Search

Search only in certain items:

    Beautiful Bubbles

    Beautiful Bubbles

    Entertainment and Games

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Pop beautiful bubbles with your fingers using multi-touch. Unlike other bubble popping apps, this...

40x40

Lumos (380 KP) rated Suspend in Tabletop Games

Mar 21, 2018 (Updated Apr 5, 2018)  
Suspend
Suspend
2012 | Action
This game is so easy to learn and to play! Like the name suggests, the game is all about balancing. It is a little like Jenga or Topple in that you add pieces to a growing tower. The pieces are metal poles that are all of varying lengths. To play, you roll a die and add the color pole that matches the color you roll to the tower being careful to place it in such a way that doesn’t cause the whole thing to collapse. When I played this with my family, we decided that there really aren't enough pieces in one set to keep the game going for very long so we put two sets together. It is a little bit of a tight squeeze to get both sets into one tube (the game comes in a clear tube), but we were able to fit both sets into one container for easy storage. This is a quick game to learn, and is good for the whole family.

We don’t normally tend to go for these type of games, but every once in a while, it is nice to break away from the longer, more intense games we typically choose.
  
The Astonishing Color of After
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan | 2018 | Young Adult (YA)
9
8.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Evocative descriptions (1 more)
Good characters
Just WOW. The Astonishing Color of After is about a teenage girl, an artist, dealing with her mother's depression and ensuing suicide. Part of what makes the book so fascinating is Leigh's constant description of colors. She uses color as shorthand for emotions - her grandmother might have a vermilion expression on her face, or she might be feeling very orange while staring at her mother's coffin at the funeral. Between colors-as-feelings and her insomnia-induced hallucinations (or magic - the book is deliberately, I think, noncommittal on whether some things only happen in her head or not) the entire book feels a little surrealistic. But grief and mourning DO feel surrealistic. The book is amazingly evocative and emotional and I absolutely adore it. This, along with City of Brass and Children of Blood and Bone, are definitely on my Best of 2018 list.

As an added bonus, the author is the American child of Taiwanese immigrants herself. So all the ghost traditions and folklore from Leigh's journey to Taiwan are from her ancestry as well.

This book was gorgeous. It may need a trigger warning for depression and suicide. If you can handle those themes, read it.

You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com
  
    KulaMoji

    KulaMoji

    Health & Fitness, Entertainment and Stickers

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    KulaMoji are yoga emojis you can share with your tribe. Kula means tribe, family or community in...