tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82013661705332525522024-02-19T09:02:50.605-08:00Jean de BeurreUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-29707922685815498472018-08-25T05:08:00.000-07:002018-08-25T05:08:04.411-07:00<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DW848GY/ref=dbs_a_def_awm_bibl_vppi_i1"><img alt="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DW848GY/ref=dbs_a_def_awm_bibl_vppi_i1" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1217" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFzs3qT59HalnkBONWhU3b1JPLN65nEYT3TiupFJ5Oefot3jpyqWRYuiX9cdiar0G_VXkXrJTMCejo4EQkN1jAUIywxZAyN0eJ-lsYmetWnX2emAMb1jUJ8ysWbTWMQcaCbnOjuz4WpI/s320/short+stories+1+cover3.jpg" width="243" />Free kindle download thru until Tuesday 28th </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-57833008682356242852018-08-24T10:52:00.001-07:002018-08-24T10:52:36.614-07:00One of my three books of short stories is available as a freebie kindle download on Amazon from August 25 until August 28. Get it and enjoy...<br />
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One of the covers that didn't make it - but I still like it...<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-46370913264493934452014-07-09T01:23:00.002-07:002014-07-09T01:23:35.906-07:00Love your neighbour and yourself<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A thought for today....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LBFWUQA">Guardian Angel - Kindle edition by Jean de Beurre. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.</a></span>
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<span><br />I paint pictures to recover from writing and I write to recover from painting pictures. I have a day job that pays the bills. I am married, Christian and have degrees in arts, town planning and theology.<br /></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-57938194249807373672014-06-27T00:29:00.000-07:002014-06-27T00:29:20.919-07:00Now publishedIt is out...<br />
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ALSO AVAILABLE IN OTHER NATIONS AND JURISDICTIONS!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-67120670467205852462014-06-26T10:23:00.000-07:002014-06-26T10:23:01.050-07:00NEW BOOK OUT VERY SOON<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GUARDIAN ANGEL my new novel is almost available.</span><br />
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Angel Gregorious is sent to Scotland on a mission to give fate a kick
in the right direction. Many people in the west end of Glasgow need
some angelic help. There are the young women who have escaped from
unhealthy relationships and come to stay in a women's refuge run by
eccentric nuns. There is the owner of a nearby chic 'angel' boutique
who has never seen an angel. There is an ex-rugby player who is
confined to a wheelchair since an accident left him depressed and
withdrawn. And many miles away, on a Hebridean island there is a
troubled young minister.
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this mix a family where women have the gift of second sight, a family
seeking to reclaim their inheritance and an increasingly desperate
gangster who wants revenge on the woman who left him. Guardian Angel
Gregorious steps into the storm to put fate back on course, but will
anyone accept guidance from a heavenly messenger? Can he have any
influence in the twenty-first century when many don't believe?
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-24128444582023241752013-11-04T07:35:00.000-08:002013-11-04T07:35:12.443-08:00New book of short stories now out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My new book of seven short stories is now out for the kindle</div>
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<span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven short stories of people facing choices or who have made choices that have consequences. </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">"Friends Reunited?" is about the unexpected consequences of joining a website </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Visitation" tells of a preachers strange message. </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">In "Julie's Revenge" we discover how Julie gets back at the woman who stole her husband. </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Church Cat" is a fable. </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Sister's Letter" is an intimate letter from a younger woman to her elder sister about her solution for a troublesome husband. </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Gift" tells of a strange encounter </span><br style="background-color: #eef0e3; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #eef0e3; border: 0px; color: #1e6675; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Boy who only saw Screens" is about the choices parents make when they bring up a child </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-78264603521205237382013-09-27T04:44:00.005-07:002013-09-27T04:44:54.064-07:00Capcir Spring - new cover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I wasn't ecstatic about the last one... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I think this is much better.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-91910451671338668982013-09-10T01:38:00.000-07:002013-09-10T01:38:04.596-07:00Free promotion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This book of short stories is on a free promotion at Amazon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">from Thursday 12th September to Sunday 15th September 2013 - your chance to download it to your kindle for free......</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-8973867085595112522013-09-03T13:59:00.001-07:002013-09-05T08:57:19.187-07:00Price cut....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">From the 1st September 2013 Capcir Spring - the romantic adventure set in the French mountains - is available as a download for a specially reduced price £0.77 or $0.99</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-91528706867597089692013-08-14T10:20:00.001-07:002013-08-14T10:20:16.983-07:00Free ebook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My book "Tales of mystery and magic" will be on a free promotion on Amazon from 15th - 19th August 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After that time it will revert to the former price....</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-42529330231877030222013-08-14T09:19:00.001-07:002013-08-14T09:19:51.489-07:00book review - “The diary of a frazzled mother” by Julia Frazzleby<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is not a genre that I normally read but I finished and enjoyed this book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This book in diary form describes the
pressures of life for a middle class family where two incomes are
needed to support a menagerie of animals and dependent children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is written by the frazzled wife who
takes responsibility for everything. The husband is a shadowy figure
who takes little part in parenting or family life – perhaps he is
just needed to provide the dosh to keep the whole show on the road!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">In parts it was a very funny book and
there were several places where I laughed out loud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other parts were alien to my
experience: I never tweet, I text rarely and couldn't imaging why
anyone would want alpacas, sheep, pigs cats, dogs and horses as pets!
