Book recommendations?

[potioncat]

> 
> Carol:
> I like "The Scarlet Letter," bu I could live without "The Minister's
> Black Veil" and some of the other short works. And I'd like "Young
> Goodman Brown" better if it didn't refer to my ancestor, Martha
> Carrier, as "a rampant hag" and "the promised bride of hell."


Potioncat:
How long since you last read "Young Goodman Brown"? I just checked 
out a World's Classics version of "Young Goodman Brown and Other 
Stories."

I was quite surprised to learn that the Devil is a Slytherin, and 
that Colonial witches used Portkeys. Or at least, the Slytherin-like 
man in question indicated he was the Devil; and the Portkey wasn't 
called that, but worked like one.

Wolf's-bane is mentioned and we're told in "Explanatory Notes" that 
it's an aconite. The witches also fly without a broom, which hadn't 
even dawned on me when Snape took flight. That is, it hadn't dawned 
on me that there was already a tradition of wizarding kind flying 
without brooms.

As for Martha Carrier, this version makes her "Queen of Hell." Is 
there a character in "The Crucible" named Martha Carrier?