Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure

 WOW - I finished book 3 of 5 in a 5 book trilogy and am wonderfully content.  Yea - "5" does not make a trilogy but it's really a 3 book trilogy and a couple of add-ons  LOL   

Rod - what are you talking about!  

An Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure which is what I believe is the most fun adventure I have ever read.  OH - I never made it through books like The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" as it was too irrelevant.  I like hard science fiction and historical dramas but this?  

 As Patton said  "I do love it so".

This is a review of the first book that I can not say it better so - I copied it. 

"He's done it again!

Shawn has transported us to another time, quickly pulling the reader through a doorway of imagination and adventure.

Not only has he made each step along the way feel new and exciting, but he also expertly tugs on your sense of nostalgia. This is a story that could have been written forty years ago with the great science fiction writers of that time, but it also translates so well into this era that younger readers who don't remember books from back then are still on the edge of their seats, eyes wide open at 3 am as they flip to the next page instead of going to sleep.

A Door Into Time is a great read that ends with a satisfying finish while opening the door (pun intended) to the next volume.

I'm heading over to get in line for the next book.

You should too!"       

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I finished book 3 as it promised to tie up all the loose ends and it did wonderfully!  Everything explained.  BUT WAIT!!  Book four - without revealing too much (Yes Alex does make it back to our time,we all knew he would) 

And then this 

"Alex Hawk spent a decade trying to return from Kragdon-ah. Now he is safely back in the twenty-first century with daughters Amy and Sanda and his loyal, giant dog.

All is peaceful and good until, ten years later, Alex hears an incredible commotion in the basement where the door into time still stands safely behind a brick wall.

The wall has fallen. A giant warrior has stepped through and uttered four words in a language Alex has almost forgotten: "Manta-ak! We need you!"

OMG - I say this LITERALLY - I have chills just reading that last sentence - SERIOUSLY - knowing who the giant warrior is I know this is a BIG deal.  He would never ever come through the door unless it was life or death.  Shawn Inmon has created such a rich tapestry of a distant civilization and the humans are SO REAL.  I know that that "giant warrior" came through the door as a last resort. 

I have never felt this way over a book before - THAT is powerful magic from an real estate dude who quit his job 5 years ago to become a full time author. 

I find his writing so fascinating.   My mom was prolific in writing and I put her poems into a book and published it  "Snapshots Along the Way bu E.V Melotte"  (#17,264 in American Literature (Books)) in the top 20,000 baby!!   and my brother is currently writing an historical western with a TON of research.   ME?  Well fighting dyslexia my whole life slowed me down so I just blog a blog about whatever crap is in my head today LOL

My mom had a bunch of stories about growing up on a subsistence farm. She has a fascinating stories. One about about crawling out her window as a little kid and visiting a group of roving gypsies - I'm still trying to find it in my computer LOL but here is a tiny story - I got a ton of these non-poem"snapshots" I'm putting together. 

"Pa once had an opportunity to join a county crew for a few days work on the roads. Naturally he grabbed a chance to make a few extra dollars. When the job was finished the crew was offered the right to help themselves to all they wanted of a barrel of red clover seed. Pa took a generous share, knowing that red clover would improve our poor soil. He broadcast it liberally over an area that was to become a field after the stumps were pulled.

 Either the foreman had brought the wrong barrel or Pa had misunderstood. He had broadcast turnip seed over the whole field which came up packed shoulder to shoulder . .  with turnips.

That year Pa sold our potatoes, which were a salable crop, and we lived out the year on a staple diet of turnips."

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 Dwight Schrute would be proud    We are slowly typing the stories into digital as all were typed on her light blue Corona typewriter. 

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 I'm back up an running on gambling. BTW - Grinder comes from my old Blackjack days a few decades ago which turned into Texas Holdem which started this whole writing thing for me when Full Tilt Magazine hired me to write online gambling articles which gave me island vacations and a trip across the US to get re-married in a vortex in Sedona. - but I digress.

After I discovered errors with what Scores and Odds dot com was posting I realized that I was using flawed information and corrected them with a few (eight?) emails.  They actually thanked me and are making changes. 

SO - it's been 2 days with corrected numbers which is what I really enjoy reading - numbers.  DJ commented once - "I walked past him and his book was just pages and pages of numbers". 

So - 2 days  up 9.14 units - YEA let's see  average 4.5 units a day for 162 days  729 units  LOL  YEA - that will happen  IN MY DREAMS!   HUZZAH!!  

OK OK rambling.   

BTW - now Mr. Inmon (the author of the book) has me and my wife saying GUNTA as a greeting and  The GREAT on Hulu (an awesome fun series about Catherine the Great) has us saying HUZZAH!! a lot.  Sort of  like Deadwood when we would run around swearing all day. 

ANYWAY - That is about it for today - gotta go to work on numbers  

Have a GREAT week - rain FINALLY coming this afternoon 

OH - no camper YET!!   Gonna cancel Wyalusing on Friday if it is not here.   

Rod