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@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 15 сағат бұрын
Wow, the Regenerative Soil Tarot looks so beautiful I might be able to get over the redundancy of the courts, but ‘Paige’ is just too ODD, what? Lol The Haindl Tarot is a favorite of mine, that’s so cool you found those books in the free little library. I have the major and minor arcana books, and they were difficult for me to find affordably at the time. I don’t have the Reader’s Handbook.
@NicoleACottageWitch 15 сағат бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission There are a lot of things I like about the majors but apparently it was made with AI and not properly disclosed, which is too bad. I love the idea of the deck, but the execution has had some issues! I’m not sure what to do with it yet. I’ll have to watch a walkthrough of the Haindl sometime.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 3 сағат бұрын
Oh no, that’s too bad about the AI, I agree. I have just a couple of AI decks, but they weren’t lazily done. Overall, AI terrifies me. I need to sit down for a deep dive with the Haindl and the books, when the time is right!
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 сағат бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I use AI at work sometimes and it can be useful but I’m just not convinced that AI art can be produced without plagiarism yet. If it’s all trained on open source images, that’s one thing, but I don’t think any AI model currently is. Same with AI writing.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Сағат бұрын
I can see it being useful with certain tasks, but AI writing is a big No for me. Agree.
@megadele65 18 сағат бұрын
Hi Nicole. I’m a bit late watching your video, but I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed this! The craft decadence oracle looks amazing! I’m always looking for an oracle that stands out and has unique keyword. This one does that. Also, I just emailed the creator of the abaton keys. That deck looks amazing too! And you’re right, it is a super reasonable price. And thank you for sharing that there is an online guidebook for the tarot of Persephone‘s Garden. I was not aware of that. And I bought the deck a few months ago. Finally, I had to laugh when you were talking about the soul cats tarot. I am not allowed to have pets in my building either and I miss having a cat terribly! I had not thought about getting a cat deck as a substitution, but now I may just do that 🐈
@megadele65 18 сағат бұрын
Hi Nicole. I’m a bit late watching your video, but I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed this! The craft decadence oracle looks amazing! I’m always looking for an oracle that stands out and has unique keyword. This one does that. Also, I just emailed the creator of the abaton keys. That deck looks amazing too! And you’re right, it is a super reasonable price. And thank you for sharing that there is an online guidebook for the tarot of Persephone‘s Garden. I was not aware of that. And I bought the deck a few months ago. Finally, I had to laugh when you were talking about the soul cats tarot. I am not allowed to have pets in my building either and I miss having a cat terribly! I had not thought about getting a cat deck as a substitution, but now I may just do that 🐈
@NicoleACottageWitch 16 сағат бұрын
@@megadele65 thanks! I want to love some of the popular collage decks more than I do but Craft decadence and Abaton Keys are so unique and really well done. I didn’t actually know about the guidebook for Persephone’s Garden until someone else mentioned it in a video. She does include a note about it in one of the emails but apparently I didn’t read it properly! And the Soul Cats isn’t as good as cat but it’s the best I can do! I manage with that and photos of my brothers‘ pets. 💜
@KhadijaMisbah-qz6pu 3 күн бұрын
Wow 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
@megadele65 3 күн бұрын
Nicole, I have to say how inspired I am to see the number of books you consume in such a short period of time. I’m actually amazed! It takes me two weeks to read one book but you read three books in five days? Wow!
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 күн бұрын
@@megadele65 sometimes it takes me longer but I’m on a roll with this readathon. Plus I don’t have kids and sometimes don’t have a lot of other things to do after work so I can just read all weekend and some days after work.
@megadele65 3 күн бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch I have this goal to minimize my screen time in the evenings and on the weekends so that I can do a lot more reading, studying, and exploring. But my good intentions so far have not proven successful. I have a high demand stressful job, and in the evenings when I’m done with work, I just want to lay down and watch videos. But I know my time would be much better spent in study. Hearing you talk about journeying with bearberry tea and chocolate meditation was very inspiring and will hopefully help me push myself in this direction of less screen time. Thanks!
