In no particular order, and in no way a complete list, here are some thoughts on some books I’ve read recently. These aren’t quite reviews, and I’m not therefore going to be scoring them.
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Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Like David Devereux’s Hunter’s Moon, which I’m writing about below, [...]

We started last night off with a discussion about General Tangent’s plans for when we next pause our Masks of Nyarlathotep Call of Cthulhu campaign. He’s thinking of running the old classic Traveller campaign, The Traveller Adventure, using Mongoose Publishing’s new Traveller rules.
(I’m very much up for this, as I love Traveller, and I did [...]

There’s a theory that we inadvertently raise our children in sexist ways, treating our boys differently than our girls. Boys are praised for displaying physical prowess and courage; girls are praised for displaying delicacy and fragility, and for being good.
Boys are raised to become aggressive go-getters as men, and when they indeed aggressively go-get society [...]