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Description: ADOW ch 35-38 – Settled into the Bishop house, Matthew Clairmont and Diana Bishop are faced with many problems: avoiding the wrath of the congregation, making sense of Diana’s magical limitations, and figuring out the meaning of the wayward page from Ashmole 782 that the house delivered to them in chapter 34. We soon […]

Picture from the Getty’s Original Instagram post Hi friends!  To keep us on the legal side of online publishing norms/rules/laws, we must preface this post with a disclaimer: the following is a transcription of a Q&A about Alchemy.  We are currently very interested in this subject because of research we are conducting for a future […]

🥳 2020 is almost over! That’s a big reason to celebrate!🎄 Hello, friends! We are celebrating the end of the year with a huge GIVEAWAY! We wish you all a merry Christmas, a cool Yule, a happy Hanukkah, and a festive whatever your reason for the season! We haven’t been very celebratory this year, so […]

This chapter serves the reader a buffet of events to focus on… Description: The twins, the library research, the lab discoveries, mystery characters — oh my! Yes, with all of this we couldn’t come up with a good title, so we did a “Hail Mary”! Better luck next episode! Enjoy. SPOILER ALERT! We (The Daemons) […]

Giveaway! The lovely people at Headline Books have given us the opportunity to offer our followers who are residents of the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand a chance to win a very limited print of Time’s Convert hardback proof. 😆 Sorry, US, Canada, and others . . . we’ll have more giveaways in the […]

This installment of the Weekly Geek  is the finale of our exploration of titles. This week – you guessed it!  It’s none other than The Book of Life.  It doesn’t take its name from God’s book mentioned in the Talmud.  According to Jewish belief, The Book of Life contains the name of every person going […]

To celebrate Diana’s Birthday, we are having a joint giveaway with our partners over at All Souls Con and The All Souls Podcast! Up for grabs is: – A paperback copy of Shadow of Night – A signed copy of Diana’s commonplace book (signed by Deborah Harkness) – A leather bracelet that says “Magic begins […]

We’ll be back in 6 weeks … with chapters! Description: That’s it for the season this year on the streaming services, and that’s it for us until (on/about) the middle of May! We share our fond memories of covering the 10 episodes of this season, along with what we loved, and parts that, in our […]

Description: Matthew needs to find Diana … and so does Baldwin. Their motivations clash in a vampiric display of will. Meanwhile, somewhere in a crumbling castle, Diana has to stave off a sadistic determined witch from getting her secrets. Gerbert is skulking about hoping to get his own time with Diana, and this brings us […]

The Grand Master of the KOL, as it turns out, is a highly sought after position . . . Description: Diana studies the “Book of Death” with vigor, but she’s not getting the answers she wants, and as a result, we aren’t getting a lot of information either! So, let’s go back to the future […]

“[…] and when my sight returned, I found myself atop a mountain under a vast, starry sky.” Description: Diana has just miscarried, and Matthew is a Mess™. We all examine our feelings and reactions to both characters in this episode. We also gather around with the witches to watch Diana cast her forespell! You were […]

“There are also daemons—creative, artistic creatures who walk a tightrope between madness and genius. “Rock stars and serial killers” was how my aunt described these strange, perplexing beings.”  ~ A Discovery of Witches  Prince was the quintessential rock star daemon. Prince died last week. For the Daemons, it was a gut punch. While the All […]

The pamphlet that Danforth was waving around . . . Description: Let’s talk about the secrets and surprises we receive in these chapters, shall we?! As part of her elucidation lessons directed by George Chapman, Diana Bishop is reading the Faerie Queene (by Edmund Spenser). The boys are discussing philosophy, playing dice, arguing about astronomy […]

Welp! It’s a thing that’s happened before! Surprised? Matthew and Diana sure were. Description: Vampires and witches having babies?! Meh, that’s old news to Ysabeau. But it’s new to Matthew and Diana … and us, kind of! The secrets in this chapter have us all reeling, and it’s quite a ride.This is a long one, […]