Some Thoughts on Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to . your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can" (286). Love, magic, family, pain, loss, always an outsider, and yet, happy endings are possible.

Gillian and Sally want to escape the "musty house" and "exotic concoctions and [the] crowd of black cats" of their aunts. They try. They marry, they run away, one raises two daughters, and yet they come back...

A worthy sequel to The Rules of Magic. The movie I saw first--not bad.

Recommended.



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