A Belated Intro

I haven’t posted in awhile because I’ve been busy setting up the new sites for bloggo chicago (TypePad blog, dead link, 11/29/06) and slacktivities (another old TypePad blog, dead link, 11/29/06). I’m still debating over whether or not to move this blog (Cell 2187, my old SW blog on Blogger) as well. For now, at least, I’ll keep it here.

After having answered a post in an online community that discusses the EU, I realized that I haven’t posted here about how I got into Star Wars to begin with. Or rather, how I rediscovered it.

This past winter, I began collecting Star Wars LEGO sets. (I had been collecting Harry Potter ones as well, and how I got into LEGOs altogether is a whole other story.) Last January, I picked up Heir to the Empire and was immediately hooked. I had no idea it was the first of the EU books written.

Of the Star Wars novels lining shelf after shelf at Borders, I just picked it out by chance. Apparently, it was a good choice. I didn’t realize it was part of a trilogy, so when I reached the end, I freaked and had to have the next volume immediately.

Since then, I’ve read the rest of the Thrawn Trilogy; several prequel comics mini-series; all of Jedi Apprentice (I’m a sucker for backstories, plus Obi-Wan’s one of my favorite characters); a few Jedi Quests; the young Boba Fett series; the prequel novels except for the ones still in hardcover (too bulky); the Han and Lando books; the OT; the novels up to Jedi Search except for the X-Wing series; some of the Tales From anthologies; and some of Dark Horse’s Tales series. I’m trying really hard to keep up with the current ongoing Dark Horse series, Empire and Republic.