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We've talked about novels and those books with visuals. Now there is just clean up. Early last year I read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, which tells the development stories for a bunch of games like Destiny, The Witcher 3, and Stardew Valley. I love stuff like this and the book did not disappoint. Definitely look it up if you're into the real world side of game development. Something I actually did blog about last year is Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of EVE Online. I've never played that game and have no real desire to, but the history of what happened was still remarkedly compelling. The second volume is supposed to come out this May and I am excited to see what happened next.

We talked about the novels I read last year (in two parts!) and I did most of that reading at work. At home it's tough reading prose because I have small kids and when those kids go to bed I like to play video games. But comics and manga, for whatever reason, that I can do at home and I got through a good deal.

Earlier I skipped over one of the oldest books I read last year, Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis. Published in 1938 as the start of a trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet imagined space travel before we really knew what it is like and it shows, but it is a fun adventure story with some moments of deep thinking. Like Clark after him, Lewis was adept at describing in rich detail the alien vistas and creatures he imagined. Later I read its sequel, Perelandra, which in some ways is the inverse of its predecessor. Perelandra is mostly a series of deep thinking moments sprinkled with adventure bits. I don't want to bash it because it is very good at what it is doing but I do hope that when I read the third book of the trilogy this year, it hews closer to the first one.

By turning the little moments of downtime at work (and also lunch) into reading moments, I got through more books in 2018 than I ever have. I've blogged about books on occasion but with KnightDriver branching out in his blogs, I thought maybe I'd do the same. So first let's hit the novels I read last year.

Games Beaten

Games Beaten

Any of you folks play Pokémon GO? Like, actively play, not you downloaded it once and it's on your phone somewhere. My wife has been playing for a while and finally got me playing it and now our two oldest kids are playing as well (though the four-year-old only understands enough to catch the Pokémon lol). Some days we'll just drive around spinning Pokéstops and battling in gyms. One of my current research goals is to make three new friends and while it is easy enough to find strangers online to friend, I thought I'd check with you guys I actually know somewhat first.

Games Beaten

Games Beaten