Hunger is a Garden: August’s Book Club
Welcome to the Book Club. Throughout August, the Literary Coven is reading V. E. Schwab’s Bury Her Bones in the Midnight Soil, an enchanting, sapphic novel about three women and a hunger uniting them across distant timelines. Read on for a collection of bewitching prompts and spells to begin your literary quest.
If you're a writer, use the following prompts as writing warm-ups or as inspiration for your next channeled writing session. If you're a painter or artist, ritualize these prompts through intuitive artmaking. Use them as guided meditations, cast them as dream spells, or include them in your magical or creative practice, however you see fit.
Hunger is a Garden
In the novel “This is How You Lose the Time War,” Amal El-Mohtar writes that, “Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
I like to think that Caitlyn pulled our current read from the stormy summer seas, when a call for the hungry girls bobbed to the surface. Because (even if you’re only a few pages in) you’ve probably realized that August’s book club is a love letter for fiery hearts and ravenous women, the parts of ourselves that long for more, be it something sweet, something ancient, or an entire garden of yet-to-be-named desires.
