#kissing the witch

[theclassicsreader]

There were so many books on so many shelves, I knew I could live to be old without coming to the end of them. The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

[lisareadsthings]

“So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.”

Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

[doumekiss]

2024 Book Recs - 5-6

5 - Crooked House by Agatha Christie 

There's been some time since I’ve read an Agatha Christie novel and picked a good one this time. It’s a classic murder mystery with the victim being the old patriarch of a very rich family, and the suspects being everyone from his family, and the character who ends up in the role of detective is Charles who intends the marry one of the granddaughters of the murdered patriarch, and I do think this was a really good choice, because though I do like Poirot and Miss Marple I sometimes think that some of her finest writing appears on novels with the person who falls on the role of detective is closer to the crime like with And then there were none, and in this case is not just about solving the crime, but Charles figuring out who of his soon to be relatives is a killer and in general what he is marrying into, and all the family baggage that comes with the woman he is in love. 

I had many theories about who the killer was and I was delightfully wrong in all my suspicions, it’s one of those stories with a lot of clues and elements that doesn’t seem to make sense until suddenly everything makes sense at the end, I think this is a novel that might be fun to reread one day. 

Recommended for: People that like murder mysteries, stories about rich families with dark secrets and weird family dynamics. Fans of Knives Out and We have always lived on the castle 

6 - Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue 

This book has a series of fairy tale retellings often with sapphic elements, and even in the stories that are not about lesbian love there is a great focus on female relationships and how women affect each other as friends, mentors or enemies. The author’s prose is beautiful, often feeling like poetry at some points but without disturbing the flow of the narratives. It has this element of one story pulling the other with the narrator of a story being a side character on the previous one (like the maid from The Goose Girl being the wicked stepmother in Snow White), what gives some sense of how the lives of the women depicted in the stories are intertwined in each other. 

Recommended for: people that like fairy tale retellings, stories about queer women (both in the gay meaning and the odd and peculiar meaning), fans of This is how you loose the time war 

[lizardgoats]

What happened next, you ask? Never you mind. There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels, my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. That is the story you asked for. I leave it in your mouth.

"The Tale of the Kiss" in Kissing the Witch, by Emma Donoghue

[myhikari21things]

Read of Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue (1997) (228pgs)

[ydteus]

Evil Stick | Ball of Sunshine

[biowho]

The first woman I ever fell in love with should at least have a tarot card if she's not going to be in Veilguard

here's bethany

Edit!!! I’ve never been more happy to be wrong

[beidak-art]

they hate each other

[lanasgirlfr]

AGATHA HARKNESS A GIRL KISSER CONFIRMED?;!?;!!:??!!

[veguinsky]

Those are true friends (＊˘◡˘) WebToon: "Walpurgis Night ☾"

[rosalie-starfall]

Agatha All Along

Agatha & Rio

If I Can't Reach You / Let My Song Teach You

[lisareadsthings]

“Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.”

Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

[paradiseyuri]

Created by : ☆天堂樹☆ Respective credits to the creator ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

[lizardgoats]

On the whole I am inclined to think that a witch should not kiss. Perhaps it is the not being kissed that makes her a witch; perhaps the source of her power is the breath of loneliness around her. She who takes a kiss can also die of it, can wake into something unimaginable, having turned herself into some new species.

"The Tale of the Kiss" in Kissing the Witch, by Emma Donoghue

[bluebeesknees]

Stop pitting two boyfailures against each other 😔✨