I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved . (Note that this ends today.)
Back to the boardgame café.
2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, third in the Jack Logan series. Women are being murdered by an unusually competent killer.
2004 fantasy, first of a series. Elena Klovis has a wicked stepmother and two ugly sisters. But when they leave her to look after the house while they flee debt collectors and seek good marriages elsewhere, she has a plan…
More gaming with nearby friends.
2022 urban fantasy romance, second of a trilogy. Llewellyn ("Wells") Jones goes back to Graves Glen, as much to get away from his static life in Wales as to start something new. Certainly he won't be getting involved with Gwyn Jones. Not only is she the ancestral enemy (even if his brother married her cousin), she's the magic-shop competition…
1957 Napoleonic naval fiction, ninth written and eleventh by internal chronology. Ten years after the war ended, Admiral Hornblower, in command of the West India squadron, faces a variety of challenges. US vt Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a lot of string searching. (Note that this ends today.)
I've been running RPGs for over forty years. (Eek.) By now I have a reasonable idea of what my notes before a game should look like.
Some years ago, netbooks were everywhere. Now they aren't. But for the dedicated fan they're still achievable.
2025 SF, last of its trilogy. The colony is going to be invaded, the rebellion is at a standstill, and the new dictator is about to make his move…
1965 historical fiction for young people. Phaedrus the gladiator wins his freedom, but has no idea what to do with it, and rapidly runs into trouble. Then he is offered a role in a cunning plan: to stand in for the rightful king (deposed, blinded so as to be unable to rule, and thought dead) of a North British tribe and lead the counter-coup.
I went to the unfortunately-named British Birds of Prey gathering. It was… an experience.
1959 whodunnit, dir. Otto Preminger, James Stewart, Lee Remick: IMDb. The soldier killed the bartender who raped his wife. But is it really that simple?
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved an old friend and extensive string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)
The second issue of Of Dice and Meeples is now out.
Is a disadvantage really a disadvantage? It depends on how you look at it.
More gaming with nearby friends, after a bit of a gap for bank and other holidays.
I keep going back to the UK Games Expo. With images; cc-by-sa-nc on everything.
2014 contemporary police mystery, sixth in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. A few days before Christmas, an old woman is stabbed on the Tyne and Wear Metro. She was on her way home to the former fishing town of Mardle, and the more the police look into it, the more old secrets come to light…
2015 short police procedural mystery novel, tartan noir, in the Logan McRae series. Logan's day starts with a failed attempt to stop a suicidal jumper, and goes downhill from there.