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Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004 and his first short story collection, Fringe Dwellers, in 2008. His novel, After the Flood, a dystopian epic set in the aftermath of global warming, was released in November 2009, and won the Canadian Christian Writers award for best Futuristic/Fantasy novel in 2010. His story collection, Paradise Revisited, was shortlisted for the ReLit Award. His latest novel, Empire in the Sand, was released in the fall of 2022. His short stories and articles have appeared in several Canadian anthologies and in literary journals around the w Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004 and his first short story collection, Fringe Dwellers, in 2008. His novel, After the Flood, a dystopian epic set in the aftermath of global warming, was released in November 2009, and won the Canadian Christian Writers award for best Futuristic/Fantasy novel in 2010. His story collection, Paradise Revisited, was shortlisted for the ReLit Award. His latest novel, Empire in the Sand, was released in the fall of 2022. His short stories and articles have appeared in several Canadian anthologies and in literary journals around the world. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com is widely syndicated.

His career stints include: stage and radio actor, pop musician, encyclopaedia salesman, lathe machine operator, airline executive, travel agency manager, vice president of a global financial services company, software services salesperson, publishing editor, project manager and management consultant.

Self-taught, with four degrees under his belt obtained through distance education, Shane is an avid traveller and has visited one country for every year of his life and lived in four of them. He fondly recalls incidents during his travels as real lessons he could never have learned in school: husky riding in Finland with no training, trekking the Inca Trail in Peru through an unending rainstorm, hitch-hiking in Australia without a map, escaping a wild elephant in Zambia, and being stranded without money in Denmark, are some of his memories.

After immigrating (twice), raising a family, building a career, and experiencing life's many highs and lows, Shane has carved out a niche in Cobourg, Ontario with his wife Sarah, where he continues to work, write, and strum his guitar.

Shane Joseph, believes in the gift of second chances. He feels that he has lived many lives in just a single lifetime, always starting from scratch with only the lessons from the past to draw upon. His novels and stories reflect the redemptive power of acceptance and forgiveness.

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Shane Joseph My autobiographical novel, one that introduces the world I came out of and the one I now inhabit is The Ulysses Man, and is my recommendation . But I …moreMy autobiographical novel, one that introduces the world I came out of and the one I now inhabit is The Ulysses Man, and is my recommendation . But I have written science fiction (After the Flood) , romance -adventure (Redemption in Paradise, In the Shadow of the Conquistador) with political and philosophical undertones, and immigrant stories (Paradise Revisited) . It also will depend on the reader's taste as to what subject matter they prefer.
Oh, and I nearly forgot - for those wanting urban stories set in Toronto that feature the marginalized, there is also the collection "Fringe Dwellers."(less)

The Value of the Arts

When I entered high school back in the old country, when “streaming based on aptitude” began, I asked my dad which of the three available streams should I enter: Science, Commerce, or Arts? Dad replied, “Well, in my time, the bright kids went into Science, the average ones into Commerce, and the duds went into Arts.” So, being a bright student who won most of the academic prizes up to that point,

