Kube reviewed Spiffies and Loonies: Volume One by Jean-Paul G. Potet
Hectic
5 stars
So many characters, pun-driven episodes... very impressive, very baffling.
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Kube reviewed Every Board Game Rulebook is Awful by Dean Ray Johnson
Every This Essay Is Awesome
5 stars
To paraphrase the driving question: "why is the modern board game rulebook so divorced from technical writing best practices?". The included Stardew Valley rulebook makes a wonderful case for a total rework of the rulebook format.
Kube reviewed Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition by Harry Partch (A Da Capo paperback)
More like, Genesis of a Cool-sic :3
5 stars
Wow that was a long read but extremely rewarding. Filled with joyous spite, contagious aspiration, lotsa fractions, and remarkably funny footnotes.
Kube reviewed If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Calvino shows that the novel, far from being a dead form, is capable of endless …
I love this book so much
5 stars
Gosh dangit, now here's a cool book... full of compassion, humor, and spectacular run-on sentences.
Kube reviewed Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) …
Heavy stuff
5 stars
Found myself kicking my legs: it grips harddd.
Kube reviewed Web Typography by Richard Rutter
Typography is what comes between the author and the reader. This is as true on …
Consider me swashed
5 stars
An astoundingly practical book, well worth reading front to back ❦
Kube reviewed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the …
Scary as heck!
5 stars
It's like watching your fursona die: zany, but threatening.
Oh this one's phenomenal
5 stars
We adored reading this book, it's got so many cool facts and anecdotes <3
Kube reviewed Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It …
The world's best bedtime stories
5 stars
Except they keep ya awake thinking about 'em...
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of …
Hot gossip
5 stars
Excellent fun for fans of the "subject matter expert disses their peers in highly specific ways" genre 📈
Kube reviewed Animal farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions …
The big funny
5 stars
This book's adorable, I love the cute pigs
Kube finished reading Animal farm by George Orwell
Animal farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. …
Kube reviewed When Then Zen by Xe Iaso
Meditation instructions from spiritual texts ripped out of the contexts of their spirituality and presented …
If read then good
5 stars
A thoughtful, approachable overview of various meditation techniques... and a playful exploration of Gherkin :)
Kube finished reading When Then Zen by Xe Iaso
When Then Zen by Xe Iaso
Meditation instructions from spiritual texts ripped out of the contexts of their spirituality and presented in the universal format of …
Kube reviewed Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
The Poetics of Space (French: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book about architecture …
Probably my favorite book now??
5 stars
Had me weeping at the end, oh gosh.