Game Night – Kingsburg

Kingsburg Designer: Andrea Chiarvesio, Luca Iennaco Manufacturers: Fantasy Flight Games Artists: Mad4Gamestyle Year: 2008 Players: 2 - 5 Time: 90 minutes Ages: 10 and up David got this fantasy-themed game for Christmas and since then, we've played it several times. It takes place in the realm of Kingsburg, which is under attack! Invaders, dragons, zombies, demons, are gathering at the borders, aiming to invade and plunder the realm! The king has chosen governors (the players) to take charge of provinces: each will manage their province and help defend the realm. Governors must influence the King's Advisers and the Royal Family to obtain gold, wood, stones, and soldiers to expand and defend their lands. The goal ultimately, is to earn victory points by building buildings, influencing advisers and defeating the enemy. In the end, only one Governor will earn the King's rewards. The game is played in five years (rounds), each consisting of 3 productive seasons, spring, summer, and fall, and then the enemy attacks each winter. There...
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Mystery Read-a-Thon Introduction

We're being a few questions this morning. Five fun facts: I love mint chocolate chip ice cream. I'm still in my pajamas and slippers. I love peppermint smelling soap in the shower, especially in winter. I'm allergic to grass, which is my excuse to never help mow. I love the flan the local Mexican restaurant serves. On my TBR pile: 13 1/2 by Nevada Barr, Still Life by Louise Penny. I've got a shelf full of others if I need to pull something else down. As far as hopes and plans for the read-a-thon. I'm just hoping to be able to find a lot of reading time. This is my first mystery read-a-thon, and my plan is to just read when I can. I like that the hours are spread out over a couple of days. It's hard to put aside too large blocks of time around here. It seems like there's always something going on. This evening, for example, we're having people over for dinner and cake...
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Rion by Susan Kearney

Rion by Susan Kearney Back in September, I read Lucan, the first in the Pendragon Legacy series, and loved it, so when I got a chance to read Rion, I couldn't pass it up. Marisa is Lucan's sister and Rion is his best friend, but I don't think you need to have read the first to enjoy this one. In this future world, one-tenth of Earth's population are dragonshapers and Marisa is a telepath who is helping them learn to control themselves as dragons. Rion is from the planet Honor, where his people, all dragonshapers, have become enslaved to an evil alien Tribe, the Unari. Only with Marisa's help can Rion organize a revolt and save his people. It took me a little while to warm up to the book. First off, even though I knew they were both dragonshapers and Marisa always has scales on some parts of her body, during the first sex scene, when "her scales rumbled in wave after wave...
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