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Post by beth on Oct 3, 2013 15:32:07 GMT -5
It's October (duh) and Good Reads' monthly newsletter is concentrating on the seasonal elements that are all around us during the month of All Hallows Eve and Halloween. I'll be adding 3 threads to this topic during the next few days ... 1. Books about witches, 2. Books about Creepy Crawlies and 3. Books about Demons. 
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Jeanette Winterson's Favorite Books About Witches! First, her own book, just out.
Hanged in 1612, the Pendle witches of Lancashire starred in England's most infamous—and well-documented—witch trials. Jeanette Winterson's gothic and haunting retelling of the event, The Daylight Gate, evokes the wildness of 17th-century England, when religious intolerance and superstition led to the persecution of many women—but Winterson's embattled witches wield real magic. At the center is Alice Nutter, a self-made entrepreneur, a lover of both men and women, and the only wealthy woman accused of witchcraft among the impoverished group. Winterson, the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the Body, tells Goodreads, "The woman as witch happens historically when the idea of the Goddess, with her power and sexuality, is too threatening to be allowed in the social order. The witch is both fearful and fascinating, as women are. But if she gets tricky, you can always burn her." Winterson offers five witchy favorites.
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Jeanette Winterson's Favorite Books About Witches! First, her own book, just out.
Hanged in 1612, the Pendle witches of Lancashire starred in England's most infamous—and well-documented—witch trials. Jeanette Winterson's gothic and haunting retelling of the event, The Daylight Gate, evokes the wildness of 17th-century England, when religious intolerance and superstition led to the persecution of many women—but Winterson's embattled witches wield real magic. At the center is Alice Nutter, a self-made entrepreneur, a lover of both men and women, and the only wealthy woman accused of witchcraft among the impoverished group. Winterson, the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the Body, tells Goodreads, "The woman as witch happens historically when the idea of the Goddess, with her power and sexuality, is too threatening to be allowed in the social order. The witch is both fearful and fascinating, as women are. But if she gets tricky, you can always burn her." Winterson offers five witchy favorites.
Read it twice and eventually intend to read it again. Highly recommended.