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Imogen Heap: Ellipse is fantastic

Imogen Heap’s last album Speak for Yourself immediately lodged itself into my list of top favorites, and her new release Ellipse is headed right up there with it.

She continues to builds songs in clean layers of instruments and vocals with crisp, clear production.

Like Speak for Yourself, every track is different from another and hard to [...]

Hmm.

According to this Readability Test:this website is just under a 6th grade level. I wonder if I should work on my writing a bit?

The Vampire Earth Series – E.E. Knight

I’ve just started The Vampire Earth series and, so far, it’s been good to me. The setting is a post-apocolyptic America that is ruled by the Kurians. The Kurians live off of a beings “living aura”, which they consume by proxy via Reapers: beings reminiscent of the traditional vampire [...]

Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

Another recent read – The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy – Three small books by Terry Pratchett, of Discworld fame. These are children’s books, but entertaining nontheless.

Only You Can Save Mankind – Johnny gets a copy of the latest video game, but the aliens he’s supposed to be blasting surrender and [...]

The Ender Saga

I recently finished Orson Scott Card’s “The Ender Saga”. I’d read Ender’s Game, and Speaker for the Dead, previously. C was listening to these from Audible around the house, and we started Xenocide to pass the time on a trip. When we got back I read the rest of it and the final book, Children [...]

Treason

Orson Scott Card’s “Treason” is a page by page rewrite of an earlier work of his, and a great book.

Tabula Rasa

Deleted all my imported LiveJournal posts and comments. Starting fresh!