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Oh, She's Bookish: Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
Press Reset, Book Cover Image
Completed: July 7th, 2026
After reading “Play Nice” and being absolutely immersed in the history of one of my favorite studios, I decided to look into more books in the genre. I tried “Doom Guy,” which is an autobiography of John Romero, co-founder of iD and all the Doom games. I could not get into the narrative, which may be the first-person writing style. So, I returned to Jason Schreier. I found Play Nice to be dry on the writing, but unmatched in the content he was able to get access to, and the bear of a process I can luckily only imagine of getting it all into order. For all of its investigative journalistic quirks of being measured and direct, it still felt compelling. Press Reset is more of an anthology of stories and, true to its title, is quite a downer. You can’t really let that influence your review per se, but I did have to take this book slower just to balance out the emotional tone of it all. So, in that way it was a success. As I think part of Schreier’s point of writing was to both inform and disillusion the public and potential developers by findings so many real-world examples of how it all goes wrong. And what is particularly powerful is how it does not matter who you are - unless you are Gabe Newell, I guess- but everyone else, even the greats, fall to the machine that is the video game industry. There is more of Schreier’s personality in this book, though it is still very sparse. His moments don’t add anything for me, but it may add levity to others reading. I’m glad these stories are documented and I’m glad this book was written, but I can’t really recommend it unless you are a diehard fan of one of the games covered, a general fanatic about the games industry, or on the academic/historian side of this because of all the primary sources.
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Oh, She's Bookish: Bone of My Bone
Bone of My Bone, Book Cover Image
Completed: June 8th, 2026
Oh, She’s Bookish: Bone of My Bone
Okay, so I read My Darling Dreadful Thing and it hit so hard, with so many flaws, that I immediately jumped into the author’s newest title. Which, as an aside, was just so exciting to know and author await their newest book, even if it was only a few weeks of waiting. It brought me back to summer days of waiting for a Barnes & Noble trip with my mom to get the newest Pendragon novel and tearing through it mere days later to my mother’s chagrin. This is how I ended up reading the Twilight series in the first place. My mother went into the store, asked for the longest age-appropriate book on the shelf and bam, not I’m a furry. And into blood stuff. Coincidently, that’s going to come quite in handy for this book!
…Oh, She's Bookish: My Darling Dreadful Thing
Ny Darling Dreadful Thing, Book Cover Image
Completed: May 11th, 2026
I believe this is the fourth gothic horror book I’ve completed since the fall! Having never read the genre before, I am ecstatic to continue chugging along. Especially because there are a number of quality, sapphic gothic horror novels I was completely unaware of.
This particular book came as a special recommendation. I understand why, I stayed up until 3AM needing to finish the last third of the book and it laid me on my ass.
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