Magic is too unlimited

We watched all the episodes of "The Bureau of Magical Things" on Netflix.  It's an older kid's show and we aren't kids but Lynn put up with a half hour of spells and walls that let a human walk through them.  I just mainly wanted to see what the story was.  

We spend time with my reading aloud and Lynn doing a jigsaw puzzle.  I started "Hate Mail" and thought it was ok.  I got us started on my reading the book aloud and we finished it, from teacher directed "teams of 2" around 5th grade to mid-20's.  I was looking for an equally lightweight possible book and we got into "Witches Get Stuff Done " by Molly Harper.

At my age, many things seem magical, that is, reliable, but not understood.  It seems to me that magic stories can relate events and feelings, like romance, but they tend to give overly wide permission for an overly wide range of abilities and events and powers.