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  • (WFC) Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 19 13:20:05 2024
    Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

    An unjustly fired adjunct returns to a home town surprisingly well-
    stocked with attractive men, where her dead sister has an impossible
    task for her.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/restless-spirit
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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Fri Apr 19 14:53:47 2024
    On 2024-04-19, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

    Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/restless-spirit

    | If she punches you, it’s with a be-ringed fist (silver knuckles
    | rather than brass knuckles).

    It doesn't work that way.

    When you punch someone with your bare fist, you hit them with your
    knuckles if you do it correctly. Hitting with your proximal
    phalanges, where rings are typically worn, is a good way to break
    said bones, and wearing rings will not help or even make this worse--
    think how the force vector acts. Brass knuckles are a connected,
    rigid structure with a grip that transfers the impact force to your
    palm in line with your forearm. A set of rings on your fingers
    does NOT work like brass knuckles.

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Fri Apr 19 16:49:48 2024
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

    An unjustly fired adjunct returns to a home town surprisingly well-
    stocked with attractive men, where her dead sister has an impossible
    task for her.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/restless-spirit

    An excerpt from the above link:

    Fortunately, even if one of the family slips and says
    that "Sage can command plants," this isn't taken as
    "she's a plant witch." She's just good with plants.
    She has a green thumb.

    Perhaps some of these guys qualify as a plant witch?

    Arthurian character Morgan le Fay had a green thumb.

    Dr. Iris Hineman, in the Hollywood treatment of "Minority Report"
    (PKD), has a potentially lethal green thumb.

    Apex alpha male HRM King Charles III reportedly has a green thumb too.

    Danke,

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Sat May 11 21:13:06 2024
    On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:20:05 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:

    Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

    An unjustly fired adjunct returns to a home town surprisingly well-
    stocked with attractive men, where her dead sister has an impossible
    task for her.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/restless-spirit


    Quote from comments:

    Robert Carnegie --> James Doyle
    :

    I wonder how much of this book maps onto the fable of Cinderella, with
    the abandoned social media account instead of the famous slipper. I
    like the "Girl Genius" comic version, starting here (back stage). https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081121

    /quote

    I stayed up *way* too late reading that last night.

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