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Honor Among Thieves: Star Wars (Empire and Rebellion) is a book by James S.A. Corey on the Star Wars universe. The book takes place just after the Star Wars was destroyed, and is mostly from Han's point of view of a mission involving an ancient alien superweapon (which seems to be James SA Corey's specialty). Overall, I liked it. I never read any of the Star Wars novel, and it is fun to see into the space between the movies with characters I know well.

Influent is an interesting edutainment title for learning languages. The basic principle is that you walk around an apartment, clicking on items to add them to your vocabulary list. Then at every ten items, you get quizzed on them, and have to find them and click on them (or on the flight mode, shoot them). The idea is that this works as a more fun version of SRS (Spaced Repetition System) to learn words. And I'd say it probably works, although you do have to remember two things in the game - what the word means and where you can find it at the apartment! There is more to the game than that - there are also adjectives, alternate and verbs associated with objects. You can choose from a few languages (the UI is just in English and Japonese, though), but only the first comes with the purchase of the game - all others must be bought as DLC. Overall, the graphics, sound and music are adequate, and I believe that the learning works well, although of course the words are limi...