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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: Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure

 


Movie Target is one of three short young-reader novels published in 2015 before the release of the movie The Force Awakens, that centers on the main characters from the original trilogy. This, of course, is the Leia-centric novel. The prologue and epilogue are set sometime before the events of The Force Awakens and have tie-ins to that movie (we find out Leia is a general in the Resistance, fighting the First Order). The book starts with Leia dictating her memoirs and then flashes back to a mission she took part in, set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. She is torn between wanting to help Han and being patient while Luke gets intel on what Jabba has done with Han and continuing to help the Rebels. Luke makes what amounts to a cameo appearance in the story and we get some insight into how his and Leia's relationship was changing after the events of Empire.

The hardcover version of the book is just over 200 pages long. I will not give away the main story of the novel, but it basically is set around the intel the Rebels received about the second Death Star being built around Endor and Leia's participation in the plan to keep the Empire occupied while the Rebels planned the assault on the station. Even though it falls into the young reader's category of novels, it is good enough that adults can easily enjoy it. I definitely recommend it.

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