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June 7, 2022

Review – From Truant to Anime Screen Writer by Mari Okada

This is a cross post of a blog I did for https://www.animepodcasterreincarnation.com/ From Truant to Anime Screenwriter is an autobiographical light novel written by Mari Okada. As the title suggests, Okada is a screenwriter of several popular anime and she began life as a “truant.” The word that is translated as “truant” carries a greater weight in Japan than it...

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May 28, 2022

Comic Review: Night of the Ghoul (comiXology Original)

I decided to check out Night of the Ghoul entirely on a whim. This has been an especially hectic year for me and I’ve fallen very behind on my reading. I have not touched my comixology subscription in months. Now that things have settled down I’ve been trying to catch up. I was scrolling through the library and this caught...

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May 24, 2022

Getting Started With Norse Myth

Reading mythology and folklore is extremely rewarding. There’s something magical about going back to some of our oldest stories and seeing just how much they’ve influenced. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there with a lot of agendas who like to muddy the waters on this subject. A simple Google search or browsing of the shelf at the...

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April 13, 2022

Book Review: Shepherd’s Fall by George R Appelt Jr.

Ben reviews a novel by a local independent author. Shepherd’s Fall is the story of a family who moves into a haunted house in central Pennsylvania.

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March 16, 2022

Book Review: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

This book is, as the kids say, “a mood.” It is a book about an orc warrior who has decided to retire from adventuring and open a coffee shop. Along the way she will gather friends, co-workers, loyal customers, and all the other simple things that make life worth living. The story isn’t without conflict, but the stakes are more...

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March 16, 2022

Nate’s GoodReads Review of Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

I couldn’t decide where I wanted to rate this until discussing it with a friend. He gave it 5-stars but I didn’t quite like it to that level. I was trying to decide between 3.5 and 4.5 and I think yeah… 4 is probably where it would be. I don’t know what I was expecting. All I knew is that...

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March 4, 2022

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga Spoiler Review

First and foremost, as the title suggests, there will be spoilers for the entirety of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba series. This is a review about the manga, not the anime adaptation. The manga has been finished for almost 2-years at this point, but I know there are people who may stumble upon this only having watched the anime...

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January 24, 2022

Ben’s 2021 Nonfiction Reviews

A long time ago when we started Words About Books we had a simple goal: read more books. We thought that doing a podcast would make us more accountable and force us to make time for an activity that was too easy to shove aside. Also, we wanted to be better writers. We knew that we needed to read well...

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October 23, 2021

A Book Reader’s Dune 2021 Movie Review

At this point on the podcast, I have spoken for well over 10-hours about Dune. I have recorded another 3-hours that were cut. Not only is Dune the most frequent subject discussed on this podcast to date, these are also our most popular episodes. I don’t know if that means that someone out there is curious what I thought of...

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October 17, 2021

Short Story Review – Maria’s Children – Tobi Ogundiran

It’s been a very long time since I’ve read a ghost ship story. An even longer time since I’ve read one written in this century. Tobi Ogundiran’s tale is loosely inspired by the real life story of the Mary Celeste. Rather than telling a straight forward tale of what happened to the people aboard the Mary Celeste, he tells the...

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