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Shane made a comment onhis reviewofIndia Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Passions of Empire India Conquered by Jon Wilson "Ronald wrote: "As you of course know, Shane, the history of "India" has always been and continues to be so complex that there will always be the oppor _Ronald wrote: "As you of course know, Shane, the history of "India" has always been and continues to be so complex that there will always be the opportunity for subtlety in the interpretation of its whole or its ..."_Thanks, Ron. Being an ex-colonial myself, I've found the unentangling of colonial bonds to be much harder than embracing them initially. One is tarred and feathered with the label for life, however hard one tries to start a new life elsewhere. As for India - she reminds me of the Catholic Church - labyrinthine- all mixed up and fixed like concrete. No one can standardize it. ...more"
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**Shane**rated a book really liked it The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Bradbury has a vivid imagination and takes the science out of his sci-fi to present us only the fantastical fictional possibilities, laced with subtle moral messages for our times.This “novel” is a collection of linked stories detailing the colonizat Bradbury has a vivid imagination and takes the science out of his sci-fi to present us only the fantastical fictional possibilities, laced with subtle moral messages for our times.This “novel” is a collection of linked stories detailing the colonization of Mars from 1999 to 2026. Written in the 1940s, the book teems with implausibility, judging from what we know today; however, ours is not to question but to suspend disbelief and look for the lessons hidden within. How does one get to Mars in a month, how could there be so many rockets transporting building materials and people over such a vast distance, how can trees grow 60 feet in height overnight with one rainfall on this parched planet? Yes, don’t question these.During the first three missions to Mars, the Martians are dominant. Bradbury paints breathtaking descriptions: “blue liquid from a phial that turns into a scarf,” worn by a Martian woman; “a lava stovetop,” in a Martian kitchen; “wine trees with assorted liquors,” in a Martian garden; “singing books” and “whispering pillars of rain” in a Martian house. Martians have yellow eyes, shape shift, and communicate telepathically, so language is unimportant to them because they can tune into whatever your language is and communicate with you through that medium. The reader is exposed to some of their domestic situations (there are unhappy marriages on Mars too). Like humans, they too can kill unrepentantly when threatened. Martians consider Earth inhospitable as we have TOO MUCH oxygen. They consider humans insane and consign early astronauts to lunatic asylums and even to euthanasia. By Mission # 4 (only American’s are on these missions because they have the rockets while the rest of the world looks on enviously), arriving immigrants start seeing whole Martian cities left desolate with Earthling diseases like chicken pox that have started to spout around the Red Planet. The Martians are relegated to a small band of survivors, hiding in the hills, who make only occasional human contact, often to warn us of our coming demise – but no one is listening. Sounds familiar?The typical pattern of human settlement takes place. First come the Lonely Ones (the cowboys) who are used to isolation and can chart this desolate place that has two moons, dead seas, and where the air is so thin that lungs shrink. Then come the poor ones (blacks and whites from the sticks) because there must be better employment opportunities here than at home. Then come the sophisticates, followed by the morality police who introduce laws to protect everyone – hence a _Fahrenheit 451_-like situation that ostensibly started on Earth in 1975, begins here as well, where books are burned, creativity is stifled, and only realism is allowed. Finally, after the infrastructure has been laid, the old ones come.As the Martians die out, humans start to dominate the novel and seem to be driven by greed, intent on extracting minerals and building more and more cities for the constantly arriving immigrant hordes. When Earth explodes in nuclear war, humans on Mars rush back to support the cause. Perhaps Bradbury was alluding to how North Americans rushed back to their home countries in Europe and the Middle East whenever wars erupted in the old world in the last century. Bradbury is hopeful, however. With the mass exodus back to Earth, and to the certainty of nuclear extinction, Mars is left with only humans who travel in the opposite direction, determined never to witness or return to the destruction of Earth, and intent on becoming the “new Martians.”The weakness in this novel is that there is no central character. Some, like Captain Wilder, make repeat appearances in a couple of stories, but mostly there is a new set of characters in each story. And one piece titled “The House of Usher” seemed out of place in this collection – it could very well have taken place on Earth.Implausibility and misplacement notwithstanding, Bradbury has created an imaginary masterpiece in this book with a story that eerily resembles the settlement of North America and the destruction of Europe in WWII, with a few twists. ...more
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**Shane**rated a book really liked it India Conquered by Jon Wilson India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Passions of Empire by Jon Wilson Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
This book dismantles the myth of the glorious British Raj and the Empire upon which “the sun never set.” Barring gifting us a universal language of commerce, the sun should have set sooner on this racist, classist, and violent empire.The book travers This book dismantles the myth of the glorious British Raj and the Empire upon which “the sun never set.” Barring gifting us a universal language of commerce, the sun should have set sooner on this racist, classist, and violent empire.The book traverses the timeline from early British forays into India in the late 1600s up to 1947 with the granting of Independence to the Union of India (and Pakistan). And yet, despite giving the ever-warring Hindus and Muslims their two-state solution, and plenty of political sandpapering, the Raj was left a community of villages as it was in the beginning. Only 10% of the population lived in British settlements, and the majority were in the principle British cities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras; and at the time of independence, only 114 out of 565 native