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books read in 2023: alice hoffman's practical magic series
All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly be sour. Always leave out seed for the birds when the first snow falls. Wash your hair with rosemary. Drink lavender tea when you cannot sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.
#bookedit#practical magic#magic lessons#rules of magic#alice hoffman#photoshop hard#well technically i haven't read book of magic yet but sstill
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"Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer."
"Drink lavender tea when you can not sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more."
"Plant roses and lavender for luck. Fall in love whenever you can."
—The endings of Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic and Practical Magic, books 1 to 3 of the four part Practical Magic series by Alice Hoffman.
#alice hoffman#magic lessons#the rules of magic#practical magic#the book of magic#witches#bloodline witches#curse#owenses#love#romance#familiars#book quotes#bibliophile#books#books for life#nameless art#witch trials
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I'm trying to make a book cover for every book I read this year. Here's the first three :)
#I also read all of ACOTAR idk if I should so a separate cover for each one yikes#books#book covers#magic lessons#one hundred years of solitude#tender is the flesh#illustration
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The Owens women created the autumn aesthetic
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Books to Read in Autumn
Book Recs for the autumn lovers
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
by Rupert Holmes
Mystery, Action, Thriller, Suspense
Enola Holmes and the Case of the Missing Marquess
by Nancy Springer
Mystery, Adventure, Female Lead
An Affair of Poisons
by Addie Thorley
Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical Fantasy, Magic
New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer
Romance, Werewolves, Fantasy, YA Fiction, Vampires
Magic Lessons
by Alice Hoffman
Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Magic, Witches, Romance
#Halloween#Fall#Autumn#Book Rec#Fall Books#Fall Book Rec#Halloween Rules#book recommendations#Fall Book Recs#halloweenrules#comfort books#magic lessons#new moon#twilight saga#an affair of poisons#enola holmes#enola holmes and the case of the missing marquess#murder your employer#murder your employer: the mcmasters guide to homicide#part 1
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Books I'm considering next
I mentioned before I add a new book every 5 sim years in my bookish save.. I'm torn about what book to add in next for Year 55. I know It seems too soon to be thinking about it bc I'm posting Year 50 right now, but in actuality I'm halfway through playing Year 53 so I need to give myself some time to finish reading and do prep like take notes, make a timeline.
Below are the ones I'm currently considering. They each have things about them that I really want to play and things about them that would be difficult to show with sims. Opinions welcome! I would love if somebody just tells me they have a clear favorite and then I don't have to decide lol.
In alphabetical order (info on each after the cut)
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir)
Dust Child (historical fic)
Magic Lessons and the Practical Magic trilogy (fantasy)
Refugee High (nonfic)
Salvage the Bones ; Sing, Unburied Sing (fic)
She's Not There (memoir)
The Glass Castle ; Half Broke Horses (memoir)
To Kill A Kingdom (fantasy)
War and Speech (YA)
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (memoir of Viv Albertine, member of British female punk rock group The Slits. I'm interested in the aesthetics of this. She's also dated Mick from The Clash, has been friends with various ppl like Sid Vicous. But should I hold out for the possibility of a bands EP or GP in the future? And there's another memoir of hers I could also read before playing. It's more focused on her family rather than her music career)
Dust Child (historical fiction about a half Vietnamese half black man who is trying to find out who his father is in the present time intertwined with the story of two sisters who leave their small town to become bar girls in Saigon in past time. I actually haven't read this yet but I became interested in playing something with a Vietnamese storyline because of the tumblr @biplusco . Their Indochine cc collection made me want to play something set in Southeast Asia.
Magic Lessons; The Book of Magic; The Rules of Magic; Practical Magic (trilogy and a prequel following the Owens family of witches since the 1600s. You may know the movie Practical Magic. Of these books I've read Practical Magic and half of Magic Lessons but haven't read The Book of Magic or The Rules of Magic yet. The main issue here is 4 books is a lot to take notes about and make timelines for before playing through. Plus, starting from the late 1600s all the way to more current times at the speed I play will mean I never finish! But maybe I could JUST play the prequel.)
Refugee High (nonfiction about the high school in the U.S. with the highest percentage of refugees. The author chose some students, each from a different country, to delve into the lives of. Could be interesting depicting each one's past in sims before they end up together in Copperdale High School. But I've only just started reading this one.)
