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Brendan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Brendan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Brendan Shea
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My memoir, How Not to Break Your Leg: A Fiftysomething’s Guide to Healing, is my best-selling book!
Has it sold a million? No. A thousand? No. A hundred? No, but for me, it is my best-seller, at a whopping 24 copies in three and a half years of publication.
I am celebrating, and wanted to share my joy.
I hope you have joyful publishing stories too.
Maybe they outdistance mine, but any win like that is
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"I really enjoyed the full cast audio recording of this book. It's about the London Blitz, and its affect on the city during WWII. it's not new ground for me, but still a great story.
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"I read a synopsis of this book prior to starting to read it. I was unsure if I would like it, as it was very different from my regular police procedures, detective stories and the occasional fantasy. The book was great, even though a little darker th"
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""We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.”
There is no doubt that war creates havoc and chaos on countries, communities, and more specifically on the people caught i" Read more of this review » |
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“Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.”
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“I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.”
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“I like the little stories, those like buttery English muffins with nooks and crannies, the cozy if suspenseful thrillers, taken with hot mugs of tea on a stormy evening. Not cute, but both relaxing and stimulating, funny and romantic, having variety without being haphazard.”
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“Not to malign Islam, but slavery in America is akin to Abraham taking Hagar as his concubine. What resulted is a centuries old religious war.
What we did in enslaving Africans, using them and abusing them in many terrible ways, has resulted, in part, in some of our worst gang violence.
When people go against the grain, and I'm guilty myself, when we bypass God's plan, we bring about terrible consequences.”
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What we did in enslaving Africans, using them and abusing them in many terrible ways, has resulted, in part, in some of our worst gang violence.
When people go against the grain, and I'm guilty myself, when we bypass God's plan, we bring about terrible consequences.”
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“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― You Only Live Twice
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― You Only Live Twice
“Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.”
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