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Practical Ma...more...]]> 37593896 985335 1366744 0425152499 9780425152492 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183026435m/1366744.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183026435s/1366744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1366744.Practical_Magic 3.59 86 Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried]]> 1995 3 3 false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 22:47:34 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 17:40:02 -0800 2008 1
When their parents died, Sally stepped up to bad, calming the sitter down long enough to have her riffle through her mother’s address book and called the aunts. If the aunts didn’t step up to the plate, Sally and ...more...]]> 21603690 1119030 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 2 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 19:46:41 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 09:41:27 -0700 2008
As I said, the first chapter held so much ...more...]]> 42565235 246127 1281393 0399140557 9780399140556 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655m/1281393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655s/1281393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1281393.Practical_Magic 3.77 123 Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried]]> 1995 3 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:05:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:05:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 26170478 1293927 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 3 1 false Wed Jul 02 18:56:54 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 18:56:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18096594 987723 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 09:09:57 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 09:15:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 38208416 229270 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 3 1 false Thu Nov 20 05:37:34 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 05:39:09 -0800 2008 50156756 1570669 1281393 0399140557 9780399140556 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655m/1281393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655s/1281393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1281393.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried]]> 1995 5 1 false Mon Mar 23 06:14:47 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 06:20:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51129927 1143167 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 3 0 false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 06:48:47 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 06:55:02 -0700 2009
If you're famil...more...]]> 46611985 2040917 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 05:15:06 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 05:15:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 17087108 966395 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 3 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Mar 05 10:41:28 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 10:48:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 80495933 1427281 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 2 0 false Wed Dec 09 20:51:10 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 22:16:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 67642536 2540138 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 1 0 false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:49:45 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:53:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 56726610 121445 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 2 0 false Wed May 20 06:41:57 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 06:43:10 -0700 2009 Practical Magic is the story of two sisters, Sally and Gillian, who grow up in a small town that believes they (and their ancestors) are witches. Rather than being the usual smalltown rumours, this happens to be true – but the magic they possess is less flashy than magic is traditionally thought, ...more...]]> 43724927 1408727 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 1 1 false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 13:42:18 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 12:04:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 50457321 158261 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 4 1 false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 17:44:07 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 14:40:47 -0700 2009 Practical Magic, written well before The Probable Future, has much in common with its successor. The story is primarily about women who spring from a New England family of witches. In this case, the witches are known simply as "The Aunts" throughout most of the narrative as two sisters, Sa...more...]]> 49675587 2021465 1281393 0399140557 9780399140556 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655m/1281393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655s/1281393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1281393.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried]]> 1995 4 0 false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 11:07:42 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 11:18:36 -0700 2009
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encour...more...]]> 80776808 692913 1366744 0425152499 9780425152492 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183026435m/1366744.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183026435s/1366744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1366744.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried]]> 1995 3 0 false Sun Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 13:02:08 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 20 06:43:47 -0800 2009
This is the type of book that should float my boat. It has all the elements in fiction that I've been cr...more...]]> 45832128 821341 1281393 0399140557 9780399140556 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655m/1281393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182470655s/1281393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1281393.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried]]> 1995 4 0 false Mon Feb 09 09:56:33 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 10:11:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8662189 414796 22896 0425190374 9780425190371 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907m/22896.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167371907s/22896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic 3.70 4883 1995 2 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 04 15:04:03 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 14:59:35 -0800 2007 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22896