@NicoleACottageWitch 3 күн бұрын
@@megadele65 understandable. Some days I just flop onto the couch after work but audiobooks are nice for this. If you try journeying, let me know how it goes for you. It’s an interesting experience.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 8 күн бұрын
Im sorry to hear you haven’t been well ❤️🩹 Man, I have no idea why I didn’t jump on Persephone’s Garden because I love Waterhouse and Pre-Raphaelites myself. Again, I know I already mentioned this, but I love your rune deck. Your cross-stitch is adorable!!! Love owls. 🦉 I’ve never attempted cross-stitch, I was always too afraid 😂 I’m so happy to hear you’ve enjoyed the new Doctor Who! I was so stoked to learn Russel T Davies was returning (and I heard Murray Gold returned as composer as well?) and then I didn’t watch it, I was too nervous! 😂 I love Jodi Whitaker but I didn’t watch any of the episodes during her run. I’ve watched and own a ton of the classic stories, we collect them, and then all of the reissued series up until season 10. I’ve only watched up through season 9, because I fell in love with Capaldi and wasn’t ready to watch him regenerate 😂 I also felt for me, the way the 9th season wrapped up was actually an ‘ending’ for me. It was just so beautiful. But I’m sure I’ll watch the rest eventually. And yes, Russel T Davies was the showrunner for the 9th Doctor as well. (Sorry for my Doctor Who tangent!)
@NicoleACottageWitch 8 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I love a Doctor Who tangent. You listen to musicals right? Just asking because Jonathan Groff is in one of the episodes and his relationship with the Doctor is too adorable. I wish I liked 13 more than I did because I do like Jodie Whittaker, but somehow it just didn’t do it for me. I think it was the writing and the stories she got. But I’m already enjoying Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor. It’s a totally different energy from Capaldi’s era but so much fun. A bit closer to Matt Smith, I think. And yes, Murray Gold is back-he’s made for scoring Doctor Who.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 8 күн бұрын
We’ll have to have a good Doctor Who chat sometime! I’m such a geek for it! Yes, I do listen to musicals, and I did see a preview for that episode! My boyfriend pre-pandemic had quite a career with musical theatre so I was lucky to see countless broadway shows here in Boston. I agree, I don’t think it was Jodi’s fault at all, it was the writing. My take was that Chibnall’s aim was to revert back to the sci-fi/historical based stories from the 60s through the 80s, and while I love and collect those stories, the show had ‘evolved’. My mom really liked the seasons with 13, which is cute. I can see a lot of people enjoying it if they weren’t aware of the show beforehand. I’ve heard good things about Ncuti Gatwa as an actor although i don’t think I’ve seen him in anything. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll like him.
@NicoleACottageWitch 8 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission that’s interesting. I hadn’t read up on Chibnall’s intentions for the show and I haven’t watched many of the classic episodes. Maybe I’ve just gotten too used to the reboot to appreciate them. I’d love to be closer to broadway. I’ve been there once and saw a couple of things but otherwise it’s cast recordings for me! I know occasionally touring shows come through Canada but I haven’t seen many.
@unicornsdonuts 9 күн бұрын
Hello! Please can you say what deck you are using here? Many thanks :P
@NicoleACottageWitch 9 күн бұрын
@@unicornsdonuts sure it’s the Marea Tarot. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1691831958/marea-tarot
@chaneldays 9 күн бұрын
Cat decks = happiness Oh boy grounded wisdom 😅
@NicoleACottageWitch 9 күн бұрын
@@chaneldays yeah, I was trying to be polite but it’s got some issues!
@chaneldays 9 күн бұрын
Who’s your fave doctor who?
@NicoleACottageWitch 9 күн бұрын
@@chaneldays 11. I started with 10 because he was the only one I’d heard of but then 11 won me over. Unless Dr. River Song counts as a time travelling doctor, in which case, she’d be my favourite.
@manfrommoscow 10 күн бұрын
The first series of Jodie’s Who was awesome I thought, but the second and the third (especially) were poor, which was a shame.
@NicoleACottageWitch 10 күн бұрын
Yeah I like her as an actor and I think she was a pretty good doctor but she just didn’t get the spectacular moments and speeches that some of the other doctors have gotten, which I thought was too bad. And I just couldn’t get into a lot of the stories she got.
