I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved finding acronyms and string similarity. (Note that this ends today.)
2025 romance/SF/mystery; 60th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). A man is gassed to death in a limousine, for no obvious reason. But the killer leaves a note that gets Eve Dallas involved…
2021 paranormal romance short novel. Laney finds a wolf caught in an illegal snare, but while she's freeing it it briefly becomes a naked woman…
2008 YA SF, fourth in its series. Ishmael Horatio Wang, now a freshly-graduated Third Mate, takes up a new post, a ship where everything is wrong.
2018 historical mystery; sixth in Huber's Lady Darby series (post-Regency amateur detection). Gage and Lady Darby return to the house where Gage grew up, which he's been avoiding since his mother's funeral, as his cousin the heir has gone missing…
2024 science fiction. Mal is a free AI (he prefers "Silico-American"), watching the war between two factions of monkeys from the safety of infospace. But while he's occupying a body to look for salvage, access to infospace is cut off, and he's stuck in the middle of a battlefield…
2023 romance, third and last of its trilogy. Iris has had a few long-term relationships, but they ended badly; recently she's been happy with one-night stands. Stevie has an anxiety disorder and is still recovering from a bad breakup. After a disastrous attempt at a hookup, they'd never see each other again, except…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved fiddling with strings. (Note that this ends today.)
More gaming with nearby friends.
2007 film tie-in science fiction. After the Battle of Yavin, Han and Leia are meeting suppliers who can provide the materials for a new hidden base.
1993 drama, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant; IMDb / allmovie. Valentine, student and part-time model, runs over a dog; when Kern, the owner, isn't interested, she decides to take her to the vet.
2021 fantasy romance, third and last of its series. Abigail Wilder, adopted daughter of the Lord Sorcier, is determined to get to the bottom of the deaths of eligible young ladies in London.
2020 fantasy novella, side story in the Harwood Spellbook series. Juliana Banks is one of the first female students of magic; Caroline Fennell was a rising politician, but has become tainted by the fall of her patroness. They had a secret understanding, but…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved mucking about with strings. (Note that this ends today.)
1993 drama, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy; IMDb / allmovie. After his wife divorces him and takes everything, Karol hits rock bottom and then returns to Poland.
2021 SF, second in a five-book series. A gold rush is coming, and the power blocs are interested.
Back to the boardgame café.
1995 mystery, eighth of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. Eleven years ago, someone set up a candle and flowers on the altar, but it never became clear why; now, the skeleton of a young woman has been discovered in the churchyard…
It is a truism that RPGs can be divided into "crunchy" (lots of fiddly details) and "fluffy" (never mind consistency, let's just tell a good story). But I think there's a significant subdivision.