Picocosmographia by William Van Hecke

Finished in 2014

There are 21 items here.

Ancillary Justice

Author — Ann Leckie
Finished — 2014-11-29

Persona 2 罪

Finished — 2014-11-09
Started — 2011-05-16
Platform — PlayStation Portable

I played the P2 duology out of order, which was actually probably ideal. More late PSX-era graphics, more weird psychology, more Amano Maya, more Persona 2! These games are so emblematic to me of the strange, hip, geeky Japan of the 1990s.

初音ミク Project DIVA F 2nd

Finished — 2014-10-26
Started — 2014-04-16
Platform — PlayStation Vita

I think Project Diva is the perfect artifact to represent the entire Vocaloid phenomenon. So many creative folks’ efforts went into creating it, but my favorite fact about this game is that the motion capture for when Miku plays guitar was done by one of my favorite bands, Gacharic Spin.

フェイト/ステイナイト[レアルタ・ヌア] extra edition

Finished — 2014-10-17
Started — 2013-09-08
Platform — PlayStation 2

The joke was that nobody would want to watch a Japanese visual novel on Twitch. But a few friends ended up immersing ourselves in the day-to-day rhythms of this game together, and developed elaborate inside jokes and rituals for the narrative’s meditatively repetitive nature. I wish Nasu Kinoko was better at editing, though; I like drawn-out pacing but nearly every scene felt about 50% too long!

The Widow's House

Author — Daniel Abraham
Finished — 2014-10-14

Among Others

Author — Jo Walton
Finished — 2014-10-10

Nobody Passes — Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity

Author — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Finished — 2014-09-21

Waking Up — A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Author — Sam Harris
Finished — 2014-09-18

ファイブスター物語 リブート THE CHIVALRIES 6

Author — 永野護
Finished — 2014-09-01

How to Live — A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer

Author — Sarah Bakewell
Finished — 2014-07-30

ファイブスター物語 リブート 5 ATROPOS 2

Author — 永野護
Finished — 2014-07-17

Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth

Author — Burton L. Mack
Finished — 2014-06-14

Delusions of Gender — How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Author — Cordelia Fine
Finished — 2014-06-09

Consider Phlebas

Author — Iain M. Banks
Finished — 2014-06-08

The Beginning of Infinity — Explanations That Transform the World

Author — David Deutsch
Finished — 2014-04-29

Jhereg

Author — Steven Brust
Finished — 2014-04-12

Hild

Author — Nicola Griffith
Finished — 2014-04-04

ファイブスター物語 リブート 4 ATROPOS 1

Author — 永野護
Finished — 2014-03-11

The Righteous Mind — Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Author — Jonathan Haidt
Finished — 2014-02-06

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Author — Dale Carnegie
Finished — 2014-01-16

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Author — N.K. Jemisin
Finished — 2014-01-01