Draginon

Yeah it’s one thing when it’s a tie in novel, Last Shot is a tie in for Solo, but it’s another when it’s just a random book, like Leia Princess of Alderaan forcing in her first meeting with Holdo just to tie it into Last Jedi. With the trilogy ending there should be no more silly tie ins allowed from now on but the Story Team will still try to meddle though because of upcoming movies like the GOT writers trilogy. At least the EU weren’t restricted, just making small adjustments when the Lucasfilms continuity people noticed a contradiction with either the original 6 films or with another book (like if someone wrote Chewy in but set the book after Chewy was killed off) I’m hoping that with 9 coming that means we'll finally get books that focus on Finn and Rey (Poe be damned since I don’t get his appeal)

Well I’ve heard about this one fact from several different authors that have done the Disney Canon. They will come up with an interesting story for the film characters but the Star Wars Story Team will nix it or severally change it so it doesn’t resemble the original concept at all. When it comes to ones without the film characters as the focus the Story Team will always force in some connection to the films even when it doesn’t make sense (one example is a book that came out prior to Solo and 8 where they had to mention a character or place from those films despite the story having nothing to do with them). Pretty much the Story Team are the ones making the books a mess since they have way less control over the comics since Marvel is in charge of that and allow fresh ideas involving the film characters.

One department is making my job a chore again. It’s the C&I (curriculum and instruction) department. They are redoing the required reading novels again. I kept trying to get questions answered but my mother, who’s my boss, kept waving it away like it wasn’t important and that I was making a big deal out of nothing. Here’s the points I kept trying to get answered or managed to resolve: 1. Half of the novels from the previous school year are no longer on the list so do they want them in the campus resource rooms or on the shelves at central gathering dust. 2. A few of the ones added to the list are on these literacy carts C&I just had to create last year so I wanted to know if we will be pulling those off. When that came back as a big no I then tried telling them that if we have books that are on both the carts and as required reading it’ll confuse the teachers and the campus coordinators. When that still didn’t concern them I just couldn’t believe the stupidity. I just know that the carts will get even more messed up with this happening. 3. One of the novels listed was Benjamin Button, a short story. I immediately asked if a short story would be long enough to do for the 9 weeks and the one who sent the list to me didn’t even know the book was a short story. How can they pick stories for class and not know a novel from a short story? Pretty much the way my mother acted she practically implied I should just sweep my concerns under the carpet even though these are significant concerns to ask so that my job doesn’t become a headache and nightmare.

Butcher is also now working on the new Dresden book after going through a tough few years

Playing Lego Dimensions PS4 edition and encountered the oddest glitch I’ve seen in a lego game. I was at the Joker boss in the Simpsons level and the bot was stuck in the t-pose which makes progressing the fight impossible. Replaying the level to see if that fixes it otherwise I might have to redownload the files.

Picked up Ghosts of the Shadow Market by Cassandra Clare since I’ve been curious on her Shadowhunters series but I wanted to start with the closest thing that comes to being a standalone without needing to read the main books since I want to make sure I like her style and characters before taking the plunge.

This happened on Friday but I was too tired that night and yesterday to post this. We’re in the middle of taking the old English curriculum off the campuses and at one campus we were loading the boxes onto a pallet in the box truck (the type U-Haul uses) and shrink wrapped them once it was high enough. Well when we were driving away, to put the truck away at the main office, we stopped at a red light and heard this huge boom from the back and hoped it was just some of the loose boxes. Well when we arrived at the office we opened the back up and the entire stack of boxes had indeed fallen over. What happened was the guy helping us wrap the shrink wrap hadn’t pulled it tight around the back. I took a look at the ones further inside and saw multiple boxes had busted open meaning on Monday when we have to drop the boxes off to take to recycle we will have to redo everything we already did.

It is such a great read, it just gets a bit long in the tooth on a couple plots later on in books 6-9/10. I’ve been trying to get as much as I could on the Disney Canon and the EU (I don’t consider the Disney Canon part of the EU to be honest) and I’ve only read one book so far. That one was From a Certain Point of View where A New Hope was told from the POVs of the other characters that appear in the background or just characters who happened to meet/interact with the major players. The stories there I’m not 100% sure are supposed to be serious since one focuses on a gay romance with Grand Moff Tarkin who isn’t even hinted at swinging that way in every other piece of material available and another has a Force sensitive Tuskan Raider which in both continuities shouldn’t be possible. At this point the Disney Canon is just more an authorized fan fiction line so that’s how I’m viewing everything that’s not Episodes I-IX and the Clone Wars stuff.

