Practical Magic

"Not my usual cup of tea" according to Kathy Taylor. I was excited when I found out this book was real. I grew up watching the movie and I had fell in love with how in the MOVIE the sisters had an unbreakable bond and the aunts were they type of aunts I desperately wished I had growing up. Aunts who let the girls eat chocolate for breakfast, did magical spells in the kitchen, wore purple and made midnight margaritas. However, aunts in the book are very different from the film. They are much older and much creepier. The book doesn't rea. "I think I liked the movie more" according to Rachel@oldmustybooks. I got this book because Practical Magic, the movie, is one of my favorites. Though not exactly the same fun as the movie, the book was just as good and in a different way was just as magical.I liked it, but I didn't love it. Maybe that's on me and not the author, since I had incredibly high hopes based on my enjoyment of the movie. So many of the reviews for a Hoffman book specifically mentions her beautiful prose. I like the way she writes too, but sometimes the writing is a bit too. Magical realism is my favourite genre and I was reminded just why that is Magical realism is my favourite genre and I was reminded just why that is when reading this book. It has just the right mix of reality and magic to be believable and enchanting and engaging all at the same time. Even when things are slightly impossible, the powerful writing and solid characters enrich the story and give the reader the sense that magic is not only possible but inevitable.It's also refreshing and enthralling to read a book where all of the main characters are such stro

And when trouble strikes - in the form of a menacing backyard ghost - the sisters must not only reunite three generations of Owens women but embrace their magic as a gift - and their key to a future of love and passion. Alice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic - now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society. But both find that they cannot elude their magic-filled past. Funny, haunting, and shamelessly romantic, Practical Magic is bewitching entertainment - Alice Hoffman at her spectacular best.