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sara_m_martins's Reviews (334)
"The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling / Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell."
short&sweet poetry collection of Emily Bronte. Definitely a good introduction to her work, that sparked my curiosity. as the title indicates, the poems featured are of a darker tone - both in feeling and time of day.
short&sweet poetry collection of Emily Bronte. Definitely a good introduction to her work, that sparked my curiosity. as the title indicates, the poems featured are of a darker tone - both in feeling and time of day.
i'm still very much confused by what is going on, but somehow it also makes perfect sense. and i'm having fun with the story, which is what matters. probably closer to 3.5 stars; though, i definitely feel like it needs a higher rating than the other two.
this one really started to feel quite coming of age as well, more than the others anyway, and i really enjoyed the way they introduced the womanhood themes here (period talk is just non-existent most of the times, and it was refreshing to see it talked about in a way that girls would actually talk about it).
i still like the artwork and the palette , as i did in previous volumes.
this one really started to feel quite coming of age as well, more than the others anyway, and i really enjoyed the way they introduced the womanhood themes here (period talk is just non-existent most of the times, and it was refreshing to see it talked about in a way that girls would actually talk about it).
i still like the artwork and the palette , as i did in previous volumes.
A 3.5? I liked it, and i really liked the final chapter, which felt more like gaiman than anything else. I don't know any DC, which I'm sure would enhance the experience bc it was fun when john Constantine appeared
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4.5
There's something unbelievably feminist about Witchery and stories surrounding it. And i feel this books encompasses that same sentiment. Women who are allowed to stand by themselves, make their own lives, regardless of the whims of what surrounds them. Powerful women that, because they represented a threat to the power-that-be, were scorned and relegated in the history books.
I kept remembering this article i read a couple months back, so that will be my review.
“Witchcraft — stereotypically, and in cases of actual witch panics — has always been associated with femininity, but it is associated more specifically with marginalized women who have very little worldly power. Old women; poor women; women who were mentally ill, or overly argumentative, or just disliked. [...] A witch is a woman pushed to the edges of society. Yet that same marginal status gives the witch a terrible, shadowy power. She is the threat you don’t see coming, the person you write off until it’s too late [...]. The terror implicit in witchcraft is that the people who supposedly have the least power in our communities may, in fact, have the power of life and death hidden in a back pocket; that, when you address a woman, you can never be sure whether she is powerless or massively, malevolently powerful, and that any slight or insult you inflict on her may come back to haunt you, or even ruin your life. Which is to say: Of course Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders are afraid of witches. Witches exist, pretty much entirely, to keep the Brett Kavanaughs of this world in line. […] Witches don’t accept your apology; witches don’t back down to assuage male pain. Some men go their whole lives punching down at women, and for the most part, they get away with it. The witch is the woman who finally punches back. You won’t know what she is until you’re on the floor spitting out teeth.” (https://medium.com/s/story/the-brett-kavanaugh-backlash-will-make-witches-of-us-all-614b5f7d1e82)
There's something unbelievably feminist about Witchery and stories surrounding it. And i feel this books encompasses that same sentiment. Women who are allowed to stand by themselves, make their own lives, regardless of the whims of what surrounds them. Powerful women that, because they represented a threat to the power-that-be, were scorned and relegated in the history books.
I kept remembering this article i read a couple months back, so that will be my review.
“Witchcraft — stereotypically, and in cases of actual witch panics — has always been associated with femininity, but it is associated more specifically with marginalized women who have very little worldly power. Old women; poor women; women who were mentally ill, or overly argumentative, or just disliked. [...] A witch is a woman pushed to the edges of society. Yet that same marginal status gives the witch a terrible, shadowy power. She is the threat you don’t see coming, the person you write off until it’s too late [...]. The terror implicit in witchcraft is that the people who supposedly have the least power in our communities may, in fact, have the power of life and death hidden in a back pocket; that, when you address a woman, you can never be sure whether she is powerless or massively, malevolently powerful, and that any slight or insult you inflict on her may come back to haunt you, or even ruin your life. Which is to say: Of course Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders are afraid of witches. Witches exist, pretty much entirely, to keep the Brett Kavanaughs of this world in line. […] Witches don’t accept your apology; witches don’t back down to assuage male pain. Some men go their whole lives punching down at women, and for the most part, they get away with it. The witch is the woman who finally punches back. You won’t know what she is until you’re on the floor spitting out teeth.” (https://medium.com/s/story/the-brett-kavanaugh-backlash-will-make-witches-of-us-all-614b5f7d1e82)
