Reading assignment

Reading list

I've been wanting to do this for a while. With all the gaming that I've been doing recently, and with all of the social media I've been devouring, I feel like my attention span has wasted away to almost nothing. And so, I'm beginning a project where I actually read all of my actual, real, sitting lonely on a shelf books. We've accumulated so many books over the years that even though we've started to buy more and more digital books, we still have a small library's worth of books in our house.

The project is daunting, so I'm starting small. One small shelf in one of our shorter bookshelves. It's full of classics mostly, with some contemporary fiction. Some of them I've already read, but that's OK.

First up is:

You know, an light and easy read to start. Happy reading everyone!

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Murder!

Pardon my mixed-gumshoe phrases, but: The Game Is Afoot! Someone has been murdered on the train. Someone had to be murdered, this is a murder mystery, after all. But which passenger on this packed train did it? Did the murderer get away? Most likely not, seeing as how the train has been stopped by an avalanche. Will you help Poirot solve the mystery, and save your job, before the snow plows and police arrive? I would continue playing, but it's so darn hot here in Cambridge. I'm looking at the snow in the screenshots with envy!

Voodoo mysteries solved

I've finally finished Gabriel Knight 1, and I have to say it was a terrific game. The story was involving, and the ending was superb -- no let down at all. For me, the main feature that marred the game was the terrible interface. I hated having to click through the various tools (move, look, open, etc...) It got to be really tiresome at times.

Happy Ghost-Hunting

God, the end of the second day in The Lost Crown was beyond hair-raising. I screamed more than a few times during Nigel's midnight search of the old museum. The use of the ghost-hunting equipment is a terrific twist to your typical adventure game inventory-based puzzles. Not only does the use of various pieces of equipment (EMF detectors, night-vision cameras, etc.) help you to solve certain clues, it also adds to the spooky atmosphere. Knowing that you're walking through a ghost-filled cemetery in the middle of the night and your only field of view is the wavering green video screen immediately before you is chill-inducing. I have to admit, the only way I've been able to play this is alongside my husband. I'm sure I'd give myself a heart attack if I tried to play this alone at night!

Chasing Dragonflies

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