Over the summer, Grumpy cat found time in between naps and “No’s!” to put out a kids book. Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book is a 96 page book full of Grumpy Cat Meme’s, pictures, and activities. The activities are mostly word puzzles, coloring, mazes, or connect the dot games. It’s the type of book that parents who are fans of Grumpy Cat will buy for themselves but can also share with their children for the activities.
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Review: Kill City Blues – A Sandman Slim Novel by Richard Kadrey
I read a lot. In the past year or so I’ve ingested over 100 books, so imagine how excited I was to find that our little site here was catching enough eyes for Harper Collins to ask us if we’d like some books to review. Granted, mostly I’ve caught up on a lot of the classics, I read all 7 books in Asimov’s Foundation series, most of the books in the adjoining Robot series, some of Heinlein’s best works, a little Jules Verne, a few old AD&D stories, got halfway through the Sword of Truth series and started reading through the Wheel of Time books. So I wondered to myself upon its arrival, especially with the dust cover boasting admonitions from the likes of Cory Doctorow and William Gibson, how I’d never heard of Richard Kadrey or his Sandman Slim books. Especially considering how good this one is. Continue reading
Review: Total Confusion 2013 (Gaming Con)
Part of the CCG and board game room
Total Confusion is my favorite gaming con. It is pretty much a 4-day pure gaming convention made up of a good number of board games, RPGs, LARPs, card games, and table top model strategies. There is also a small vendor area, some panels, a video game room, a video showing area, and some performances. There is even a listing of old-school RPGs for geezers like me. I try to hit this con every year. This year’s con (27 years and going) ran from February 21-24, 2013 in Mansfield, MA; I attended on Saturday.
Some of the RPG tables
If you pre-reg you can usually get into the games you want. I never have the forethought to do this but one can still always find interesting things to try. Actually, one of my great enjoyments is Continue reading
Book Review: Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works
Marvel vs. Capcom
Official Complete Works
by Capcom
Book Review: The Last Rhinos
The Last Rhinos
by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence
The Last Rhinos is the third book by Lawrence Anthony and with his passing earlier this year I am quite sad to say it will be the last. He was truly a remarkable man and I highly recommend his first two books, “The Elephant Whisperer”, and “Babylon’s Ark”. This latest book chronicles Anthony’s efforts to save the Northern White Rhino extinction, and what efforts they are.
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