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Saardu Series #2
Saardu 2: New Game New Rules
This book is not for you. You're probably looking for make believe. This book is different. There's a reality hidden between layers upon layers of complexity and the absurd. But what is the universe after all if not complex and absurd?
Saardu is more than another otherworldly fairy tale. Saardu is our history, our origin, and our destiny. If your mind is tough enough to endure the ramblings of an old soul, you will reach the jackpot.
It won't help you to know that 10-year-old readers have fallen in love with this new myth. It won't help you because ultimately, you have to be willing to stand in the gap, to embrace unknowing. You have to be willing to wonder if everything you have been taught is a ruse in which you are a collaborator.
This book was written for young readers. However, since it does involve some death and dying, parents may want to read it with their children and talk about your feelings and thoughts as you experience the travails of Ruby and a betrayed friend on this sweetly scary planet and its origin.
Saardu is more than another otherworldly fairy tale. Saardu is our history, our origin, and our destiny. If your mind is tough enough to endure the ramblings of an old soul, you will reach the jackpot.
It won't help you to know that 10-year-old readers have fallen in love with this new myth. It won't help you because ultimately, you have to be willing to stand in the gap, to embrace unknowing. You have to be willing to wonder if everything you have been taught is a ruse in which you are a collaborator.
This book was written for young readers. However, since it does involve some death and dying, parents may want to read it with their children and talk about your feelings and thoughts as you experience the travails of Ruby and a betrayed friend on this sweetly scary planet and its origin.
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First published August 1, 2010
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Carma Chan
32 books6 followersMost often, readers ask, "Who influenced you?"
I share Dr. King's dream.
Additionally, you can see my bookshelves here where I review and rate every book I remember reading.
Besides the Saardu series, which is my way of explaining death and the circle of life, I write of personal pain and overcoming. For example, "10 Most Annoying Things People Say to NICU Parents (...when they're only trying to help!)" Grief is universal, but each of us enters and exits it in our own ways.
My greatest literary influences are Professor Richard Walter, who teaches Advanced Screenwriting for MFA students at the UCLA film school. He taught me everything I needed to know about the ancient art of storytelling. The American poet, E.E. Cummings (don't lecture me about upper/lowercase--he preferred E.E., do some research and you'll find that out), is dear to me and I carry him as my spiritual grandfather in my heart. Poetry was my first love, especially freestyle. Kurt Vonnegut, when asked why he wrote fiction novels, answered that he did so to reach the minds of young people before they become Senators and Generals, to "infect them with humanity."
That is my passion. I aim to give my descendants a more harmonious world. I also love to have fun and make fun, and encourage playfulness and spontaneity!
I hope you find my work as transformative as my husband does.
I share Dr. King's dream.
Additionally, you can see my bookshelves here where I review and rate every book I remember reading.
Besides the Saardu series, which is my way of explaining death and the circle of life, I write of personal pain and overcoming. For example, "10 Most Annoying Things People Say to NICU Parents (...when they're only trying to help!)" Grief is universal, but each of us enters and exits it in our own ways.
My greatest literary influences are Professor Richard Walter, who teaches Advanced Screenwriting for MFA students at the UCLA film school. He taught me everything I needed to know about the ancient art of storytelling. The American poet, E.E. Cummings (don't lecture me about upper/lowercase--he preferred E.E., do some research and you'll find that out), is dear to me and I carry him as my spiritual grandfather in my heart. Poetry was my first love, especially freestyle. Kurt Vonnegut, when asked why he wrote fiction novels, answered that he did so to reach the minds of young people before they become Senators and Generals, to "infect them with humanity."
That is my passion. I aim to give my descendants a more harmonious world. I also love to have fun and make fun, and encourage playfulness and spontaneity!
I hope you find my work as transformative as my husband does.
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November 24, 2019I am currently rewriting this book to improve and clarify the story. I hope you'll remember to come back later and check out the new and improved edition - it will be available in print in 2020.
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