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Board games for adults to play (and actually enjoy) with kids under 5

Posted on September 9, 2022July 31, 2024 by erinampersand

If you’ve read my books, you can probably tell both that I’m a parent and a board gamer. Board games are great. Kids are great. Board games and kids… don’t always go great together, as anyone who has sat through Chutes and Ladders or Candy Land with a young child can tell you. Modern children’s […]

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    Erin Ampersand, Author @erinampersand.bsky.social 3 days

    2026 Micro-reviews:
    Book of the Dead by RinoZ

    Son of heroes receives necromantic powers and his parents are ordered to kill him for it.

    #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews
    Read for: An actual morally gray protagonist. Real “ends justifies the means” stuff
Avoid if: You can’t root for a guy who destroys a few souls along the way
R/Fantasy Bingo squares: Cat Squasher, Small Press/Self-Published, The Afterlife
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    Erin Ampersand, Author @erinampersand.bsky.social 2 weeks

    If you live in Alabama, our primaries are today and you can vote in either the R or D primary without restricting your vote in the general election this fall. Make your voice heard & support Democracy!

    (Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania also have primaries today!)
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    Erin Ampersand, Author @erinampersand.bsky.social 3 weeks

    When my son next asks "Mom, will you drive me?", I plan to say yes, wander around the house aimlessly, flop on the couch to stare at the wall, and start working on a craft as he get increasingly irritated at my failure to help as promised.

    No reason.
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    Erin Ampersand, Author @erinampersand.bsky.social 4 weeks

    I've really been enjoying playing Slay the Spire 2 co-op, despite usually ignoring Early Access titles.

    If you've been thinking of checking it out, you totally should!

    Especially since it's run afoul of Gamergate now... not even for any game content, but for devs talking to the "wrong person."
    image from Polygon article on Slay the Spire co-op
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    Erin Ampersand, Author @erinampersand.bsky.social 1 month

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    Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

    What if a modern girl was yanked out of poverty and sent to Oz, but Dorothy had turned it into a dystopian hellscape?

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    Read for: A wild twist on Oz, including many characters known only to those who read Baum’s books
Avoid if: YA themes or exceptionally dark events are a no-go
R/Fantasy Bingo squares: Author of Color, Politics & Court Intrigue, Unusual Transportation
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