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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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Fringe Dwellers
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2008
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After the Flood
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2009
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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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Can Writers Really Change the World?
I have noticed that many friends and acquaintances in my demographic have become journalists and writers in recent times. It could be that, at our age, writing is an easier sport than more athletic ones, like cricket or sex, or that having lived on this planet for three-score and ten years, or more, these new writers have much wisdom to impart and are bursting to let fly like mansplainers, if only
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| A story of displaced people across generations trying to find a home, even if it’s among strangers. The trove of human drama Allende mines in this book is vast and deep. And yet the delivery lacked a kick and came across as an aging writer trying to ...more | |
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America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators:
"As we near the halfway point in Trump’s first year of his second presidency, this was a nice crash course in understanding some of the currents and tides within the mainstream American conservative movement. How did we end up with a right-wing party,"
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books:
"This is the story of Azar Nafisi, a secular woman who was living in Iran shortly after the revolution between 1978 and 1981. It's split into four sections: Lolita, Gatsby, James and Austen.
Lolita Azar Nafisi resigns from her position at the local univ" Read more of this review » |
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" “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.” - Ayn Rand, Anthem
Before my Goodreads days, before I knew anything about Ayn Rand, I kept spotting " Read more of this review » |
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Another of my year-end discards. After reading and thoroughly enjoying Franzen's seminal novel The Corrections, and somewhat enjoying Purity, I picked up this doorstopper, only to replace it by the door again, as I couldn't bear to stomach another 500 ...more |
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Another of my year-end discards. After reading and thoroughly enjoying Franzen's seminal novel The Corrections, and somewhat enjoying Purity, I picked up this doorstopper, only to replace it by the door again, as I couldn't bear to stomach another 500 ...more |
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| As the year nears its end, I am dealing swiftly with books that didn’t hold my attention – I discarded them midway. And this is one of those. This novel was a national bestseller when published in 2002, but I had to let it go, a third of the way in, ...more | |
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| This is vital reading for those interested in the founding of Australia in 1788, the land at the end of the British Empire, a penal colony founded in default because Britain had lost its pet convict dumping ground, the thirteen states of America, whi ...more | |
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A tale of the nascent lower middle class in India, circa the 1960s, when the country was emerging from its colonial yoke. There are no great epiphanies or reversals, and the book serves as a snapshot of the society, full of stereotypical characters. P ...more |
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| Reading this, the third in the Sharpe series, is a continuance of the British campaign that began in Seringapatam with Tipu Sultan and the Mysoreans in the first book, then continued against the Mahratta Confederation in Book 2 at Assaye, concluding ...more | |
“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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― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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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
