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Movies I've logged –

( So it's been like four months... )

And I mean. It's still plague year. I did get my second vaccine on 4/8 (Pfizer) and only relatively mild side effects with the vaccine overall so, I am hoping to get the nerve to do my first hopefully heading into post-covid task of getting a haircut. I've also been wearing my glasses since last March so I'm going to try switching back to contacts to push my mindset forward a little. But you know, it's still covid, everything is still forever uncertain, and so I've been playing a lot of Sims 4 and watching TV.

Which I could talk about but - whatever - this is going to be a Random Star Wars Media post instead, because that's what I got written. In this case two Star Wars novels.


So, first up, Last Shot by Daniel José Older! Which, uh.

...I could not follow what was supposed to be happening in Older's writing. I really can't explain this, other than the times when I'd get annoyed about something usually involving a woman and yeah okay then I might have skimmed a bit, but other than that I was just reading normally? And I literally could not follow what was going on? I don't know, okay I don't generally have this problem, I just had real trouble with Older's style of writing. It didn't even strike me as bad prose or something, it's just that for me I could not follow what it was supposed to be conveying. And finally about 70% of the way into the book, I just went to Wookieepedia and looked up a synopsis, which did help me better understand and follow what was happening, but, well, then we get into spoilers –


( Last Shot, a Han and Lando Novel )

And then next is Zoraida Córdova's A Crash of Fate, the other Galaxy's Edge novel. Beware below for spoilers and also my very unpopular personal opinions on romance fiction.

( A Crash of Fate, or honestly me + romance )

Anyway, I guess on the roll of 'Veronica shares their deeply unpopular opinions about fiction' my next post will be 'Please Stop Talking To Me About Tropes, I Actually Consider Them A Comparatively Minor And Utilitarian Part Of Storytelling.'


I had been planning to write up something about Shadowfall, the second book in the Alphabet Squadron trilogy, but I took so long that I'm now reading the third and final book so uh. I'll just wait until after that. And you know maybe write a review of something that isn't Star Wars