states signed on to the Union of India (others. like Hyderabad and Jammu/Kashmir signed on later under coercion or invasion). And Pakistan also went its merry way only to self-destruct into two halves later, while other fragments like Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore became separate countries. British rule was premised on commerce under violence or threat. They collected taxes on land they did not own, opening up overseas markets for local produce, and pocketing the profits. They did nothing for the locals that was not for British gain. So, even education, public works, and defense were provided to protect exports not domestic development. Labour had a stake in British society, a claim to its better living standard, whereas Indian labour was disenfranchised from government. The British government in India had no local representatives. The constitution was written by “old, white men” until Nehru Sr. wrote a first Indian constitution prior to Independence. The locals were also undergoing their political upheavals: the Marathas and Mughals were constantly at war with each other. And their kingdoms were constantly fragmenting as local leaders split away from “head offices” to form their own mini fiefdoms – thus 565 native states. The violence and loss of life during this colonial empire was extreme. A Mughal civil war left thirty thousand dead in 1755, opening the door for the British under Clive of India to take more control and recapture the British capital of Calcutta that had been sacked previously. The Battle of Assaye in 1803 was described by Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, as worse than Waterloo. And a famine could kill 20 million in a fell swoop.The book covers the lives of important personages who shaped the British Raj. Apart from Clive and Wellsley, some of the others were:Lord Cornwallis, Governor General – who brought in the Cornwallis Code, i.e., the rights and revenues of landholders were fixed as long as they paid taxes to their colonial masters.Thomas Munro – who posited that India consisted of villages and communities, and that the true landholders were farmers, not oligarchs and rich town dwellers.Mahatma Gandhi – who went on hunger strikes to stop the bloodshed caused over Partition, lost his life in the process, yet succeeded in stopping the mayhem by guilting his countrymen.Warren Hastings, Governor General – sent to end corruption during the period 1772-84 and ended up the most corrupt himself.James Mill – a hack writer who wrote The History of British India, describing the country as a land of “chaos and disorder” and proposing Utilitarianism.The East India Company that ruled on behalf of the British from the late 1600s under a charter from King James II, and was guilty for most of the profit-oriented statecraft, was finally brought under the control of the Crown after the 1857-58 Indian revolt that left many dead and saw the Brits hiding inside their forts that dotted the land. Post-1858, a chastened British rule focused also on civil and political matters in addition to the purely economic.However, the cracks started soon after WWI, with Britain distracted in the European theatre of war, and forced to offload much of local governance to Indians. The final hammer fell after WWII when for expediency, a bankrupt and bombed out Britain had to give up her jewel in the crown that had fallen into a cauldron of religious and race rioting, hunger strikes, and calls for independence that were unmanageable by the 28,000 Brits who still remained in the subcontinent. It was easier to practice neo-colonialism – i.e. withdraw and yet have access to the Raj’s resources through preferred trading arrangements, like the Commonwealth and other colonial clubs.This is a rambling book that covers a lot and I skipped forward in places because old conflicts kept repeating in different centuries for the same underlying reasons– it was as if someone was constantly knocking on the heads of these Brits (and the Mughals, Marathas and other warring factions) saying “Don’t you get it? You can only rule by force for so long. Eventually it all falls down.” ...more
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In 1960, fifty-eight-year-old John Steinbeck set out from Sag Harbor, NY, with his dog, Charley, to circumnavigate the contiguous United States by road in an attempt to answer the question “What are Americans like today?” His discoveries leave him wi In 1960, fifty-eight-year-old John Steinbeck set out from Sag Harbor, NY, with his dog, Charley, to circumnavigate the contiguous United States by road in an attempt to answer the question “What are Americans like today?” His discoveries leave him with one conclusion: “You can’t go home.” Although home may have changed for the better, it is no longer relevant to you.He takes a northerly route on his way out west to California, to the home of his birth, and returns via a southerly route, often getting lost along the way. Part of the trouble is caused by overpacking his sturdy camper van, aptly called Rocinante, which blows the odd tire occasionally; he doesn’t carry maps (“I was born lost and have no desire to be found”) and is hopeless in big city traffic. Nobody recognizes him despite his fame as a writer. He uses off-road parking spots, woods, trailer parks, river banks, and the odd motel to break the journey. Charley is his only constant companion and sometimes is an encumbrance more than an asset, especially when the old dog gets ill en route, a couple of times. Steinbeck packs guns for protection which he never has to use, despite being tempted a couple of times.The people he meets on the road envy his ability to travel and express their desire to do like him one day – he doesn’t mention any of them by name except for his childhood friends in Monterrey who are all dead. Those he encounters do not like to talk politics but are open to talking sports or bashing the Russians (because they did not trade with them). Steinbeck misses the highway exits into Minneapolis after getting caught in a stream of traffic and never sees the city. He dreads Texas (his in-laws are Texans) which he describes as “a military nation, energetic, espousing freedom, courageous, a land of generalities and paradoxes.” But he loves Montana and pays tribute to its desert by saying it may lead to the survival of humankind, because “if you can survive the desert, you can survive anything.”He laments the pace of development everywhere, slowly destroying the world he grew up in: Salinas, gone from a town of 4000 to a city of 80,000; the arrival of mobile homes, highways, auto courts, and assembly lines; regional speech disappearing after 40 years of radio and 20 years of TV (thankfully he wasn’t around for the Internet when even national speech started to merge globally). He admits that the past wasn’t any better: “We have exchanged starvation for corpulence. Both could kill us.”He has plenty of time for observations and philosophizing on this journey, and some of his other lines stuck with me:“Man must have feelings and words before he can have thoughts.” “American cities are like badger holes – all are surrounded by trash.”