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.

I finished reading the Urban Fantasy novel


Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

#23 in 2024:

I finished reading the Urban Fantasy novel


Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

I finished the collection of mostly-autobiographical short stories about the author's time served in Siberian prison camps


Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical collection of reminiscences about his time wandering around in the American West


Roughing It by Mark Twain

#22 in 2024:

I finished the collection of mostly-autobiographical short stories about the author's time served in Siberian prison camps


Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical collection of reminiscences about his time wandering around in the American West


Roughing It by Mark Twain

I finished the pulp crime classic


A Killer Is Loose by Gil Brewer
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fifth Philip Marlowe novel


The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler

#21 in 2024:

I finished the pulp crime classic


A Killer Is Loose by Gil Brewer
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fifth Philip Marlowe novel


The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler

I finished the final installment in the steampunk fantasy series The Books of Babel (which would make a great Netflix series in the right hands, by the way)


The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the standalone fantasy novel


Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

#20 in 2024 (I'm 1/3 of the way to my goal and it's still March!)

I finished the final installment in the steampunk fantasy series The Books of Babel (which would make a great Netflix series in the right hands, by the way)


The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the standalone fantasy novel


Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

I finished Neil Gaiman's first solo novel (actually a novelization of a BBC TV series he was involved with)


Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Clockers by Richard Price

#19 in 2024:

I finished Neil Gaiman's first solo novel (actually a novelization of a BBC TV series he was involved with)


Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Clockers by Richard Price

I finished the second book in the Xenogenesis series


Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first book in the Space Trilogy


Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

#18 in 2024:

I finished the second book in the Xenogenesis series


Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first book in the Space Trilogy


Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

I finished the sixth book in the Easy Rawlins series


Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the pulp noir classic


A Killer Is Loose by Gil Brewer

#17 in 2024:

I finished the sixth book in the Easy Rawlins series


Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the pulp noir classic


A Killer Is Loose by Gil Brewer

I finished the second Kenzie & Gennaro mystery


Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and then I quickly finished the first McNally mystery


McNally's Secret by Lawrence Sanders
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

then I started reading the sixth Easy Rawlins book, which is a prequel to the series


Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley

and I also started reading


Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

#15 and #16 in 2024:

I finished the second Kenzie & Gennaro mystery


Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and then I quickly finished the first McNally mystery


McNally's Secret by Lawrence Sanders
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

then I started reading the sixth Easy Rawlins book, which is a prequel to the series


Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley

and I also started reading


Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

I finished the Science Fiction classic


Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

#14 in 2024:

I finished the Science Fiction classic


Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

I finished the Pulitzer-Finalist


Basin and Range by John McPhee
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose

#13 in 2024:

I finished the Pulitzer-Finalist


Basin and Range by John McPhee
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose