#then sightwitch

[safifonhasstrel]

[everythingunderthestarsthings]

Heyyy everyone!

I love reading books but never seem to have a bookmark. I can actually remember the page numbers where I stop reading and have no problem going back to the correct page, but bookmarks are fun!

And though it's a very simple one, I made a bookmark for myself with my absolute favourite phrases from the Witchlands series by Susan Dennard!

[dark-giver]

What's up, guys!!!!

I was just thinking about my favorite series (again) and how at the beginning of the second and third books we have parts of “Eridysi’s Lament”

But it is not clearly written and finding meaning in these lines is impossible for me (Sooz would never make it easy for us)

I would like to know how you interpret the meaning of the lines and I will tell you what I think

Here are the two parts:

That which is closest, she cannot see.

(okay, I'm confused from the first line - who is she/ I guess Iseult because she doesn't see Aeduan's threads/ I am quite sure it refers to Aeduan

A strand fallen from the weave, cast adrift on winds of flame.

(Okay the thing with the fire and the fallen strand from the weave- it's Aeduan 100% this one is clear)

A knife with two sides.

(confused again- two sides, what? so Aeduan can be as good as hurtful maybe???

Blood on the snow.

(and this is clear - he grew up in the monastery and in the snow)

-from Bloodwitch

Stones in motion.

(no damn idea)

Tools cleft in two.

( same here)

The wyrm fell to the daughter made of moonlight long ago,

( this is for iseult i think??? it's not for anyone else. but I don't like this daughter and so did this wyrm)

He just didn't know it yet.

( WHO'S HE???!? CORTLANT?!?! LEOPOLD/THE ROOK KING?!?!! AEDUAN?!?? Too many options!!

-from Witchshadow

(In both parts there is this "she" and this "he" that I am sincerely curious about)

I will really be glad to know what you think about the matter, how you understand the meaning of these lines. If anyone has any better suggestions than mine please let me know because I'm really 🤔🤨😕🧐 (confused)

[riddlemefuckingthis]

Petition for Cam to have a POV in the last Witchlands book

[fyblackwomenart]

Ryber Fortiza, Sightwitch  by Nipuni

[willowstea]

To make this a long list of book recs, I'm realigning with mine. My main themes.is books on my digital or physical tbr, but not library ones.

Here are my 24 reads in 2024 (no particular order):

Lore by Alexandra Braken

Without You by Anthony Rapp

Wildcard by Marie Lu

The Weavers Lammeñt by Elizabeth Haydon

The Hollow Queen by Elizabeth Haydon

Destiny: Child of Sky by Elizabeth Haydon

The Merchant Emporer by Elizabeth Haydon

Spinning Starlight by RC Lewis

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

Spindle Fire by Lexia Hillyer

The Collectors by Phillip Pullman

There is a Door in this Darkness by Kristin Cashore (Pre-order)

The Familiars by Leigh Bardugo (Pre-order)

The Falconer by Elizabeth May

Aerie by Maria Dahvana Headley

Sightwitch by Susan Dennard

Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard

Codex by Lev Grossman

The Knife of Never Letting GO by Patrick Ness

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Underdogs by Markus zusak

I am Messenger by Markus Zusak

Waiting God's by Sullivan Nuevel

Sleeping Giants by Sullivan Neuvel

24 books in 2024

It is 2024, and I am here yet again with my bookish hopes and dreams!

I did this challenge last year (available here), and in 2022 (available here), and I'm STOKED to do it again this year! As is my way, I have been planning and revising this list for some time. My Goodreads overfloweth with ideas.

As always, if you have book recs, please send them my way! And, if you're participating in the challenge this year, I'd love to see your lists!

Without further ado, I gladly present to you my 24 in '24 book list:

Sci-Fi and Just for Fun :)

1) Randomize by Andy Weir

2) Next by Michael Crichton

3) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

4) With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer

Environmental Science/Ecology/Books Relevant to my Studies

5) Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller

6) Must Love Trees: An Unconventional Guide by Tobin Mitnick

7) Scientifically Historica: How the World’s Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge by Brian Clegg

8) Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson

Reading Around the World

9) The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar by Peter Tyson (Madagascar)

10) Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia by Sigrid Rausing (Estonia)

11) Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony by Matthew Parker (Suriname)

12) A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn (Translator) (Angola)

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge/Classics

13) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

14) The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir, H.M. Parables (Translator and Editor), and Deirdre Bair (Introduction)

15) Gidget by Frederick Kohner

16) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Recommended by Friends

17) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (recommended by @hedonism-tattoo and many, many others)

18) Howl’s Moving Castle by Diane Wynne Jones (also recommended by many people now. @permanentreverie posted about it recently tho, and that was what really made me decide to include it on this list!)

19) Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (recommended by @daydreaming-optimist )

20) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (recommended by @kaillakit)

Eco-Psychology

21) Ecopsychology by Lester R. Brown

22) Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell

23) Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life by Andy Fisher and David Abram (foreword)

24) Sight and Sensibility: the Ecopsychology of Perception by Laura Sewall

Bonus

25) Bride by Ali Hazelwood

26) Open Heart Surgery by Johanna Leo

27) A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith

28) Candy Hearts by Tommy Siegel

No pressure tagging: @daydreaming-optimist @kaillakit @permanentreverie @noa-the-physicist @silhouette-of-sarah @captaindelilahbard @senatorhotcheeto @the-bibliophiles-bookshelf @skyekg @of-the-elves @obesecamels @courageisneverforgotten @willowstea @its-me-satine @deirdrerose @notetaeker @theskittlemuffin and anyone else who wants to do this!

