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Shane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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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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Redemption in Paradise
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2004
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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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Crossing Limbo: Deep Moments, Shallow Lives
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2017
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The Ulysses Man
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2011
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Circles in the Spiral
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2020
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Victoria Unveiled
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Milltown
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2019
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In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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Learning from the Mayans
I took a trip to Tulum again, during a recent visit to Mexico, after a gap of 35 years, a journey down memory lane, to see how tourism development had evolved in the intervening years. Like other sites visited and revisited over the years—Machu Picchu, Sigiriya, most notably—these places have gone from sparsely visited, unkempt, and littered hideouts to expensive, hyped, and sanitized money pits f
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Lament for a Literature: The Collapse of Canadian Book Publishing:
"A cogent, compellingly systematic look at the history and present economic, social and political reasons for the decline of the industry. I can only guess that the very negative reviews collected here so far are in malevolent response to the author’s"
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"The story is set in the England of 1665 and is told as a first person account by one Robert Merivel, who relates the events as they are happening, probably in the form of a personal journal. All the events take place over the course of approximately "
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"Originally published as Le Bataille, The Battle is a modern French author’s homage to the novel Balzac often declared that he wanted to write, but never got around to writing. The Battle is, perhaps, the ultimate military novel. I say that in spite o"
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| Harrison falls into that cadre of writers who go from scrounging to luxuriating when their breakout novel finally hits the jackpot – in this case his novella “Legends of the Fall” that vaulted him from a 40-year-old poet eking out a living on $12K pe ...more | |
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Most lives are wasted. All are shortchanged. A few are tragic. I skipped over Montreal Stories by Mavis Gallant many times while searching the audiobook database from my library -- I was never in the mood and I had never heard of Gallant; why both" Read more of this review » |
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Three novellas of under a hundred pages each make up this book, with the book’s title-bearing novella being the last. My first reaction was – this is a poet trying to write long fiction, and he has no clue of novel craft or doesn’t care, or is inventi ...more |
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A light espionage novel set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, a politically complicated war and a harbinger to WWII that followed. Furst picks a complicated international cast – American, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Russian, many of t ...more |
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| Percival Everett takes the traditional Western and turns it on its head: the White guys are the bad ones; Blacks and Indigenous (Injuns) are the honorable and good ones; Colonel Custer is a cross-dresser; and everyone stinks, including the women, esp ...more | |
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A tale of cousins who are “slightly bent,” bound by need, guilt, and obligations, played out in Harlem in the late ’50s – early ’60s. In Part 1(1959), Ray Carney, a college-educated owner of a furniture store in Harlem, is constantly doing favours for ...more |
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| I tried to figure out why an author would write such an enormous novel (almost 800 pages) about a half-brother and sister who are separated by their father’s secret past, when the mounting metaphors finally hit me in the head: this was a novel about ...more | |
“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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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! :)
Mary Anita And The Second Liberation In Kenya Consider reading this book full of African passion and flavour, culture, social life and politics
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!
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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
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