Just finished Fairest. Wow, Levana was such a twisted person. She had every opportunity to be a sympathetic character (her sister turning her into a burn victim, wanting love, becoming a mother) but she squanders every chance by forcing her husband into marrying her with deceit and manipulation at the age of 16, forcing a new nanny to kill her niece and later having her husband killed so that she can marry the emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth. Anyway onto Stars Above, the short stories showing the backstories of the heroes!

I keep hoping for some very British Pokémon like something to do with tea, the weather and even one themed around the kilt/tartan since the regions since Unova have Pokémon that fit very well with the real world counterpart.

It was sad reading who died that first time reading. I’m not a “read a 800 page novel in 1 day” person but I read that final book in 2 days. Don’t know how I managed that. WOT was a long read for me. Took me a couple years to actually get to the Sanderson ones, mostly because 1. I needed a breather a couple times during all that 2. by the time I reached Fires of Heaven, the start of the longest summer, I was going through summer myself so it was not fun to read about the heat 3. The ‘middle’ books were quite slow to read through. I couldn’t believe how long that one chapter was myself when I looked at the table of contents. I couldn’t believe that there was no place to split it up into multiple chapters.

I finished my Critical run of Kingdom Hearts 3. Boy it was rough at the beginning (Toy Box was the worst!) then got easier before getting hard for the final boss fights. Putting that away until the DLC arrives.

I’m dreading getting to that chapter since Lady’s death got to me and deaths don’t normally make me more than pause for a few seconds (when I read Hedwig’s death in Harry Potter I didn’t even register it until a couple paragraphs later)

More the second.

Has anyone put a book down, either during the reading or after finishing, because something in the pages you just read was a little much for you to continue going at that moment? So far I have two. The first was a couple different moments from A Game of Thrones. I’m currently on my second which is Fairest by Marissa Meyer. When reading the other Lunar Chronicles books you know Levana was married to a guy named Evret and that she loved him very much. Hoo boy it’s worse than that since she’s manipulating him, brainwashing him, wearing his recently deceased wife’s face and forcing him to sleep with her (if you catch my meaning here) and that’s before she marries him. I’m at the point where she’s broken him down enough to force him into the marriage and it only took her a couple weeks to do it. This book was written so that readers could understand and feel sympathy for Levana but it’s made me more horrified of her if that’s how she treated the only person to show her kindness. Oh and during all these scenes she’s 16 so she’s a devil child as well. I’m going to keep reading this book (it’s only 222 pages and I’m literally halfway) since I want to know what happens to her sister Channery and her death, how she went through with trying to kill her niece and how she started as queen.

Wooloo is such a cute sheep. Wasn’t expecting a dandelion Pokémon but it would’ve been more interesting if they took dandelion literal where it was a lion with a dandelion head for its mane. That bird is awesome looking! The legendary wolves are okay though they look interesting when you ignore the obvious sword and shield *roll credits* Not a fan of the giant Pokémon aspect but I do find the whole Gyms are sporting events neat. Did find it interesting that the champion looks like a football player mixed with a prince. I was expecting a queenly woman as champion (seriously we need someone old as the champion for once.) I love that the professor is an older woman and she looks both sweet and stern at once. Was getting tired of professors that looked young and hot. It’s kind of interesting that all the names characters so far have botanical names.

Rothfuss seriously needs to finish this book. I’m waiting until this is released before I even start reading them.

Yeah, family vacations are more of a headache to deal with than when I’m trying to figure out stuff for myself.

Just finished Winter (book 4 of The Lunar Chronicles). That was so good and the heroes definitely earned their ending. I’ve read so many books where the ending was satisfying all the way to meh and most leaning on the ‘did the heroes earn it?’ direction. The heroes were all so great to read, see them grow and fall in love. Obviously Cinder is the main character but each of the girls (Scarlet, Cress and Winter) are just as important to getting that happiness. Cinder finally defeating her aunt, Scarlet being a big sister to Winter and not caring what Wolf looks like after being altered, Cress and Thorne getting over the romance hassles and Winter just being her own crazy lovable self by refusing to use her Lunar gift and using it to protect the guy she loves from a crazy guy who scares her shitless even though using it would make her worse. It was also so sweet when Winter volunteered as a test subject for the Lunar suppression chip so that she can finally be safe and happy within her mind and not worry anymore. Next up will be Fairest, the backstory novella for Levana showing how she became so cray-cray and a tyrant.

