I am probably not the target audience for this, having never read a book by the siblings. I had heard of their early year writing escapades though, and this was recommended.

It has some interesting things to say about the validity of fan fiction and juvenilia. The importance of play and the push-pull relationship of bleed in writings and the use of it in coping with “real world” problems. I liked that quite a bit.

I did not really care for the actual fan fiction buts, unfortunately. It’s a large part of the book. It really does feel juvenile and a bit pointless, even when paired with the meta narrative. Just random, mostly stupid, plot beats, for the most part.

I also didn’t get on with the art style. So, really the only thing here for me was the larger meta themes, which were enough to get by on, but not enough to provoke more than some interest in our relationship to our writings. It’s not nothing, but clearly people more here than I have.