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Lucas Blogs About Wild Life

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I usually make some silly joke here, but I am legit diggin' this cover design. Good on you, Jeffrey Alan Love. So, what's this book's deal? You ever wonder what it would be like if bigfoot were real? Wait, do you not believe in bigfoot? Well, I believe it's possible that there's some sort of unkown hominid species, but I am unconvinced by the specific evidence that has been offered of such a hominid existing in the Pacific Northwest. Anyway, Wild Life by Molly Gloss is an epistolary novel made up of diary entries and other writings, mostly by the novel's protagonist: Charlotte Bridger Drummond. Drummond writes speculative adventure novels while raising five boys in turn of the century Oregon. Wait, the turn of which century? The Nineteenth to the Twentieth, of course. Ok, boomer. Wow, that meme must be played out if it's appearing on this  blog. Anyway, Charlotte's husband disappeared a few years ago, when their youngest son, Jules (a...