Tag: short story
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The Last Night – a D&D 5e Short Story
A fictionalized slice of life excerpt from my Tuesday Dungeons & Dragons campaign, The Winding Wanderers.
Blake is Reading.
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Reviews, Opinions, & Sounding Boards
This blog started as a result of my desire to just talk about all the books I love and all the ways they inspire me. While all the posts will of course be chock full of my own opinions and ruminations on my favorite books, I really want to hear from other people too! Please reply if something in a post speaks to you, but also if you disagree in some way; I’d love to talk with you. Happy reading!
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Recent Posts
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Pride & Prejudice’s Characters Evolve into a Perfect Denouement
In the denouement, Lizzy’s interactions with her parents lays out the balance of pride and prejudice that she and Darcy need to attain to find happiness together. Mr. Bennet insists on Lizzy maintaining a level of pride in her own self-worth as she deserves not an advantageous marriage but a happy, loving one with an…
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Babel: An Arcane History – a Period-Piece Tackling Colonialism that Struggles at the Finish Line
Though I feel it fails to choose whether to be either a fantasy or fully-developed alternate history, Babel’s greatest success is as an engrossing and well-researched examination of early- to mid-nineteenth century Britain and the effects of its colonialism, both at home and abroad. It examines the mindset of those who are assimilated into Western…
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The Rings of Power is the Right Direction for Tolkien’s Work
Tolkien could very well have been writing his world based on his understanding of systems of power in the Middle Ages which, admittedly, was heavily white-favored. That doesn’t mean we can’t call out his writing as incorrect and make changes to it.
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Harrow the Ninth – Delighting in Misdirection
I left Harrow the Ninth feeling like I’d just unwound a most fascinating puzzle box. When the final reveal actually unfolds, I felt like I had triumphed in successfully solving the conundrum of the story.
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Polytheism in Fiction – Lyons’ Eight Immortals
The heroes do not fight the Immortals in A Chorus of Dragons just because of their role as deities; the conflict coequally springs from the gods just being horrible people doing horrible things.
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