Tome Thursday: Brotherhood

 

Hello there!

 

Yes, we're still knee-deep in the Star Wars universe today.

 

We probably will be for the remainder of the week, actually.

 

I sometimes like taking a theme and running with it throughout the blog posts that I'm doing for a certain period of time, and seeing as I covered the Star Wars Celebration on Tuesday, I figured a Star Wars book wasn't going to go amiss either, right?

 

Right!

 

So I decided to pick a recent release that I'd been looking forward to, given my eternal love for anything Prequel related.

 

And I will say ... I mostly enjoyed it, if I didn't start looking in too deeply.

 

Once I did, it turned a little bit upside down, but you'll see there at the end, so keep reading.

 

Because Mike Chen's Brotherhood is up next.

 

Tome Thursday: Queen's Hope

 

Hello everyone!

 

May the Fourth be with you!

 

Ahem.

 

Haha, it's actually already the fifth on my end BUT, given that the blog post is only a day late from the actual date of it, I figured a Star Wars-themed book wouldn't be completely off-topic, would it?

 

So here we are.

 

When it was announced that there would actually be a third one in this particular lineup, I was very excited.

 

Mostly because it's about pretty much my favourite character of the galaxy.

 

However, of the previous two, I only REALLY enjoyed the first one, while the second was floundering a little, or so I felt.

 

So while I was excited, I was hesitant, and turns out my hesitation proved correct. But let's stop waffling and look at Queen's Hope, shall we?

 

Talkie Tuesday: Star Wars The Clone Wars

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..."

Hello everyone!

For my last movie review before I take a mini summer break, I decided to pick something near and dear to my heart, and also incredibly hilarious while I'm at it.

That, and I was so disappointed yesterday when trying to watch a movie and being unable to get into it that I really needed something else for a pick-me-up, and Star Wars usually works wonders for that kind of thing!

Of course, by this point, we've already looked at the plot of The Clone Wars, or at least its introductory movie, from pretty much every angle, so this isn't going to be a super extra detailed bit of post.

We all know what happened.

We've seen it and/or read it.

So why not go right ahead and dive into the movie then?

Saturday Snippet: Cartoon

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*video not mine

Tome Thursday: The Clone Wars

Hello everyone!

It's time for yet another book review, and I managed to finish up what I consider, at the moment, to be the best of the Star Wars movie novelizations so far.

I haven't read the lot of them YET - still working on it, there's a heck of a lot! - but I've crunched through most of the Prequels and gotten to the point where I'm actually missing a book from the lineup and have to download it before I can get to the one that a very good friend of mine has wanted me to read for ages now.

I have to admit, this all depends on what I feel like reading, of course. Some days, Star Wars just doesn't cut it for me because of some weird mood I'm in.

But I've been doing pretty well recently and I'll probably take a mini break and read something else before diving back into the galaxy far, far away, so I figured I would catch you all up on my current reading material!

Karen Traviss and her novelization of The Clone Wars are definitely worth the read, however you look at it.

Tome Thursday: Star Wars Hachette

Hello everyone!

This week's book blog post is a bit of a cheat, all things considered, but I didn't want to just not post anything since I will be out and about most of the day. I wanted to give you guys SOMETHING.

So I remembered that I'd read a very short book, more novella really, or a sort of children's version of a story, a couple of days back.

Once again I seem to be on a Star Wars binge as I've discovered The Clone Vars novelization, and I have to say it's the very first novelization so far that I want to have as a physical copy. Karen Traviss really seems to understand the characters well, she gives scenes time to breathe, and doesn't just tell the readers, she sort of shows them, too.

What I didn't know prior to reading Traviss' book (which I am right now) was that another one I had, in French, was basically the same thing - only condensed!

The Biblioteque Verte version has the Clone Wars animation cover, and even though it's French, I could absolutely see and feel all the puns thrown back and forth between the characters.

Tome Thursday: Kenobi

Hello everyone!

Welcome back to a galaxy far, far away!

I'll admit that I sometimes need to take minor breaks in between reading genres, because on occasion they can become too much. This is what happened with my interest in the Star Wars books franchise, because I had pretty much gobbled down at least four or five books in a row, and then felt like I needed a bit of a breather.

So that was what I did.

And eventually picked up the one book I was probably, almost THE most excited about.

Okay it's a toss between this one and the one about Padmé. They're pretty much my favourite characters from the entire saga.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character that links both the Prequel and the Original trilogies, the bridge we need to understand just what happened and how things connect. Sure the villains are also there - but it's Kenobi that a lot of people connect with the most.

So the book titled directly after him is obviously a must-read.

Talkie Tuesday: The Force Awakens

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..."

Hello everyone!

To my absolute delight I finally, FINALLY had the time to sit down and watch the movie I've been gunning for since the moment they released information about it going into production. Not only have I been a huge fan for years now, but it's a sort of return to my childhood in a way, or at least to my teenage years since I think that was when the (then) last movie came out. 

Of course I could have gone to the cinema and seen it there, and I'm actually bummed that I didn't make it, because it would have been totally awesome, but then again, in the privacy of my own room, I totally had the privilege to comment out loud and do all the usual fangirl things haha!

And obviously, I was going to do a LOT of those, for reasons I have already stated.

Let's just be honest with ourselves and say that Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens was probably the most anticipated movie of last year's winter time, as much as Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice is for this year.