Star Wars: The High Republic- The Battle of Jedha by George Mann

 Another Star Wars book... it is so hard to keep up with even a portion of them. Let's say a B.

Sci-Fi book # 17- A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

 You know I just remembered that a few months ago I got a free "reading journal" from B&N. And I thought maybe I'd use it but figured that this blog covers pretty much the same function. But part of the point of the blog was to start discussions with people but no reads it. And I've lost enthusiasm for writing reviews for myself. Maybe just keeping track in a journal is the best way to proceed. 

 Anyway, I don't have much to say about A Journey to the Center of the Earth. I enjoyed it even though it was ridiculous. A-

Star Wars: The High Republic - Into the Dark by Claudia Gray

 

Yeah, another Star Wars book. It was okay I guess. B

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

 

There's some part of me that sees Stephen King's bibliography and thinks "I should try and read all of these". But then I see how long that list is. And how it keeps growing. And how many other books and authors there are out there. And then I think I could do it if I always read any new entries and slowly go through the old ones. Anyway... Fairy Tale is the latest and it is pretty good. A bit slow to start but a solid B. 

Sci-Fi Book # 21 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe without having read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently is a bit weird. There is no beginning or end here. It is all "middle". I hadn't read this in at least twenty years and didn't remember any of it- so it was like a whole new book. Hooray. B+

Quest for the Hidden City (Star Wars: The High Republic) by George Mann

 

For a book aimed at kids, Quest for the Hidden City wasn't bad. It tells a decent self contained story about a young Padawan and Jedi on a mission to help out a planet in crisis and rescue some fellow Jedi. Hopefully some of the characters will reappear in the more adult High Republic books. B

Sci-Fi Book # 33 - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

 My goal in 2023 is to knock at least 10 books off of my Sci-Fi reading list. The first is Childhood's End. I had no idea what it was about so I started with no expectations other than that I've always enjoyed reading Clarke. And yeah, I liked it. It starts off with a large fleet of alien ships appearing over Earth and from there everything that happens is fairly unexpected. And the ending isn't entirely dissimilar to that of 2001. A-