RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s Comments

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

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I finished my 21st book of the year:


Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille

I finished two more books which brings me to 20 so far in 2020:


Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose


Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

Very impressive, Carmen. Not only have you read a lot of books this year but you've read some really good ones too! Great job!

That's amazing Chrissie! Great job!

Crystal you are WAY out in front of your challenge! Great job!

I thought the same thing about The Gunslinger by the way. I've decided to hold off reading the rest of that series until I've read some more of King's books so I can better appreciate some of the references and cameo appearances.

Wow! Sunshine, your list is so organized! Great work!

And I feel you...my TBR list never gets smaller either.

You're off to a great start! It looks like you've had some great reads so far this year.

Good job Jordan! Keep it up!

I finished my 18th book of the year:


World Without End by Ken Follett
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I finished it! Enjoyed this one a little more than the first one, like I mentioned before. I'll hold off on reading the third one for a while I think.

By the way, has anyone else heard that a fourth installment will be released this year? The Evening and the Morning will be a prequel to the series.

Congratulations Trisha!

I would also recommend a couple book swapping websites. I like Paperbackswap.com and Bookmooch.com. You post some old books that you would be happy to give away and you can earn points to order books you want. All it requires is going to the Post Office to mail books, but if you're not comfortable with that you can print postage at home.

And of course online book companies are still shipping, or at least some of them are. I like to order used books from Amazon, Abebooks, Thiftbooks, or Biblio.

I haven't checked out the Little Free Libraries in my area, but those are also worth checking out. You leave a book and you take a book. The selection is obviously limited but you never know what you're going to find.

If Goodwill or Salvation Army is open in your area they often have used books also.

And heck, if it comes down to it, ask your friends and neighbors if they have any books they can loan you.

Interesting fact: King actually threw Carrie into the trash when it was partially completed (back in the typewriter days, prior to the proliferation of home computers and word processing software). His wife rescued it from the trash and convinced him to finish it.

Enough? There are NEVER enough books. ;-)

I'm about a week away from finishing. How's everyone else doing?

I finished my 17th book of the year, one of the best so far:


The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson

Congratulations SarahKat! Another terrific addition to the best moderator team in Goodreads.

Debra wrote: "I finished this book today and it was just as good the second time around. I can't wait for the next one! Winter is coming! 🐺"

I hope Winter comes this year!

Bailey ✰ wrote: "Is anyone else's local library closed due to the current events? Mine closed before I had time to go stock up on books to read! Thankfully they have an online program where I can borrow e-books and..."

Hi Bailey, my libraries are closed also. I think there is still online content available but I don't do any e-reading so I wouldn't be the best person to ask about that. I have a ton of paper books at home so that's how I'm keeping busy.

Veronica wrote: "Hi,
remote working then? At least you have this book group! I find through these hard times, this reading can help your challenge. ( I also read quite fast. ( Does your daughter like historical fic..."

Hi Veronica. No, my daughter actually doesn't like to read much at all. She's a basketball player and she's sad that she can't go to a gym at all right now. I try to take her out every afternoon to a park to shoot around a little but it's not quite the same.

I like historical fiction a little bit. I haven't heard of Canterbury Papers before. I, Eliza Hamilton sounds a little too romancey for my taste. I don't read much YA at all. I've had Alison Weir, Paragon Hotel, and Gilded Cage on my radar and I'll keep watching for them. Remains of the Day was terrific, I read it about a year or so ago. Thank you for the recommendations.

I actually happen to be reading World Without End by Ken Follett right now. That's the second book in his Kingbridge series, which is historical fiction. I like it a little better than I liked the first book. I'll probably finish it in another week or so and I'll post a review then.