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Favorite Childrens Stories

Posted: May 7, 2024 in books, Fiction, short story
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Favorite Children’s Story

I did not have a normal childhood. I taught myself to read to understand road signs because I started driving at nine. I did not go to a full year of school until I was in the 6th grade. I hardly ever went to school at all before that year. So my reading was not the normal fare, and no one was reading to me. Around the 7th grade, I discovered Sir Walter Scott and Thomas B. Costain! I read a lot of books by both authors. Scott’s Ivanhoe was really one of my favorites. The Black Rose was also right up there by Costain. I know both have been done in the movies, but they do not come close to the books! Not really children’s stories but they made an impression on me that lasted. I came across the Count of Monte Cristo in the 8th grade, and kind of felt like I cheated when it was assigned to me as a sophomore to do as a book report! I read voraciously all through my teen years and in the Corps. I was on a plane coming back from Vietnam and other vacation spots when I discovered the Hobbit in the seat magazine holder. I was hooked on everything Hobbit after! As a youngster, I never had fairy tales to read or had them read to me, but I have now read a host of classics and a library full of science fiction and fantasy! I am currently reading the Scions of Shannara. I currently have five bookcases full of Sci-fi and fantasy, and a very large bookcase full of classics, all read. My wife made me cancel all my book subscriptions when I wanted to buy an extra Tuff Shed to store them.  She has no idea how many I have stored the Books app on my iPhone!

Time Travel

Posted: May 4, 2024 in Fiction, short story
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I have always thought that If I could go back in time I would like to visit North America before any Europeans came. I would, especially if I had a guarantee of safety, try and learn as many native languages as I could and warn them about what was coming! Then I would attempt to get them all to work together to watch their shores. I would not want them to massacre any who showed up! Greet them with overwhelming force, inform them that they did not discover anything, this land already belongs to, and is settled by, people who do not welcome them! If my fantasy has merit, then they would be given fresh water, jerky, dried fruit, and the basics to get them back wherever they came from! Then, I would head south to warn the people who were about to come in contact with Christopher Columbus! Make sure they knew he wanted to make slaves out of them and take any and all resources they had. I am aware that Europe and the rest of the populated world, knowing there were lands and how to find them, would eventually show up with forces well-armed and still subjugate, murder, rob, and rape their way across all of the Americas! So I probably would have made it much worse than it actually was over time. However, Christopher Columbus did not discover America. He and his men actually never set foot on North American soil, only a few islands in the Bahamas! Later in our history, the pilgrims did and became a blight on what is now North America. They were responsible for women being subjugated and thought of as inferior throughout our society here in America, the supposed land of the free. It was 1974 before women could have their own bank accounts, their own credit card, or their own home! The first act allowing women to own and control land was passed in 1848, but only if her husband had died, not leaving a will, and I think, without a male son! I would rather have the Vikings, who did discover America, to deal with. All they wanted to do was hunt here! 

Dhort More to Come!

Shipp, Novel by John love

Posted: June 11, 2018 in books, Fiction, Novel, Sci-fi
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So, a little self-promotion is happening here. A few years back I started studying the governments and societies of nations around the world in preparation of writing a sci-fi novel I had in mind. Well after several nations had total regime changes or had revamped their government policies, I had not written a word. So one night I just thought, why not just write something down! When I looked up from the computer it was light outside and I was five chapters in! I did not use a lot of the research, it just kind of appeared like it had a mind of its own! I actually did not know what was going to happen until it did appear on the page. I think it is good, but of course, as the author, I would. My friends and relatives who have read it also think it is great, but again, friends and relatives! But I am hoping for a few customers, not for the money, I would just like to know people enjoyed it! I will not throw any money out, but royalties here are at a minimum for either book, so unless it becomes a best seller I am not going to get rich by any means!

To be honest, I was not intending to publish, I found that writing relaxed me and relieved stress. So anytime I could not sleep, I wrote. I wound up with about 850 pages. In order to publish, I had to make it fit on 670 pages, so I did after a few people harangued me about why I was not publishing it. So there is now a paperback and a Kindle or e-book version. You can download a free Kindle reader on your tablet, PC, or computer on the link to my books. I am writing a sequel, but we will get into that at a later date. So I am including links to both the paperback and the Kindle version on Amazon. There is a pop-up that will let you read some before you buy. When you get rid of that pop-up there will be prices in blue for whichever form of the book you intend to buy, if you decide to, that is.

This is the link to the paperback Shipp by John Love.

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This is a link to Kindle or E-version of my book Shipp.

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Thank you, I will read any words of wisdom you care to provide me if you do read my novel. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it!

John Love