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The Boy from the Woods -Harlan Coben delivers again!

Ok so this blog is titled FreeWheelin’ Book and Music Safari and so far in 2021 I have not written about any books! The reason I haven’t written about any of the book I’ve been reading is that I’ve been writing about my 30-day folk music challenge.

However, I have been reading, all be it at a slower pace than typical during the winter months. So far, I have finished three books. I finished The Boy From the Woods by Harlan Coben yesterday afternoon. It’s book number 3 for 2021.

The book is a stand alone novel and not part of the Myron Bolitar series. However, it does feature criminal lawyer Hester Crimstein, who has made appearances in many Bolitar books read more

Balancing Reading and Writing And Riley Sager’ Home Before Dark

Reading, Listening and Writing – How Can I Balance It All ?

What I am discovering over the last few days is that as I write more and more posts, I am reading less and less. And I am not thrilled about that trade-off.

Saying that, if I read four more books in the remainder of November and December. I will have read 52 books in 2020. That of course is one book a week and I think that’s pretty good. However, my goal was 60 books and I would like to get a little closer to that goal.

So over the next few days I’m going to need to set up a daily schedule that provides time to read and also write posts. read more

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

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 read. I know I checked it out of the library one or two times and started it at least once. However, I guess I started another book and never returned to Stranded. That ultimately led to it being returned it to the library unread. The reason I mention this book is that it is the book in which Ryder Creed and Maggie meet. Additionally, the Stranded case is mentioned in Hidden Creed. read more

A Scourge of Vipers – Bruce DeSilva September’s First Read

So I’ve recently been recapping the six books that I read in August. So far I’ve only written about two of the books. Well, today I finished my first book I have read in September and the 40th book I’ve read in 2020. Now, rather than not writing anything about books until I’m caught up writing about the books I read in August, I thought I’d write about book 40 while it’s still fresh in my memory!

The 40th book I’ve finished this year is A Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva. It is book four in DSilva’s series featuring newspaper reporter Liam Mulligan. read more

The Last Odyssey Takes Me to Greenland the Mediterranean and More!

36. The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force # 15) James Rollins

So this is the second of James Rollins’s Sigma Force thrillers I’ve read in 2020, While I was waiting for The Last Odyssey to become available from my library, I read The Bone Labyrinth, which had been on my TBR shelves for a long time. I’m actually glad I read The Bone Labyrinth recently because a character from that book makes a repeat appearance in The Last Odyssey. So everything that she was Involved in was still fresh in my memory! read more

My August Reads Start in Spain with Peter May’s A Silent Death

While on many days in August it was too hot to run, I did get a lot of books read! I read six books in August and while that’s not a lot for many readers it’s a good amount for me.

One of the questions I like to ask, when I’m summarizing the books I’ve read is: “where did my reading take me?”. Well in August it was to a variety of locales, including outer space. My first stop was southern Spain!

A Silent Death – Peter May

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I requested this book from my library in January of 2020. Thanks to Covid 19 and the subsequent closing of the library, the book didn’t become available until July. Which is why it is an August read. read more

Dead Famous and Revolver Road Start July Right!

Revolver Road by Christi Daugherty and Carol O’ Connell’s Dead Famous are the 29th and 30th books I have read in 2020. I have previously read books written by both authors. Revolver Road is the third book in Daugherty’s Harper McClain series, which is to date is three books long. While Dead Famous is book 7 of the Kathleen Mallory series from O’ Connell.

Revolver Road – Christi Daugherty (Harper McClain #3)

Revolver Road is the third book from Daugherty to feature newspaper reporter Harper McClain. And while it was a good read, I didn’t think it was as good as the first two books, The Echo Killing and A Beautiful Corpse, books one and two respectively. read more

Book 1 of 2020 Barry J Hutchinson’s The Search for Splurt

So every once in a while I need to take a break from all the murder and mayhem that I read about. Sometimes that break is taken even while staying in the genre and I’ll read a book that’s part of a mystery series like a Stephanie Plum book from Janet Evanovich or one featuring Parnell Hall’s Stanley Hastings or Cora Fenton the Puzzle Lady. But the fist book of 2020 was an outer space adventure from Bruce J Hutchinson Space Team:The Search for Splurt.

About The Search for Splurt

The Search for Splurt is the third book in Barry Hutchinson’s Space Team series. The series features Cal Carver a petty-criminal accidentally turned space adventurer. In this episode Cal leads his motley crew on the Shatner on a suicide mission to find his shape shifting friend Splurt. read more

The Chestnut Man Ends My 2019 Reading Year.

So I ended 2019 having read 53 books. That’s 19 books from my unrealistic goal of 72 books. I only read three books in December. The first bookI read was Brad Thor’s Use of Force. That was followed by Torpedo Juice from Tim Dorsey. The last was The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup.

I have read books by both Thor and Dorsey previously, more from Thor than Dorsey. In the early 2000s I read the first 7 books in Thor’s Scot Harvath series. Use of Force is book 17 in the series that now consists of 19 books. read more

Torpedo Juice from Tim Dorsey is one Wild Rumpus!

Torpedo Juice (Serge A. Storms #7)

Tonight, I finished Torpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey it is the fifty-second (52) book I have read in 2019. And while I will finish well below the goal of 72 books read I set at the beginning of the year, I will have at the least read one book a week for 2019. Which I think is always a great accomplishment.

Book 52 was Torpedo Juice book seven (7) in the Serge Storms series from Tim Dorsey. I reality wasn’t planning to read Torpedo Juice at this time. In fact, I am in the process of reading three other books. Two of the books are mysteries The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup and Only to Sleep from Lawrence Osborne. The third is a thriller Games of Snipers from Stephen Hunter. However, the other night I decided with all this impeachment stuff and the abhorrent behavior of Trump, I needed to laugh more! I felt all this murder and mayhem was adding to my unhappiness. read more

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