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Day 3 – New Musician Challenge – Americana Artist – Michael Kelsh

Harmony Sovereign - Michael Kelsh
Harmony Sovereign  – Michael Kelsh

Last night and this morning I spent so time reviewing both the Roots Music Roots charts and the Euro-Americana Chart. I was looking for some musicians that were new to me. I found several names that interested me. However, when I played a few minutes of their albums , only a couple of them really caught my fancy. This morning though one really stood out. The album was Harmony Sovereign by Michael Kelsh. Read More

New Challenge – The 30-day New Musician Challenge

Hot Mallets - Isla Eckinger

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! Read More

Reading Challenges Update for Mid- April 2018

So far this month, I have finished two books. The first one was Dark Sky the second book in the Keiko series from Mike Brooks. The second was I’ll Keep You Safe from one of my favorite authors Peter May. By finishing those two books I have upped my total books read to 19 books. I am also slightly over halfway through Building the Great Society:Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House by Joshua Zeitz. Read More

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

Don't Look For Me - Mason Cross

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 for six years he hasn’t! Read More

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

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

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. Read More

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

Cutting Edge- Ward Larsen

How to Tackle My March-April  “to be read” pile – Part 1

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. Read More