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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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4 editions
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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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The Ulysses Man
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2011
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5 editions
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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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2 editions
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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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Dream Merchants
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| “Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loath” – and with that quote from author Azar Nafisi, I dove into this memoir of the early years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which, given the recent spate of riots, still seems ...more | |
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace:
"Preventing war and violence, if it’s not the top concern, has to rank among the most important problems facing humanity. As those in the throes of war will tell you, there is no greater freedom than the freedom from violence. Learning how to prevent "
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"*Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction*
*Winner of the 2024 National Book Award* *Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize* “With my pencil I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” When James (“Jim”), an enslaved man, hears that he is to " Read more of this review » |
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"Absolutely fucking fabulous. Some peculiar crossbreed between Nathanael West and Charles Portis, an absurdist revisionist Western serving double (triple?) duty as a grand comment on racial injustice. Our antihero protagonist, Curt Marder, a cowardly,"
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Pathological love is the theme of this novel, or I thought it was. It is not one of the enduring kind, as the title suggests, but an all-consuming passion that ultimately destroys the lover and the loved one. McEwan’s signature triggering event occurs ...more |
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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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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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“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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“If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”
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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
“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
“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.”
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
A group to discuss and recommend books published by the independent presses. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all allowed.
Fans of canadian authors and Canadian authors here on Goodreads: This is a group for fans and authors to meet and discuss their favorite canucks and t ...more
Please join this group, add your book(s) to the bookshelf, your website link(s) to the 'links' post, book covers to the 'book covers' post, and events ...more
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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
Interesting interview! Bravo! I haven't known about James Goonewardene. But I read today :)
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.p...
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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Keep in touch!
Shane
Bleesings,
Jeannie
Shane
Thanks for adding me. I look forward to reading your work.
-J.
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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Jerry