Gamers! Free convention in Indy this weekend!

It's been a few weeks since I played a new boardgame. This weekend I am going to WhosYerCon , A FREE convention hosted by WhosYer Gamers in Indianapolis this weekend. I wanted to take some time to mention how great these guys are. They come to my own gaming event I hold where I work now and then. They bring their own games and they teach teens attending the event how to play them. And I can't belive they are hosting a free event this weekend. I'll have lots of new games to gush about really soon.

As for books right now I'm reading a new addition to our collection. It's the big giant hulking picture to the left of us. (I'm still learning, guys. Cut me some slack.) Anyway, the book is a series of autobiographical stories of being a big geek in high school.

I've only read the first story in the book, "My Friend Likes You" by Lisa Gabrielle. Oh my god. It was like reading my seventh grade diary. It was all full of those morbidly embarassing crushes that physically hurt you because they are so real. Of COURSE, just like the author, my crushes never knew I existed - or if they did, I was just part of the wallpaper. Also, she talks about not knowing much of the boys' personalities. They were just SO cute and SO popular. It was almost painful to read. I'm loving it so far!

The next story starts out with a boy meeting Zsa Zsa Gabor at his doorstep. So I don't think I'll be able to relate to that one as much.

Edited to add: Meh.. this book is hit and miss. I've liked two, felt kinda meh about one and skimmed over another.

These are a few of my favorite things

Edited to add: Most of my websites are not working. They were slightly broken when I first made them - so I tried to fix them and now they are just not right. I'll get better! I promise. You can get to the links by removing the "blogger.com" at the beginning of each website that I've linked. I've tried multiple times to remove it, but to no avail.

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On with the show!

Is there a better way to introduce myself than to show you some of my online haunts? Nah! Let's go. Since my life and my job are all about books and board games, I will show you those sites first.

I like book reviews. One of my favorite sites is GoodReads. I'm not sure how to link that to my personal account, but once I do -- I'll let you know. I like writing my own book reviews and reading other people's. I tried a lot of different review sites, and settled on this one. I also liked LibraryThing but I had a really hard time keeping up with both of the sites. Between those two, I had the hardest choice to make. Goodreads finally got me because they were free and Librarything wanted money. I hope to post my reviews here once I figure it out.

One of my favorite book blogs is Bookshelves of Doom. I like that she's brutally honest and scathingly funny at times. She is more like a friend telling you about what she just read rather than a professional book reviewer.

As for boardgames, Board Game Geek is my favorite. It's a great database of just about every game ever made. I played a few tester games at Gen Con that probably only a few copies of the games exist, and even those games were there. I love reading the reviews on the site and sometimes you can download pdf copies of instructions or even game tiles that you lost.