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New Challenge – The 30-day New Musician Challenge

The other day, one of the new challenges that I thought I could initiate was the following. The 30-day New Musician Challenge. Each day during the challenge I will search Spotify for a musician whose music I have never heard. Ok so that really doesn’t sound very much different from what I normally do does it? Well, maybe it doesn’t but what the challenge does it gives me some structure something that I can do every day on a regular basis, well, at least for 30 days! Anyway, the first day which was Sunday I actually ended up listening to…

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Don’t Look For Me – Mason Cross (Carter Blake #4)

  Carter Blake finds people who don’t want anyone to find them. For the last six years he  has  been one of those people. The reason why, revolves around Blake’s last days in the secret organization  known as Winterlong. During those last days an American Senator was assassinated and Blake became the prime suspect. In those final days the  Blake contacted his girlfriend Carol Langford and told her that for her safety she needed to go into hiding, too. When she finally decided on that course of action, she sent Blake a four-word note – “ Don’t Look for Me” and…

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Reading Update and Ward Larsen’s Cutting Edge

<h4></h4> So in my last post on Saturday (partially written Friday night) I outlined how I was going to tackle reading the eight books I have checked out of the library. At the time, I stated that I had already started two of the books: Cutting Edge from Ward Larsen and Dark Sky by Mike Brooks. About Ward Larsen’s Books Since then I have finished one of those Larsen’s Cutting Edge. Cutting Edge is a stand-alone book of which Larsen has written several. However, he may be best known for his two series books. One series features former Israeli assassin…

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Tackling The Six Books On My March – April “To Be Read” Pile

<h4><em>The Six Books on My March – April “To Be Read” Pile</em></h4>   So my last post was Part 1 of  2 concerning my library “to be read” pile. Post 2 was to deal with the order I was going to read the eight books that I now  have out of the library. At the time I was already reading two books from the pile, Cutting Edge by Ward Larsen and Dark Sky from mike Brooks. My plan was to read five or more books at a time and to list them according to the date I checked them out…

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Tackling My March-April “to be read” Pile – Part 1

<h3><em>How to Tackle My March-April  “to be read” pile – Part 1</em></h3> So over the last several weeks new books have become available at my library. As a result I have been swapping out books, returning some books read, others have been returned unread. The unread ones were returned because I know I won’t get to them now. The bottom line is I now have eight books on my “to be read” pile from the library. Here is a rundown of the books starting with the books I’m currently reading. Currently Reading I am currently reading two of the books….

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Victim Without a Face – Stefan Ahnhem is a Winner!

<h4><em><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Victim Without a Face</span> – Stefan Ahnhem</em></h4> Victim Without a Face is the first book in the Fabian Risk series from Swedish writer Stefan Ahnhem. I stumbled across this series when I was in the library last week.I found it was, when I was looking through the new releases, and the book , The 9th Grave caught my eye. Once I saw the book was a Swedish mystery novel I figured it would be something I would like. However,  I saw  it was the second book in the series. Since there are only book two in the series, I…

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The Cage by Bob Holroyd – Let’s Everything In!

The Cage – Bob Holroyd -U.K. Multinstrumentalist   Sometimes an album just strikes the right chord with you! Such is the case with The Cage the new release from U.K. master sound manipulator and musical space-shaper Bob Holroyd. The first time I listened to the album, I knew it was for me. Subsequently it has been the soundtrack for my morning yoga and meditations. And every time  I listen to it I hear something new! Holroyd Explains The Cage   Holroyd states the premise behind The Cage is: “Freedom is a larger cage, a longer page, a wider stage. True freedom comes not…

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The Sinister Pig – Tony Hillerman – Another Visit with an Old Favorite

  The Sinister Pig – Tony Hillerman  So I have read almost all of the books in the Jim Chee – Joe Leaphorn series. However, the last Tony Hillerman  book I read was in 2000, when I read  Hunting  Badger (Book #14)!The Sinister Pig (Book #16) in the series has probably been on my bookshelves unread for about 5 years or more. Since one of my reading challenges for 2018 is to read 25 books that are on my TBR shelves and specifically books from series that I have not read for years, choosing The Sinister Pig was a no-brainer. In…

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The Shadow District Begins a New Series from Arnaldur Indridason

<h4><em>The Shadow District – Reykjavik Wartime Mystery #1</em></h4> The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason is book one in his new Reykjavik Wartime Mystery series. Indridason is the author of the excellent Detective Erlender series. However, I must admit that while I have loved the series books I have read, I have fallen behind in the series. As a result, I often forget about the series. Can out say once again “too many books too little time”. Anyway, when I saw The Shadow District in the library and discovered it was book one in a new series It was a no brainer to…

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From New Age Piano to Blues – How Many Genres Does Your Music Listening Cross?

Thoughts About My Music Listening Ok so this morning as I was writing my morning post I listened to Ann Sweeten’s 2016 release Where Butterflies Dance. The album is an album full of beautiful piano music. That album must have finished, before I was done writing because when I went back to Spotify, after finishing writing my post, a different piano artist’s music was playing! I worked around my room I continuing  to listen to piano music. Then I listened to Peter Kater‘s latest release Dancing on Water. Through the years I have enjoyed Peter’s music. Particularly his collaborative efforts with R…

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