Salvage the Bones; Sing, Unburied, Sing (fictions both by Jesmyn Ward and they take place in the same town. The characters even cross paths at one point. I love her writing so much but a key part of one book is a hurricane and the other book mostly takes place in a car so I don't know if I can do this well in Sims 4 as the game is rn)
She's Not There (memoir, gender transition. I might want to read her other book called Good Boy about every dog she's had in her life first so I can play both together and have each of the pets join the family at the right times)
The Glass Castle; Half Broke Horses (both by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle is a really popular memoir about the author's nomadic upbringing with parents who eventually choose to be homeless. Half Broke Horses is her biography of her maternal grandmother. That one mostly takes place on ranches. What happens in The Glass Castle basically picks up right after what happens in Half Broke Horses.)
To Kill A Kingdom (fiction, fantasy, mermaids and princes. This one I'm worried about my lack of cc for. I want to play out a fantasy book at some point but I haven't done any collecting of fantasy cc whatsoever yet so it might take a while to accumulate it )
War and Speech (a humorous YA book about a high school girl, new to a school, who joins the super snobby speech team just to try to bring them down from the inside.)
#books#booklr#bookblr#simblr#sims 4#ts4#bookish save#viv albertine#clothes clothes clothes music music music boys boys boys#dust child#magic lessons#practical magic#alice hoffman#refugee high#jesmyn ward#salvage the bones#sing unburied sing#she's not there#jennifer finney boylan#the glass castle#jeannette walls#to kill a kingdom#war and speech#fiction#nonfiction#memoir#fantasy#young adult#historical fiction
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Moodboard for Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffamn
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"Balance and breath are the basic components of the ancient art of Kra."
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#technically speaking#poetry#Jarod K. Anderson#poem#bathtim reading#nature#field guide to a haunted forest#magic#magic lessons#me#melancholy#spiritual naturalism
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Chapter 180
Enasal worries over getting control over her new magic and Solas is more than happy to assist his student.
Feel free to click on the link to get some ambiance!
Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy VIII) — Balamb Garden [Orchestrated Homework Edit - 1 Hr.]
When Enasal entered the rotunda, she noticed Solas had laid out the mats they used when they visited the fade. He had conjured a barrier above them, cutting off some light and sound from the floors above.
"So, does this mean we're not working with fire today?" She asked hopefully.
He raised his eyebrows at her and showed a hint of a smile, "You're not getting out of it, ma asha'lan."
"But the mats are out!" She protested.
"Because magic flows more easily in the fade." He said, "It will be easier for you to learn how your fire magic works there."
She fussed with her hair, "I mean, we already know it works when I'm angry."
"True." He sat down on one of the mats and motioned for her to do the same, "But that doesn't mean you cannot harness it."
Enasal lowered herself to the ground, fingers fluttering along her knee.
"There's no need to be so nervous." He said gently.
"I'm not." She lied, "Just fidgety."
"Because you're nervous." He tilted his head, "Enasal. Do you remember when you first used the mark?"
She nodded.
"You were terrified." He rested his elbows on his legs as he spoke, leaning towards her, "In tears and shaking."
She winced at the memory, "Yeah…"
"Now? You're unafraid. You know how to use it."
She shifted her weight, "Maybe…"
"And when you first used a barrier." He continued, "You didn't believe me when I told you it was you. You humored me for a time, but when you did it again and realized it was you?" He smiled, "You were afraid again. It was something strange that you didn't understand. But, just as with closing the rifts, you quickly learned how to control and use it to your advantage."
"Yeah, but -"
He tiled his head to the side, looking at her at an angle as his smile grew in the slightest, "And again, when you learned to use those barriers as a weapon. And again, when you were asked to be Inquisitor. And when you were expected to learn in a mere few weeks, what an Orleasian begins learning in childhood? You succeeded far beyond expectations."
Enasal looked at her marked hand, rubbing the palm with her other hand, "But this feels… different."
"Does it really?" He asked, "Different from any of those other times?"
She nodded.
"Alright." He stood, "Stand up."
At first, she just looked up at him, eyes wide, "I'm sorry."
"You've nothing to apologize for - I just want to try something. Now, up."
Hesitantly she stood, chewing the inside of her cheek.
