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Shane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shane Joseph
Goodreads Author
Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Influences
Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene
Member Since
December 2008
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Empire in the Sand
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2022
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Redemption in Paradise
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2004
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2 editions
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Fringe Dwellers
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2008
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After the Flood
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2009
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4 editions
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Crossing Limbo: Deep Moments, Shallow Lives
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2017
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The Ulysses Man
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2011
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Circles in the Spiral
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2020
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Milltown
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2019
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Victoria Unveiled
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In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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2015
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Shane’s Recent Updates
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Shane
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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva:
"Rosemary Sullivan is an extraordinary writer and researcher. Her latest biography, Stalin's Daughter, is one of her best. The extraordinary life of Svetlana Alliluyeva--spent under the sinister shadow of her father--is a complex and moving story of a"
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"Svetlana Alliluyeva was the daughter of Josef Stalin, Twenty letters to a Friend a book she wrote about herself and her family life and particularly her father that was published after she defected to the West. I remember sticking the book into the i"
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A book that details a pivotal revolutionary turnover that took place in New South Wales (later to become Australia) between 1808 and 1810, and which is recreated from historic legal documents and proceedings. William Bligh is popularly known as the vi ...more |
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| The Sri Lankan immigrant in Britain, i.e., the colonized come home to the colonizer, has been an overdone theme during the last 75 years of post-colonial literature, but Ferry approaches it with fresh and cutting humour which makes one take yet anoth ...more | |
""I run onto some tough luck. Got robbed and made awful fun of by some stinkin' illiterate bastards."
"Be careful what you say now," Rip said, shaking his head. "Most of my family is practising illiterates." "Sorry." "They're getting right good at it." We" Read more of this review » |
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"In a Nutshell: I admire what the author attempted with this collection, but I don’t admire the collection itself.
I am a huge fan of Jhumpa Lahiri. About two decades ago, I had taken a chance on a new Indian author who had won the Pulitzer for her deb" Read more of this review » |
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| A frightening novel about a future in which women’s emancipation and the individualist lifestyle of our modern-day inverts to penalize those who did not raise families or do not continue to do meaningful jobs; they are turned into “Dispensables,” whe ...more | |
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| “Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loath” – and with that quote from author Azar Nafisi, I dove into this memoir of the early years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which, given the recent spate of riots, still seems ...more | |
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| Competently written short stories. I recommend it to those studying the craft | |
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Pathological love is the theme of this novel, or I thought it was. It is not one of the enduring kind, as the title suggests, but an all-consuming passion that ultimately destroys the lover and the loved one. McEwan’s signature triggering event occurs ...more |
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“I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or the lethargy of boredom. Hard work is the final solution - it prevents all of the above.' - Voltaire”
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
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“I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or the lethargy of boredom. Hard work is the final solution - it prevents all of the above.' - Voltaire”
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
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Richard wrote: "thank you for the friend"You are welcome.
Thanks for the friend invite, Shane. I am ashamed to confess I haven't read the most famous book in history, but your reasons for reading it might make me change my mind! :)
Mary Anita And The Second Liberation In Kenya Consider reading this book full of African passion and flavour, culture, social life and politics
I really appreciate your including me, Shane. jesse
Marilena wrote: "http://jenniferprado.blogspot.com/Interesting interview! Bravo! I haven't known about James Goonewardene. But I read today :)
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Glad I was able to help. I was a member of the drama workshop that James ran for the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and acted in many of his radio plays. That is the time I got interested in writing
http://jenniferprado.blogspot.com/Interesting interview! Bravo! I haven't known about James Goonewardene. But I read today :)
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Okay - I have added my books to the bookshelf and added some pictures of me and the band(s) performingShane
Hi Shane,I just want to let you know that it's your turn to post in the 'Authors and Their Instruments' Group!
We look forward to it!
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Thanks for adding me, I am always looking for book suggestions!
I'd be honoured. And I welcome your feedback too! - Shane
Thanks for the connection. Have a great week!
Hi Jeannie - thanks for the note. I took a look at your website. Your co-operative effort with another writer must indeed be an interesting venture. I recently co-ordinated the publication of an anthology of short stories for writers in Northumberland County, Ontario where I live and it was an arduous but rewarding process. I hope your Sri Lankan friend was able to give you a description of that country. My first novel "Redemption in Paradise" was based in that country and tried to portray the effects of its 30-year civil war on a group of western tourists ( including two Americans). The Sri Lankan press ( government controlled) did not take too kindly to my "poking under the rug" as it were and were indifferent to the book although it sold well( and continues to sell) among the Sri Lankan diaspora around the world.Keep in touch!
Shane
Hi Shane and thanks so much for the friendship. I used to work with a girl from Sri Lanka...I'd never heard of it until then. Anyway...I love your website! It's very creative and interesting.Bleesings,
Jeannie
Please do - and I would welcome your feedback as well. Regards!Shane
Hello, Thanks for adding me. I look forward to reading your work.
-J.
Jerry wrote: "I really enjoyed your book, Redemption in Paradise. Thanks for inviting me to this site to learn more about books. I hope your short story launch last month was very successful.Jerry
Jerry - thanks for your kind sentiments and for giving me 4 stars. The launch of the anthology Changing Ways was a great success - over eighty people showed up (we were expecting 60) and we nearly ran out of books. Our launch for my second book Fringe Dwellers is this Thursday Dec 18th at 7pm at the Bohemian Penguin in Belleville, Ont. If the spirit moves you to take a drive in - do show up!
regards! Shane
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I really enjoyed your book, Redemption in Paradise. Thanks for inviting me to this site to learn more about books. I hope your short story laugh last month was very successful.Jerry