[madmanreaper]

I decided to reread the Witchlands saga, since I read it years ago when only Windwitch was out, to catch up with the other books.

It was, and believe still is honestly, my favorite saga of all the time.

Rereding it now, it still fells like the first time, I love this books even more then the past, and I absolutely swear that IF SUSAN DOESN'T MAKE SAFI AND MERIK ENDGAME AT THE END OF THE BOOKS AND DON'T GIVE THEM THE ✨HAPPY ENDING✨ THEY DESERVE I'M GOING TO BURN MYSELF & THIS BOOK (together yeah 😩) BECAUSE I CAN'T LIVE SUFFERING🚶‍♀️, BUT EVEN IN DEATH I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE SEPARATED FROM THEM! 😭

[nipuni]

Ryber, the last sightwitch sister, from Witchlands by @stdennard 😊

[moonlitglen]

am currently rereading windwitch and i badly needed to get this out of my head... ch 31 you're welcome

[longsightmyth]

Everybody takes inspiration from things they've read but usually there is a lot more work put into using a similar scene or concept and making it their own, not least by making it actually make sense with the worldbuilding.

Like Susan Dennard and Margaret Rogerson were both VERY clearly inspired by Sabriel/Lirael in two of their works and I could SEE THE POINTS (sightwitch and vespertine) but they wrote their own scenes with those ideas and used their own language and while there are similar vibes and concepts it doesn't jar you out of the story at those points, because while you can see the inspiration they haven't full on just yoinked the scenes with some language tweaks for legality

[padmerrie]

A boy born in the sleeping ice.  A strand fallen from the weave, cast adrift on winds of flame.

[safifonhasstrel]

“Dead grass is awakened by fire,

dead earth is awakened by rain.

One life will give way to another,

the cycle will begin again.”

[stdennard]

SUSAN!!!! I FINALLY REREAD THE WHOLE SERIES AND I CANT BELIEVE I DIDN’T FIGURE OUT THIS BEFORE AND MAYBE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE AND IM JUST SLOW BUT I HAVE TO KNOW! IN CHAPTER 62 OF BLOODWITCH, AEDUAN WAS SMELLING HIS BLOOD ON ISEULT’S COIN, “BRIGHT AND FRESH AND LACED WITH FIREFLIES.” AND WE KNOW BLOOD SCENTS CAN EVOLVE SO ARE YOU TELLING ME HIS BLOOD SCENT CHANGED BECAUSE OF ISEULT?! IF SO I AM GOING TO CATAPULT INTO OBLIVION.

AREN'T YOU THE SAVVIEST READER, CATCHING SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE HAS.

[witchlcnds]

a short presentation as to why you should read the witchlands series 

[firelxdykatara]

All the Witchlands couples hit different when you remember Susan Dennard ships Zutara, too 😍😍

Oh it absolutely does--that was honestly one of the selling points of the series by the friend who got me into these books. "The author ships zutara and it shows!!!" and also "Enemies to lovers where they actually try to kill each other!!!" and I was like oh I have to get my hand on these lmfao

What I really love about the main relationships (I am not perceiving any possibility that my ships are not endgame here cough cough) is that there's this duality between them--Safi and Iseult are foils and in that same vein I think Merik and Aeduan are also foils, and their relationships also mirror each other. There's this duality that is a recurring thread (hah, thread) throughout these books, because there have at least been hints that Safi and Iseult are the Cahr Awen, and even if all is not as it seems -stares hard at susan dennard ma'am plEASE- they are still very much two halves of one whole, but they also fit with Merik and Aeduan respectively in very different ways. But what gets me is that I see elements of zutara's essence in both of their relationships.

Safi and Merik have their fire and their passion--they have this fantastic banter and instant connection (which may have been rather grudging at first, but Truthwitch only spanned a few weeks at most, their kiss stole my breath away and I've been aching for them to reunite through TWO BOOKS AND THEIR BRIEF MOMENT IN BLOODWITCH DETROYED ME PLEASE LET THEM MEET BACK UP AGAIN IN WITCHSHADOW I AM BEGGING) and an energy that just draws you in. On the other hand, Iseult and Aeduan have the full enemies to lovers dynamic and I think they are more on the deep intensity side. They get what is so delicious about zutara's potential for a slow burn, feelings buried deep down and growing against all odds when they are trapped together by circumstance and wind up seeing each other in an entirely new (and decidedly inconvenient) light, and Iseult being like from the moment I stabbed this man in the heart, his heart belonged to me and I'll be damned if it stops beating without my fucking permission when she saved his life and saw their heart-thread form like....

Between Safik and Iseduan I have been well fucking fed, now if only they could all be together and nOT SEPARATED FOR ANOTHER ENTIRE BOOK PLEASE LORDT I AM SUFFERING