Tag: Opinions
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My Year in Reading – 2016
I was pretty impressed to have accomplished my Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge, even managing to get a couple of extra books in before the year was through, bringing my total to 37 books. It’s definitely been a stellar year for my reading and this is something I’m proud of; I recall the oft-quoted maxim that…
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Reconsidering Ender’s Game
I’ve pretty much finished the first year of my degree in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University. I’ve mainly been concerning myself with the creative writing aspect but one aspect of the literature side of my studies has gotten me thinking. About three years ago I wrote about how I would not be reading…
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Reinventing Game Manuals
Being of a certain age I remember a time when games came in big boxes with an actual manual that took the form of a weighty book, a lot like this (from my personal collection): However, this golden age of bog boxes, CDs and manuals has sadly long passed, replaced by DVD slim-cases and digital…