Armchair Adventure - I'm Addicted

I'm not a brave person.. unless you call raising and dealing with kids brave (and in some circles I think that counts). However, I love a good book with a lot of suspense, action and/or adventure. I love cliff-hangers, shoot-outs, spies, political intrigue, strange and bizarre happenings of things that might have been, could possible happen, or just darn good imagination. And then I had to admit.. I just like books -- as long as the story is written well enough to hold my attention.

If you read, you very likely have favorite authors... authors whose books you hope will be just as good as the one you just finished. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they just aren't. But, if it's a favorite author I'll still take a chance. When I read something I enjoy I will "backtrack" on that author's books: hoping to find earlier books of theirs. This in turn, started me down the path of collecting and searching for books in used book stores and libraries, and then sharing those books with friends, trading them and eventually selling them myself.

Talked myself into it. It was just the excuse I could use to buy more books.... sell some of what I had and use that to find more. But what I have found out is that there's always another book that looks interesting...always another book that someone I know might want to read. And so it went.... Now, I have a website where I can make available books that I've been collecting and books that I keep picking up because they look interesting.

But back to adventure.... one of my favorite authors is James Rollins. I will admit that I prefer his earlier works to the more current Sigma Force series. Here's one of the earlier books that I enjoyed:

Excavation by James Rollins

(you can find it at KCs Kozy Korner)

High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklins nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years.

Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. But where the perilous journey inward ends—in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis—something else is waiting for Sam Conklin and his exploratory party. A thing created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous . . . something terrifying.