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**The Last Flight of the Starleap** – Simon Panneton – @spanneton on X

“Ghosts, after all, cannot mount daring rescue missions, they cannot pilot spaceships, they cannot fight, and they cannot save their loved ones, no matter how badly they may want to.
But I could, Ellie will say, if you show me how…”

**When I Grow Up I Want to be A Chair** – Ryan Rae Harbuck – @RyanRaeHarbuck on X

“Her story is not about a chair. Her story is about her strengths and how they rose out of her instinctive vulnerabilities.“

**Watercolor Dreams** – Book 1 of Jake Moriarity series – R. G. Ryan – @RGRyan777 on X

“Jake Moriarity…a lost soul in a desperate search to find this lost girl. Moriarity can save her, but first, he has to find her. And the only thing he has to go on is like a watercolor painting that has been left out in the rain with all the colors running together.“

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I’m an avid reader. I love to get lost in a book – a world different from mine – a place to escape and live in another’s shoes for a while. I have several favorite authors and a good collection of a bunch of their books. I re-read them in an ongoing basis, adding to my collection if my favorites are still with me and writing, treasuring the worlds and characters they created if they’re not.

Rarely I find new authors who speak to me. Somehow in the past year I’ve found THREE – Simon Panneton, Ryan Rae Harbuck, and R. G. Ryan. I found them on X and follow them – and have actually exchanged messages with them. I’ve found them to be caring and interesting people, in addition to writing books I love. Isn’t that amazing and wonderful?

I’ve read the three books I’ve listed above and highly recommend each of them to you. I’ve provided a link to each book so you can find them easily on Amazon. Each will touch you and leave you changed – enriched – MORE.

Go ahead – dive in!

There is a group of 6 books on Amazon comprising the Jake Moriarity series by R. G. Ryan. You can click on the link above to go there, but I have to warn you. If you enjoy strong, interesting people who confront scary situations, risking life and limb in order to save people in bad situations and right grievous wrongs in doing so, you may become addicted, as I have.

Jake Moriarity is a complex man. He insists that his work is ‘finding people,’ rather than the labels people would like to use, such as ‘private detective’. He’s very skilled and smart, with a special ability to see a crucial bit more than normal people might in a given situation, making the difference between success and failure. He’s a loner, but is very close to a chosen few and their interactions will make you tear up.

R.G. Ryan is a good writer. He crafts interesting stories for these wonderful characters. He is witty, with interesting turns of phrases. He has a strong sense of the ironic, making me snort sometimes from the sarcasm in one breath, then becoming quite touched a sentence or two after that. (My favorite lines in #6 are, “Weeping ensued. Treysi cried as well.”)

I just finished #6 and have downloaded #7. I follow him on X (the former Twitter). He told me that “Here Be Darkness”, #9 should be out by the first week in June, and that he started #16 a couple of weeks ago. I keep reading several books in-between treating myself to one of his because I don’t want to run out. :0)

Try him -if you don’t mind adding an addiction.

May 7, 2024 · 10:16 am