"Now." He offed his hands, "Give me your hands."
She squinted her eyes at him.
He chuckled, "I'm not going to set you on fire. Now give me your hands."
She nodded, putting her hands in his.
"Close your eyes."
She complied, lightly bouncing.
"Good." His voice was soft, "Now. Think about the task ahead of you; of making fire. Of manipulating the fabric of the world, the agitation the very air until it combusts into flame." He paused, "How do you feel?"
She was suddenly aware of herself rocking left to right in the slightest, "Anxious."
"How do you know?"
She opened her eyes and looked up at him, "Because I am?"
"Close your eyes." He said again, "You will be forcing fire to come from nothing. To call forth the memory of flame from the fade and force it into existence. Sit with this and listen to yourself." He paused, "I see that you're on your toes and swaying. I see your jaw clenching and I can feel your fingers twitch. You're closing your eyes very tightly and swallowing more than normal. That is how I can tell you're nervous. Now - how can you tell?"
Enasal squeezed her eyes shut, "I feel really hot. And my legs feel like I want to run. And I have this… this kind of… it like aches and itches at the same time." She took one of her hands away from his, putting a balled-up fist right under her sternum." And I'm thirsty…. My mouth's gone dry,"
"Good. Now open your eyes."
She steeled herself, glancing up at him as she did.
"Does this truly feel any different from any of the other times you've been afraid of something new?"
Her eyes were off to the side as she thought, sifting through memories. Her eyes widened in realization as she looked up at him and shook her head, "No."
"Exactly." He squeezed her hands once before letting them go, "You triumphed each and every time - this time will be no different." He sat down and smiled, his voice light as he said, "Now if you're quite done stalling…"
"Right!" She sat down across from him, head bobbing with eagerness.
He chuckled, "I hope you keep this enthusiasm."
"I will." She insisted, legs bouncing with newfound determination.
"Good." He lay on his own mat. After Enasal had settled herself, he glanced over at her, "Are you ready?"
She nodded.
"Alright…" He paused, "Enasal?"
She glanced over at him, "Yeah?"
"Do you recall if there are any dreamers in your family?"
She frowned, "I'm not sure. Why?"
He nodded slowly, "I see. Curiosity, nothing more."
She rolled her eyes, "You're so weird sometimes - now if you're quite done stalling."
He went up on one of his elbows, "Glib." He said with a warning look, "Child."
She laughed.
"Enough trifling." He nodded to her mat, "Now close your eyes - we have work to do."
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Read the full fic from the beginning at my A03 here!
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#Enasal Lavellan#fanfiction#dragon age fanfic#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#dragon age fic#dragon age fanfiction#dai#dai fanfic#fai fanfiction#enasal tethras#inquisitor lavellan#Solas#Magic lessons#Solas the Liar#I love their relationship#Be careful Solas your paternal instincts are showing
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“Some lessons you have to learn for yourself, others are best to know from the start.” -Alice Hoffman
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"Is it the man you want, or the feeling inside you when someone cares?"
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
#alice hoffman#magic lessons#practical magic#rules of magic#book of magic#witches#fiction#bookaholic#book quotes#bibliophile
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Our first practical series covers everything from geology to shrine placement, bringing together the natural and spiritual worlds to help practitioners better understand the immediate ecosystem around them. This two-part class begins with a deep dive into sketching out your map, leaving you with the week to start filling in the details. In week two, we give you the key and show you how to start interpreting the map, making sense of the symbolic and material interactions shaping the world around you.
Our first run starts Saturday, November 19 at 1pm CST. You can register and find out more information on the course at https://www.instituteofmodernmagic.org/store/p/energy-mapping-basics
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Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic #0.1)
Hey guys!Today I’m gonna share my thoughts on the final Practical Magic I read, which technically is a prequel to all the other ones. Let’s find out whether it’s worth reading…
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The Plot (as found on Goodreads):
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of…
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Don’t worry—this is absolutely one of those “ask 100 people, get 100 different answers” types of questions, so this is likely the only time I’ll have complete confidence that you can’t mess it up. I mean .. hopefully, you can’t.
What magic is depends very much on who the person is. I tried to use small words for you, but go back and read that again a few times—there’s a lot of meaning packed into that sentence.
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