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When it comes to board games, there are several examples where games have been plucked out of books. A recent example would be when author Patrick Rothfuss teamed with game designer James Ernest to create Tak that was initially mentioned in Rothfuss’ book; ‘The Wise Man’s Fear’. That game is one of the best of the last decade. And of course there is Jetan, a form of chess drawn from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Chessmen of Mars which dates back to 1922, and is quite playable although you do need to ‘bodger’ your own set of pieces. While games do come out of books, they al...

A new home for Room The independent bookstore will move into the Threshold space on Atwood Avenue Kristian Knutsen (A Room of One's Own) A Room of One's Own is planning to move to Atwood Avenue into the Threshold space. When A Room of One’s Own exits downtown Madison after 46 years, it will move into the Threshold community space at 2717 Atwood Ave., says bookstore co-owner Gretchen Treu. It was announced earlier that the store would be moving to the Atwood area, but not the specific location. Treu says that A Room of One’s Own can be “a great neighborhood bookstore. We have...

Green Brothers Kick Off Annual 48-Hour ‘Project For Awesome’ Charity Stream John and Project For Awesome (P4A). Save The Children, and other organizations as selected by the Green brothers’ online community. (Their VlogBrothers channel counts 3.4 million subscribers and garners 4 million monthly views). Over the course of the next 48 hours, the guys will welcome special guests like Flula Borg, Anna Akana, Patrick Rothfuss, and Taylor Behnke. The event will also features sock puppet theater performances, dancing, interactive moments with both brothers, and more — with different p...

My father's murder disrupted my education. But I survived and got back on track. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki © Provided by NBC News I may have been a fan of Greek mythology, but it didn't make me any happier when my undergraduate studies became their own twisted version of Hercules' 12 labors. It took me a good three tries before I was able to complete a degree program. The first two rebootings resulted from system failures in the educational institutions I attended. First, my course of study, mass communication at the University of Benin, lost its accreditation. Then my pape...

Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:00am 12 Favorites [+] I’ve written here before about the quality of “I-want-to-read-it-osity” that some books have, a hard to define but easy to see quality which I am going to refer to as “grabbyness.” There are books you can pick up and put down and happily pick up again, and then there are books that seem to glue themselves to your brain, that utterly absorb you. There are books that are great when you’re halfway through them but that take work to get into. Right now, the kind you can put down and the kind that are hard to get into don’t cut it, because the...