#adiscoveryofwitches

•November 5, 2022•

Currently reading:

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - I am almost done with this book! I have about 100 pages left.

Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young - this is the book club pick for We're All Booked. I'm starting it early because my library hold is due in 2 days and with the demand for it I doubt I'll get it back this month. I am hooked by the first few chapters already. Very curious to see how things will go.

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What are you currently reading?

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Matthew Goode in ‘The Vatican’.  

Pilot that wasn’t commissioned

You're curiously walking around the castle, watching the servants decorate for Christmas. One decoration in particular catches your eye. Francis starts walking beside you.

You: Francis? Why are the servants hanging herbs everywhere?

Francis: The mistletoes, you mean? My mother's idea.

You: What does a remedy for women's problems have to do with Yuletide?

Francis: As part of the the custom, men are allowed to steal a kiss from any woman caught standing under it and refusing a kiss is bad luck. Another tradition instructs the merrymakers to pluck a single berry from the mistletoe with each kiss, and to stop when all the berries are gone.

You: What a silly tradition

Francis: Yes

You: (softly) But I like silly.