Category Archives: Witch Week

#WitchWeek2023 Day 7

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

We’ve done it! Thanks to Chris’s hard work (and a bit of my own), and to all the guest bloggers, readers, commenters and other participants, we’ve reached the end of another Witch Week. Over at Calmgrove, Chris provides a wrap-up … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Day 6

Posted on November 5, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

It’s the 5th of November! Guy Fawkes Day. I hope you’re all having a blast! Before I send you to Calmgrove for today’s #WitchWeek2023 post, another tangentially related set of books for your delectation: embroidery designs! First up, Bulgarian National … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Day 5

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

Before sending you to Calmgrove’s blog, I give you today’s spotlighted book: Lawrence Durrell’s 1947 novel, The Dark Labyrinth, in which a group of tourists hiking in a remote area of Crete enter a cave and can’t escape after a … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Day 4

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

Today I’m all about trolls, the favorite baddie of Norse tales. The introduction to my edition of Kay Nielsen’s East of the Sun, West of the Moon explains that Trolls can assume any shape, can be for instance many-headed, and … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Day 3

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

Today, a story for you. This comes from Memory of Fire: Genesis, Vol. 1 of Eduardo Galeano’s 3-volume history of Latin America (translated by Cedric Belfrage, 1985). The first section of Memory of Fire comprises Galeano’s versions of South American … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Day 2

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

Today, a treat awaits you over at Calmgrove. But before you go, Here’s another amuse bouche to whet your appetite for terrifying beasts. One of my favorite author/illustrators is Edward Gorey, whose sense of humor has appealed to me since … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Day 1

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

Happy Halloween everyone! Over at Calmgrove, you’ll find the main event for today, my own guest post, about my favorite type of encyclopedia: Bestiaries! But here, I’ll recommend one of the books I considered reviewing for #WitchWeek2023, A Monster Calls, … Continue reading →

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#WitchWeek2023 Preview

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

You’re almost there! Today, Chris at Calmgrove (where all the official stuff for #WitchWeek2023 is happening) provides you with a menu of what to expect for #WitchWeek2023/Cryptozoo, with the main events starting tomorrow. But before you go: One of my … Continue reading →

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Which week Witch Week? Next week!

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Lizzie Ross

One of my daily pleasures is completing a raft of puzzles available (for a subscription fee) from The New York Times. One of those is called Vertex, a sort of dot-to-dot puzzle by Burgess Voshell, but with more than one … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile, over at Calmgrove’s blog:

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Lizzie Ross
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