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Jeff Gunhus -SilentThreat – A Wild Ride

So if you’re in a Dollar Tree over the next few weeks and see a book titled Silent Threat buy it! You should buy it because it’s everything that Steve Berry says about this Jeff Gunhus book on the front cover. “With an aplha female herione and a tantaliuzing premise, this hard-edged, gripping thrillermatches wits and wiles, delivering an entertaining romp” Mara Roberts is the female herione and we meet her in the first sentence, which drew me into the book immediately……. Mara Roberts knew the Agency would try to kill her father the day he got out of prison;…

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The Resting Place -Camilla Sten ( Book 30 of 2022)

Now that I am semi back into the swing of writing blog posts, I’ll first try to write about the books that I am currently reading, or just finished. With that being said, I just finished The Resting Place by Camilla Sten and it was really, really good! The Resting Place is Camilla Sten’s second novel. The first was internationally acclaimed The Lost Village. Rights for The Lost Village have been sold to 17 territories around the world including film and TV. And based on The Resting Place I’m sure it’s terrific! In fact I just checked the Ebook version out…

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More Books! After a Trip to Book World and Goodwill! Yeah!

So if you complain about how much someone drinks , you don’t take them to a bar! Likewise for someone who over eats you don’t take them to an all you can eat joint. Finally, if you don’t like how many books someone has you don’t take them to places where they can by cheap books! This is the result when you do…… And it happened this past Saturday when we were babysitting our grandson Oliver. Our First Stop – Book World We made two stops the first was Book World in Cherry Hill, NJ. The store has a large…

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Recapping My January Reads

Ok so I should be writing reviews after each book that I read,  but guess what that ain’t going to happen! I tried twice this year and both times I walked away from the post and never finished it. However, that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped reading. No sir, as of today February 3rd I have read 5 books, which Goodreads tells me puts me on pace to read 60 books in 2022. So let’s recap my January Reads The four books shown above are the second to the fifth book I’ve read this year. The first book I read was…

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William Kent Krueger – Lightning Strike – back to yesteryear!

Lightning Strike – William Kent Krueger. (Read – December 27-January 8,2022) Lightning Strike is book #0 in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger. Lightning Strike is set in 1963, when Cork was a twelve year-old and his father Liam was the sheriff of Tamarack County, Minnesota. While on a hike into the Boundary Waters Cork and his friends make a side trip to Lightning Strike. Lightning Strike was the site of a logging workers camp that was destroyed by a lightning strike.  The Objiwe believed the destruction was an act of their God. When they arrive at the site, they…

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Loren D. Estleman – The Witchfinder (Amos Walker #12)

My third read of 2022 took me back to those thrilling reads of yesteryear. Well, at least back to the 1990’s. When the books of Loren D. Estleman we’re a big part of my yearly reading. Estleman writes both westerns and mysteries. The mystery books feature Amos Walker P.I. and the series was one of my favorites. I read the majority of the first ten books in the series in the late 80s and 90s. The last book I read in the series was book 10 Sweet Women Lie. After that book there was a gap of many years until  book 11…

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David Gordon – The Bouncer a New Favorite!

David Gordon – The Bouncer – (Joe Brody #1) The Bouncer is the first book in the Joe Brody series by David Gordon. The series currently consists of three books with The Hard Stuff and Against the Law being books two and three in the series. The Bouncer is the second book I’ve read in 2022 as well as, the second Joe Brody book I‘ve read,  Against the Law was the first. It was one of my December 2021 reads. About The Bouncer The Bouncer is, of course, Joe Brody, but Joe is not your typical bouncer. After a rough childhood that…

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The Other Sides of My Life

Ok so this is going to be like my blog within my blog. I’m naming it, „The Other Sides of My Life“. It will be about my life, when I’m not reading. Which is surprisingly a large part of my day and maybe the most important. Well, let‘s see! Today, I started with a light 20 minute workout that burned about 200 calories. Then I stopped at Wawa on my way to Trader Joe‘s and had a breakfast sandwich that was probably 400 plus calories. Why I’m Trying to Learn German On the way to Trader Joe‘s I listened to a…

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This Man’s Proposed January Reads…..

  This Man’s Proposed January Reads….. This year 2022, the number of books I have listed on my Goodreads Reading Challenge is the same as 2021 60 books. To reach that goal I need to read 5 books per month. After creating this site and reacquainting myself with authors I have read through the years, I am going to include in the books I hope to read books from those authors. In most of those cases it will be books I have missed in their series. My goal will be to read at least two of those books each month….

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This Man Reads, has Read and will Read – Welcomes You!

Welcome to This Man Reads, has Read and will Read!   My names Ed Karn and I’ve been read many books over the last 35 years. There are 1,400 books on my Goodreads bookshelves and many many on my home bookshelves yet to be read!! The mission of this site is to chronicle those books read and will be read. I began creating  this site to be a new site, where I could write about three of the most important aspects of my life. Books, Music and Fitness. One of my main objectives in creating the site was to design…

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