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Casting Shadows Everywhere: Good Girls And Bad Boys: All About Perspective

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Casting Shadows Everywhere by L. T. Vargus has everything. Humor, suspense, death, mayhem, and destruction. And little bit of love. 15-year-old protagonist Jake has a sharp wit and incredible insight. He writes in his journal of his first crush and thieving with his convict cousin. One of the things I found interesting was what one […]

Guest Post: Nikki McDonagh: Nadsat, Newspeak and Bubchat: Creative use of language in novels

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I have been reading mostly science fiction books lately, and I have begun to question why a lot of writers choose not to modify the language they use to create a sense of another time and place. It seems that in the future, vocabulary will remain the same and people will talk to each other […]