Welcome to the second installation of An Adventure in Small Games (you can read the first one here), a monthly series focused on games that cost less than $20, ideally less than $10. In this series, Eve Golden Woods will focus on indie games and what they have to offer the world of gaming. This month Eve focuses on…
The Thursday Book Beat: Lillith’s Brood to Land on TV Screens
New Zealand sets interim ban on YA novel Into the River A rare interim book ban has been carried out in New Zealand over Ted Dawe’s Into the River over complaints that the book is too explicit in its descriptions of sex and drug use. The ban was issued by the Film and Literature Board…
Books that Shaped Me: The Bell Jar: Circumventing the Jar, Circling the Bell
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classic 1971 I couldn’t tell you the year I read The Bell Jar, I couldn’t tell you how old I was, nor the season. But I could tell you what I was wearing the first time I opened the pages and fell deeply in love with Sylvia…
Racism in 2000AD: It’s Judgement Time
Recently, I caught up on a couple of months’ worth of 2000AD. I read Judge Dredd (of course), some strips that were not Judge Dredd, but which I enjoyed anyway, Strontium Dog: The Stix Fix, and the 2015 Summer Special. I was hoping to enjoy these, too.
In Defense of the Bad Boy
Ah, the Bad Boy. He gets a lot of traction in our fictional media. He is alluring on account of his badness, and of course, incredibly good looking. In many cases, he is thrown into a love triangle with a female protagonist where she must decide between The Bad Boy and The Good Guy. We know…
