This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl What I Love about This Cover: It’s cartoon-ey and fun, much like the book at a surface level read. What I Don’t Love about This Cover: There are Read More…
This week’s Flashback Friday: Moving…. Rather than a lengthy Flashback Friday post on something literary, I’m going to Flashback to our first day in Seattle, WA… No, not the 21-year-old college students who visited Seattle briefly to check out the Read More…
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Otherland #1, City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams What I Love about This Cover: There is a level of rich detail to this cover that you don’t see a lot of on books anymore. Read More…
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Card Wars Publisher: Kung Fu Factory Game Type: Card Game # of Players: Single player or against other decks via tournaments The physical Card Wars game is a card game based on the Adventure Time Read More…
This week’s Flashback Friday: The Giver by Lois Lowry. The Giver is one of those classic sci-fi novels that tops the Banned Book List annually and shocks parents everywhere for daring to talk about puberty and euthanasia. The book wasn’t Read More…
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: The Giver by Lois Lowry. What I Love about This Cover: The transition from black & white to color in the bottom left-hand corner. Simple and yet eye-catching. What I Don’t Love about This Cover: Read More…
This week’s Flashback Friday: My First Con. Seems only fitting since I’m currently at WorldCon. I was 16 when I attended my first writing convention. I drove myself from Houston to Austin for ArmadilloCon 16 (10/7-10/9/1994) and I felt so Read More…
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. What I Love about This Cover: There is no mistaking what this book is about with a cover like this. What I Don’t Love about This Cover: I actually like Read More…
This time tomorrow, WorldCon 2015 (Sasquan) will be in full swing! It’s officially WorldCon Time! Packing for it last night was interesting, and by interesting, I mean CAT. The moment the suitcase came out, he was in it. He wriggled Read More…
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Exploding Kittens Publisher: Self-published via Kickstarter by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, Elan Lee, and Shane Small # of Players: 2-5 Best with: 3-4 Playing Time: 15-20 minutes # of Expansions: 0 (brand new game) We backed Read More…
