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Son of Tarzan

Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs comes within a micrometer of edging out Tarzan of the Apes for top book in the series, and...

Beasts of Tarzan

Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs picks up the story about a year after the end of Return of Tarzan and features the same...

Return of Tarzan

Just in case this is the first Tarzan review of mine you’ve come across, let me warn you, I am an unapologetic fan of the...

Talking to Dragons

Talking to Dragons was the first book Patricia C. Wrede wrote in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and it was never meant to be the capstone...

Just Stay Away

It’s always funny to me when authors write books about authors. Tell me you’ve never had a real job without telling me you’ve never had...

50,000 words in one month

In November I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. I wrote just over 50,000 words in one month. The problem is that 50,000 words, though pretty impressive for a slacker like me, does not a complete book make. Since November I have only added 6,000 words to that total,…