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C.J. Shane

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I'm an artist and a writer, and I alternate between writing and painting. My paintings are abstract landscapes in oil, and I also do mixed-media work. I write mystery-suspense: Letty Valdez Mysteries (4 in series), Cat Miranda Mysteries (3 in series), and Iron Horse Mysteries (5 so far).
Learn more and see my art here: http://www.cjshane.com/
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Review: The Marfa Blues

*The Marfa Blues* is a thoroughly enjoyable yarn with the most diverse and engaging characters I’ve encountered in a long time. Having lived in West Texas myself, the idea of a book based on the little town of Marfa intrigued me. But this story was so much more than setting. The book starts in the 19th century when Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, sends troops north with wagons loaded with his treas Read more of this blog post »
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This book has some interesting ideas that pop up, usually when the author considers memory as a form of time travel. However, the book has almost no plot, most of the characters were AI-generated and not that interesting (although I did like the dog ...more
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Nathaniel Rich’s book *Losing Earth* is a ten-year history beginning in 1979 in which efforts to deal with the looming climate crisis were squelched. He follows environmentalist Rafe Pomerance and others, especially James Hanson, as climate scientist ...more
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For those in a state of denial and who claim that climate change is a hoax, or for the many millions of us who are just not sure of the impacts of climate change, and who think maybe they/we won’t have to deal with it, this book is for you. Bittle do ...more
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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
Mary Oliver

T.S. Eliot
“If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in the darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.

Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.

Where shall the word be found, where shall the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”
T.S. Eliot

Leonard Cohen
“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

Voltaire
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire

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