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Joseph’s 2019 Year in Books
Take a look at Joseph’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Joseph Riden
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Excerpt from The Sea Godess
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updated Aug 10, 2018 11:19AM
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"The Marlin" is a true story set in the mid-1980's. Some names are changed but the rest is completely factual. It's about a couple in their thirties who loved to fish and cruise in the Pacific Ocean on their Grand Banks, a classic, thirty-two-foot, trawler-style, wooden yacht. They lived in Southern California, where surrounding waters of the blue Pacific offered them great satisfaction in their leisure interests. They would fish year-round and enjoy cruising to surrounding, offshore islands. As the summer months unfurled each year, Evan and Jess spent most of their time on their boat, Tin Hau, fishing and cruising the coastal region near San Diego, when they weren't working their jobs or doing maintenance that the boat required. On the particular day of this story, they encountered an astonishing surprise; one that challenged them to the limit but would prove quite rewarding if they could prevail with Fate's summons. Odds were against them all the way. This is the story of how that day unfurled as they took the challenge, stood up to the difficulties and dangers, and fought to win with all the strength and wit they could muster. It was high adventure on the high seas. Read the story now to find out how it went and how it turned out, given all the problems they faced.
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“There is no such thing as writers' block. There are only writers who want to write while they really need to be doing something else, first.”
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“Like any other artist, the writer is a licensed critic, traditionally given the leeway to have a long and critical look at society, to satirise its conventions, to be subversive, to question and challenge, and, ultimately to construct new ways of looking at the world that society comes to value and eventually to use in shaping new conventions, new rules of thumb for behaviour.
— From a lecture "What Is Literary Value," given 15 October 1997
Ms. Hunter was the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric between 1997 and 2000”
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— From a lecture "What Is Literary Value," given 15 October 1997
Ms. Hunter was the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric between 1997 and 2000”
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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― The First Part of Goethe's Faust
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― The First Part of Goethe's Faust
“There is no such thing as writers' block. There are only writers who want to write while they really need to be doing something else, first.”
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