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2024 Book of the Year Award: ‘The Black Company’ by Glen Cook

We lost a dear friend, Robert Armbruster, several months ago after his courageous battle with cancer. Robert was a beloved member of our gaming community, and we shared many joyful years of tabletop adventures together. He was also an enthusiastic participant in a book club that a few of us tabletop RPG gamers founded.

To honor Robert’s memory, we established an annual book club award to celebrate the top book from the twelve we read during our monthly Dicehaven book club meetings. This year’s winner was The Black Company by Glen Cook.

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Two Book Club Prep Tools

“We read to know we are not alone.” — C.S. Lewis

Two key tools I use for our Dicehaven bookclub:

  • I read through “50 Book Club Questions for Any Selection” for ideas on discussion questions for the book we’re reading.
  • I often read using a Kindle on my iPad and I highlight lots of text. What’s cool with Kindle highlights is that afterwards you can login, visit your ‘notebook’ at https://read.amazon.com/kp/notebook and then see and even export everything you highlighted.

Starting a Superheroes Comic Book Club

On my backlog of things to do ‘someday (but not just yet!) is to start a comic book club. This article gives a bit of background on what that can be like.

I’d envision structuring it similar to the Dicehaven book club. You read several comics (maybe 6 or 12 per month?) in a selected series, then get together (in person on via Zoom) and chat about it. Maybe we’d play City of Heroes or a tabletop Supers RPG like Icons after the comic book club meeting.

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Dicehaven Sci-Fi / Fantasy Book Club

We have started a Dicehaven Book Club where we select and read one Sci Fi or Fantasy book each month and then meet for about an hour via Zoom to discuss (and have a private GroupMe for off-line discussions of the books). I thought I’d share the structure of how we (at the moment anyway) plan to organize our club.

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