On Saturday November 7th, 11am-12pm, we will meet to discuss Good Witch: In Search of Our Lost Feminine Power by Lucianne Tonti at The Witch’s Cottage in North Hollywood! You are welcome to attend whether you've read the book or not!
About the SickLit Book Club: The LADN SickLit Book Club meets quarterly to discuss books that are either written by authors who have experience with chronic illness and disability or deal with those themes in their writing. By celebrating SickLit, our aim is to see shared experiences reflected in literature - both the challenges and the triumphs of life with illness.
Location: Our SickLit Book Club typically meets on Zoom, but we thought it would be fun to try an in-person meeting this time at The Witch’s Cottage! The Witch’s Cottage is a cafe & coffee shop that’s full of witchy vibes! :) You can find the menu here. The address is: 5303 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, 91601.
Where to find the book: The book is available on audible and kindle from Amazon — or from your local bookseller or library as an e-book. (It may be hard to track down a copy of the paperback version, as it was published in Australia.) If you are unable to find it to lend and cannot afford a copy, please email us, and we'll help you get a copy!
Good Witch Description:
“A paradigm-shifting book that asks what the world might be like if divine feminine power had never been devalued. And shows us how it is being reclaimed.
Gardener. Gossip. Spinster. Healer. Nymph . . . Witch.
For centuries, the work of women was viewed with suspicion. Their knowledge – of bodies, nature, and community – posed a threat to a masculine order. To men who saw them as something to be contained and controlled.
Good Witch takes us back hundreds of years to the dark times when witch hunts were sweeping Europe and North America. From Salem to England, Scotland to the northern corners of Norway, tens of thousands of women were persecuted, prosecuted and killed.
Today, we can still feel the legacy of the witch In the way the natural world has been degraded. In the way humans have become disengaged from the things that make us truly happy. A campaign of disenchantment has sought to disconnect us from the earth – and from each other.
But enchantment was never truly lost.
Across the globe, women are reclaiming the skills, practices and stories that masculine societies have tried so hard to diminish or dismiss. Here, Tonti shows us how a return to feminine power is what the world desperately needs now, more than ever.
Good Witch is history and manifesto, reckoning and celebration. It is a powerful exploration of what was lost. And what can be reclaimed.”
