Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
Category: Reviews
Reviews of books, comics, movies, and other random stuff.
Booknotes: May 2024
Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
Booknotes: April 2024
Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
Booknotes: March 2024
Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
Booknotes: February 2024
Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
Booknotes: January 2024
Books I read this month, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them.
2023 in Review: A Few of My Favorite Things
2023 was a pretty good year for my personal relationship with immersive media, though. I enjoyed a range of new-to-me books, games, movies, and TV, while also uncharacteristically diving back into some old faves when I needed a bit of comfort food.
Is Football Manager the Greatest RPG Ever? (tldr: YES!)
No two games of Football Manager are ever alike, and the “true ending” is largely up to you. If you like multiple overlapping systems with a depth and complexity that can’t easily be min-maxed, Football Manager’s got that in spades. Praise RNGesus!
In Praise of Virtual “Work” (aka Football Manager)
Some people play games to relax, to escape the tedium and/or stress of their jobs, to challenge their reflexes — physical and mental. Football Manager is a bizarre combination of both, which really should not be appealing at all. It can be stressful and tedious, while also challenging your mental abilities because, at the end of the day, it's a glorified spreadsheet with multiple pivot tables — and I love it so much, it's taken me a week to stop playing it long enough to write this post about it!
OH, SNAP! My Games of the Year for 2022
I'm rarely playing the newest releases so most annual lists don't often reflect my favorites, but thanks to Game Pass, my 2022 playlist included a broader range of new (and new-to-me) games than usual, including several I probably wouldn't have played otherwise. After all of the above, it might be surprising that Marvel Snap isn't at the top of my list, but as much fun as it is, Citizen Sleeper was better in different ways.