So, it's 2007 and I thought I'd try an experiment this year. I'm a huge fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. And while I don't claim to own all the books and comics, I come pretty darn close. And I'm really big on keeping things in chronological order - my DVD shelf seems completely disorganized to anyone else, but everything is exactly where it should be chronologically.

So with all this in mind, I thought I'd try and read the Star Wars Expanded Universe IN ORDER, or at least as close as I can get to it. This will no doubt prove difficult due to the fact that new material comes out every month, much of it scattered across the SW Timeline from one end to another. This not only places some forthcoming new releases behind what I will have eventually read, but also increases the amount I have to read. Considering my current page count comes in at 49,581 pages, this is obviously going to take some time.

I'd like to think I could get away with doing this in a year - all of 2007, from January 1st to December 31st. However, I know for a fact that this most likely will not happen. Life has this annoying habit of getting busy at times, and to pull off getting through just what I have now (not including the wealth of new SWEU material to come out in '07), I'll need to read something like 135 pages a day. Some days that will be easier than others - for instance, anytime there's a large block of SW Comics put together, 135 pages will fly by. However, other times - including some EU Authors whose works are tough to slog through for various reasons - 135 pages a day will seem more like 135,000 pages a day - it's just not going to happen.

But, I figured I'd document this little adventure as I went along, and where better to document such a thing than in my very own Star Wars Blog. Now, I'll warn you now, this is my first Blog. I'm not a Blogger, I've never been much of a Diary keeper, and this may be only interesting to me. Along the way, I'll give brief little reviews of what I'm reading and my feelings about certain things about the EU. You'll very quickly learn my favorite EU authors and my least favorite as well. You'll learn a lot about how I see the EU fitting together, and probably a little about me as we go along. I apologize for that last right now. Then again, for all I know, I'm the 3,931st person to do just this and no one will care. Who knows?

So, if you're still reading this, join me in my little voyage from the ancient past of the Old Republic to the distant future of the EU, hitting all the high - and low - points along the way. May The Force Be With You.