You may have noticed that the blog has a new look and that many of the posts (all of them prior to July 30, 2025)… Continue reading
A Theory About Why Ash Harms Fey in ACOTAR
In Sarah J Maas’s books, Ash wood is the only weakness the fey have that humans are able to exploit. Maas has yet to offer… Continue reading
Review Etiquette: Should You Review a Book You DNF’d?
This is the first in a series about good reviewing etiquette. In the various spheres of book social media there have been many heated debates… Continue reading
A Very Special Blog Post (Yaya Sisterhood)
Content Warning: Alcoholism, Child Abuse Younger listeners may not know this, but in the 90’s there was a phenomenon of “Very Special Episodes” where ordinarily… Continue reading
Five Years of Words About Books and Thrawn
I am older than I was 5 years ago. I suppose most of us are. It’s strange to me to remember that there was a… Continue reading
What is a Locked Room Mystery?
This is going to contain major spoilers for You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego (and to a lesser extent And Then There Were None… Continue reading
What Would Skeletor Actually Do?
The short answer to this question is: whatever it takes. The long answer requires a more nuanced understanding of the man within the skull. Skeletor… Continue reading
On Tax Policies and Abandoned Epics
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, George R.R. Martin once said the following: Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom,… Continue reading
So I got my first copyright strike…
I don’t think of myself as a YouTuber. From the perspective of Words About Books, YouTube is just one of a dozen directories that this… Continue reading
Ben’s 2024 Year in Books
The overwhelming majority of the books I read in 2024 were covered on Words About Books. There were several books and novel-length manga I read… Continue reading