@madwitch9977 13 күн бұрын
really lovely choices, the Soul Mirror oracle looks really special, so I have added that to my never-ending wish list. thank you for sharing xx
@NicoleACottageWitch 13 күн бұрын
@@madwitch9977 the lists really are never-ending aren’t they. It’s quite a good deck but I need to stop buying decks now to use the ones I have because I haven’t used it enough! Though I am using all the colourful ones now that it’s summer. I’ll probably pull it back out this winter - I do enjoy meditations about duality and to what degree it even exists.
@madwitch9977 13 күн бұрын
always enjoying listening to your channel while I sew...wonderful and I now have a longer wish list of decks and books haha xx
@NicoleACottageWitch 13 күн бұрын
@@madwitch9977 sorry! My TBR isn’t getting any shorter either!
@madwitch9977 13 күн бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch haha I must confess to envy on how many books you manage to devour! xx
@NicoleACottageWitch 13 күн бұрын
@@madwitch9977 I often feel weirdly unsettled when I don’t have much time to read. It’s like somethings wrong! I’ve been a bookworm since I was very young.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 14 күн бұрын
Great video as always. The Bones Fall in a Spiral … woah, looked into it and added it to my wish list. I read about a contemporary necromancer recently in ‘Witches of America’ and let’s say his practices were not ethical (if this dude was even telling the truth) so I’m curious to read this approach! I really need to get ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ I see it all the time in used book stores. Oh my GOSH Soul Cats! 🐈⬛ I’ve never seen this before ( I don’t think 🤔) Gathering Moss was one of the best things I’ve read this year, or ever, really, and you’re realllly making me want to read Ulysses again but WHY would I do that to myself right now with everything I’m trying to get through 😂😭😭😭
@NicoleACottageWitch 14 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ulysses is really a whole reading project all by itself. It’s actually paused at the moment while I catch up on some of the other things on my ridiculous TBR, but I’ll definitely get back to it. There are just too many things to read! Though as soon as I get Robin Wall Kimmerer’s next book, I’ll temporarily drop everything else! I don’t recall having any serious ethical concerns about The Bones Fall in a Spiral (just difference in preference but that’s fine).
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 14 күн бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch I can’t remember how many years ago I read Ulysses, but so much of it stuck with me even though I didn’t take any notes, I have some more James Joyce in the house that I should read. Yes, definitely need to read more Robin Wall Kimmerer. The reviews I’ve read re: the Necromancy book claim it’s quite the ethical approach, but in the book which I read, the guy was actually robbing graves.
@NicoleACottageWitch 14 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission oh yeah, grave robbing is not the way to go. Ugh. And I should have started with other Joyce. Instead I read Ulysses first a few years ago. It seems like it flows more easily now having read his other books.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 14 күн бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a controversial book and I don’t have quite the energy to discuss it in a wrap up yet lol but yeah, as I was saying, there’s no actual proof this guy actually DID what he claimed to do. Ulysses is the only Joyce I’ve read, yet I own most of his work! There’s just so much to read, and I don’t get to read as much as I used to, but I can’t stop lol
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 14 күн бұрын
Ooo I bet this is going to be good! I watched the first 5 minutes and I have to tell you I impulsively bought the Craft Decadence Oracle 😂 I’ve seen it before and could no longer resist lol But I have to go to my daughter’s little band camp performance so I’ll watch the rest later 😊
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 23 күн бұрын
The ‘tour de fleece’ 😂❤ I love that! Your knitting/crocheting/weaving skills far surpass mine, (I crochet) I’m in awe! Beautiful work. I love your decks, really nice collage work, and omg I’ve been looking for a Doctor Who deck for years 😊 So much fun! That cedar chest is so beautiful ❤
@MysticRob82 23 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for the video…. It inspired me to acquire some of this decks to review on my channel as well. I just subscribed to your channel so I will be watching!
@NicoleACottageWitch 23 күн бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
@megadele65 23 күн бұрын
Wow! I am really amazed by all your projects and arts and crafts that you have been doing! I have been thinking about creating my own deck based on my father‘s art. He passed away a year ago and was a prolific artist. It’s very personal as you can imagine. I am still at the stage where I am visualizing it in my head, but not have actually taken any steps to turn it into reality yet. Anyway, please keep us up-to-date on all your crafty projects. This is very inspiring!
@NicoleACottageWitch 23 күн бұрын
That sounds like a beautiful idea.
@thebaileygrind 23 күн бұрын
Amazing idea and execution!
