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Books January 2025

January 30, 2025 1:51 pm

Le Réveil des Dragons by Morgan Rice

An English fantasy book translated to French. A “chosen one” story about a girl who yearns to be a warrior and is destined for something greater.

An act of defiance against occupiers to save a dragon’s life condemns her kingdom to destruction. With nothing further to lose the kingdom fights for their survival.

When their destruction seems assured, the dragon returns and lays waste to their oppressors.

Carbide Tipped Pens a hard sci-fi anthology edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi

A collection of 17 stories which I enjoyed–some more than others. None seem to have stuck out to me as being exceptional however.

3D Prints December 2024

December 31, 2024 8:35 pm

I printed and assembled copies of the Trinidad Head Light Station model, which I designed earlier in the year, to give to my team at work as end-of-the-year gifts (one of our main projects is named after the lighthouse).

That was all I printed this month, but I received some fancy filaments for Christmas that I’ll need to come up with some fun uses for in 2025.

Games December 2024

8:32 pm

Despite my hopes from last month, I did not get much game playing in this month either.

Played a session of The Guild of Merchant Explorers at a board game meetup. I won.

Played a scenario of Mechs vs. Minions and introduced the game to friends. We ran the gauntlet and succeeded in reaching the other side while subduing the minions along the way. Victory.

After playing Creature Comforts at a board game meetup last month I thought Jess would enjoy it. So she found it under the Christmas tree. We played with friends and I won after a very productive final turn bringing in 29 points in just the one turn.

Tallying up the blog posts gives us 63 games played in 2024.

Books December 2024

8:24 pm

Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

While I had somewhat assumed that Forever Peace was a sequel to The Forever War Haldeman addresses directly in the introduction that it is not.

But it does continue to explore and discuss the issues that affect the participants and victims of continuous warfare. It then goes on to explore the idea of what if you could open everyone’s minds to collectivism and seeing humanity as one. What if we could reach a state of mind where violence against others is seen as violence against oneself and therefore pointless.

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

This was my Christmas gift from the girls this year. A Japanese fantasy book (translated) about a cat, books, and an old bookstore. They nailed it.

When Rintaro’s grandfather dies he withdraws even further from the world than usual as he takes over caring for the old bookshop.

Then a cat approaches him for help rescuing books. His love of books empowers him to break out of his shell and engage with the world around him.

And those are the only books I completed in December. Most of my reading was on a book in French and I just didn’t quite finish it. So it will show up next year.

Looking back over this year’s blog posts I tally 41 books for the year! With 1 of them in French.