RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s Comments

RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

Note: RJ - Slayer of Trolls is not currently a member of this group.

HALFWAY THROUGH!

#26 in 2022:

I finished the third book in the Tales of the Flat Earth series


Delusion's Master by Tanith Lee
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third book in what has become one of my all-time favorite Fantasy series


The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

I finished:


Reversible Errors by Scott Turow
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading two books for various group reads


And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

and


The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon

#25 in 2022

I finished:


Reversible Errors by Scott Turow
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading two books for various group reads


And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

and


The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon

I finished the pulp-era Science-Fiction tale


Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and in a completely different vein I started reading


A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

#24 in 2022:

I finished the pulp-era Science-Fiction tale


Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and in a completely different vein I started reading


A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Also, I finished the excellent "weird" short story collection


The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the critically acclaimed science-fiction collection


The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

#23 in 2022:

I finished the excellent "weird" short story collection


The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the critically acclaimed science-fiction collection


The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

I finished the basis for Hitchcock's noted film


Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Science-Fiction classic


Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown

#22 in 2022:

I finished the basis for Hitchcock's noted film


Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Science-Fiction classic


Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown

I take some books with me to work and I try to read a little bit before work (I drive there early to beat the traffic) and a little more during breaks and lunch. Then I read a little bit more before bed, sometimes while I'm watching a baseball or hockey game on TV. It adds up to about 2-3 hours per day, but not all at once. Spacing it out helps me focus - my mind wanders when I try to sit an read for long hours at a time.

I finished Tolstoy's novella which argues for moral purity through abstinence


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the French psychological thriller, which I understand inspired a movie by some fellow named Hitchcock


Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac

#21 in 2022:

I finished Tolstoy's novella which argues for moral purity through abstinence


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the French psychological thriller, which I understand inspired a movie by some fellow named Hitchcock


Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac

I finished the first book in the Dave Robicheaux series:


The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the sixth installment in the Kindle County series:


Reversible Errors by Scott Turow

#20 in 2022:

I finished the first book in the Dave Robicheaux series:


The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the sixth installment in the Kindle County series:


Reversible Errors by Scott Turow

I finished the science-fiction classic


I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading my first Tolstoy


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

#19 in 2022:

I finished the science-fiction classic


I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading my first Tolstoy


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

I finished the (translated from Spanish) ultra-violent


Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fourth book in the Vampire Chronicles


The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

#18 in 2022:

I finished the (translated from Spanish) ultra-violent


Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fourth book in the Vampire Chronicles


The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

I finished the third part of the four-part steampunk fantasy series The Books of Babel:


The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third installment in the Tales of the Flat Earth series:


Delusion's Master by Tanith Lee

#17 in 2022:

I finished the third-part of the four-part steampunk fantasy series The Books of Babel:


The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third installment in the Tales of the Flat Earth series:


Delusion's Master by Tanith Lee