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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Rural Québéc is so pretty in the fall once the leaves start changing. #Quebec

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Figuring out my schedule for Necronomicon Providence. The one problem with this convention: it's *too* packed full of stuff! #NecronomiconProvidence #conventions #weird #horror

A view of my calendar, showing convention events on Saturday August 15th that I'm interested in. Several slots have 3 sessions of interest; some have 4.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

FIRE & ICE: THE VOLCANOES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, by Natalie Starkey, surveys the geology of the solar system, focusing on the different types of volcano. Earth currently has volcanoes with molten rock, but further out in the solar system, there are colder planets […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System" by Natalie Starkey.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS", by Lance Grande.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Games for June 2026. We're making progress on Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion again; maybe we'll finish the entire campaign in July. #boardGames

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon (Kelly Thompson; art by Hayden Sherman and Mattia de Iulis) is an alternate world where Diana grew up in Hell, raised by the sorceress Circe. So this is a Wonder Woman who uses magic, wears darker armour, and rides […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the first issue of the comic "Absolute Wonder Woman".

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

The Space Cat (Nnedi Okorafor; art by Tana Ford) is the second children's book in this category. Periwinkle is a cat who belongs to Nnedi Okorafor and her daughter Anyaugo. Periwinkle is also a space cat, whose father is from Neptune and who has a secret lair […] [Original post on dmv.community]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel (Ursula K. Le Guin; art by Fred Fordham) is a graphic-novel adaptation of the first book in the Earthsea series, in which Ged learns wizardry, accidentally releases a dangerous shadow, and has to track it down at the start […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of "A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel"

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

In The Invisible Parade (Leigh Bardugo; art by John Picacio) it's the first day of November, and Cala doesn't want to go to the evening's party at the cemetery, because she's still mourning her grandfather. She's sad all day while her family makes a variety of […] [Original post on dmv.community]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Looking at the Hugo finalists for Best Graphic Novel: The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers (Kieron Gillen; art by Caspar Wijngaard) is a really great start to a new series from Gillen, whose series (DIE and THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE) have all been […] [Original post on dmv.community]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

It's our monthly board game day today, so my spouse made a yummy-looking fruit tart.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

In this novel, Auden White has a brilliant new startup idea: Liv, a swipe-left/right app where the user is swiping on cadavers instead of living people. Find a corpse that you vibe with, and it can be shipped to your house where you can keep it indefinitely […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "For Human Use", by Sarah G. Pierce.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

#BoardGames for May. An odd thing this month: I don't own the top two games, Finspan and Fate of the Fellowship. One is a borrowed copy, and the other was played at a friend's home in two consecutive weeks.

Top 9 games I played the most in May. Play count and game:

3: Finspan;
3: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship;
2: Vantage;
2: Endeavor: Deep Sea;
2: Planet Unknown;
2: Sanctuary;
2: Twinkle Twinkle;
1: Threads of Fate;
1: Ada's Dream.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Enjoyed my visit to the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts for the Roman sculpture exhibit. #Rome #sculpturesaturday #sculpture #MBAM

Statue of Athena, surrounded by museum-goers.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD, by Shelley Parker-Chan, is book 2 of a duology about a rebellion against the Mongol rulers of ancient China, and this book follows the course of battles between Zhu Yuanzhang, "The Radiant King", the eunuch general Ouyang, and the rich […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "He Who Drowned the World" by Shelley Parker-Chan.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Three fantasy books I've read & enjoyed lately: Katherine Addison's THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD is set in the same fantasy kingdom as THE GOBLIN EMPEROR, but you don't need to have read the latter. Thara Celehar is a Witness for the Dead, able to access the […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "The Witness for the Dead", by Katherine Addison

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Most played board games for March. Ada's Dream is apparently the most complex game we own, according to its BGG weight rating. My spouse discusses it in this video: youtu.be/wFOo1mkD8KE Reforest is from a Canadian designer and publisher. It's not like […] [Original post on dmv.community]

List of games:
Glass Road;
Ada's Dream;
My City;
Reforest.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Board game plays for February. I was on my own visiting family in Canada, so I soloed Glass Road a bunch of times. Both Ada's Dream and Reforest were waiting for me there, ordered during the height of US tariff uncertainty last year. Reforest was easily played […] [Original post on dmv.community]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

