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Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Book Review: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure

 


This is one of the Star Wars young-reader novels written by Jason Fry and published in 2015 before The Force Awakens was released.  The story is set in between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. While on a mission for the Rebellion, Luke ends up on a planet called Devaron, at the remains of a Jedi temple. Similar to the other young reader novels put out at the time, it has a prologue and epilogue, this time with C3P0 telling the story of Luke's adventure on the planet to a resistance pilot (hence the tie-in to The Force Awakens hinted at on the back cover) in the time shortly before the events of the new movie. 

The hardcover version of the book is just 184 pages, and it reads very quickly. It can easily be read from cover to cover in a couple of hours. The book's main theme is Luke trying to figure out how he is going to become a Jedi without anyone to train him since Obi-Wan died. I will not say more than that so as to not spoil the book for anyone who has not read it, but it is definitely written well enough for adults to enjoy. While many of us are still waiting for more novels that lay out Luke's post-Return of the Jedi stories, this is still an enjoyable short story.

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