@NicoleACottageWitch 23 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@Peekaboorose 24 күн бұрын
Wowza, you're so talented! Thanks for sharing your various projects with us 😍
@NicoleACottageWitch 24 күн бұрын
Thanks! You’re all inspiring and very talented crafty people! 💜
@Peekaboorose 24 күн бұрын
Holy deck studies, Batman! No wonder you're studied out! I can't blame you one bit. I'm not too far from finishing my Hellenic Oracle study. Once that's done, I think I'm also gonna chill for a bit 😆I'm still salty about the Literary Tarot guidebook 🥴Makes sense that you'd wanna create your own, and kudos to you for reading several of the works you were unfamiliar with!
@NicoleACottageWitch 24 күн бұрын
Yeah, I’m taking a break for a bit! I hope your Hellenic Oracle study is going well. One of these days, I’ll study the Runic Oracle, but probably not for a while!
@TarotMagpie 26 күн бұрын
I am so impressed at the all the things you got done in a month! I'm studying the Witch Sister at the moment, totally love it. I'm feeling the Thoth itch too.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 28 күн бұрын
It’s so cool you work with the opera. Do you have any favorites? I went to the Met to see Le Nozze and Don Giovanni, a dream come true, 2 of my happiest memories.
@NicoleACottageWitch 28 күн бұрын
Moby Dick is probably my all time favourite. I’ve done several new operas like Everest and Filumena that are pretty cool. I like the music to Carmen but that and Butterfly kept trying to kill me whenever I stage managed them! Everything that could go wrong did! Mozart is pretty reliably fun though I don’t feel the need to do the Magic Flute again. It’s much less stressful just operating the surtitles. Oh and Dutchman was a lot of fun too.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 25 күн бұрын
All signs are pointing me to Moby Dick lately! 😂 honestly, I have to familiarize myself with the opera, that’s so interesting!! (I’ve been excited to read the book for a few years now and keep waiting for the perfect time, I think todays the day). Yeah … there’s some stupid librettos out there 😂 Love Butterfly, and Magic Flute and Dutchman are favorites too, saw productions of those here in Boston. It’s difficult choosing favorites, I also love the operas of Rossini, Donizetti, Monteverdi … my favorite from the ‘contemporary’ category would be the Philip Glass triptych: Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha and Akhenaten, (Akhenaten being my first choice because I listen to it constantly!)
@NicoleACottageWitch 25 күн бұрын
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I should listen to some Philip Glass opera. I’ve only listened to his piano music and love it. I remember glancing at the surtitles during Lucia Di Lammermoor (also very good and based on the Walter Scott novel), and thinking “oh this is why it’s in Italian!” Some of the lyrics were so ridiculous in English! Oh and that reminds me, I also love the opera Manon by Massenet but I haven’t listened to it in a long time. And yes, the book Moby Dick is so beautiful! It is a bit meandering sometimes (I think he spends quite some time describing knots and types of whales and things like that), but it’s so beautiful I’ve read it twice.
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 23 күн бұрын
Uh yeah.. started reading Moby Dick a couple of days ago, and I’m already thrilled: it’s everything I was looking for
@Lunarclaireity Ай бұрын
I LOVE that someone finally did a VR to this tag! Been waiting & was quite shocked tbh 😂 thought it was brilliant. I absolutely LOVED your choices/truly appreciate how authentic deck(s) were to you & your native land & felt experiences (but of COURSE🥰)!!! Couldn’t agree more btw; life is indeed ‘weird’ 😜but hey! Thank goodness we got the plants as franndsss to sit through the ‘weirdness’ with 🙃 Side note: if ya haven’t seen the Green Planet yet, do itttt! Ha it’s just planet earth for plants and made my heart so happy so sounds like you’d enjoy 😉 Loved everything about this/thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
I will look into the Green Planet. I haven’t seen it. And I agree, this was a brilliant tag, though maybe a bit more intimidating than “lighter” tags! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully more people will do it sometime. Plant love always. 💚🌿
@HoneyLouWilson Ай бұрын
Fantastic pairings!
