Anaar was one of the Feri teachers at Pantheacon this year. I'd seen her before, just hadn't known it. I decided I was interested in buying her book, *The White Wand*, as it was about art and spirituality, and mostly because she was cool (I loved her Kala ritual workshop; she shared some stuff that made me see more ways I could integrate the many ( Read more... )

I treasure good stories. Always have. Some, particularly through my teen years, I read over and over again (I still occasionally reread Susan Cooper's *The Dark is Rising* this time of year, though not this year ( Read more... )

Not that Harry (though I love Harry Potter, too), Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. The current novel is Dead Beat, book 7 of the Dresden Files ( Read more... )