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Analysis of the written word, book reviews, and writing tips and suggestions from Julian C Williams.

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I Read Lincoln Michael's "The Body Scout"

I will not refer to this book or anything in it as a "home run." I refuse.

Digital Circus: the Last Act Review

Fantheories are stupid and the internet before last week is a perfect example of why.

I Read "Moonflow" by Bitter Karella

I was told we were going to meet some 🤘radical feminists🤘, but these girls are saying some 👎bogus stuff👎 about women.

Creative Inspiration, AM, and The Amazing Digital Circus

"I AM that I AM, my rubber baby buggy bumpers!"

I Read "Ninth House" by Leigh Bardugo

Soooooooooo, which Lethe house are you? I'm *totally* Manuscript.

I Read "Six Wakes" by Mur Lafferty

Unfortunately this is not a book about six cloned John Wicks on a spaceship together. Nor is it about wakeboarding. I'm as heartbroken as you.

I Read "The Devourers" by Indra Das

Yes there's cannibalism in this book too, no I am not "into vore," stop asking me that.

It's Charlie Kirk's World

We just live in it.

Good Smut Can't Be Afraid To Be Mean

Comparing and contrasting two erotic short stories about transformation (my kink) to show successes and failures of both.

I Read "The Hades Calculus" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, writing as Maria Ying

I have gained a madness rune etched into my brain and it was entirely because I tried to make sense of her imagination.