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Michael Joe Armijo

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Born

in Oakland, The United States

Website

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0F14WVB46...

Genre

Historical Fiction, Thriller, Gay and Lesbian

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Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Patricia Highsmith ...more

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November 2010

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I keep a daily BLOG. Please follow it: http://007gentleman.blogspot.com/

My author page on Amazon with my most recent published books under my name, MICHAEL JOE ARMIJO:

https://www.amazon.com/SECRETS-INSIDE...

https://www.amazon.com/FUTURE-WE-CHAS...

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/...

I've written a book of poetry (A POCKETFULL OF MARBLES) but it is not appearing on this site for some reason. Here is a link for it:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-j-a...

My short/story pamplet book (MY MYSTERY CHILD) is available here:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-j-a...

I love QUOTES and always underline written words that have significant impact on me. I have denoted many quotes on my BLOG that have captured me for one reason or another.

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‘Any artist likes to relive the best of his art.’--Mary Renault, THE PERSIAN BOY

Aug 30, 2000

This morning at 11am we met with Margaret Cohn on Perry Street to see a new condo project. It’s always good to see what else is going on. In the waiting area was a popular TV actress I recognized was there waiting just like us (Mariska Hargitay and her husband maybe (?), Peter Hermann). I

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Voyagers

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I’ve finished The Remains of the Day here at home in Marina del Rey, giving it 4 stars, but I’d give it 4½ if Goodreads allowed it. Kazuo Ishiguro has such a way with eloquent description. One passage describing a cozy farmhouse room particularly stru ...more
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I’ve finished The Remains of the Day here at home in Marina del Rey, giving it 4 stars, but I’d give it 4½ if Goodreads allowed it. Kazuo Ishiguro has such a way with eloquent description. One passage describing a cozy farmhouse room particularly stru ...more
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Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima was a WOW for me. It has such a philosophical edge, yet at times it reads almost like a Japanese soap opera. The homosexual storyline surrounding the extraordinarily beautiful young Yuichi kept me completely engaged, ...more
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First, thanks to my niece, Ashley Armijo, for gifting this book to me this year. I enjoyed Remain. It moves quickly, almost cinematically—which makes perfect sense considering the collaboration between Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan—and the m ...more
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Viola Davis has written a painful, deeply inspiring memoir about surviving the world you were born into—and then doing the extraordinarily difficult work of creating a life of your own. She writes about poverty, violence, shame, racism, family, ambiti ...more
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“How then, in the time that followed, did I become someone I didn't know?”
― Paul Lisicky

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“I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God. ”
― Leo F. Buscaglia, Living, Loving & Learning

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