Hi, all! How are you doing? Tell me, because I really don't know—I've been more than a bit awful at keeping up with my Feedly over the last week or two, and my posting has followed suit. (I did, however, meet my goal of posting three times last week! Yay!)

Fear not, dear follower—I have been reading, but at a much slower pace than usual. I've been getting back into other hobbies, which brings me to today's topic: video games! I have always been a casual gamer, though the ungodly number of hours I've logged in Team Fortress 2 might make you think otherwise. I tend to enjoy games with more of a story (who'da thunk it?) than straight-up FPS, and so when I remembered I had a gift copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in my Steam library, I immediately downloaded it. As I launched it for the first time, I suddenly knew where many, many of my winter hours would be spent. (I mean, I gotta spend my blizzard hours somehow, right?)

I first played the game about three years ago when it first came out, back when I had to borrow my boyfriend's gaming computer instead of enjoying my own. I was much more concerned at the time with completing quests, earning gold, and wrecking some dragons. This time around, I'm immersing myself more in the lore of Tamriel. Having never played the first four Elder Scrolls games, I have plenty of catching up to do!

There are loads of books you can interact with in the game, and more than a few are very-short-story-length (and some even longer). I've only just begun a new play-through, but I've already read a legend of a prince rooting out his double-crossing aides, a super punny erotica, and a bit of wartime history. Many of the books within the game come in multiple volumes, and sometimes you find the second volume before the first. Needless to say, I'm excited to hunt down as many of them as I can. (And, you know, wreck some dragons.)

Where are some unexpected places that you find stories?