{"id":6437,"date":"2024-07-30T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6437"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:03:17","slug":"witchy-women-end-of-summer-reading-list-includes-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2024\/07\/30\/witchy-women-end-of-summer-reading-list-includes-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Witchy Women end-of-summer reading list includes Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/literature\/witch-books\/\">&#8220;25 Best Books About Witches to Read in 2024: Spellbinding Books Filled with Magic and Mystery,&#8221;<\/a> Marilyn Walters made John Updike&#8217;s <em>The Witches of Eastwick<\/em> her sixth pick. Topping the list was <em>Circe<\/em> by Madeline Miller, <em>Practical Magic<\/em> by Alice Hoffman, <em>The Witching Hour<\/em> by Anne Rice, <em>The Familiars<\/em> by Stacey Halls, and <em>Hex<\/em> by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5515\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/06\/WitchesofEastwickfilm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>&#8220;In the small town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, three women \u2014 Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie \u2014 <b>discover they have magical powers after their marriages end<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their abilities get stronger when a mysterious man, Darryl Van Horne, comes to town and encourages their witchcraft. As they form a coven and use their magic, their actions lead to severe problems, including murder and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The novel <b>looks at themes of power, freedom, and the supernatural with a darkly funny twist<\/b>. Set in the early 1970s, it reflects the social changes and liberal attitudes of the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/literature\/witch-books\/\">link to the rest<\/a> of the 25\u201424, actually, since one entry is a duplicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;25 Best Books About Witches to Read in 2024: Spellbinding Books Filled with Magic and Mystery,&#8221; Marilyn Walters made John Updike&#8217;s The Witches of Eastwick her sixth pick. Topping the list was Circe by Madeline Miller, Practical Magic by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2024\/07\/30\/witchy-women-end-of-summer-reading-list-includes-updike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lists","category-uncategorized","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/06\/WitchesofEastwickfilm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/6438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}