He did his own thing on singing the songs while keeping the spirit of Elton John. To be honest Taron is one of those actors I tend to forget about since I was curious if he was in any other film and was surprised that he was the main character of Kingsman since I’ve seen that movie. He was also the gorilla kid from Sing where he also sang an Elton John song. One positive of this film is they didn’t try to cover up the worst parts of Elton’s life at all like (putting this in spoilers for R rating and if you don’t know much about Elton’s life)

This is more a headache thing than a bad day thing. My mother is making planning vacation an unnecessary pain once again. Anytime we do plans she makes it a huge headache to settle on stuff because she always asks double questions (as in I give her the answer but she treats it as not the answer and rewords her question that boils down to the same thing) and questions me on everything like I’m an idiot despite looking at the item in question. In this case it was figuring out what time to book for afternoon tea at the Grand Floridian at Disney World after getting off the Disney Cruise (our trip goes Food & Wine Festival at Disney World the day before going on a week long cruise followed by a couple days at Universal Studios). First she questioned me on the breakfast times, breakfast being 6:45 & 8:00 depending on your seating and she wants first seating despite it being inconvenient for breakfast, because she insisted that first seating was 7:00 and second seating was 7:45 until I looked it up just to show her I remembered the times. Then she argued with me on the easiest way to our hotel at Universal Studios after dropping my dad off, he has to get back to work after the cruise so we have to drop him off at the place where he drops off his truck, and the place we go to isn’t near a freeway since we have to get off the 528 toll road and use regular roads to get there. The point she argued with me was why not use the 417 toll road since that’s the one we used last time. I kept telling her that 417 is easier when heading south towards Disney World while 528 is easier when heading north towards Universal and thus 417 is going the long way around, especially since the drop off is about halfway between both of these. The kicker is I was telling her this while looking at a map! The final thing she argued on was the time to book for the tea since we have to account for this: time to eat breakfast, getting off the ship and through customs, getting on the shuttle back to the car, drive from the port back to Orlando to drop my dad off, drive to Universal to get our room settled and drive to Disney for the tea. She kept talking about doing the 3:00 time because it’ll take too long to get through customs while my argument of what takes too much time was the time getting off the freeway to the place for my dad since the last time he gave directions that lasted an hour from the time we exited the toll road when it takes about 50 minutes to get there from the port. When we finally talked it through on how long everything might take, assuming no traffic on the roads, it turned out a 2:15 time would be more ideal since that still gives wiggle room so that we can settle our room and not be rushed getting to the tea if traffic happens. Something that should’ve been a couple minutes had taken half an hour because she’d rather argue and not listen to me. An example of her not listening to me did happen today where we needed to get from one freeway to another freeway and she asked me if the upcoming ramp was the one we needed and I said “no, stay to-“ and she took that ramp before I could finish because she heard me say “yes”. Luckily I knew how to get to our target freeway but it would be nice if she didn’t mix up yes and no when I say them.

Saw Rocketman today. It was pretty good and I don’t usually watch biopics.

These books are so good! They did not go how I expected them to and I don’t even care. The romances are fun to read (coming from a non-romantic guy that says something) and seeing how much similarities/divergence from the fairy tales is neat. Almost through Winter and can’t wait to read the prequel and short stories.

Went to B&N since I got my mail coupons and a Memorial Day coupon in my email. The haul was this: Fairest and Stars Above by Marissa Meyer (the last of her Lunar Chronicles books), Adventure Time The Final Seasons (the final three seasons were put together on dvd) and Doctor Who: Resolution. My mother got Call the Midwife Seties 8, Wonder and a pop of the Queen.

@AonEne Only on weekends since I can actually wake naturally at a decent time. I hate doing end of year inventory so much since it takes so many days just to do the first run of returns, one campus always takes multiple days no matter what and this year was no exception. Also every year my mother always tries to do the multi-day campus in the morning and a smaller campus in the afternoon and it never works out since multi-day campus always keeps us there until after everyone else is gone, even if on day one we get 75% done and day two is just 5 rooms we still end up there all damnation day. Today we only had one building there to do and the majority is just empty classrooms and we didn’t get started until after 10 because my mother just had to go over some emails that took her 2 hours (this is when she starts complaining we should’ve already been done there and at another campus), and then by the time we finish with the room so that I can start the find report it’s after 2 (yes it took 4 hours to get to this point) and I spent the next 2 doing the report since the system we use does not eliminate any zeroed out items so I have to do that manually. By the time I was done it was 7/7:30. Didn’t eat lunch until around 3:30 so that shows how bad this day got. Overall this job is the reason I hate summer so much, besides the heat of course.