Category: Book Reviews
Reveiw of Girls Underground Oracle Deck
I’ve been meaning to do this review for a while and simply haven’t gotten to it. Kate Winter has created an Oracle deck based on an archetype she identified decades ago which she calls the Girls Underground. In her own words: “ [these themes] are often from novels and films, but the idea is so…
Round-up of Interesting Links
A Single Catholic Priest was Responsible for Destroying the Entire Mayan Written Language! Horrible. Considering Da’esh’s actions in the Middle East towards any reminders of their Pagan past, it’s also a sobering lesson. Ruins of Viking Settlement Discovered Near Hudson River in New York State Artemis, Artumes, Nemi, Diana Lucifera and Witchcraft Twitter Bot Posts How…
Dealing with Deities Review
Galina Krasskova recently made a list of books that she recommends. While many of these books are aimed at those beginning on this path of a more traditional kind of polytheist Paganism (as opposed to Wicca-flavored duotheist Paganism), there is a lot that can be learned for those of us who have been at this…
Depth of Praise Review
In November Galina Krasskova sent me one of her extra copies of Depth of Praise: Poseidon Devotional by Terentios Poseidonides, or Terence P. Ward. Perhaps because I have always been devoted to Athena, Poseidon is sometimes hard for me to connect to, despite how much I respect Him. And that itself, being able to say…
Review of Potnia: A Devotional Anthology in Honor to Demeter
As promised at the beginning of September, here is the review of Bibliotheca Alexandria’s Potnia, the Devotional for Demeter! I really enjoyed this devotional. It was bigger than I expected, they clearly got a LOT of submissions. I surprised, but delighted, at how many fictional submissions were included. There was a play and a musical,…
Review of With Lyre and Bow
I just got my copy of With Lyre and Bow: A Devotional in Honor of Apollo complied and edited by Jennifer Lawrence for Bibliotheca Alexandria. Full disclosure: I have an essay published in this devotional. The cover is strikingly beautiful. This book has poetry, essays, art, fiction, and rituals and recipes. Unlike many devotionals that…
Why I decided to Homestead- A Series of Posts About What inspired Me, Pt One
Good morning, everyone! I started thinking this post would be just one post on some of different things and events in my life that led me to become a homesteader. But as that post got longer and longer, I realized that it would be best if I split it into a series of posts. There…
Review of Sheepish by Catherine Friend
A review of Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend Sheepish is a delightful little book of vignettes – some related, some less so – of Catherine Friend’s life on sheep farm with her wife, who is much more euthanistic about the farming lifestyle than Catherine herself…
A Book Convinces Me to Start Breeding Rabbits
I recently read Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle by Gail Demerow (check it out here). I got my relatively-new copy from Amazon just about three weeks ago, and already I’ve succeeded in dog-earing it all to hell. For the last three weeks this book lived…
