Starting the journey

[pobble_reads]

This is a journal set i have set up just for experiments in Sacred Reading inspired by the Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast.
I'm going to be reading Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams because i loved it as a child and using themes from the HPST master-list as lenses to examine it more closely.
You are very welcome to join me on the journey.

It's taken me far longer than i thought it would to set up this journal and deal with a couple of computer issues so i won't start writing about the first chapter tonight! I'm going to be looking at chapter 1 Gobbolino in Disgrace through the theme of adversity.

Comments

[haggis]

My copy is arriving on Monday so I can't start until then.

I haven't read the book before - do you think I should read through first?

[pobble_reads]

i'm only planning to do a chapter a week - writing up the first chapter just now has taken ages! And i'm deliberately not reading more than a chapter ahead so i can really concentrate on each individual chapter (but that's a personal decision - i know other people might find it easier to quickly read the whole book first and then dive deeper into each chapter) So if you choose to read what i've written now it'll only be a very slight introductory spoiler. Or you could wait till you've had time to read either the relevant chapter(s) or the whole book and come back and read what i've got to say about it in your own time. It's up to you...