Books, so many Books!

Yes! I do this so much! I got fifty pages into Modern Magick then stopped reading it for a little while and switched to reading about more Greek and herb stuff via articles, then moved onto astrology. Then I got an Amazon book...yes I got it off Amazon but I mean it's actually about Amazones. I think I'm like...sixty something pages into that one. So then I had my husband check me out an astrology book from our local library and I'm like fouty pages into that one. I know exactly how you feel.

Book titles and authors are as follows:

Morden Magick by Donald Michael Kraig

The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woolfolk

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Hahaha! I do the same thing! Good to know I am not the only one ;)

The books I am currently reading are:

Magically speaking-

"Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot"

by: Lon Milo DuQuette

rereading:

"Magical Herbalism"

by: Scott Cunningham

Of the Non Magickal variety:

"American Gods"

by: Neil Gaiman

rereading:

"Dune"

by: Frank Herbert

I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who does this XD

This is so much of a problem for me, mainly because I hate skipping ahead in a book, even one that is informative and has no plot-line to follow.

I get past all of the boring bits that I already know, the introductions and basic knowledge, am just about to get to the good bits and I change books and read the boring bits all over again. It's like a cycle of book introductions that never seems to end.

I think I need to start setting myself the goal of not picking up another book, till I have finished the one I am reading, otherwise I don't learn anything new, this is especially problematic once I've made my annual trip to our local occult book shop, I come back with twenty books and attempt to read them all at once, which, rather unsurprisingly, never works out well.

I do the same, Rikki. I can be in the middle of a book and I'll order 3 more off of amazon. (They just arrived the other day xD)

I kind of read them by priority. Which topic am I the most interested in right now? Then I'll starting reading that book and then the cycle continues.

I recently finished my Usborne Internet Linked Greek Scholastic book. It gives brief information on different Greek and some pre-Greek Deities. The book also details different places in Greece showcasing maps, when they were conqured, who ruled them, etc. This book did an excellent job of showing different Greek weaponry as well as armor used. They displayed military tatics such as the phalanx and Alexander The Great's variation. This book explained different classifications of soldiers and the different degrees of armor they would wear and why as well as different city states military.

They also explained different pots and which ones were used for ritual baths for brides before weddings, which ones were for water, which were for wine, and which were for mixing the two. They also showed the role of women in different Greek places as well as marriage customs and philosphers, bards, mathmaticians, healers/doctors taking a more mundane pracical approach to healing people. So overall, this was a fantastic book which makes excellent reference material! As a reconstructionalist, I find it important to see how people interacted with the Theoi. So that I may show my gratitude to them in a way that invokes nostalgia. Many of my offerings have been new agey in the fact of things I think they would like. But I would like to show that I have truly taken the time to get to know them by giving more traditional offerings here and there as well.

I am still working on the Astrology and Amazon book I had mentioned previously as well as Modern Magick. I have gotten another fifteen pages into the Amazon book which I recently picked back up where I left off in. The astrology one I need to recheck out from the library but I more or less remember where I left off there. I stopped reading Kraigsters book for a little bit because pdfs just don't do it for me for some reason. I think it is because I do more of my reading at places without internet like in doctors offices, at my in laws which I politely ignore because I hate them, etc. I mean I read in my shrine room too sometimes but that is away from my computer. When I use the computer I am too tempted and fall prey to the dreadded multitasking of having more than one tab opened, watching make up tutorials, scrolling through Facebook, etc.

I also had a dear friend send me a pdf of Scott's Herb Encyclepedia because I told her I wanted a copy for my birthday lol. So she sent it to me with the title reading, "happy birthday". Which was very sweet. I understand how hard it can be to take time out of our busy days to do something nice for someone else when we have so much going on as is. So this might seem like no big deal but when someone shows me they listen and takes the time to send me something, it means everything to me. Even if it's just a short, "hi how ya doin'?" or a meme, or a video. That you thought of me makes all the difference and that you took the time to get to know me and are a good listener.