hedgewinnery's reviews
260 reviews

Not quite what I expected when I picked it up, but very good regardless. A lot of the conversations in the book around the commons feel like they could be slotted right in for the Right to Roam movement. 

Picked this up from the local library after reading Achilles 7 years ago and having it stuck in my mind whenever the topic of poetry came up. The rest of the collection is just as brilliant & I have discovered a few more favourites by reading it through.

One of the better books about abduction experiences out there. Hypnotic reviews transcribed with context & explanation of what/why/the patterns of abduction experiences & with a core narrative that kept everything on track. (Unlike some UFOlogy books. lol.)

Read as the nov/dec/jan read for the Carabiner Club. Brilliant book that covers a lot of things while still managing to go in-depth on a lot of the subjects.

Fucking hell 

Borrowed from the library to tick it off my TBR. The writing at the beginning of each chapter is evocative and sets up the art & theme. Decent book to find some cool art & artists in.

I really really wanted to like this book, but it just didn't have what I was hoping for. A lot of reflective anecdotes & application of Mary Magdalene's teachings to the authors life that fell short and felt like it didn't get much more than surface deep, and a lot of repetition in parts meant it just wasn't for me.

Picked up on a whim from my library to see just how successfully the author fit thousands of years of global mythology into just over 150 pages. The answer is not particularly successfully. 

Aside from a lot of speculation presented as a solidity regarding paleolithic & neolithic spirituality, a very unsupported assertion of Artemis as the Great Goddess, a tinge of misogyny around a lot of it, & generally uninteresting conclusions, the breadth and depth of global mythologies were slimmed down to just the global north. From those, the majority were a name, practice and "look, see? Mythology!".

Despite that it was going to be a 2 star just for the scant pithy quotes that I'll be copying into a commonplace notebook, right up until I found the r-slur. In a book first published in 2005, when it was unacceptable, and then left in when it was republished in 2018, when it was even more unacceptable, in a context where it is meant as a complete derogatory remark devoid of any claim to "historical" context. A section where it was also used to justify ancient misogny. Beyond dissapointed & infuriated that at no point in the editing process was this flagged & removed/replaced with something more appropriate.