Xepherus Reads

    Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,    Now that you have your blank versio n of this Reading Challenge, it is my turn to fill in the books. Of course as my reading year progresses I may change some of the books that I assign to the challenge. All books that I read will be highlighted in bold , and my tallies will be updated.   Remember, you may also read books not in a category. There is a place below to add them. A running total is displayed at the beginning of the Reading Challenge.   Challenge dates are January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 ************************************************** Updated December 3 , 201 7 Category books read: ( 1 7 /50) Books Read Not In a Category: (1 9 ) Total Books Read: ( 3 6 ) Xepherus Reads Challenge categories (in no particular order): A banned book- A biography- A book featuring time travel- A book from a popular series that ...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   The thing about blogging is that it should be a fun time for the individual (or individuals if you wish to share your spotlight).  It should come to the writer naturally: you have an opinion or wish to tell people about something that you have tried or done. Blogs come in many different formats. I chose the written word, because I tend to have little time to make videos. As the years began to go forward my free time tended to be shortened due to work and life in general.    My second anniversary blogging will arrive on November 24 of this year. In 2016 (November and December) I blogged 18 times, testing the waters and my writing abilities. In 2016 I was working less hours and I began to devote my time to online business ventures, and I had a great deal of time to read and review what I had read. My blog posts swelled to 145 for that year. But once again my career in medicine has shifted, and I was ...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !   T he first book that I reviewed on this blog was Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag. In it I was introduced to news reporter Dana Nolan who had been kidnapped by a serial killer, named Doc Holiday. Surviving her ordeal, she had left her career and returned to her home town to begin her long physical recovery while dealing with PTSD. I had loved the character, and I felt that she was one of the best heroines in modern literature. I wanted to know more. I wanted to know who Dana Nolan was before she met Doc Holiday. Luckily for me Cold Cold Heart was the independent sequel to another book by Hoag, 9th Girl.   9th Girl is the fourth novel in Tami Hoag's widely popular Liska and Kovac crime series. It is published by Penguin-Random House under their Dutton books imprint. Introduced in Summer of 1999, the crime fighting duo have solved dozens of crimes all while trying to balance a normal life. Their latest homicide to so...