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Shane’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Shane’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Shane Joseph
Goodreads Author
Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Influences
Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene
Member Since
December 2008
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Empire in the Sand
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2022
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Fringe Dwellers
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2008
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After the Flood
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2009
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4 editions
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Crossing Limbo: Deep Moments, Shallow Lives
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2017
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Redemption in Paradise
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2004
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2 editions
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The Ulysses Man
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2011
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5 editions
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Circles in the Spiral
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2020
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2 editions
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Milltown
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2019
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In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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2015
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Victoria Unveiled
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The Value of the Arts
When I entered high school back in the old country, when “streaming based on aptitude” began, I asked my dad which of the three available streams should I enter: Science, Commerce, or Arts? Dad replied, “Well, in my time, the bright kids went into Science, the average ones into Commerce, and the duds went into Arts.” So, being a bright student who won most of the academic prizes up to that point,
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Shane’s Recent Updates
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A young woman Sophia, has written a play. It is set in a summer holiday house in Sicily, a place she once spent a month with her father, typing his dictated novel, hanging out alone and observing the women he bedded nightly. Her father, the (in)fam" Read more of this review » |
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| Sputnik II was a Soviet satellite launched in 1957 that vanished into space with its animal cargo, a dog named Laika, aboard, and was never found. The characters in this book embody the spirit of Sputnik – lost souls in a never-ending but never-findi ...more | |
"dude, steinbeck is so much better than kerouac.
and i know that is a totally obvious statement, but if i want to read a story about a man traveling across america and describing his findings, it is going to be a man with a varied vocabulary, a keen ey" Read more of this review » |
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"“And I think it's gonna be a long long time
'Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket man Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone” Rocket Man – Elton John – Inspired by a story fr" Read more of this review » |
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"I picked up a copy of Sharpe's Tiger on a whim, several years ago. I read it and was instantly hooked and promptly hunted up the rest of the serious - some twelve to fifteen books or so.
Cornwell writes a rip-roaring romp through the Napoleonic War in" Read more of this review » |
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| That Forster was critical of the British Empire and its classist, racist, and sexist nature was evident in his novels and this one is no different. Empire rears its ugly head when it deigns to visit foreign locales like India in A Passage to India an ...more | |
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| A Scottish clan story set in Ontario and Cape Bretton, depicting that blood is thicker than water, and that the Scots never really migrated in spirit – they merely annexed this part of the New World into their ancestral homeland to carry on their tra ...more | |
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| This was my introduction to Patrick O’Brian and his Aubrey-Maturin novels, albeit his seventeenth in the series, and I came away with mixed reactions. While the novel captures the spirit of naval life, replete with terminology, technology, and cultur ...more | |
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Virginia Woolf developed this long essay out of two papers she delivered to separate arts organizations in 1928, and given the rambling, stream-of-consciousness nature of this piece I wondered how scattered her delivery must have been. The central arg ...more |
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Heller has written a treatise on the corporate American male of the 1960s, replete with his phobias, neuroses, drives, and fears – a situation that has not changed much except for the moral standards and their enforcement. Bob Slocum is the typical mi ...more |
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“I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or the lethargy of boredom. Hard work is the final solution - it prevents all of the above.' - Voltaire”
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
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“I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or the lethargy of boredom. Hard work is the final solution - it prevents all of the above.' - Voltaire”
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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Richard wrote: "thank you for the friend"You are welcome.
Thanks for the friend invite, Shane. I am ashamed to confess I haven't read the most famous book in history, but your reasons for reading it might make me change my mind! :)
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I really appreciate your including me, Shane. jesse
Marilena wrote: "http://jenniferprado.blogspot.com/Interesting interview! Bravo! I haven't known about James Goonewardene. But I read today :)
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Glad I was able to help. I was a member of the drama workshop that James ran for the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and acted in many of his radio plays. That is the time I got interested in writing
http://jenniferprado.blogspot.com/Interesting interview! Bravo! I haven't known about James Goonewardene. But I read today :)
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Okay - I have added my books to the bookshelf and added some pictures of me and the band(s) performingShane
Hi Shane,I just want to let you know that it's your turn to post in the 'Authors and Their Instruments' Group!
We look forward to it!
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Thanks for adding me, I am always looking for book suggestions!
I'd be honoured. And I welcome your feedback too! - Shane
Thanks for the connection. Have a great week!
Hi Jeannie - thanks for the note. I took a look at your website. Your co-operative effort with another writer must indeed be an interesting venture. I recently co-ordinated the publication of an anthology of short stories for writers in Northumberland County, Ontario where I live and it was an arduous but rewarding process. I hope your Sri Lankan friend was able to give you a description of that country. My first novel "Redemption in Paradise" was based in that country and tried to portray the effects of its 30-year civil war on a group of western tourists ( including two Americans). The Sri Lankan press ( government controlled) did not take too kindly to my "poking under the rug" as it were and were indifferent to the book although it sold well( and continues to sell) among the Sri Lankan diaspora around the world.Keep in touch!
Shane
Hi Shane and thanks so much for the friendship. I used to work with a girl from Sri Lanka...I'd never heard of it until then. Anyway...I love your website! It's very creative and interesting.Bleesings,
Jeannie
Please do - and I would welcome your feedback as well. Regards!Shane
Hello, Thanks for adding me. I look forward to reading your work.
-J.
Jerry wrote: "I really enjoyed your book, Redemption in Paradise. Thanks for inviting me to this site to learn more about books. I hope your short story launch last month was very successful.Jerry
Jerry - thanks for your kind sentiments and for giving me 4 stars. The launch of the anthology Changing Ways was a great success - over eighty people showed up (we were expecting 60) and we nearly ran out of books. Our launch for my second book Fringe Dwellers is this Thursday Dec 18th at 7pm at the Bohemian Penguin in Belleville, Ont. If the spirit moves you to take a drive in - do show up!
regards! Shane
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I really enjoyed your book, Redemption in Paradise. Thanks for inviting me to this site to learn more about books. I hope your short story laugh last month was very successful.Jerry
