2025 Readings 94

 On our recent trip down to Florida to see our dear friends Jack and Julie I blew through Olga Ravn's The Wax Child. I've been raving to anyone who would listen about Ravn's novel The Employees, which is just extraordinary. I don't know if I liked The Wax Child as much, although that would hardly be a condemnation, considering how much I liked her earlier work. The Wax Child is a literary retelling of actual witch trials, told from the perspective of a wax figure created for casting spells. At times it almost felt too much as the recounting of a series of fascinating/troubling witchcraft beliefs from the medieval world, as compared to a story that held together more cleanly. Still, it may just mean that I need to give it another read, which I was hoping to do anyway.