Hey bookworm friends, it’s time for another book tag! I love playing board games, I come from a family of gamers and my husband and I have a pretty solid collection at home. One of my favourite places in my city is the Snakes and Lattes board game cafe; there’s nothing better than spending a day there trying new games! So when I saw the Game Night Book Tag, I knew I had to try it.
Credit for the creation of the “Game Night” tag goes to the lovely Witty and Sarcastic Book Club.
Grab your favourite snacks, a group of friends, and a pile of board games—Let’s Play!
🕵️♀️Clue: A Book Featuring a Mystery
Even Though I Knew The End by C.L. Polk
I loved this book so much. The blend of noir mystery, historical fantasy, and sapphic romance was perfection!
My review.
💸Monopoly: A Book Focused on Treasure or Money
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C. L. Miller
Huh, two C.Ls in a row, I promise I didn’t do that on purpose! 😂
Anyway, I went for the ‘Treasure’ angle for this prompt. Since it’s about an antique hunter and the mystery involves valuable stolen artifacts, it certainly fits! It was a fun story but it didn’t wow me.
🚂Ticket to Ride: A Book Featuring Travel
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
The main character is a spy for the Invisible Library and her job is to harvest stories from different realities. Therefore there is a lot of travel back and forth between alternative worlds and the library itself throughout the whole series.
My review.
🐏The Settlers of Catan: A Book with a Lot Going On
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
This sci-fi had a lot of cool ideas. There’s an invisible drone, a wish-granting Jinn, a corrupt oligarch who makes a fantastic villain, a space hero, and Mecha-Kaiju fights. Plot-wise this book was all over the place, I compared it to a tiny car, stuffed to the brim with clowns.
⚔Risk: A Book in Which an Attempt at Domination is Key to the Story
Tides of Darkness by Aaron Rosenberg
In this installment of World of Warcraft novels, Orgrim Doomhammer, having seized control over the Orcish Horde, is now determined to conquer the rest of Azeroth. I read 4 of these novels and surprisingly really loved them! I would love to continue this series at some point but I’ve forgotten a lot.
🍏Apples to Apples: A Book that Makes You Laugh
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
When I was in high school I discovered Hyperbole and a Half in the form of her blog and fell in love with her zany stories and awkward stick figures. Then years later I found them collected in book form and adored them again! More recently I read her second book—Solutions and Other Problems— and it was great though not as iconic as this one!
🔠Scrabble: A Book with Beautiful Writing
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Say what you will about The Name of the Wind but the prose is gorgeous! I adored this book and if we ever get the next book I’ll be reading it. In the meantime, I’m not too fussed because it’s not like I’m ever gonna run out of things to read!🤷♀️
✨Indie Board Game: An Indie Book that Everyone Should Read
I will give Wingspan as an example of an indie board game. It’s currently my favourite game!
Ducks: Two Years In The Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
This graphic memoir won Canada Reads in 2023 and I think everyone should read it! It’s Beaton’s memoir of the time she worked in Alberta’s Oil Sands and deals with heavy topics such as sexual assault, and the destruction of the environment. Although her experiences shook her worldview, she offers a nuanced and human viewpoint.
Let’s chat in the comments!
If you read to the end of my post I tag you to do this challenge! 😉 What is your favourite board game or card game?
What a fun tag. We love playing board games and have enjoyed most of the ones you mention although have never played Wingspan. I think my favourite at the moment is Azul although love Spice Road too.
Yay I’m glad you love board games too! Well the creator gave the examples of the games for the prompt (the only one I added was Wingspan because I never wanna miss a chance to talk about it hahha).
Oh I love Azul but have not played Spice Road yet though!
I love board games although don’t get to play them over often, mostly at Christmas. I haven’t heard of two of these though and although I know of some of the others there are a fair few I’ve never tried 🙈
The books you’ve picked for each prompt fit really well too. I haven’t heard of a lot of them either. Reading your thoughts on The Invisible Library really reminds me that I need to check it out too. It sounds like such an incredible premise. The Name Of The Wind is definitely on my high priority list too as it’s ridiculous that i haven’t read it yet. And what reader can resist exquisite prose?
I’m definitely saving this tag to try out sometime. My favourite boardgame is probably monopoly or scrabble. Although I really like backgammon too. I need to try out some of the newer ones though.
There’s just so many board games out there that it’s physically impossible to play them all and that’s both wonderful and sad lol!
I’m glad you think my books fit the prompts well, yay! 😁🥰 The Invisible Library has such a fun premise, I agree and it’s such a romp! I do need to finish the series still though! Yes, the Name of the Wind is wonderful and you’re right how can you not love gorgeous prose? 😛I’d love to know what you think when you get to it 🙂
Awesome can’t wait to see your version of the tag then! Scrabble is fun but I’m not good at getting high scores hahaha
That’s very true. I know I went to one of the cafes that you mentioned a few years ago and it had so many games that I’d never heard of. And Waterstones has a game of the month section and I’ve generally never heard of those either 🙈
I hope you have fun carrying on with the series then. I’ll definitely let you know what I think of it. Hopefully I’ll finally read it next year 🤞
It might be a while but I’ll make sure I tag you in it. I feel the same with it at times. Oh and it’s so frustrating when you have a good word & someone takes the spot you were going to use 😂
Ah cool I didn’t know Waterstones also sold games! That’s fun. haha that’s fun I love finding new ones 🙂
Thank you! & okay yes sounds good, hopefully you can 🙂
Oh no rush at all, and yay thank you ♥ haha yessss that “you stole my spot” feeling sucks !! 😂lol
I’ve got a couple for people as Christmas gifts in the past. It’s nice getting the advertising emails too as I always spot new ones through it.
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I should get all my old tags done first but I may post this one in December anyway as I realised it’s the perfect time as lots of people get into board games around Christmas 😂
Oh I see that’s cool, yeah I love getting games for people too I think they’re great gifts 🙂
& that’s a good point, December is just such a good time for that because people have more time to play! Smart.
I think it’s nice that it’s something you can do together. And sometimes they can have links to shows/movies/books that a person is super into.
I think they’re kind of traditional around then too, especially for how they bring people together.
Yes that’s super true, it’s a good way to incorporate different fandoms into a gift and spend quality time with friends & family ! Both very good points 🙂
This tag is so much fun! I love Hyperbole and a Half. I need to get the first collection. I have the second book but somehow never got the first one.
Oh my gosh that’s awesome! 🖤Allie Brosh is great and you should definitely read the first one though maybe you read the stories on the website if you were on there back in the day coz it would be the same stories.
This is the first time I’ve seen this tag, and it’s so fun! I played board games as a child but haven’t played them in years. Still, I may give this tag a try😁
Oh well I’m glad you got to see it now then haha 😛 & that’s awesome. Did you have any fav ones as a kid? & if you do give it a try, I’d love to see it! 🖤
Ooh! Fun tag! I hardly play board games, but I’d like to do this.
That’s alright luckily the prompts are interesting even if you don’t play many games I think, if you do it I’d love to see it! 😄
I’ve got to get to Even Though I Knew the End. I still have to finish the author’s Witchmark series, but this one sits on my shelf whispering my name.
heheh it wants to be read!! lol I loved this one so much it makes me want to read the rest of this authors works which I’m hoping to read at some point too 🙂