The Quirkz Handbook

Quirkz Handbooks are now a series! 

The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games

Beer and video games! The only thing more fun than either of them is both of them together. Aaron Rath, a game creator and homebrewer, brings you this book of short essays covering more than forty years of gaming, beer drinking, pop culture, and life experiences.

Funny and engaging, these essays pair a beer and a video game with a curious insight, a poignant moment, or a day of pure delight. Blend Atari and PBR and childhood obsessions, or Skyrim and Hofbräu Dunkel and personal quests. Combine Guinness Stout and Contra, or Rogue Dead Guy and Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. Experience secret grottoes, weird fixations, and the disappointment of unreliable first impressions in the beer and computer worlds.

Quirkz Handbooks are about experience. About living life fully, passionately, with a sense of curiosity, adventure, and enjoyment. They want to celebrate the good things, and for many people beer and computer games are among the greatest things.  

Available now on Amazon:

• Ebook
• Print 

 

 The Quirkz Handbook of Self-Improvement for People Who Are Already Pretty Okay

You’re pretty okay. You’re not perfect, but you’ve got things together, more or less. Sure, some things could be better. Maybe most things, at least part of the time. But you’re not in a bad place, really. You could even slack off a bit and still be pretty okay, or at least simply okay. But maybe life doesn’t quite have the sparkle that you’re looking for, or things have gone a little flat, and you just want to shake things up, keep them interesting, maybe find another level. You don’t know what it is, but you’re certain, somewhere deep down, that there could be … well, more.

• See an excerpt: Introduction
• See an excerpt: Day 6 - Prune

The Quirkz Handbook is available in digital format on Amazon, and in print format from most major online retailers.