Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis is a popular history of the first half of the Napoleonic Era written during 1941. The author’s introduction is interesting, as his main purpose is to remind the British public that they’ve fought a Europe united under a hostile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found the first couple episodes of the Konosuba anime pretty rough going before it turned into a truly funny series. And that problem is present here in the original novel too. The main problem is Kazuma and Aqua as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to go with chronological order as I catch up with the Penric series (…”catch up” is probably the wrong term here; perhaps “tread water”), and I’m glad I did. This one features the return of the characters from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this up for cheap on Kindle some time ago, and meant to get to it a lot sooner than this. Especially as its part of an interesting period as our perception of how the world works. Winchester is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Penric story feels a lot better developed than the first. It’s also about 60 pages longer, which for a novella is quite a difference. Things happen instead of merely happen to Penric. Penric is not the only viewpoint[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t kept any sort of real eye on new releases in decades, so I’ve only been peripherally aware of Brian Sanderson and Mistborn. And it’s popular enough that I couldn’t not be aware of it. Generally, it lives up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Too often, brief looks at the Conquest start at Stamford Bridge and end at Hastings. Well, this isn’t a brief look. Morris starts with nearly a century’s worth of Anglo-Saxon politics, including the fact that much of Anglo-Saxon “England” had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second half of Lisinthir’s Heirs is just that, the second half of the story begun in Dragon’s Fealty. It does have an interesting way to to begin, with two characters waking up and recovering from the trauma at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
About the time I finished reading Dreamhearth, I happened on a giveaway for a couple of Hogarth’s other books, and got them. It turned out that they’re very late on in things, and there is a warning up front about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a difficult book for me. In general, an examination of food sources and consumption in the Revolutionary War era is a good topic. Personally, I found the treatment here not so good. One problem, of course, is I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…