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Category Archives: pagan
Terrifying Joy from the Forests of Flanders
Terrifying joys, and glimpses into Europe’s our collective cultural past. For while these are all Flemish tales, they are tales that are echoed throughout Europe. Which is only natural, as travels tell tales of their homelands and those tales get retold and made anew. A such this book is tales of the kind told around the camp fire, on the edge of the woods, with twilight all around. Told to frighten, and to warn. The woods are dark, the wise do not wander there.
But who wants to be wise… Continue reading
Posted in amreading, book reviews, books, druidry, Europe, pagan, reads, rites, supernatural
Tagged amreading, books, folklore, ghosts, history, horror, read, reads, supernatural, writing
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The End of the world is not the Ragnarök
My axe is cold, frost crisscross’s the handle and the fingers that hold it, but the blade is sharp still and blood still flows in he that would wield it.
The Ragnarök is over, we are what remain Continue reading
Posted in amreading, books, fiction, Harvey Duckman, indie, indie writers, pagan, reads, supernatural, writes, writing
Tagged amreading, amwriting, books, fiction, Harvey Duckman, Post Apocalypse School of Teesside, reading, reads, writer, writing
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The darkness
I am the darkness that dwells in your head
I am the secrets you’ve never said
I am the malice that lay at your heart
A writers solstice
I have always been fond of the above quote. It comes form Stephen King’s memoir/guide to the craft of writing, On Writing . A book I recommend to anyone looking to progress in the craft. It is also a quote … Continue reading
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Tagged pagan, reads, writerslife, writing
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Pagan Books (of the year and otherwise)
Fellow author, blogger, musician, poet, worshipper of trees, insightful guru, druid, and all round wonderful person,Nimue Brown started a Facebook group called Pagan Book News. If you are interested in paganism, belief structures, and humanities connection to the wider universe, … Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, books, druid, pagan, paganism, reads, witchcraft, writers
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Love, Death and Witchcraft
A couple of short reviews for sequels to books I have previously reviewed. That is the brief here. No waffling on about anything, just do the reviews… Have I ever mentioned I hate sequels. As a writer that is, not … Continue reading
Pagan feasting
For want of a better definition I am a Quantum Pagan. Which is to say I have a workaday understanding of Quantum physics, and I believe both science and pagan spirituality to be in a quest for answers and the … Continue reading
Posted in big questions, book reviews, books, pagan, reads
Tagged amreading, pagan, quantum pagan, reads, writerslife, writing
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The Telling Deck: A Guest Post from Will Nett
Will Nett, not the one who ran away form the Spanish armada, the other one… with a guest blog on tarot cards, possibly, or just general Will Nett witter, which is good witter we have to say. Continue reading
Posted in amreading, amwriting, druidry, fiction, indie writers, pagan, reads, supernatural, writes
Tagged arcane, reads, sprirtualisum, tarot, writers, writerslife, writing
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Hopeless Recordings
Probably because there was no one competent available I was asked to record the Ominous Folk of Hopeless Maine performance at Rising Steam 2023. So I did… Continue reading
Book reviews beyond the paradigm
What it it was easy to change our lives? What if happiness wasn’t an impossible dream to chase after? What if we could have nice things?
or something like that Continue reading
Posted in amreading, big questions, depression, fiction, indie writers, pagan, reads
Tagged amreading, books, pagan, reads, writerslife, writing
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