MAY 28:   METAPHOR FOR WHAT?

I’m about 20 pages from the end and am thinking that this entire story might be a larger metaphor for… something. I’m also thinking maybe Naomi was captured, vanquished, and is riding these last chapters out in a dream, on an ice sleigh, pushed by happy youths. I’m either going to be hit with something momentarily, or I’m in the process of being hit by something. My antennae are on high alert to recognize what is (are) happening. The deer knows something is up with the cool, clear water. I’m studying the ripples to figure out what it is… and you’re not giving me enough ripples dear author! I’m straining to keep the melody in my ears, because the white noise of… what… entangled realities meeting concentric with ours for a moment… is getting in the way. Or something. And they’re supposed to but why and how. It’s a wild flavor I’m walking into the finale with. Zero complaints in these musings.
Last, if this gets made into a movie, 10/10 want to chip my card in as a cameo during the bubble-interrogation scene. Just lemme torque the wrench. Ignore the sounds, it’s good for you!

May 29  WHEN IN DOUBT, QUOTE A REVIEWER

James, Since you don’t know where the book is heading, I thought you might want to see a few lines from a recent review.
“What sets The Logoharp apart is its fusion of lyrical prose, philosophical depth, and narrative experimentation. This is not a fast-paced thriller, but a cerebral, emotionally resonant exploration of what it means to resist when the future itself is pre-written….”  from  https://readershouse.co.uk/the-logoharp-by-arielle-emmett/
J: !!!:quietly removes ‘Batman swoops in’ from his bingo card::

JUNE 22:  FLAVORS OF A 9-COURSE DINNNER

Doesn’t feel right to call it a ‘review’ – I’m just one guy! But here’s my google review of Logoharp, without spoilers but still offering an overview of the general flavors of this 9-course dinner.

YUM

The #Logoharp is ‘science fiction’ by the same criteria that music is language.

Attempt to define the prerequisites of music and you’ll grasp premature, towards a fractal that eludes every parameter by which it is perceived and categorized. Distilled to their common denominators, both language and music are ‘vibration’ – filtered through flesh-and-bone circuitry to be catalogued imperfectly as memory. (Often times ‘imperfect memory’ is an intentional and self-inflicted pursuit). Our human programming is resolved to extract meaning from any memory we can create.

At the intersection of the physical (vibration) and the spiritual (music), you’ll find The Logoharp; a kaleidoscopic echo of Man’s Search for Meaning in a base reality where the prerequisites for ‘meaning’ have devolved into the remnants of somebody else’s dream and not from this era.

Arielle’s novel explores the dialectic prerequisites for a meaningful life. Naomi’s story plucks the notes of life, love, hard choices, fate, mortality, duty, honor, pleasure, death, and rebirth. Naomi searches for her forte beside a resplendent ensemble of quantum physics, advanced robotic augmentation, Historical wave interference, and an impossibly-stacked future where true resolution, sans coda, feels so far away.

Read it once for the story, twice for the lore, and a third time to catch the overtones that are dancing on the outer reaches of your literary cochlea.

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About James Posedel: 
A bandleader, educator, pianist, and piano technician from Asheville, North Carolina. His swing-era ensemble, Posey Royale, just recorded their second studio album that is scheduled for release in August, 2025. During the daylight hours, James operates Posey Piano Tuning, a full-service piano repair shop in Asheville.
James has a wide thirst for life experience. He served as a clinical mental heath counselor at the University of North Carolina Asheville for 10 years. His research on pitch perception, working memory, and second-language phonological production has been published in The Psychology of Music, an academic journal.  He has toured the United States playing swing music for dancers with an assortment of bands: The Rhythm Serenaders, Queen Bee and the Honeylovers, and Posey Royale.
James leverages his weight to make good music accessible to everybody through live performance, music lessons, and recording projects. He strives to live by a famous musician’s words: “It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.” James’ music is effused with an effervescent joy that comes from showing folks how it’s done – and that they can too!