2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Finished Foreigner which is one of the 2011 books I want to clear out of my TBR list.

Done with The Sun Is Also a Star and, WOW, what a good book. Romance type as it is, I still really enjoyed it. New choice for best book of the year.

Done with A Fine Boy for Killing, which was for the TBR challenge as well as the serial challenge. And Midnight in Europe which is also one for the serial challenge.

Greg wrote: "Done with The Sun Is Also a Star and, WOW, what a good book. Romance type as it is, I still really enjoyed it. New choice for best book of the year."

Well crud I was talking myself out of reading it before I read your post. I started the first few pages but have so many others I'm trying to fit in.

Joan wrote: "Greg wrote: "Done with The Sun Is Also a Star and, WOW, what a good book. Romance type as it is, I still really enjoyed it. New choice for best book of the year."

Well crud I was t..."

I hope you get a chance to read it and hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Done with Disclosure for the 2nd quarter clear the shelves challenge. It also clears one more of the books on my TBR list from 2011.

OK, for June's Fiction to Reality challenge I am going to read The Blooding (finished 26 June) and Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring.

And now I have finished Assassin's Apprentice which is a book for many of my challenges: Serial Reader, TBR Challenge, and Top Ten Faves.

Finished The Fault in Our Stars, a good book but really sad. Definite tear jerker.

Have read Follow the Free Wind by Leigh Brackett. Interesting story about the Mountain Man Jim Beckwourth.

OK, finished Empire of the East and now remember why I hadn't read anything by Fred Saberhagen in decades. This was boring. Had it been the individual books for the trilogy I would not have read past the first book. Tedious, rambling, and pointless.

Finished The Blooding, which gives me 1 of the 2 June challenge books done. Still got 4 days to finish the other one.

Quarter 3 Triathalon Challenge: I will read 25 books.

A Hero of France, read 4 July.
Oath of Fealty, read 8 July.
Last Carpathian Wolf read 14 July.
Blood and Honor read 18 July.

4/25

For the July War and Peace Challenge:
Blood and Honor read 18 July.
Last Carpathian Wolf read 14 July.
Oath of Fealty read 8 July.

Finished The Clan of the Cave Bear for another top ten fave completed.

And finished Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring to complete the June challenge.

Finished A Hero of France, book 14 of the Night Soldiers by Alan Furst and the last book. I have finished this series which has taken 5 years to read.

Oath of Fealty is done and, finally, off my TBR list (originally listed in 2011). This book fulfills numerous challenges, including the challenge for July.

I have read Last Carpathian Wolf. This gives me one for the TBR challenge, 3rd quarter challenge, and July's.

Finished Blood and Honor which fits several challenges. Finishes my July challenge as it is more than 500 pages, adds to my quarter 3 challenge, gives me U for Uruguay for the A to Z challenge and also 1 for the serial challenge.

OK, finished Bard's Oath and the Dragonlord Trilogy.

And have finished The 5th Wave which completes my Top Ten Faves challenge.

Finished Cowboys and Aliens just for giggles.

And I'm done with An Officer and a Spy. A book in my search for those not part of a series to fill out the annual challenge.

I love to read books by Harold Lamb but was disappointed in Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One, not because it was bad but because it was a collection of short stories. I had thought it was a novel and, after the difficulty of acquiring a copy, I found short stories. But, like anything Harold Lamb wrote, it was worth reading.

Read a short Stephen King novelette: The Gingerbread Girl.

Finally finished The Protector's War. It amazes me that if you don't finish a book when its in the queue for the challenges, how hard it is to get back to it. I had to send this one back to the library unfinished and it took a couple of months to get back to it.

Finished The Accidental Time Machine. This was actually a pretty good book even though much of it was wishful thinking. Entertaining non-the-less.

Finished Tek Kill, book 8 in the Tek War series by William Shatner. Only one more to go in the series.

Done with The Husband. Need a Dean Koontz work in there every once in a while.

2012: The War For Souls is a horrible book. This is one of the worst books I have read in a long, long time. A real stinker. And its going on the Yuck List. Third one this year, amazing. You do uncover some stinkers in these challenges.

I have just finished The Third Secret which proved to be an exceptionally good book.

I have finished Lord of Emperors which finishes the fantastic Sarantine Mosiac duology by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Finished The Bridges at Toko-ri. Can do a short one every now again. First time I've read a book by James Michener.

Have finished reading The Black Company, book 1 of the series of the same name. Besides a book 1 for the serial challenge it is also one of the books left for the TBR Randomizer challenge and some others.

Am finished with Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station which was quite an enjoyable read, as have been all in the series. So, this book gives me X for the A to Z challenge, finishes the September challenge, and furthers some others.

Finished Gerald's Game which gives me another for the TBR challenge.

Just read The Bloody Ground which finishes, for now, the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I say for now because, even though this is currently the last book in the series, I do not think he intends to be finished with it.

What should have been a quick read took much longer. Anyway, done with Kramer's War. Now I can watch the movie.

Finished The Broken Sword though a little late for the 3rd quarter challenge. I will still count it, though.

And done with The Defiant Agents. Another book in one of the many series I am reading.

Finished The Bridge at Andau. I seldom read nonfiction but this was interesting as it looks at the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet Union in 1956.

Finally managed to finish Gibraltar Road. For a short book it took me forever to read it.

And now I have finished Born of Ice. This is another book in a series as well as a love story to finish the October challenge.

Started and finished The Little Sister. Been awhile since I've read an entire book in a single day.

I have finished Last of the Amazons. Not as good as some of Steven Pressfield's books, but worth the read,

Finally finished The Cold Six Thousand. It took me 17 days! Long but good.

I have finished Lavinia for one of the November challenges.

And, only a couple hours later I finish Playback which gives me one of the books for the November reading challenges. I also added the Philip Marlowe series as one I would finish and only need one more.

I have finished Deep Black book 1 of the Deep Black series by Stephen Coonts.