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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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Michael Joe Armijo's Blog

Living by the Sea

So that’s how it happens. I’ll get distracted by life. The wounds will be covered by pleasant moments that I used to take for granted. Hopefully, the pleasant moments will become more frequent, and longer lasting. Because if I keep living in the past, I won’t survive.’--Ellen Marie Wiseman, THE PLUM TREE

March 22, 2000

A day of COSTCO, American Express and the bank---typical errands follo

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)

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Anxious People

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Denyse Beaulieu’s The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent is part memoir, part cultural history, and part behind-the-scenes exploration of perfume creation. At times it reads like a love story—perhaps several love stories—interwoven with a kin ...more
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This was a rare disappointment from an author I genuinely admire. I came to this small hardcover with high expectations because I previously loved The Alchemist, Veronika Decides to Die, and Like the Flowing River. Those books contain insight, narrati ...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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