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.

#44 in 2021:

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

I finished the second half of the duology started by Blackout in the Oxford Time Travel series


All Clear by Connie Willis
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the "authorized" sequel to the late Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain


The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson

#43 in 2021

I finished the second half of the duology started by Blackout in the Oxford Time Travel series


All Clear by Connie Willis
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the "authorized" sequel to the late Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain


The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson

I finished a non-fiction book about D-Day, which might be the most momentous day in 20th century history:


D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Cosmos by Carl Sagan

I also started reading (getting a head start on an upcoming group read)


Beloved by Toni Morrison

#42 in 2021

I finished a non-fiction book about D-Day, which might be the most momentous day in 20th century history:


D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Cosmos by Carl Sagan

I also started reading (getting a head start on an upcoming group read)


Beloved by Toni Morrison

I finished the Cold War thriller


Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second Jesse Stone book


Trouble In Paradise by Robert B. Parker

#41 in 2021

I finished the Cold War thriller


Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second Jesse Stone book


Trouble In Paradise by Robert B. Parker

I finished the last of the three-volume collection of original Conan stories:


The Conquering Sword of Conan by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fifth book in the Discworld series


Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

#40 in 2021:

I finished the last of the three-volume collection of original Conan stories:


The Conquering Sword of Conan by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fifth book in the Discworld series


Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

#39 in 2021:

I finished the Aussie crime thriller


Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It started off pretty good but fell apart towards the end.

#39 in 2021:

I finished the Aussie crime thriller


Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It started off pretty good but fell apart towards the end.

Karin wrote: "Christine wrote: "IT’S BOOK LOVERS DAY!"

This is the first year I remember hearing about this :)"

Around these parts, every day is Book Lovers Day. ;-)

I finished


The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started


Wool by Hugh Howey

#38 in 2021:

I finished


The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started


Wool by Hugh Howey

I finished the second Mike Hammer book


My Gun Is Quick by Mickey Spillane
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a Cold War thriller


Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean

#37 in 2021:

I finished the second Mike Hammer book


My Gun Is Quick by Mickey Spillane
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a Cold War thriller


Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean

I finished the "Planetary Sci-Fi" anthology


Old Venus edited by George R.R. Martin and the late Gardner Dozois
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Joy D wrote: "I was fortunate to receive an arc for this book, which is scheduled for release in Sept 2021:
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - 5 stars - My Review
..."

I'm looking forward to this one. All the Light We Cannot See was excellent.

#36 in 2021:

I finished the "Planetary Sci-Fi" anthology


Old Venus edited by George R.R. Martin and the late Gardner Dozois
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor

I read this a few years back along with my daughter's high school junior high literature class. I probably won't re-read it but I'll follow the discussion.