When you love something, you want to talk about it. You want to share it. Well, I love books and games, and I want to share my passion for these things with others.

My Interests

Books

So, I read a little bit of everything, but my favorite genres normally involve fantastical themes: urban fantasy, fantasy, paranormal romance, magical realism, fairy tales, etc. I found a way to make books a part of my career – I’m a librarian. Books are my main obsession. I work in a library and I have a library at home. I always have a book or my Kindle on me, and I listen to books when I can’t sit down to read them.

Asking me to tell you “what’s your favorite book” is like asking me “which one’s your favorite child?” It’s an impossible question. Acceptable questions and answers from today (each day may give you a different answer) include:

• What are you reading right now?
  Audio: Liar’s Oath by Elizabeth Moon
  Paper: Games Creatures Play (anthology with Charlaine Harris, etc.) and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
  Kindle: Midnight Crossed by Charlaine Harris and Where the Wild Things Bite by Molly Harper
• What is your book club reading right now?
  Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• What book would you recommend that you read recently?
  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

And, yes, I read that many books at the same time. I am in a book club (a club full of other librarians actually). And last month I gave my husband the recommended book for his birthday since I loved it so much – the audio is amazing, and they already are working on the movie with Ryan Gosling as the lead!

Games

My other passion is games. I play card & board games, roleplaying games, and video games.

I have over 300 games in my game closet. I focus mainly on Euro games. Favorites include: Terraforming Mars, St. Petersburg, Robo Rally, Dominion, and Dungeon Lords. I haven’t played much in person because of COVID-19, but I do play with friends online using either Tabletop Simulator or Board Game Arena.

Right now, I’m a casual D&D roleplayer. I used to go to conventions where I played, dmed, and once helped run a con. I’ve also played Torg, Call of Cthulhu, and Shadowrun. I went cold turkey when 4th edition came out, and didn’t start playing 5th until about 4 years ago.

As for video games, I started playing video games on an Atari. My first online games were MUDs in the 90’s. I now have over 1,000 games on Steam. I do own a Switch, but I primarily play on the PC. This may change when I get my Steam Deck. I’m can’t wait to have all my Steam games on a portable device that doesn’t weigh 7 lbs. I play mostly indie games now. Common tags in my library are survival, crafting, building, puzzles, roguelite, roguelike, turn-based strategy, platformer, sim, and rpg. I can’t pick a favorite game any more than I can pick a favorite book, but I can list the games I’ve played in the last month: Fall Guys, Going Medieval, Inscyption, Midnight Protocol, Valheim, Patchwork, Hidden Folks, Rogue book, and Beat Saber.