¹A selection of thoughts about games, based on things I learn from other media.
Reading from 2008
- Phillips, Arthur: The Egyptologist, 12/27/07
- Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants, 1/2/08
- Wiggins, Marianne: Evidence of Things Unseen, 1/9/08
- Oyeyemi, Helen: The Icarus Girl, 1/17/08
- Phillips, Arthur: Prague, 1/26/08
- Styron, William: Darkness Visible, 2/8/08
- Jamison, Kay Redfield: An Unquiet Mind, 2/10/08
- Barber, Benjamin: Consumed, 2/11/08
- Chabon, Michael: The Yiddish Policemen's Union, 2/20/08
- Jensen, Carl: Stories that Changed America, 2/24/08
- Grossman, Austin: Soon I Will Be Invincible, 2/27/08
- Jin, Ha: A Free Life, 3/8/08
- Scalzi, John: The Ghost Brigades, 3/9/08
- Bechdel, Allison: Fun Home, A Family Tragicomic, 3/12/08
- Pekar, Harvey (Ed.): Best American Comics 2006, 3/20/08
- Y, The Last Man -- Graphic Novels, March '08
- Borjesson, Kristina (Ed): Into the Buzzsaw, 3/22/08
- Setterfield, Diane: The Thirteenth Tale, 3/28/08
- Lively, Penelope: Consequences, 4/3/08
- Phillips, Arthur: Angelica, 4/10/08
- Parker, Robert B.: Now and Then, 4/13/08
- Kunzru, Hari: Transmission, 4/17/08
- Spiegelman, Art: Maus v1, 4/17/08
- Rucker, Rudy: Postsingular, 4/20/08
- Spiegelman, Art: Maus v2, 4/20/08
- O'Nan, Stuart: Last Night at the Lobster, 4/20/08
- Scalzi, John: The Last Colony, 4/23/08
- King, Stephen: Duma Key, 4/29/08
- Ware, Chris (Ed): Best American Comics 2007, 5/4/08
- Postman, Neil: Amusing Ourselves to Death, 5/8/08
- Pileggi, Nicholas et al (Eds): Best American Crime Writing, 5/16/08
- Burdett, John: Bangkok Haunts, 5/19/08
- Foer, Jonathan Safran: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 5/23/08
- Banks, Iain M.: Matter, 5/28/08
- Kunzru, Hari: The Impressionist, 6/3/08
- Sofer, Dalia: The Septembers of Shiraz, 6/4/08
- Stott, Rebecca: Ghostwalk, 6/6/08
- Lightman, Alan: Ghost, 6/7/08
- Lindsay, Jeff: Dexter in the Dark, 6/8/08
- Morgan, Richard K.: Thirteen, 6/14/08
- Gibson, William: Spook Country, 6/17/08
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 6/23/08
- Davies, Robertson: Tempest-Tost, 6/24/08
- Davies, Robertson: A Leaven of Malice, 6/26/08
- Davies, Robertson: A Mixture of Frailties, 6/27/08
- Feynman, Richard: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 7/31/08
- Lethem, Jonathan: As She Climbed Across the Table, 8/7/08
- Hornby, Nick: Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, 9/1/08
- Miéville, China: Un Lun Dun, 9/2/08
- McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain, 10/11/08
- Christopher, Nicholas: The Bestiary, 10/18/08
- Nemirovsky, Irene: Suite Francaise, 11/2/08
- Hill, Joe: Heart-Shaped Box*, 11/7/08
- Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 11/8/08
- Gaiman, Neil: American Gods, 11/8/08
- Gaiman, Neil: Coraline, 11/22/08
- Rendell, Ruth: 13 Steps Down*, 11/25/08
- Snicket, Lemony: The Bad Beginning, 12/21/08
- Chabon, Michael: Maps and Legends, 12/08
- Azzarello, Brian: 100 Bullets Vol 1-6, December 08
- Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian*, 12/22/08
- Delillo, Don: Underworld, 12/30/08
- Petterson, Per: Out Stealing Horses, 12/31/08