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Avidly Reads Board Games (Hardcover)
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Avidly Reads Board Games (Hardcover)
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"How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us
as we play them?" Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his
own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional
and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of
stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the
outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat,
capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart,
Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his
siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce
hierarchies and relationships-from the familial to the
geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night,
Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and
nostalgia. Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how
culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah
Mesle, Avidly-an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles
Review of Books-specializes in short-form critical essays devoted
to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series
featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each
bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural
artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the
surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.
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