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@megadele65 Ай бұрын
Hi Nicole. I am also trying to be more discerning in my deck purchases this year. I went through a period where I was seeing a deck review on KZbin, then immediately buying the deck if it was a reasonable price. But now I am doing more research, and deciding if a particular deck is needed in my collection for a particular type of work. If not, then it just goes on my wish list for another time. I am also waiting for tarot of echoes to be available mass market. I would also love to have the Arthurian tarot in English. I don’t know if it will ever be published in English, so maybe I need to bite the bullet and just study it in French using a translator. Thanks for sharing!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
That’s so sweet you found a copy of the Da Vinci Enigma at that book sale, for 4 dollars! The annotated Apocrypha sounds super intriguing. Can’t wait to watch your book sale haul vid, I’ve been so busy, I’m so behind!
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
Yeah I snapped that Da Vinci tarot up pretty quickly! Used book sales are so dangerous but so much fun - I usually go with certain subject areas in mind but then I’m bound to find unexpected things too. I’ve got a bit of a backlog of videos to catch up on too. Oh well!
@thirdthoughtstarot Ай бұрын
I bought some James Joyce in May as well! Not Ulysses (im too scared 😂) but A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Dubliners. I'm so curious about Step By Step Irish.
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
Those are better to start with than Ulysses! 💜
@thirdthoughtstarot Ай бұрын
Anne of Green Gables was my Waterhouse influence as well 😂
@megadele65 Ай бұрын
Hi Nicole. Your voice was really clear Despite the rain and thunder. I thought the storm was really cool in the background. I’m curious about something… Do you typically plant vegetables and herbs in the same pot? Does that work well? Is there a rhyme or reason to how you pair varieties into one pot? At 6:58, I noticed a bunch of deep reddish/pinkish plants in your pots, but I don’t remember you mentioning what they were. Those are gorgeous! I love the idea of a native plant rescue. I have never been involved in that before. I will have to look into it in my area.
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
I do usually plant herbs and vegetables together. Usually some herbs like basil go with tomatoes because their roots don’t need as much space as the tomatoes and then chives go with strawberries to keep the bugs away but beyond that I haven’t gotten much into companion planting. Mostly it’s just a matter of necessity on a balcony! The reddish flowers were peony leaves from some grocery store flowers that now have a second life as mulch. Though I do have some purple oxalis out there, but it’s struggling. The plant rescue was a lot of fun and very interesting but also a bit sad because that land is about to get bulldozed.
@feedingmysoul1212 Ай бұрын
Hello! Thank you for doing this VR! 🤗 I really enjoyed your choices, especially the DWT, the Witch Sister Tarot & the Sea Soul Journeys Oracle... L♡ ve those decks! 🥰☺️
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
Thanks for creating this tag. It was a lot of fun! 💜
@feedingmysoul1212 Ай бұрын
Hello Nicole! What a treat to see your VR! 🤗 (For some reason, KZbin didn't notify me & instead I stumbled upon your video in my feed) It was so lovely to get to know you through your deck choices. Thank you so much for doing a VR & for the shout-out & the kind compliment about my channel 🌸☺️ Happy weekend to you! ☀️
@Peekaboorose Ай бұрын
I've never watched Dr. Who, but I love your deck--the borders and everything!
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
Thanks! It’s an incredible but bonkers show. I tried to explain it to my family once and they definitely think I’m nuts (I mean, they did before but they really do now!). It’s so much fun and has often pushed the boundaries of representation on TV, which I appreciate.
@rubyretrogradetarotthe5377 Ай бұрын
The pink is unapologetically there you're right, and I like the range of pinks used. Alas this collage deck isn't my vibe and I don't know what it is that causes collage decks to not sway me (except for one). The guidebook seems well made with good info. In any case thank you for the flip through!
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
Yeah I really enjoy the colour palette here and I’ve decided I need more pink in my life, just for fun! Thanks for watching!
@11TheLittleReader11 Ай бұрын
Gorgeous. 😍
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
Philosophy Bites Back sounds like fun, adding it to my list, you always have the best recommendations. The Jhumpa Lahiri books sound fascinating! The art of translation is one of my obsessions, and one of the reasons I’m so drawn to Nabokov (did you hear about the famous feud with Edmund Wilson over a translation of Eugene Onegin? Lol) I told my sister once, that I’d love to read Dylan Thomas translated in another language and then translated back into English again to see what we’d get!
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
I haven’t heard that story but now I think I need to read up on it!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
Oh no, another beautiful deck 😫😫😫😂 I’ve never seen the Marea, what the heck?!? I loveeee Fortune’s Wheelhouse. Speaking of which, have you looked into M.M. Meleen’s decks at all?
