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A recent book cover by Oscar Wilson for O-Books.
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A recent book cover by Oscar Wilson for O-Books.
Sucking Up Yellow Jackets
Jeanne Denault is in my writers group, The Rebel Writers of Bucks County. Her memoir Sucking Up Yellow Jackets has just released from O-Books and it's a funny, witty and sometimes poignant account of her raising a son with Aspergers Syndrome. From climbing out of his cot within a few months of his birth to climbing a telephone wire hand over hand high above their terraced home in Philadelphia and then, as a teenager, dismantling a motor cycle simply because his mother demanded he had to get rid of it and he took that to mean literally, Jeanne depicts in precise, wry prose what it was like to bring up this super intelligent child at a time when Asperger's wasn't even understood by the medical community. She thought she was going mad or had spawned the devil's child. Jeanne and her family moved around the states while Max was growing up--Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois where Jeanne's attempts to fit in among the 'meat and potatoes' women of the area drew their scorn when she made a gourmet dish featuring a mild curry sauce for a block party and incited their wrath. The family relocated to Pennsylvania again after Max had a few run-ins with the local police and judges. His teachers, some of his counselors and even her husband blamed her for some of his excesses. A fast, dazzling and very enjoyable read.
Excellent Podcast onlinewithandrea talks to Alistair Conwell about his new book Soul Comfort.
“I am a mystic. This is my confession.” John Robinson details his journey to mystical consciousness.
Traditional Witchcraft for the Seashore, by Melusine Draco
Traditional Witchcraft for the Seashore, by Melusine Draco
Traditional Witchcraft for the Seashore, by Melusine Draco O Books, 9781846944260, 159 pp., 2012
The majority of books I encounter on the subject of witchcraft and Wicca fall into one of two categories: they are written for rural witches, or for urban witches, as though those are the only two options. If you believe the stories of how things were in the “bad old days,” witches were seldom found…
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