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This is a blog about reading. Not just books, but anything you read. I will share my wish-list that has been added to and has been my substitute list of recommendations I have collected over the last few years. I'm an adult reader and writer who believes every medium has something worth something. My plans for this blog are:

Book reviews Reading logs Favourite passages/quotes My Recommendations for you "Currently Reading" updates Discussions about writing and storytelling Library finds Bookstore hauls (currently disabled and unemployed so these will come later hopefully) Reading challenges Essays Down the road, you may also see posts about films, music, and visual art. Recommendations Welcome and Needed Please send me: Anything you think deserves to be read or any apps/websites or gadgets related to reading. I enjoy discovering things I never would have found on my own. Recommendation Guidelines

I do not like it.

Oh boy. Listen, I love the topics. I hate the formatting. I wanted more information.

Basically what is happening is a paraphrase of the text the small chapter is about in a small paragraph and then a small paragraph about thoughts on the paragraph of paraphrased text. (I think.)

That is a simplified example of what I have been reading.

I think I was just expecting more information. This book starts with the bible, actually most of the book is the bible, which I expected, but its basically the bible. What I mean by that is I am literally reading the Bible through the eyes of this author/translator.

This is interesting, in fact I do this often, I read the Bible through the lens of others, philosophers, scholars, Catholic religious leaders and even the Talmud with Rabbi and their commentaries. I absolutely love this.

Which is why I thought I would love reading this book because it comes at these text from a magical lens (Kinda). I think it to me, my opinion only here, is that it is falling a little flat.

Here is the thing though, I have been having medical issues so maybe I am not fully understanding which is why up there I said "(I think.)". I may not be absorbing the words in the way I need to, so when I am finish with the book I think I may read it over once more before giving my final thoughts.

What I will say is the new information I am learning is mostly vocabulary on words revolving "magic" and I LOVE vocabulary.

It is a shame because the few pages I did get to read I thought were constructed in a way that made my particular neurodivergent brain pretty gitty. I have not done research on the author yet either, I usually do and will today because he speaks about philosophy and sociology. He writes in a way that reminds me of history professors I have had in the past mixed with philosophy professors.

The Book of Magic

From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Brian Copenhaver

~♡Penguin Classics♡~

This is what I do to show when I start a book and when I finish it top and bottom. (That is my emotional support dog's butt).

I have currently started it but I am not sure how to annotate it quite yet. I think I might start off just streaming thoughts in the free spaces. Though space isn't easy to come by in this book.

Writing in

Highlighting in

Bending the spine

Cutting out pieces

Black out poems

Painting in/on

Drawing in

Or anything else I have missed

(This doesn't count if its a limited edition I will judge you if you fuck with limited editions/limited prints or very old old old old prints.)

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