfoundryculturalcenter #makersmart#makersgonnamake #arts #crafts #handmade #community #madelocal https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-vhjjAr0E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6k292rl6zpcz

[rherlotshadow]

She lingered... staring out the shivery window at the woods, at the garden veined and knotted with the roots of woods, and at the cloud-affronted light. Hill beyond blue whale-backed hill rose lightward, transparencies of stone, all etched with runic woods, enduring. She had known their green unison, their tongues of fire; so read time past in bare notation. Winter had distilled.

Moonwise, Greer Ilene Gilman

[outpastthemoat]

Favorite books of 2010

So I have reached a point in my life where I can read whatever I want.  I no longer have English classes spilling over onto my to-read list, nor do I feel any sort of obligation to read the latest books on the new books shelf at the public library.  So this year, I read the only books that appeal to me anymore.  I read tons of fantasy books.  I also read various children’s books that center around horses, and the entire series of Agatha Raisin mysteries.  But mostly, I read some fantasy books that I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, and found them to be absolutely fantastic. Most of these books I received from PaperBackSwap, and they all went directly on my desert-island bookshelf.

The War For the Oaks, Emma Bull

This book makes my heart ache because how am I supposed to write a first novel that’s this good? It was published the year I was born, and it’s still considered a classic urban fantasy novel.  I adored the phouka, and I loved Eddi, and the hints of eighties fashion.  

The Wood Wife, Terri Windling

This book was everything Charles de Lint tries to do iwith The Cousins in his Newford books, but Terri Windling does it so, so much better.  The way she describes the desert, the mountains, the saguaro cactus forests, makes me long to visit New Mexico, a place I can assure you I have never before longed to visit.  The best part to me was the theory of the spiral path.  Simply an amazing book.  

Moonwise, Greer Ilene Gilman

Absolutely the best book I read all year.  Every book I’ve read over my entire life has been in preparation for reading this book.  Her prose is incredibly dense, and it took me forever to read, but it was worth it.  It reminded me strongly of my all-time favorite book Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, but even more so, if you know what I mean.  This is the kind of book that I want to write one day.

Little, Big, John Crawley

I started this book two summers ago, but I never got beyond the first chapter.  This time, I read it in the fall, and it made all the difference.  It’s called urban fantasy, but I feel like it’s really more magical realism.  My favorite elements were the gradual changing of the season, and the enigmatic ending, and the tarot cards.

 I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

So it’s not strictly fantasy, but reading it was a magical experience.  It’s a combination of all my very favorite things to read about: castles, Midsummer’s Eve, growing up, eccentric families, reduced circumstances, and it reads like Jane Austen’s diary would if she lived in England in the 1940s.  I loved Cassandra, but I found myself loving her stepmother Topaz most of all, from her “mania for green” and her nudist tenancies.  I immediately watched the recent film after reading this book and was blown away by the utter gorgeousness of the cinematography.  I read it over Christmas holidays, and it was my favorite part of Christmas.