RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s Comments

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

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#53 in 2021:

I finished


Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

and I also started reading


The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Christine! Your CAPS LOCK is stuck! ;-)

Congratulations TerryJane! :)

I met my 2021 reading goal of 52 by finishing this "roman dur" (hard novel)


Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second in the IQ series


Righteous by Joe Ide

#52 in 2021

I met my 2021 reading goal of 52 by finishing this "roman dur" (hard novel)


Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second in the IQ series


Righteous by Joe Ide

I gave up on


Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Rating: 1 star (DNF)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston

I gave up on


Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Rating: 1 star (DNF)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston

I finished the philosophical short novel


The Fall by Albert Camus
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Mind: blown

#51 in 2021:

I finished the philosophical short novel


The Fall by Albert Camus
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Mind: blown

I finished two books that were both very good but couldn't have been much different:


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Fall by Albert Camus

and


Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

#49 and #50 in 2021:

I finished two books that were both very good but couldn't have been much different:


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Fall by Albert Camus

and


Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

I finished the second book in the Bernie Gunther series:


The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon

#48 in 2021:

I finished the second book in the Bernie Gunther series:


The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon

I finished the short story collection:


Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 edited by C.J. Box and Otto Penzler

I also finished an excellent audiobook - a hard-boiled detective story set in pre-WWII Berlin (but very violent, be warned):


March Violets by Philip Kerr
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

#47 in 2021:

I finished the short story collection:


Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 edited by C.J. Box and Otto Penzler

I finished the post-apocalyptic Science-Fiction novel:


Wool by Hugh Howey
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the literary classic:


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

#46 in 2021:

I finished the post-apocalyptic Science-Fiction novel:


Wool by Hugh Howey
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the literary classic:


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

I finished the Pulitzer Prize winner:


Beloved by Toni Morrison
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the story of an expectant mother-to-be:


Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

#45 in 2021:

I finished the Pulitzer Prize winner:


Beloved by Toni Morrison
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the story of an expectant mother-to-be:


Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

I finished the second book in the Jesse Stone series:


Trouble In Paradise by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the second book in the hard-boiled Bernie Gunther "Berlin Trilogy":


The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr