Comments on: Brittany’s Halfway There Summer Reading Challenge Update

By: Connie Todd LIla

Connie Todd LIla — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:46:05 +0000

Oh, my gosh ~ halfway through already?! We’ve been working in the gardens every day that it doesn’t rain blessed, rare rain – bushels of bounty to gratefully process into the freezer or to get canned, dehydrated. So many wild berries to forage and set into wine. I tend to collapse in my chair (my “nest” spot) at night, a well-intentioned book in my lap – and then my husband is gently shaking my shoulder to wake me for bed. It’s all good, just our summers. At least, at halfway, I’ll get to play with pumpkins soon! And I really AM still working on our self-set challenge, Donna Bulatowicz and Liz Bertram, to finally read that book we all start and then never finish – I’m still picking up Women Who Run With The Wolves, highlighter in hand, and reading. Glad I did, into the chapter on Finding Your Pack. It is proving very healing for me, personally, working through some Life Stuff – so grateful you both encouraged me and each other to get this tome read. Stick with it, team. We can do this. And I enjoyed Brittany’s post so much! And, I somehow missed the Read A Book From Childhood challenge. I regularly re-read the very first library book I ever saw, during a first grade “field trip” to the library across the street from our school. It was The Kingdom of Carbonel, by Barbara Sleigh. That little trip across the street was in October, the library was old, dark wood, Halloween decorations, pumpkins, hushed voices ~ it introduced me to Magicks in so many ways, most of all, the library. That Carbonel book was all about Magick, a talking black cat, a broomstick with easily hurt feelings (it would shed. . . ), and a Magickal quest set before two children. I fell in love with all of that, so much so that as an adult, I tried to find and purchase a copy of that book, plus the first one in the set. Alas, after years of searching (this was before Amazon), I learned that book was out of print and unavailable (the year I first saw it might have been 1958. . . ). So I requested my interlibrary loan to find it for me, and paid for a photocopy of the whole series, both books, since I could locate no author or publisher with rights to offer royalties. I cherish them in a binder and re-read them each year at Halloween tide (which, as I write this, is only 102 days away!). C’mon, team Lobas, turn those pages! We can do it! I love this challenge!

By: Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman

Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:45:59 +0000

In reply to Sharon. I think it sounds like you're doing great!! Those all sound like perfect choices :). I hope you like our article when it comes out!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:14:27 +0000

I am encouraged by your reading adventures! I added a couple of the titles you mentioned to a wish list. There are so many good things to read, and I knew when I started that I would not be able to clear a book a week. I just plod along as best as I can, and the good thing is that the challenge has pushed me to read more than I have been. I am still working through “The Body Keeps the Score,” which I am finding very helpful. I have “The Little Prince,” slated to cover the childhood book and a short 100-ish pager. And, I am looking forward to digging into “Baba Yaga” by Johns that I picked for a book written by an academic. I am not sure I picked all the right books for the categories, but the point is that I am choosing and reading, right? I also started “The Sandman: The Dream Hunters,” because Japanese folk story and foxes, of course. It doesn’t fit in the categories either, but I am enjoying it. I am looking forward to your article on Japanese Folklore that will appear on Myth and Moor, too.