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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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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A Good Kill from John McMahon. Book 3 in a Great Series!

Ok so I had started this post as a welcome back post, but Ill’ll save that doesn’t the next post let’s just get back to the mysteries. And here’s a good one……. A Good Kill (Detective P.T. Marsh #3) Today I finished A Good Kill by John McMahon.  It is book 40 for 2021 and book 3 in McMahon’s Detective P.T.Marsh series. I read The Good Detective, the first book in the series in December of 2020 and book two The Evil Men Do in February of this year. P.T. Is a detective with the Mason Falls police department in…

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Crooked River – Preston & Child – Pendergast is Gold Again!

If you’ve read some of my past blog posts you probably know that I am a fan of mystery and thriller series. Some of those series I have been reading religiously for 20 or more years. Others I have read several books, stopped a lost track of the series. The Agent Pendergast series from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is one of the later. I read the first two books in the series Relic and Reliquary, which were terrific. Then I read several more books in the series. I also enjoyed those books. However, through the years other books always…

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Thoughts of the November Man lead to Series I Miss!

Thoughts of The November Man and Three Missed Series  So the other day while I was straightening up, I came across one of my old book journals. The journal covers the years from 1992 to 2000 (roughly my 40s). Anyway, when I was looking at the journal, I also for some reason checked my Goodreads’ bookshelves. I discovered  none of the books from 1993 were listed. So I  started out to shelve the books. Book No. 8 for the year was Burning the Apostle  by Bill Granger. It is the 13th and final book in Granger’s November Man series. The first November…

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Dark Sky -C.J. Box (Joe Pickett #21)

I have been reading c.J. Box‘s  Joe Pickett books for a long time and Dark Sky the 21st book in the series is in my opinion one of his best! About Dark Sky In Dark Sky  Joe must lead an elk hunting trip for a famous tech mogul. Steve Price, better known as Steve-2, the founder of Aloft and the social media platform  ConFab. Steve-2 wants to track, kill and dress an elk. Needless to say things don’t go well almost from the beginning. As the hunting party begins the hunting party are being watched by the Thomas  family. Seems the father…

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Finally a Post! Romeo’s Way Book 22 for 2021!

Ok so it may or may not be obvious but I am not having an easy time restarting posting to this blog. I have started countless posts only to not finish them. Frankly, I really don’t know why. Part of the reason may be that I am being overly self-critical. I keep telling myself no one cares or even likes what you write! Additionally, I think of  the vast quantity of blogs and say to myself, “why do you think anyone is going to visit your blog?”My answer is always the same – I don’t know”. Then I decide to…

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Ragnar Jonnason -The Darkness the Start of a Great Series!

The Mist is one of the four books I have planned to read over the next four weeks. I knew it was part of a different series from Ragnar Jonnason  Rupture the last of Jonasson books that I’ve read. Rupture is part of Ragnar’s Dark Iceland series, while The Mist is part of the Hidden Iceland series. .What I didn’t  do before  I checked The Mist out of the library was check what number it was in the series. When I did check I discovered It’s book number three. A while back I had checked out the electronic version of The…

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Alex Kava – Hidden Creed (Ryder #6) Her Best Yet?

Hidden Creed - Alex Kava

In Hidden Creed (Ryder Creed #6) -Alex Kava Ok so I am not a dog person, we have always had cats. Having said that, Alex Kava’s Ryder Creed series makes me realize how many cool things dogs can do that cats can’t or won’t do! Hidden creed is book number 41 for the year. It is the sixth book in the series and may be the best yet! I have been reading Alex Kava’s books since 2005, the year I read the first Maggie O’Dell book A Perfect Evil. Strandedll (#11) is the only book in that series I haven’t…

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