Tagged “review”

1. Book Review - How to Read Nature

   Mon 05 May 2025 21:08 review

   This book is maybe a bit further afield of what I usually review in my spiritwork blog, but it felt like it fit well in with some of the things I’m focusing on this year. My read of Braiding Sweetgrass made me want to turn more attention to the world around me, and my morning ritual for the land spirits involves a thoughtful walk through our lush suburban neighborhood, which has made me want to understand better what the land is telling me. It also didn’t hurt that the book was a rather serendipitous find; my eyes just landed on it during an unplanned bookstore trip, and the above connections made me decide to pick it up.

2. Book Review - Liber Indigo

   Wed 02 Apr 2025 19:35 review

   It felt like I came across Liber Indigo by Justin Kirkwood by chance, though it really may have been a good call by the YouTube algorithm (where the companion videos are posted). I was instantly intrigued; the subtitle “The Affordances of Magic” may just sound like word salad to many folks, but someone who works both in UX design and in magical practice, it jumped out at me as something combining both of my special interests. What I found wasn’t quite what I expected, but was still a very worthwhile excursion into esoteric thought.

3. Book Review - Braiding Sweetgrass

   Mon 03 Mar 2025 22:06 review

   A year or two ago, it seems like everyone in my pagan circles was reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, but it took me a while to get to it. Now, having read it, I’m sorry it took so long. This book struck me, challenged me, and inspired me. I can already feel how it’s reframing my approach to how I talk about and interact with the world around me. I only wish I hadn’t read it during a cold winter, since what it really made me want to do is go outside and sink my paws into the dirt.

4. Book Review - Visual Magick

   Mon 27 Jan 2025 22:09 review

   This weekend I finished reading Visual Magick, by Jan Fries, and I had enough thoughts about it that I thought I’d do a review, of sorts. This is an interesting one to review because one thing that became very clear while reading the book is that it’s not really “for me.” But that being said, I still came away from it with a lot of stuff that I found helpful and valuable, even if there was plenty of other stuff that made me roll my eyes or wince.

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