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Unwanted, by Linda Smith: Book Review

  • 05. Feb. 2021
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Unwanted, the profound by Linda Smith

Unwanted by Linda Smith is a profound real life page turner! It describes an initially reluctant mother’s battle to champion the existence of her disabled son. Put yourself in her shoes What if your child was born, and the doctor grimly pronounced the baby “mongoloid?” Then declared it profoundly disabled...
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  • book, disabilities, Disability Rights, Down Syndrome, NonFiction, parenting

Mark’s Review of Thomas Wolfe’s Kingdom Of Speech

  • 19. Aug. 2018
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My rating: 3 of 5 stars. Sorry. Eloquently argued, though tendentious to the point of screed. Thomas Wolfe eviscerates the theories of Charles Darwin (evolution based on natural selection) and Noam Chomsky (linguistics as an innate language acquisition device that produces a universal grammar). An Informative Lecture I love how...
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Reading Richard Ford’s “The Lay Of The Land”

  • 21. May. 2015
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I am now about 110 pages into the second novel of Richard Ford’s Bascombe trilogy. So far it reflects the author’s penchant for reflective writing and the search for meaning in the banality of daily living. It is challenging to find Bascombe a truly sympathetic character at this point. Sure...
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Brief Review of Superb Novel The Kite Runner

  • 04. Dec. 2013
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The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini My rating: 5 of 5 stars A beautifully written, evocative novel of growing up in a society riven by war, betrayals and efforts toward redemption. Afghanistan in the mid 1970’s serves as the early backdrop as two young friends, star-crossed by class yet inseparable,...
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  • book review, contemporary, literary fiction

Book Review: “The Hypnotist” by Sarah Sheard

  • 14. Nov. 2013
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The Hypnotist, a novel by Sarah Sheard

The Hypnotist is the first book I read by Toronto psychotherapist and author Sarah Sheard. It was back in 2001, at a time when I was contemplating becoming a novelist who, like Sheard, would draw upon their professional experience to inform a book’s plot and themes. I ended up focusing on my nonficton writing...
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About – In Brief

Mark D Swartz

Author of best-selling non-fiction. Former contributing columnist with a leading North American newspaper. Currently writing provocative debut novel. It explores the potential extinction of Down Syndrome due to real-life medical advancements. The book also offers points of common ground that bridge our wrenching political polarization.

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Mark 's GoodReads Bookshelf

The Catcher in the Rye
5 of 5 stars
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5 of 5 stars
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange
4 of 5 stars
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
1984
5 of 5 stars
1984
by George Orwell

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  • Mark's Writing Journey 2
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