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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
Website
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Genre
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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5 editions
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Victoria Unveiled
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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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In the Shadow of the Conquistador
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2015
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Learning from the Mayans
I took a trip to Tulum again, during a recent visit to Mexico, after a gap of 35 years, a journey down memory lane, to see how tourism development had evolved in the intervening years. Like other sites visited and revisited over the years—Machu Picchu, Sigiriya, most notably—these places have gone from sparsely visited, unkempt, and littered hideouts to expensive, hyped, and sanitized money pits f
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Shane’s Recent Updates
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My first Kingsley Amis novel since reading Lucky Jim 50 years ago (and enjoying it at the time), and I was rather disappointed that this novel was not as funny and was more a commentary on the very dull lives of the rich and boring (and drunk). Ronni ...more |
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Shane
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Irish Gold (Nuala Anne McGrail, #1):
"Sure, and didn’t I start out not liking this book at all, at all? And didn’t I just say to meself, “If this writer uses ‘scatology’ or ‘shy child’ again I’m going to lose me mind?” And wasn’t it me who thought, “This Dermot Michael and this Nuala Ann"
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"This is the first book I've ever read from the profligate author and Catholic priest Fr. Andrew Greeley. I have to say, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. At first, I believed the book was about the priest sex abuse scandal, and while that cer"
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| A rare glimpse into the personal life of Salman Rushdie, the trickster normally given to bombastic erudition and flights of fantasy, in the wake of his encounter with the fulfilment of the Fatwa placed on him 33 years ago following the publication of ...more | |
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“Three Secrets, Two Women, One Grail” says the blurb for the Illustrated edition of this book, the one I read, and I would add “and a convoluted plot with some wires crossed, but which motivated me to visit Carcassonne one day.” The novel pivots betwe ...more |
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"‘Who are you? I am Jean-Baptiste Baratte.’
It is 1785, and France is on the brink of revolution. Jean-Baptiste Baratte, ‘a disciple of Voltaire’, dreams of a bright future. Baratte is an engineer with some experience in mining, and considers himself f" Read more of this review » |
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I was disappointed in this collection, all except two of the stories being published previously in the New Yorker. Gallant's focus is on character and not on story, so the storylines (if there are any) ramble, meander, get lost, and lost me many times ...more |
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| A chilling dystopia, reproduced to expound Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and wrapped up in her emerging style of Romantic Realism. Bashing of collectivism must have been popular when Rand wrote this book in 1938, between the publication of those o ...more | |
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| Harrison falls into that cadre of writers who go from scrounging to luxuriating when their breakout novel finally hits the jackpot – in this case his novella “Legends of the Fall” that vaulted him from a 40-year-old poet eking out a living on $12K pe ...more | |
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Three novellas of under a hundred pages each make up this book, with the book’s title-bearing novella being the last. My first reaction was – this is a poet trying to write long fiction, and he has no clue of novel craft or doesn’t care, or is inventi ...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
― 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 :)
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.p..."
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
