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Catching Up- What’s Been Happening – Part One

<h5 style=”text-align: left;”><em><strong> An Attempt at Catching Up!</strong></em></h5> Ok so the question before me today is – “How do I get back to blogging again after taking a month or more off?” I think the way I need to do it is to first try to catch up with what’s been happening on my Life’s Safari over the last two months and then create some challenges for the rest of the year. Basically, there are maybe four aspects of my life that I blog about: the books that I read, the music that I listen to, the ways I attempt to…

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Loner by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Everything You’d Want in a Nordic Mystery!

NSo over the last several days,, after finishing Steve Hamilton’s<strong> Dead Man Running</strong>, I have finished two more books. The first was <b><u>Loner</u></b> by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. It is her debut novel and will be book #1 in the Oslo Mysteries series. About Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Hildur was born in Iceland but is currently living in Norway. Although, spending most of her adult years at the University, she’s been writing ever since she was a little girl and alongside Medical studies and a Master’s in Engineering, has also taken a year in Creative Writing. Loner was written in Iceland and…

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Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight is Back!! Yeah!

  Books From Two Favorite Authors – Steve Hamilton and William Kent Krueger Arrive!   Back in July, I wrote a post to both remind myself and to let readers know that books from three of my favorite authors were being releasedt in August. The three authors,whose books were being released on August 21st, were Karin Slaughter, William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton. Thanks to the post I remembered to go to my library’s website and request the books. At the end of last week, the books from William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton became available. My hold position for…

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An Update – August Reads After the 2018 Booktube-a-Thon

<h5><em><strong>August Reads After the 2018 Booktube-a-Thon</strong></em></h5> So August just blew by. I started the month in a reading frenzy, as I participated in the 2017 Booktube Tube-a-thon. A seven-day event with seven challenges presented concerning the seven books you are reading in the challenging. I completed the challenge having read five of the seven books in the seven-day period. I finished August reading four more books. That brought the number of books I’ve read in 2018 to 44 books. And kept me on pace to reach my goal of 65 books for the year. However, since finishing Burning Angel by…

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Recapping EKReader’s  2018 BookTube-A-Thon Challenge

<h5><strong><em>Recapping EKReader’s  2018 BookTube-A-Thon Challenge</em></strong></h5> I have yet to write  about the books I read during the  2018 Booktube-a-Thon. So here they are…… 1. A Book Decided by a Coin Flip… The Overlook by Michael Connelly. Over the last three years Bosch the Amazon Prime TV series has been one of the few tv series that my wife and I watch. I like Titus Welliver’s Harry Bosch more than Clint Eastwood’s. For some reason though I have only read a couple of the books. However, that may change after reading The Overlook.  I really enjoyed the book and every tome Harry…

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New Mystery Releases From Slaughter, Krueger and Hamilton!

<div></div> Coming Soon New Mystery Releases From Three Favorite Authors So I’m circling August 21,2018 on my calendar.  Tell us why you say? Well maybe not. Anyway,  that magical day will see three new mystery releases from  three of my favorite authors. Karin Slaughter – Pieces of Her   The first of the  three Mystery Releases is a new standalone from Karin Slaughter Pieces of Her. From Amazon What if the person you thought you knew best turns  to be someone you never knew at all . . . ? Andrea Cooper knows everything about her mother Laura. She’s knows she’s…

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Santa Fe Trail – New Native American Flute from Douglas Blue Feather

Hey All! I will try to post later in the day the list of the 13 albums that I will be trying to listen to this week. I made the list from my Release Radar on  Spotify. The list has a lot of new albums from musicians I like, so I can’t wait to listen to them. First New Music from Douglas Blue Feather   This morning though I decided that the first album I was going to listen was going to be Santa Fe Trail. The latest release from Native American flute player Douglas Blue Feather and guitarist Danny Voris…

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EKReader Picks His Booktube-A-Thon Challenge Books

<h5><em>2018 BookTube-A-Thon Challenge Book Selections</em></h5> So I’m a 66 year-old man and until yesterday I had never heard about the world of booktubers. The reason may be that the majority of them are young women to whom I could either be a father or grandfather. Anyway as I was exploring  I ended up finding Ariel  Bissett and her BookTube-a-Thon 2018. My understanding is that the BookTube-a-Thon is a seven-day event that includes seven challenges designed by Ms. Bissett. The participants read books from their “to be read“ (TBR) pile that meet each challenge. Then they create YouTube videos chronicling the…

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New CDs From the Princeton Record Exchange – Yeah!

While we were raising four kids my wife and I rarely spent money on ourselves. So when it came time that two oldest boys started to buy CDs,  I was thrilled when we found Tunes Used CD store in Marlton,N.J. At the time they had bins and bins of  cheap used CDs. Thanks to the fact that my taste was slightly different than their typical clientele my CD collection skyrocketed. I found albums from a ton of Americana artists that I couldn’t find anywhere else, at prices I could afford!! Texas music artists like: Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jack Ingram and…

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Book 2 – Other Worlds Reading Challenge – Way Station – Clifford D Simak

The other day I finished <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>Way Station</strong></span> by Clifford D. Simak. It is the second book in my June-July  “Other Worlds” while Reading Challenge.I didn’t visit any “other worlds” in the novel, but there are beings from other worlds in the book. Way Station – Clifford D Simak   Way Station by Clifford D Simak is based on the premise that there are millions of sentient being throughout the universe These beings travel from world to world via transporter  like machines. In order to travel to far reaches of the galaxy it is necessary to make frequent stops…

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