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Getting to know some new authors in a familiar setting

Canto Bight (Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi) by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller

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There won’t be any spoilers for Star Wars in this review.  This book also contains no spoilers for the movies.   Canto Bight is a new location to the Star Wars universe.  It is a planet that is relevant only because on it rests the city of Canto Bight.  Canto Bight, the place, is Las Vegas and Dubai but more extravagant.  Canto Bight, the book, is a collection of short stories follows a several minor characters, heretofore unknown to the greater Star Wars universe. So, I love the Star Wars new cannon audiobooks.  I never read the books from the […]

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3/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

faintingviolet gave me this book right before Carrie Fisher died, and I’m only now not too sad to read it.

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

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I’ve really been trying to make an effort in 2018 to read books I already own. Currently the amount of books I own but haven’t read, including in audio and e-book, numbers around 221. faintingviolet gave me this book in the CBR book exchange in December 2016, two weeks before Carrie Fisher died. Even though I was beyond excited to finally have it in my possession, since it had been on my TBR for years and I’d never gotten around to it, I just couldn’t make myself read it. I was still too sad that she was gone. But I’m now in a […]

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2/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Young Princess Leia backstory, thumbs up.

Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray is three for three with Star Wars books. I’ve been reading Star Wars books for over half my life now (!) and she is probably the best, most consistent author of these books that I have any experience of. She brings such a nice sense of nuance and character depth. And she really gets Leia, as she proved in her adult novel, Bloodline (which is probably my favorite Star Wars book), and as she proves again here in this young adult take on the character. Leia, Princess of Alderaan, takes place three years before Episode IV, as Leia […]

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1/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Short and Simple Expansion on a Couple of my Favourite Star Wars Characters

Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka

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A short and sweet little story to expand on a couple of characters we see all too briefly in the Star Wars cinematic universe: upon watching Rogue One, I immediately fell in love with Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe, the two “guardians” of the Temple of Kyber in the city of Jedha. They act like an old married couple, one a little gruff and the other full of mysticism and hope, joining our heros in their quest to bring hope to the galaxy in defeating the empire. But you’ve all seen Rogue One and know this by now right? Well, […]

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1/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

“It’s All in the Past, so Who Gives a Sh!t?”

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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At first glance, the quote I referenced in the title seems counterintuitive. I quite loved Carrie Fisher’s anecdote/diary/book about her time on the first Star Wars set, but the quote seems to brush the past aside. Who cares about how Carrie Fisher didn’t really want to be in show business? Who cares that she was not only Princess Leia, but also a young adult still trying to find her footing in the world? Who cares that Carrie Fisher was one of the few women on the Star Wars set? Who cares about any of these details? What’s refreshing is that the sense […]

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1/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Escape now. Hug later.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation (Star Wars Disney Canon Graphic Novel) by Chuck Wendig

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Okay, did you read the hilarious tweet conversation this summer between Chuck Wendig and Sam Sykes? It’s here. I’ll wait while you read it, because it’s a damned delight of an exchange between two writers who love their work and appreciate genre and enjoy happiness. And then there was another one, this fall. It’s here. Again, I’ll wait. Okay. So, the above was the first I had ever heard of either Wendig or Sykes, and I instantly became a more-likely fan of both because of these interactions. Amazing, the power of social media, am I right? I digress. I became […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:49 |

40 stories for 40 years.

From a Certain Point of View by Various

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What a fun ode to one of my favorite movies. Seriously, who came up with this idea? It’s great. For the fortieth anniversary of Star Wars (now ponderously titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), forty authors who are Star Wars- or nerd-adjacent take side or peripheral characters from the original film and write short stories from their perspectives. These stories are all told in chronological order, from the death of the captain of the Tantive IV all the way to the awards ceremony at the end of the film where we get POV from one of Leia’s fellow Alderaan survivors. The affect is […]

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12/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:113 |

May the Force be with you

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.” Carrie Fisher is an icon. Even kids today know that white dress and the hairdo, made famous in a movie forty years old. Having been introduced to Star Wars at a young age by my brothers, I’ve found that I know the films so well that I can’t even look at them critically. They’ve just always been a part of my life. I’ve also always liked Carrie Fisher, whether it was in Star Wars or When Harry Met Sally, and […]

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12/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:9 |


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