It’s that hopefully exciting time of the year again when I give the rundown on some of my favorite things of the past year! This year I take on Oprah, do a video interview with the Mystic Pyramid, and even manage to talk a little bit about some of my favorite things of 2011!

I know it will sound like the start of some sort of silly advertisement, but when I first pulled my copy of “Meditation: The Complete Guide” out of the envelope from New World Library I found myself thinking, “Complete guide? We’ll see about that.” Well consider me soundly put in my place. Click on in to see why!

Thanks to Alan Richardson, Marcus Claridge, and Skylight Press you can be introduced to “the odd life and inner work” of William G. Gray, a real magician.

Click on in for 10 questions with Varla Ventura! Not only is she the curator of the new Magical Creatures and Paranormal Parlor lines of ebooks from Weiser books, but she’s also the author of “Beyond Bizarre: Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales” and “Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories”! Learn about some unique books and a few “bizarre” facts too!

Amy Ahlers, the Wake-Up Call Coach, is on a mission to wake up your Inner Superstar so you shine bright. Today’s article “Ditch Your Inner Critic: Five Practical Ways to Stop Beating Yourself Up So your Inner Superstar is Free to Shine” is based on her new book “Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar”.

Join us for 10 questions with Kenaz Filan, author of the recently released “The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook”. We talk about Voodoo in New Orleans, difficult food decisions, works in progress, and more!

We revisit Ellen Evert Hopman’s latest book “Scottish Herbs and Fairy Lore” so I can try out one of the recipes from it! Click on in for some fun with flummery!

“Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions per Minute” by Matthew Chojnacki. The. Bestest. Thing. Ever.

Is a revolution, or perhaps a better word is evolution, coming to the world of Western traditional magic? “The Woman Magician” by Brandy Williams suggests that very thing.

Michael Michalko discusses how the way we speak can change the way we think about things in this excerpt from his latest book “Creative Thinkering”.