Fantastic little read to take in in one sitting if you're feeling courageous. Maybe it's from one sitting I'm judging this, but I can help but feel towards the middle of the book the theme of witches disappears more into the symbology and the cutting and pasting of biography into Taisia's poetic biographies. It's just a little nit pick, but anyone who lauds Anne Carson as well as Anne Carson as a witch deserves ALL the brownie points. ALL of them. Really.

This isn’t one of those books you really “read” read, but I’ve been using it in tandem with my oracle cards and it’s absolutely fantastic for using literature to guide my readings. It’s also been a great way to learn about and discover classic strong female writers that I wasn’t introduced to in school.

Un precioso viaje a través de las autoras femeninas más representativas. Su historia narrada a través de breves conjuntos y con unas bonitas ilustraciones.

No es lo que esperaba. Me gusta conocer escritoras, su vida, obras y lo que les llevó e presentar sus ideas y vivencias en papel. Sin embargo no me gustó la forma de darnos a conocer el contenido de sus obras.
Es original, eso no lo puedo negar, y hay nombres de autoras que me interesaría leer algo de ellas. Lo demás, a mi gusto, está de más. Le pongo dos estrellas porque sí me quedo con ganas de conocer más de algunas de ellas y porque se arriesgaron a hacer algo distinto.

A quick read with gorgeous takeaways. This book briefly summarizes the lives of notable female writers, and is complemented by haunting writing and absolutely stunning illustrations. I learned about so many new women and more and more books, poems, and short stories to read.

Interesting, quick read that has given me a crap ton of new reading material.

5 zvaigznes par priekšvārdu, 3 - par pašu grāmatiņu, kas bija daudz īsāka un savādāka nekā biju domājusi.

"WHY WOULD WE DARE CALL SOMEONE A LITERARY WITCH?
Because all artists are magicians, and Witches wield a special magic. Witches and women writers alike dwell in creativity, mystery, and other worlds. They aren’t afraid to be alone in the woods of their imaginations, or to live in huts of their own making. They’re not afraid of the dark."


"She’s an intelligent, resilient being who changes with the times, and changes the times along with her."


"I've come to realize that the Witch is arguably the only female archetype that has power on its own terms. She is not defined by anyone else. Wife, sister, mother, virgin, whore—these archetypes draw meaning based on relationships with others. The Witch, however, is a woman who stands entirely on her own. She is more often than not an outsider, and her gift is transformation. She is a change agent, and her work is sparked by speech: an incantation, a naming, a blessing, a curse."


"Who is more worthy of this moniker than female writers, who themselves conjure worlds out of words? Certainly they have much in common with witches: women who create things other than children are still considered dangerous by many."

A nice collection of female authors that taught me a couple of people I had never heard of before, but I wasn't a fan of the writing style. Very disappointed with tidbits that I can't seem to find supporting evidence for and presentations of grossly racist authors without so much as a line about their ideas outside of the literary merit of their works.