A Place For All My Books

Usually I buy board games with the optimistic thought I'll play them straight away then they sit abandoned on my shelves for months before I finally get to them. With this boardgame I could not WAIT to get home and give it a try with my husband, and despite the fact that it was daylight savings and we should have gone to bed early, I ended up staying up far too late having far too much fun arranging tidy wooden 'books'.

The game play is complex enough to give the game a lot of variety and to make me want to play it again and see how differently it ends up, but simple enough that we didn't need to spend a huge amount of time double checking rules or watching videos. One quick read through of the booklet and we were off (we did make one mistake which gave us a couple of extra turns each but that's our fault for not paying attention to the obvious information).

A Place for all my Books is a bit like a puzzle game, where you have various personal projects and bigger goals to achieve in how you arrange various coloured books in amongst your different rooms of your house. I love the social battery element where you need to take actions to charge up before leaving to visit town and acquire more books, it's such a great element thematically but also in the game play itself. The artwork is gorgeous, the actions all make sense in my brain, and I can't wait to play again. There's also a solo mode that looks really fun which I'll test out soon.