November 2021

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It's that time again!! Time to select another adventure-filled Star Wars book to read.

Poll #26279 November 2021

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What book should we read in November?

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The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott
0 (0.0%)

Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
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Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn
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Into the Dark by Claudia Gray
3 (100.0%)

Please provide 1 or 2 suggestions for December

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[kittywhite]

Tough choice this month, some very appealing choices and I can actually participate now due to time.
I own a copy of all these but voted for Into the Dark only because I need a bit of a push to finally try the YA High Republic books but would be cool with any.

[colls]

It feels like a tough choice most months :)
Glad you can join us!

[colls]

FYI - we read Dark Disciple in April, so I didn't include in on the poll just posted for January. My apologies for not checking that out earlier so you could add another selection :(

[kittywhite]

That’s cool, do we have a master list somewhere I can check? I’ve got some ideas for January but want to see what’s been done before.
(Basically my suggestion was going to be “anything with Thrawn” but knowing what’s been read I can narrow it down to an actual title)

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No masterlist at this point, just the tags.

[kittywhite]

Thanks, this is helpful!

[brokenmnemonic]

I still have a couple of months left on my Marvel Unlimited subscription, so I've started reading the tie-in comics that go with the High Republic books. I'm also trying the comic adaptations of the Dawn of the Jedi comics, and I was considering suggesting one of those books, but based on the comics, I'm not sure if I'd actually enjoy the novels they're drawn from...

Why can't there be a Twilight Company sequel, so that we could read Twilight Company 2: Twilight Harder With a Vegeanec?

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My comic subscription runs out in December and I'm hoping to finish the Doctor Aphra series by then (should get on that for here anyway).
How are you liking the High Republic comics?

Why can't there be a Twilight Company sequel, so that we could read Twilight Company 2: Twilight Harder With a Vegeanec?
would subscribe

Alexander Freed wrote another Star Wars series called 'Alphabet Squadron'. I had it in the poll a while back, I think I'll add it in as my suggestion again for December. :)

[brokenmnemonic]

It's definitely worth reading Doctor Aphra through to the end. When you next get to come to VidUKon in person, you must chat with beccatoria about Aphra :) I like that Aphra is a terrible person, but also understandable in places, and her knack for constantly making things worse for herself...

So far, only the first 5/6 issues of the High Republic series seem to be on Marvel Unlimited; I think they run a bit behind shop releases? The story only really uses a few of the characters from the pervious novel - the Jedi Master who lost an arm, his padawan, a few new characters, and so on. It definitely follows the previous novel, but hasn't really touched on events in the novel, and shot off in a different direction that started out being interestingly creepy in a "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" alien cornfield kind of way. Now that part of the mystery has been solved, it's an ok read, but not a fabulous one. I don't regret reading it so far, but I think it's middling compared to a number of the other comics. I don't like it as much as I do Doctor Aphra or the Poe Dameron run, but I think I like it a bit more than the Force Storm series to date.

I think I've heard of Alphabet Squadron - is that the novel where it's based around a squadron who pilot a range of different types of small craft?

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I hope an in-person VidUkon is in my future - I am definitely hoping to visit Cardiff again. And I would LOVE to talk with her about Aphra :D :D :D

All I know about Alphabet Squadron is that it's set after the original trilogy. Something something something commissioned by Hera Syndulla something something ragtag ace pilots something something. Oh, and written by the same guy who wrote Twilight Company. So sign me up! ;)