Dixit Libellud, $34.99 Ages 8+ The first thing you notice about Dixit is that it is very, very pretty. The board game is pretty simple. You and two to four other people all get a hand of cards, and your goal is to invent a clue that describes one of the cards. The … [Read more...]
Review: Life of Pi
Life of Pi Yann Martel, $15.95 Age 16+ … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Ways of Seeing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." Those are the first words in the book version of John Berger's Ways of Seeing. But before it was a book, Ways of Seeing was an instructional … [Read more...]
TIP Tries: Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines Paradox Interactive, $29.99 Rated E for Everyone When I was in school, I spent a lot of timing messing around in SimCity 2000. I loved building cities from scratch, tinkering with the layouts, seeing whether I could bring a metropolis back from a natural … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens is one of those authors that most students fear. I know I did. His books just seemed so...boring. But there's a reason he's the classic English author (behind Shakespeare): his books captured what life was like for ordinary people during the 1800s. … [Read more...]
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