By turns fascinating and depressing, Aja Raden’s book explores lies and subterfuge from biological to sociological. Animals survive because they camouflage themselves as other things and humans… Read more “Book Review: The Truth About Lies”
Category: History
Book Review: A Very Dangerous Woman
“It was no doubt easier to believe in the ultimate rightness of the cause when one was no longer likely to be its next victim.” It… Read more “Book Review: A Very Dangerous Woman”
Book Review: Ace of Spies
Sometime around 1990 or so, my local PBS channel played the 1983 British mini-series ‘Reilly: Ace of Spies.’ I was absolutely captivated. Sam Neill was awesome. The… Read more “Book Review: Ace of Spies”
Tabletop RPG Review: The Tribunals of Hermes: Iberia
If I ever get around to running a game of Ars Magica, my plan is to set the game in Mythic Iberia. I figured, I’d better give… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: The Tribunals of Hermes: Iberia”
Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley
There’s rich, and then there’s inherited wealth rich. Truly wealthy people don’t live like the rest of us, their world isn’t like ours. Dillon Ripley was born… Read more “Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley”
Tabletop RPG Review: Ars Magica Fifth Edition
I’m going to have to try to keep myself somewhat on track for this review, as I could go on and on about this game, spiraling down… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Ars Magica Fifth Edition”
Honeymoon: Night Train & Stop Three
We left Munich behind and took an overnight sleeper train across the Alps, returning to Venice, a city we took a too-quick day trip to two years… Read more “Honeymoon: Night Train & Stop Three”
Book Review: Nuking the Moon
A whole bunch of really, really bad ideas (and a few interesting ones that just didn’t work out) are explored in this book of failures. From exploding… Read more “Book Review: Nuking the Moon”
Book Review: Lusitania
A fascinating read and a deeply disturbing reminder that the roots of atrocity remain a part of our culture to this day. Willi Jasper looks at the… Read more “Book Review: Lusitania”
Tabletop RPG Review: Guardians of the Forest
One of my greatest experiences as a tabletop role-playing gamer was the six months I spent playing Ars Magica back in the mid 90s. Even though I… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Guardians of the Forest”