“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights, worked hard or slobbered in laziness.”Steinbeck is shocked and appalled by the overt racism in the Deep South on his return journey when he gets to witness the school sit-ins that raised nationwide anger and forced America to face its racist past. He offers a ride to a black (called a Negro in this 1960s book) who does not wish to talk to this white man, out of fear, and asks to be dropped off before his destination. His next passenger is a white racist who revolts Steinbeck so much that he kicks the man out at gunpoint. His last passenger on this racially charged stretch of road is a black student who is a follower of Martin Luther King Jr. and hopeful of the “dream.” The words of Monsieur C. Git, a stranger Steinbeck meets, synthesizes the writer’s confusion and anger: “If you force a creature to live and work as a beast, then you must think of him as a beast, else empathy will drive you mad.”His journey suddenly ends in his mind when he is in Abingdon, Virginia, and he goes through the motions of getting home from there on. He has seen enough. He will never put his arms around America to understand it completely – it is too complex a beast. The journey is everything; the arrival is anticlimactic, especially when he gets lost in Brooklyn, so close to home – an irony, and symbolic of his entire trip. ...more
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(This review was initially published in Devour Art & Lit Canada Magazine Issue # 19, Summer 2024)Tomson Highway’s memoir of his life from birth to graduation from residential school is a refreshing departure from the stereotypical literature we have (This review was initially published in Devour Art & Lit Canada Magazine Issue # 19, Summer 2024)Tomson Highway’s memoir of his life from birth to graduation from residential school is a refreshing departure from the stereotypical literature we have been exposed to in recent times about the evils of colonialism. Here is a Cree of fluid gender who thrived in that world and went on to become a world-famous musician, playwright, and writer and who looks upon his past with love and fond memories instead of regret.Life in the sub-Arctic was harsh for parents Joe and Balazee Highway, who lost 5 of their 11 children. Many died from exposure during the family’s nomadic travels between the islands of Reindeer Lake for fishing and hunting. Many, like Tomson, were born in snowdrifts, while siblings like his 12-year-old sister Louise was sent out into the night to get help.There is also a huge opportunity gap between the older siblings and the younger ones as technology advanced. Louise took a month to travel one-way to her school in the Pas and only lasted until Grade 2 while Tomson was flown by float plane from his home base in Brochet, MB to his residential school in Clearwater Lake, and went onto a full education.The chapters alternate between the family’s peripatetic life in the arctic and Tomson’s life in the residential school. Tomson navigates both worlds well, after a shaky start at the latter, where he has to learn the practices and customs of white Canadians and the English language. He introduces us to translations of Cree and Dene words into English and vice versa. He introduces all his school friends and acquaintances by name and place of residence—like “Jesus of Nazareth” — even in the heat of a fight or game. He also goes onto explain the differences between Status and Non-Status Indians. The former were given the largess of an all-expenses paid education, replete with uniforms, transportations, food and board, sports facilities and equipment, but could not join the armed forces, drink alcohol, or vote in Federal elections, and they had to remain on the reserve – seems like a waste of all that money, if integration was the desired end game.Tomson’s delivery is funny. Using a Biblical syntax at times, where subject follows verb, and complex sentences that got me lost, he treats the reader to a multitude of anecdotes: dogs mating in front of a mass ceremony; the Big Boys sneaking into the Big Girls dormitory at night for you-know-what and getting caught; the church converted to a movie theatre and deteriorating into wild-west style brawl on film night. There are poignant moments too: Joe Highway’s struggle through a snowstorm, where he ends up asleep, allowing his dogs to take him home; the Arctic tern egg-hunt; brother Swanson’s wedding at a fishing camp where the ceremony never ends. Tomson in unafraid to deal with the sexual abuse that gained the residential schools notoriety: Father Lemoine, Keeper of the Middle Grades, who “does” four boys a night for over six years, Tomson being one. However, our boy transcends the abuse with “why dwell on the past when there are so many people to love and be loved by?”He is cheeky with nick names, lavishly conferring them on indigenous and whites alike: Gunpowder, Meat Toss, Bad Robber, Happy Doll, Watermellon were some names that stuck for his fellow villagers; Mrs. Permafrost (for Permachuk), Fr. Egg Nog (for Egenolf) and Asslick (for Angelique) bring up the white side. He also admits that his own name was spelled thus and not as Thompson or Thomson because Father Egg Nog’s English was poor when entering the baby’s name in the baptismal register. This is a good primer on Indigenous life by one who straddled both worlds and who harbours ill-will towards no one, but who is grateful for the blessings showered upon him and his family despite the hard times they lived through. ...more
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12978 Courage of Fear Quotes of the Day — 119 members — last activity Aug 05, 2009 02:18PM
Each day on other social networks and on my blog I post an inspirational quote from my novel, Courage of Fear. I then post a personal story that someh Each day on other social networks and on my blog I post an inspirational quote from my novel, Courage of Fear. I then post a personal story that somehow relates to the quote. These daily quotes got so popular on Myspace I was prodded to start my blog. I have now decided to open this up to you. I encourage all feedback, comments and personal stories. Enjoy, reflect, and have some fun. KEEP IN MIND these little snips are personal stories. They are NOT in the book. Only the quotes are from the novel. Barbara Boyer, Author Courage of Fear ...more

