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Tony’s 2025 Year in Books
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Tony McManus
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Manchester, The United Kingdom
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Ernest Hemmingway, Jack London, Raymond Chandler, Peter Cheyney, Dashi
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December 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/deepcaster
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The Writing Life #1
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I am a writer, a natural one I believe, at ease with the pen. Yet I’ve spent most of my time on earth doing other things. I was a freelance design draftsman in aerospace for many years. It paid very well and allowed great travel experience. But before that I did other work in my more youthful days: a taxi driver in Manchester: a construction hand in the Zambian copper belt and the Rand Read more of this blog post »
I am a writer, a natural one I believe, at ease with the pen. Yet I’ve spent most of my time on earth doing other things. I was a freelance design draftsman in aerospace for many years. It paid very well and allowed great travel experience. But before that I did other work in my more youthful days: a taxi driver in Manchester: a construction hand in the Zambian copper belt and the Rand Read more of this blog post »
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| I’ve loved poetry since boyhood when I sang hymns and Christmas Carols in my school choir. And hymns and carols are simply beautiful poetry set to music. I feel that most of us love the emotive feelings that only poetry can bring out in us. Who among ...more | |
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An Incident in Bear Country.: A Canadian Wilderness Short Story.:
"Many of us Brits who have not spent time in North America have a somewhat romanticized notion of bears as cuddly creatures. They are not, and Tony McManus is quick to disabuse us of that notion. And before the author sets off on his canoeing adventur"
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| I so thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Gates’ “The Cull: Bloodline”, What a terrific ride it was. And in this novel, “The Cull: Bloodstone”, #2 in the series, Mr. Gates continues to thrill his readers and even steps on the gas, giving us even more action to tak ...more | |
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I’ve been completely addicted to John Dolan’s stories illustrating his protagonist, David Braddock’s adventures since April 2014 when, lying on my back in a Chiang Mai hospital bed, I opened up the novel, “Everyone Burns,” the first of four terrific ...more |
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| I so thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Gates’ “The Cull: Bloodline”, What a terrific ride it was. And in this novel, “The Cull: Bloodstone”, #2 in the series, Mr. Gates continues to thrill his readers and even steps on the gas, giving us even more action to tak ...more | |
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"I have read and reviewed most (probably all, but I’d need to check to make sure I haven’t missed anything) of John Dolan’s books, and he is one of the authors whose books I’m happy to read without even checking the plot or what they are about. He is "
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For the Hell of It (Crimes of Inhumanity, #2):
"For the Hell of It is book 2 in the Crimes of Inhumanity series, featuring the beloved PI, David Braddock. Somewhat of a maverick, his life has captured our imagination throughout the previous series, all of which I have read and thoroughly enjoyed.
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| "Life is short" we are often told. "Make the most of it." And it's true as we all discover at some time in our lives, and for far too many, when it's too late. They live out their lives of 'quiet desperation' obeying the 'rules', clocking in and cloc ...more | |
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
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