Star Wars: The High Republic - Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older

 Another Star Wars book to check off the list. It was okay for a kids book, but I'm curious for kids that read it and haven't read Star Wars: The Rising Storm if it makes total sense. B

Sci-Fi Book # 23 - Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Have you ever revisited something you'd read and enjoyed as a youth and and on a second reading just totally hated it? Well that was my experience with Stranger in a Strange Land. How did I like this book so much when I was 19? And I wasn't all that surprised either. I had placed the very same copy I read nearly 30 years ago on my "to read" shelf probably three years ago and just never felt motivated to read it. It was "next" for quite some time. Maybe I thought the whole free love and free your mind aspect of it was subversive or something back then. But the thing is that it is actually kind of sexist and homophobic. And for being a book about a man raised on Mars way too much of the book is taken up by a supporting character (that is somehow a super rich author, doctor AND laywer) spouting the opinions that are very obviously Heinlein's. Ugghh.. I had this as 5 stars on Goodreads before.... how embarrassing. 

And one other thing bugged me. And this is something I remember thinking as odd from when I first read it and this time just could not get over it - no one in the book seems to be the slightest bit interested in the fact that an entire alien civilization was discovered on Mars at the beginning of the book. There's some discussion if the Man from Mars has some type of ownership of the planet in a legal sense but that's it. And there's another Heinlein book still on this list! arhhh! C

Star Wars: The High Republic- A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland

 There's just so many of these High Republic book... and they only started like two years ago. This one is okay for what it is - a middle school level adventure. But now at least by reading all of the side novels the whole picture of The High Republic makes a bit more sense. B

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.