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  • Kate's Pick: The Practical Wristlet

    I bought it on Amazon in June for only $18 in the black gingham check, and it’s practical and earns me oriented, so the designs are best for the hotter seasons, but there is a “Cindy Clawford” animal print I Now I need to start thinking of a new pick for next week. See you next then!

  • Sleeping Beauty's Garden by Madeleine Elias

    Reality is too tidy after one hundred years of dreaming So she makes her garden messy She grows no roses , but wild brambles that bear the sweetest blackberries Soft between her teeth, sun ripened and warm not sleep much, which makes the court whisper Of curses reversed but not quite broken She shelters in her vines Cradled in the roots of a steady birch The trees know all about long, deep sleep By night she gathers She lives with one foot always in the land of stories and is working on her first novel.

  • Book Review: Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara

    Aphrodite adopts Eros as her son in a power move against the older god. Psyche grows into a beautiful young woman and earns the ire of Aphrodite with her lack of interest in must endure Aphrodite’s tortures if she hopes to regain her true love. “Beauty and the Beast” is my favorite fairy tale, so I was thrilled to learn that there was a novel telling You can order the book here.

  • Winter Book Roundup

    Alice Hoffman provides readers with her version of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen in her novel I love the story of Ada Quicksilver, a student of London's Lovelace Academy for Promising Young Women You can read my review here. You can read my review here . Her first novella, Selkie Moon , comes out in 2025.

  • The Word, The Wolf & The Magic Mirror by Liz Bragdon

    Close your eyes, click your heels three times and whisper: “I am infinite possibility.” Listen. As do I. Trip trap typing on my magic mirror I conjure the words from each precious heart thud spiraling rosy unravel in an endless river of poppies, poppies, poppies red as my hood, red as my blood from the finger I pricked on the endless spinning wheel on this spinning rock in a spinning galaxy of stars—I dream.

  • Throwback Thursday: And All The Stars by Jason A. Zwiker

    I thought these were old bedsheets.” She laughed, not unkindly. They kept walking. I mean good like I could maybe even run again good. Like I used to. That good. Huh.” “I might.” “Oh, come on, you,” she said, grinning and shaking her head. She tilted her head to the side, considered. “I like it.” Then, he did the same for her.

  • Throwback Thursday: Unfettering Philomela by Christine Butterworth-McDermott

    And so, I suggest you burst into flame instead: regold your glory outward. To learn more about the mythical Philomela, you can go HERE. Her poetry has been published in such journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Normal School, The Massachusetts

  • Review by Lissa Sloan: Into the Moon Garden

    She can never forgive herself for her failure on the night her mother died. Desperate to somehow make things right, she throws herself into her studies and later her work as a Mumbai And she must have more than just her wits about her; it is her heart and soul she must summon if she I loved hearing these different myths, most of which were new to me. She is complex, conflicted, and heartbreakingly human, and I related to her in an intensely personal

  • Throwback Thursday: A Half Century of Beauty by Melissa Yuan-Innes

    For their fiftieth anniversay, He gave her a beast. She licked her lips And turned to her husband. "My lord, I am nearly speechless. You know I am no maiden." He kissed her cheek and replied, smiling, "My love, have no fear." Her tears dripped into its shining coat But she called up to her husband, "My lord, she is beautiful, ” And kissed her newest beast.

  • Firebird Feathers, By Judy Lunsford

    I am here on behalf of Magnus the Magnificent,” the knight said. “May I see them?” Magnus asked. “I didn’t really touch him,” Nyx said. “I was just trying to rescue him from my sisters.” “And I can escape them if I go with you?” she asked. “Yes,” Magnus said. Nyx stared at the feathers in her hands. “Can I have them spared?” Nyx asked.

  • Kate's Picks: Magical Stuffing

    Mom found it in her 1955 Good Housekeeping cookbook, but didn’t start making it until the ‘80s. I still make that kind and love it. It’s very easy and pretty much foolproof. Here we go: Magical Stuffing 1 1/2 pounds chestnuts 1 cup butter 1 1/2 cup celery, chopped 1 cup onion It’s just so bizarre that I thought you’d all like seeing it. Until next week, stay enchanted!

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: Ebony, Blood, and Snow by Tish Black

    “Amethyst” reworks “The Goose Girl,” and “Pine” presents a group of sisters who sneak out of their father on her own. YouTube Channel here . Her first novella, Selkie Moon , comes out in 2025. her at https://kellyjarviswriter.com/

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