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After millions of books have been written and published, it would seem tough to find original stories, and yet, our authors manage it. Our Dkos writer, James R. Wells wrote The Great Symmetry for adults and our DKos writer Joel Ross wrote The Fog Diver for children and adults. Both of the stories are very original. I celebrate creativity and I enjoy it so much.
I also celebrate nurturing novels in which people learn how to live together or work together, how to love, and how to live in peace. These stories are very important in teaching us and giving us hope that we can create a better life.
Because I am doing N authors, tonight, I thought I would jump on this for perfect timing. Another good diary to read, first of all from guavaboy.
Kathmandu gets a wake-up call from the Terai. Politics and death in rural Nepal August 25th 2015
by guavaboy
http://www.dailykos.com/...
I ordered these two books by guavaboy, yesterday. They look really interesting!
The Hospital at the End of the World May 13, 2009
by Joe Niemczura
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/...
Overview
There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as "Mission Hospitals" - far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world. The Hospital at the End of the World tells the story of a nurse from the USA and his first experience as a teaching nurse in Nepal.
Joe Niemczura brings to life the day-to-day realities of life in a rural teaching hospital, literally at the "end of the road." The harsh realities of a lack of modern medical equipment when mixed with the humanness of endurances demonstrates that above all, it is the individual who matters; both patient and caregiver. All else pales in comparison. The strength of this story is in relationships with students, physicians, other nurses, patients, families and most importantly with Nepal itself. There is a sense of community connectedness which the author brings alive as the reader becomes one with the story...
The Sacrament of the Goddess April 4, 2014
by Joe Niemczura
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/...
Overview
Suspense at remote missionary hospital in Nepal, as the Civil War shreds the intertwined lives of an international team. Will they survive?
As a college student on a trek during summer break in 1996, Matt was wounded in the crossfire of a mountain ambush during the civil war in Nepal. Matt returns to Nepal ten years later to repay his debt to the surgeons who saved his life and to find Kali, the young Nepali woman who was the love of his life.
Nobody will tell him what happened to Kali during the battle that swept through the town, and Matt must unravel the mystery. He is now a missionary surgeon, working alongside the doctors that saved his life, earning their trust...
Note:
I have a separate blog for the second book. These days the entries are about Nepali culture in an effort to enhance the book contents. But for awhile there, I was going meta - i.e., writing about writing. This is a conceit many writers must exorcise and I think I now have done so. One fun thing about the blog is, In the book I used many words that represent the patois of speech in Nepal, and I was able to re-post it with color illustrations. If you do read it, take a look at the glossary first...
https://sacramentofthegoddess.wordpress.com/...
...You are invited to follow my wordpress blog, CCNEPal 2015.
https://joeniemczura.wordpress.com/
by guavaboy on Tue Aug 25, 2015 at 04:01:39 PM EDT
My N and O authors: (Please share yours).
NON-FICTION
Nafisi, Azar
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Things I’ve Been Silent About
The Republic of Imagination
Nelkin, Halina
And Yet, I Am Here
Newby, Eric
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Norris, Kathleen
The Cloister Walk
Nez, Chester with Judith Avila
Code Talker
Obama, Barack
Dreams from My Father
Obert, Genevieve
Prince Borghese’s Trail or Peking to Paris: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Opydyke, Irene and Armstrong
In My Hands
O’Reilly, Francis Augustin
Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock
FICTION
Nahai, Gina
Caspian Rain
Naylor, Gloria
Linden Hills
Mama Day
Nemirovsky, Irene
Suite Francaise
Neruda, Pablo (poet)
100 Love Sonnets
On the Blue Shore of Silence
Your Laughter
by Pablo Neruda
http://www.poemhunter.com/...
Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.
Do not take away the rose,
the lance flower that you pluck,
the water that suddenly
bursts forth in joy,
the sudden wave
of silver born in you.
My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life.
My love, in the darkest
hour your laughter
opens, and if suddenly
you see my blood staining
the stones of the street,
laugh, because your laughter
will be for my hands
like a fresh sword.
Next to the sea in the autumn,
your laughter must raise
its foamy cascade,
and in the spring, love,
I want your laughter like
the flower I was waiting for,
the blue flower, the rose
of my echoing country.
Laugh at the night,
at the day, at the moon,
laugh at the twisted
streets of the island,
laugh at this clumsy
boy who loves you,
but when I open
my eyes and close them,
when my steps go,
when my steps return,
deny me bread, air,
light, spring,
but never your laughter
for I would die.
Neville, Katherine
The Eight
Calculated Risk
Magic Circle
Norris, Frank
The Octopus
Oates, Joyce Carol
We Were the Mulvaneys
Them
O’Brian, Patrick
The Golden Ocean
Master and Commander series
Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient
In the Skin of a Lion
Divisadero
The Cat’s Table
O’Neill, Eugene
Plays
Anna Christie
A Long Day’s Journey into Night
The Ice Man Cometh
Orczy, Baroness
Scarlet Pimpernell
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Owen, Wilfred (poet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Anthem For Doomed Youth
by Wilfred Owen
http://www.poemhunter.com/...
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Owens, Janis
The Schooling of Claybird Catts
Oz, Amos
Don’t Call It Night
A Tale of Love and Darkness (memoir)
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
Neumeier, Rachel
Griffin Mage Trilogy
The Floating Islands
House of Shadows
Norton, Andre
Star Hunter
Mirror of Destiny
Knave of Dreams
Star Soldiers
Star Guard
Star Rangers
Shadow of Albion
Storms of Victory
Exiles of the Stars
Zero Stone
Moon of Three Rings
Skaith
Beast Master’s Planet…The Beast Master and Lord of Thunder
Witch World series
Novik, Naomi
Temeraire series
His Majesty’s Dragon
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War
Empire of Ivory
Victory of Eagles
Tongues of Serpents
Crucible of Gold
Blood of Tyrants
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-four…1984
CHILDREN’S/YA
Naftali, Joel (DKos author)
(My grandson loved these books)
The Cyberskunk Files
The Rendering
Nichols, Lee (wife of DKos author)
Haunting Emma series
Deception
Betrayal
Surrender
Norton, Mary
The Borrowers
O’Dell, Scott
Sing Down the Moon
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Sarah Bishop
The list of N authors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
The list of O authors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Diaries of the Week:
Write On! some keys to success
by SensibleShoes
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Puppies shut out of Hugos
by shaso
http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.thehugoawards.org/...
http://www.wired.com/... (hat tip to pico)
Books! Science fiction's bad dogs
by Susan Grigsby
http://www.dailykos.com/...
POLL...Please don't worry if you don't approve or know all the authors in one line. Please just go ahead and vote for your favorite despite that. No one will know or you can explain it in comments.