Now at the top of my reading list, the new Bronte juvenile ImagiNations in lively graphic novel form – Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115589/glass-town/9781787330832.html
There is more about the author here and sample pages on her website: https://www.isabelgreenberg.co.uk/glass-town
This book is all very useful and inspiring for my ongoing Bronte inspired ImagiNations game. I am currently about halfway through this pleasingly hefty full colour hardback graphic novel:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/gaming-the-bronte-family-imaginations-of-glasstown-angria-gondal-and-gaaldine/
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN, 23 March 2020
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Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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I am glad you have some diverting reading on the go. Funnily enough I was in Glasgow a few weeks ago ,saw it in a bookshop and had intended mentioning it to you but forgot. I thought it was well produced and looked interesting. I am looking forward to seeing more of your Bronte Inspired gaming.
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Thanks for the thought, Alan.
It arrived a few weeks ago, however I have been saving it for the other side of the Woking weekend.
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Looks good Mark, I’ve added it to my wish list.
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It’s an interesting one that I hope simplifies for me the Glass Town stories. The Glass Town Wars by Celia Rees is also highly recommended.
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I read the Celia Rees book when you mentioned it before – good fun.
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Will look this one up, thanks!
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Great stuff – enjoy!
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Found it thru my library on the Hoopla app. The illustration and text is sketchy and not suited to a tablet, unfortunately. The style reminds me very much of the webcomic Hark! A Vagrant.
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Glad
You tracked it down. I like the style, others may not, and I look forward to rereading it again in the next few days. I shall have to keep an eye out for Hark A Vagrant. My local library has free digital subscriptions to graphic novels, comics, magazines (no modelling hobbies) and ebooks or audiobooks. Good for a Lockdown.
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I’ve found two wargaming-related books on Hoopla so far – One-Hour Wargames by Neil Thomas, and a history of toy soldiers by Luigi Toiati. Several of Thomas’ books are available for Kindle, but sadly not all – I am intrigued by his book on wargaming Europe 1815-1878, as that covers a lot of ground I’m unfamiliar with.
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Neil Thomas’ One Hour Wargames is a modern classic, a 21st Century Featherstone? It is valued I think by many more for the Scenarios than his simplified rules. It is already shortened to OHW, one sign of its rapid acceptance.
I have not read his others but find I OHW a good starter set for a couple of boxes of plastic figures and simple terrain. A good complement to Stuart Asquith and Charles Grant’s simple rules and scenarios books.
The Toiati book: I have read mixed reviews – I would be interested to see what you think.
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[…] me. Serendipity struck me when Mark, the Man of Tin’s recently mentioned Isabel Greenberg’s Glass Town. I had already picked up the Oxford World Classics collection of the Brontë’s juvenilia on […]
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