bestof2012

Here are the ten boardgames I played the most over a year with about one gaming session a week. Innovation (2010) 7 Wonders (2010) For Sale (1997) Glory to Rome (2005) * Lost Cities (1999) Verräter (1998) * Pergamon (2011, reviewed here) * Telestrations (2009) * Last Night on Earth (2007) * Wok Star (2010) * These are mostly short games that you can play repeatedly in one evening. The longer games that we played more than twice were Last Night on Earth and Yggdrasil. I played 74 different boardgames in 2012. Looking back since mid-2008, the number is 171. Stats courtesy of Boardgame Geek.…
Here are my best reads in English during 2012. I read 50 books this year, six of which were e-books. I flirted with LibraryThing for a while, but lately I've found that Goodreads is more the kind of leisure reading database/community that I enjoy. Find me there. Packing for Mars. Mary Roach 2011. Delving into space exploration history to get a perspective on the gritty realities of a future human-staffed Mars mission. (Let's first do sample return.) My Early Life. Winston Churchill 1930. Scion of power spends his youth trying to get involved in war and trains as a cavalry officer as one of…