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Shane Joseph
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Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene
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December 2008
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Victoria Unveiled
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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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Circles in the Spiral
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2020
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The Ulysses Man
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2011
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Milltown
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2019
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In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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Fragmentism, Revisited: A Writer’s Case for AI-Assistance
I have struggled trying to define a 21st-century writer. The model of my former heroes of the last century—Hemingway, Maugham, and Greene—who hung out in remote corners of the world, drank, caroused, and jettisoned periodic manuscripts, hammered out on battered typewriters, that became bestsellers, and who were never around to promote their work – that model did not exist anymore. In an essay titl
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| A British-American writer of Bengali heritage, writing stories about Rome in Italian and translating them back into English. I wondered how that would go down and hence picked up this book, after having thoroughly enjoyed Lahiri’s debut collection, T ...more | |
"Virginia Woolf originally wrote this as a novel-essay which was to form part of her novel The Pargiters – the original idea to have alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters. Of course in the end Woolf re-thought this idea and The Pargiters became"
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"Between the Acts was Virginia Woolf’s final novel – published posthumously – it is a novel which remains as she left it when she took her own life in 1941. We will never know what revisions and alterations she might have made.
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"In A Wounded Civilization, V.S.Naipaul criticized Gandhi and Nehru for “their Hindu way of not seeing” – he wrote that neither Gandhi nor Nehru had any perspective about the places they visited and saw during their early days in England. Nobody would"
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A concise way to view and appreciate art, illustrated with about 150 famous European paintings and 50 photographs, and presented in four text-photo essays and three image-only essays. The text essays cover Visual Art in general, Nudes, Oil Painting, a ...more |
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Insightful observations from a master storyteller who went to the USA as a missionary for international copyright, yet ended up writing a travelogue and a cross-cultural treatise instead. Dickens was the new literary star in Britain at the age of 30 i ...more |
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(see novel review at the bottom of this review) I picked up this book from an online library and didn’t realize until I had downloaded the e-book that it was the two-act stage play adaptation of Greene’s novel by ...more |
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A departure from the traditional Hemingway prose, this book, comprises reportage, essays, travelogues, and war dispatches written in journeyman sentences, the prose the author later developed into the Hemingwayesque style. Having read most of Hemingwa ...more |
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This collection has a multitude of genres: horror, thriller, supernatural, mystery, short story and novella, and all are suspenseful in their own way. The anchor story, a novella, “Strange Highways,” is one of second chances for roads (or highways) no ...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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― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
― In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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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