Book Review: From a Certain Point of View

From a Certain Point of View by Elizabeth Schaefer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a fun idea: collect a bunch of authors and have them write a tribute album of sorts to Star Wars: A New Hope wherein the stories are told via the eyes of non-central characters. Like most of these volumes, the results are mixed. Some of the stories are daring, original, and well-told. Some, well, aren't. Of particular note for me was Glen Weldon's story of the mouse droid who encountered Chewbacca in the hallways of the Death Star, as much because I enjoy Weldon on NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour" podcast as the story itself.

It was certainly a quick, entertaining read during vacation, which is great because no one wants to be laboring away at tough reading on vacation, right?


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