@NicoleACottageWitch Ай бұрын
I haven’t yet but maybe I should. I also saw that @rosehoneyritual posted about The Alchemy of Thoth deck, which is very tempting (and which I’d somehow never seen before)!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ай бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch I love Annie Farrar’s Daydreaming in Situ. I bought the Marea this morning 😱 I wasn’t going to, but I was worried I would miss out and regret it. A beautiful deck and I love the emotions in the minors and courts. I love Thoth minors ♥️ thank you for showing it!
@thirdthoughtstarot 2 ай бұрын
This deck is lovely! I love the art on the original but I have to admit that the atmosphere of so many cards in the Marea are unlike anything I've ever seen. Cant wait to see how you use it, if you end up showing it in your monthly wrapups!
@TaraIsCozy 2 ай бұрын
Love this little selection 🥰 The Spiritsong is one of my all time favourites ❤️
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
It’s funny you mention Goth Lit November because I have been planning for it myself 😂 I had a bit of carryover from last year, so I definitely plan on doing it again! On the Epic of Gilgamesh: Have you ever heard of ‘The Forest’ by David Byrne (of the Talking Heads)? It’s music he wrote inspired by Gilgamesh and it’s set during the Industrial Revolution. How cool is that? I was planning on talking about it in an upcoming video actually. It’s soooo beautiful, and I know you like orchestral stuff too 😊 one of my favorite albums!
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
Excellent! And no, I hadn’t heard of The Forest, but I’m looking it up immediately. That sounds so cool.
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
Ok, I’m back quickly to say I just started it and, for reasons I can’t explain, it reminds me immediately of Holst’s the Planets, so I’ll probably like it. I really need to learn to talk about music in even a slightly coherent way!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch oh good, I’m glad you think you’re going to like it! I love David Byrne and everything he did with The Talking Heads … genius. And don’t worry; you’re fine! I feel inept myself sometimes because my partner is a professional musician and we talk about music a lot, but I’m familiar with some terms pertaining to classical music that he isn’t, and he doesn’t understand how it is I’ve read some of the books I’ve read (by Charles Rosen etc) because he wouldn’t be able to get through them lol
@chaneldays 2 ай бұрын
Love how the Edgar Allen Poe book looks
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
Me too. 💜
@RoseHoneyRitual 2 ай бұрын
Carceral Humanitarianism sounds sick A few others also caught my eye especially the myths of Scotland I think that one I have or has been on my list
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
People have been sleeping on the myths of Scotland. I like knowing the Greek myths but I think prefer the Irish and Scottish I’ve read so far.
@RoseHoneyRitual 2 ай бұрын
Oh man I’m getting this Mythos deck for my baby!!! Those images are perfectly high contrast for baby
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
I had similar thoughts on Master and Margarita: I did really enjoy it, but I’ve read a bunch of Russian lit and I didn’t consider it the best of the best as the Russian who recommended it to me did (we are not friends anymore, but it’s not Bulgakov’s fault) 😂 love Chekhov but I haven’t read The Black Monk! Sounds like I need to get my hands on a copy. I think I remember reading that Oroonoko was based on a true story but I’m not sure. It’s weird I haven’t read Madame Bovary, but there’s so many books to read 😫 I read a bunch of Gertrude Stein a few years ago and I find her fascinating. I’m going to look up Blind Owl! 🦉
@NicoleACottageWitch 2 ай бұрын
So many books to read! And I want to read them all! It’s an ongoing problem. I definitely need to read more Chekhov. I read some of his plays ages ago for my undergrad but I’ve been sleeping on his shorting fiction. I’d say Stein is up next but I’m also reading about 7 books right now and really need to finish at least one of them first!
@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission 2 ай бұрын
@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a definite problem for me too. I was reading 7 or 8 books recently myself … finished a couple recently so I’m making progress but yeah lol I read Chekhov plays for a theatre history course years ago and that’s how I discovered him, LOVED those courses. I forgot to mention: I think it’s cool you read the books which inspired operas. I haven’t read many actually; Eugene Onegin by Pushkin is the only one I can recall at the moment, but I read the librettos which accompany the operas I own. I love opera! 🥰