TTT If You Liked...

If you liked The Walking Dead movie adaptation, read the comic books!

If you liked Zombieland read Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen.

If you liked The Other Boleyn Girl read the book by Philippa Gregory

If you liked Romeo + Juliet read William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher

If you liked "The Secret" read What the Bleep Do We Know?

If you like using Pusheen stickers on Facebook then you should read I Am Pusheen the Cat

If you liked Warm Bodies then read Married with Zombies by Jesse Peterson

If you like watching Big Brother then read Dead Famous by Ben Elton

If you liked Pretty Woman you'll like Candy Girl by Diablo Cody

If you liked Resident Evil read Boneshaker Cherie Priest



As a side note: If you like 50 Shades of Grey you need to read Diary of a Submissive by Sophie Morgan. You know, so you see what real BDSM is.

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Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Characters Who are Strong Females

This Top Ten Tuesday I got to fill in the blank for "Top Ten Characters Who ___" so I chose what appeals most to me in a book: strong female characters. You'll notice that many of the strong females here come in pairs. In no particular order:

1) Ginny Weasely (Harry Potter)-- When Harry is away she takes charge and leads a revolution instead of moping and trying to kill herself. *cought* Twilight *cough*

2) Hermione (Harry Potter)--If you've read Harry Potter you know why I've included her. She's smart and Harry and Ron even admit that she is the mastermind behind all their success.

3) Eona (Eon)-- A girl who knew what she wanted and wasn't afraid to take what was hers. She went against men and won.

4) Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)-- Just the bravest girl ever. Sacrifices herself for her sister and later on another person she loves. 

5) Primrose Everdeen (The Hunger Games)-- When the war took place she was out on the field, putting her life in danger in order to save lives that weren't hers.

6) Alana (Song of the Lioness)-- Like Eona she passes for a man in order to get what she wanted.

7) Princess Cimorene (Dealing with Dragons)-- Saves her own life several times over and and ends up in a position of power. One of her pet peeves is when men try to rescue her. She doesn't need rescuing, darn it!

8) Briar (Boneshaker)-- The mother of a child who, in this Steampunk novel, goes across the wall into the poisoned air, a world infested with zombies. She races after him alone and doesn't stop until she's with her son and gets him to safety.

9) Alexia Tarabotti (Soulless)-- Another badass woman, but this one doesn't have a soul. That doesn't make her heartless or any less caring about people (**SPOILER ALERT** she falls in love with a werewolf after all) and she takes on anyone who threatens her. 

10) Tera Patrick (Love and Porn)-- She's not a character, she's an actual person writing a memoir but I had to add her because she's so unique. She took charge of her career and sexuality. 

Practical Prosperity Magick by Ellen Dugan

Netgalley gave me Practical Prosperity Magick: Crafting Success & Abundance by Ellen Dugan. In it, Dugan guides the reader through spells for prosperity magick with personal commentary to make it more personal. However, I think she oversteps the boundaries between book and author. She will go off on tangents, for instance, in the section about charms she goes on to describe all of her (non)magickal charms one-by-one, there being no relevance to the rest of the book. She could have condensed that easily to one sentence or two. It did nothing to benefit the book. 

When she describes her spells she does so in great detail, mentioning the importance of the moon and the day of the week for each spell. She gives ingredients and step-by-step instructions which are more than suitable. Not being a witch myself, but very interested in pursuing that lifestyle, I can only assume the spells are legitimate. I will be trying one or two and will update my review. But I feel that my review of this book is still solid even without trying her spells.

 She does something interesting, she explains Personal Magickal Energy Total (PME) and will occasionally check on the reader to make sure that our magickal powers are up to par for the spell. Dugan defines PME as representing the "amount of thought, effort, style and power that you put into the stalled prosperity spell when you first cast it." For a witch to scan herself, this information was very important.

The spells are simple enough for a beginner. That being said, she does not give an introduction on how one becomes a witch or if a person, like myself who has no experience but is very interested in magick, can cast these spells.  I was quite pleased to find that she teaches us a bit about the Law of Attraction, one of my personal favorite new age ideas. Also, Dugan often calls upon her knowledge of plants to help the reader cast the spells. That is a part of the author that is useful to the rest of the book.

 Overall, I’m giving this book three stars because I do not think all of the personal anecdotes were beneficial to the reader and because there was not enough background information for someone semi-new to witchcraft. The book would have been much more useful as instructional material if she had stuck to witchcraft and inserted less of herself unnecessarily. But this is a good book for the beginner new to spells, but not necessarily new to witchcraft.