67401 Goodreads Sri Lanka — 1056 members — last activity Nov 13, 2024 06:42PM
Welcome Readers Near & Far! This is a group for all Sri Lankan Goodreads members (and those interested in Sri Lanka). Welcome Readers Near & Far! This is a group for all Sri Lankan Goodreads members (and those interested in Sri Lanka). ...more

867183 Author Ali Marsman's Books — 44 members — last activity May 06, 2020 02:54AM
Good day, Goodreads Friends, I would like to welcome you to join my group where I am offering a free eBook of each of my books in exchange for a revi Good day, Goodreads Friends, I would like to welcome you to join my group where I am offering a free eBook of each of my books in exchange for a review here on Goodreads and if you would, any other site of your choice. I will set four subgroups as I am offering 1 book per member, and would like to be able to keep better track of discussions surrounding each book, and hope this makes it easier for you as well. I will be offering 50 copies of each book. And will send these codes (redeemable through iTunes) on February 14th. Please read and review your choice of book within 28 days - I will send the codes on February 14th, so I hope to have reviews and ratings by March 14th, thank you. Discussions and questions will be open right away. I am looking forward to hearing from you and really hope you enjoy my work! Sincerely, Ali ...more

6783 New Authors! Share News! — 308 members — last activity Jul 30, 2015 07:51AM
Well, a lot has happened. I am the Mom of a one-year old and have stopped blogging about new authors to focus on my son and publishing my own novels. Well, a lot has happened. I am the Mom of a one-year old and have stopped blogging about new authors to focus on my son and publishing my own novels. Feel free to stop by and comment on your projects as new authors. ...more

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