In the introduction to UNSPEAKABLE ACTS: TRUE TALES OF CRIME, MURDER, DECEIT, AND OBSESSION, editor Sarah Weinman writes about wanting pieces that call out problems in "the true-crime industrial complex", and she wound up with an excellent collection of […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of "Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession", edited by Sarah Weinman.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

TURNING TO STONE: DISCOVERING THE SUBTLE WISDOM OF ROCKS is a thoughtful mix of memoir and geological teaching. Bjornerud writes about her life & career, and parallels these with the geological features that formed part of her landscape at the time. It begins […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks", by Marcia Bjornerud.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

The narrator of the mystery novel WRITTEN IN DEAD WAX (#1 in the Vinyl Detective series by former #DoctorWho script editor Andrew Cartmel) is a London-based collector of vinyl LPs, who manages a living from the occasional lucky find that he can sell for a few […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "Written in Dead Wax: The Vinyl Detective #1" by Andrew Cartmel.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

INTO EVERY GENERATION A SLAYER IS BORN: HOW BUFFY STAKED OUR HEARTS, by Evan Ross Katz, is a fan's look at the history of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the show's production until its end, and then into its afterlife of fannish activity and […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "Into Every Generation A Slayer Is Born", by Evan Ross Katz.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

I'm lukewarm on THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2025 (ed. Steph Cha, guest ed. Don Winslow), a collection of selected stories that were published in 2024. Most of the stories are good, but they ended up feeling same-y: they're often noir-ish or […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the anthology "The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025".

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Summary of my board gaming in 2026. The top two games are both campaign/legacy ones, My City and the most recent Clank Legacy. Legacy of Yu was also a campaign game, although not one where you modify the game permanently. #BoardGames #bgstats

BG Stats 2025

Plays: 397
H-index: 6
Games: 180
New: 76
Players: 83
Locations: 12
Hours: 385
Days: 156

My City: 12
Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic: 10
Spots: 8
Legacy of Yu: 7
Dominion: 7
Distilled: 6
Endeavor: Deep Sea: 6
Wayfarers of the South Tigris: 5
Dinosaur World: 5

196 designers:
Uwe Rosenberg: 3%
Phil Walker-Harding: 2%
Adrian Adamescu: 1%
Daryl Andrews: 1%.

55 categories:
Card Game: 32%
Fantasy: 23%
Animals: 17%
Dice: 16%
Economic: 13%.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

LIBERTY'S DAUGHTER, by Naomi Kritzer, is a YA novel features a heroine who lives on a libertarian seastead in the Pacific Ocean. Teenager Beck (short for Rebecca) Garrison is a finder, who helps residents locate supplies and items: if you need a size-6 bathing […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "Liberty's Daughter" by Naomi Kritzer.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

My November plays. We're leaning in on our 5x20, so a number of games come from that, including all 5 plays of Arcane Academy which then went into our for-trade pile. Dice Theme Park and the Star Trek version of Super-Skill Pinball are also from that push […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Play count of games in November:

5: Arcane Academy;
4: Garden Lake;
2: Vantage;
2: Endeavor: Deep Sea;
2: Dice Theme Park;
2: Horrified: Greek Monsters;
2: Hercules and the 12 Labors;
2: Star Trek: Super-Skill Pinball;
2: Oceanos.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

Photo of the title card for the #SherlockHolmes silent film program. Peter Blau of the Red Circle DC is delivering his introductory remarks at the lower left.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

My most frequent games for October. I was visiting family in Canada and brought Atiwa and Wingspan Asia to play solo, so they're well represented. We also tried out the new Owl Temple board for Lost Ruins of Arnak. #BoardGames

BG Stats 3 x 3.
Atiwa;
Lost Ruins of Arnak;
Wingspan Asia;
Old West Empresario;
Meeple Land;
That's Pretty Clever!;
Kodama: The Tree Spirits;
Vantage;
Too Many Bones: Undertow.

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2024

WINDMILL VALLEY is another one of the many action-selection Euros that we both like. You have two interlocked gear wheels with actions on them, and you can control whether they turn 1/2/3 steps, at a cost. So they rotate, & you get to perform one of the two […] [Original post on dmv.community]

View of the table layout for the game Windmill Valley.

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