I am sure I would have been frazzled too if I had taken on looking
after this zoo whilst holding down a full time job and having
responsibility for an elderly parent suffering from dementia as well
as a teen with issues at school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few of the numerous incidents
portrayed may have been extremely funny for those there at the time
as they dissolved in fits of giggles however they aren't necessarily
as amusing in a written account. The author uses acronyms for all the
protagonists, such as SIL for sister in law, but there were so many
of these that I found this literary device overused. The awful
sister in law is so dreadful that she becomes an unbelievable figure
of fun and I was cheering on the teens as they found ways to
humiliate her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a good example of its genre and
there are many incidents that working parents who juggle many
responsibilities will recognise. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-50937126402758268622013-08-09T09:30:00.001-07:002013-08-09T09:30:10.915-07:00Book Review The Reluctant Fundamentalist<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is an
amazing book, very well written and poignant, that tells of a young man
from Pakistan who wins a scholarship to Princeton and then gets a
prestigious job in New York. Set against the backdrop of “9/11”
his career as an analyst, discovering the fundamentals about companies, makes him reflect more widely on America, the new world he has
entered and the old world he left behind. It leads him to a crisis
and the rejection of the new world that he had initially embraced.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">It
is a subtle and insightful critique of the USA and the post 9/11
foreign policy viewed from a sympathetic observer from another
culture. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The
story is also about boundaries and relationships as there is a
parallel personal narrative of his friendship and love of a
beautiful, but troubled young American woman. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">It
is a very short book and I found the unusual style of telling the
story a little annoying at first but I was impressed by the ambiguity
of the ending. </span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One
of my favourite quotations from the book is - "Such journeys
have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's
boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a
relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as
the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be.
Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now
within us."</span> </span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-69682969208853802762013-08-03T01:29:00.000-07:002013-08-08T09:40:34.980-07:00New cover design for Capcir spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the three new covers I am piloting for Capcir Spring..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-76718356336110810052013-07-30T05:13:00.000-07:002013-07-30T05:13:00.076-07:00Book review THE BOOK OF WHY by Nicholas Montemarano<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This
novel is about Eric, the broken author of motivational self help
books. Eric has made a fortune by telling people that that can do
anything they want if they have a positive attitude and believe it
possible. He is broken because, despite all that he has written and
the inspirational lectures he has given, he could not stop his
beloved wife from dying. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He
retires from the world and lives in a remote cottage in Martha's
Vineyard with only his wife's old German shepherd dog, Ralph, for
company. There he is found by Sam, a woman who has read all his books
and believes all he taught. Yet she too is battling problems of her
own. Together they begin a journey that is a search for meaning. He
tries unsuccessfully to write his next book which addresses the “why”
question. This is the real question that Eric and Sam and struggling
to answer, namely why is it that when people do all the right things
crap still happens? </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
book is dark journey through the sub-conscious emotions of desire,
love and guilt. The plot is not straightforward and in places
confusing and the ending is ambiguous. The characters are not very
likeable but become understandable. The book explores the vacuous
hype peddled by motivational life coaches and comes to the conclusion
that theologians have long known that suffering is a mystery and the
things that happen can afflict good and bad people alike. (theodicy?)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For
me one of the best parts of the book was the loving portrayal of the
dog Ralph who is a constant feature through Eric's life: courtship,
marriage and widowhood. At the end of the book the old dog dies and I
was left wondering how Eric will live without Ralph. But that is part
of the ambiguity of the ending.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-9859370644100607002013-07-30T00:24:00.001-07:002013-07-30T00:24:17.861-07:00Website news<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a new author website. This has some information about me and my books with direct links to where they can be obtained. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is called " Jean de Beurre - Author "</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can find it here <a href="http://jeandebeurre.webs.com/">http://jeandebeurre.webs.com/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8201366170533252552.post-58018942935345274652013-07-26T04:47:00.001-07:002013-07-28T14:05:50.121-07:00Just read this book Matchbox Memories by Ray Kingfisher<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Book
review <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007WJ9VAC/ref=jeandebeur-21">Matchbox Memories by Ray Kingfisher </a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Matchbox
Memories is the story of an ordinary family with secrets. Ian has to
leave his wife and young boys in the south east to go to Cumbria to
look after the Aunt who brought him up while his uncle is in
hospital. They have been Ian's parents since he was orphaned at five
years old but he has never called them Mum and Dad. His mother is now
suffering from <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alzheimer's</span></span>
and needs constant supervision. Ian's siblings each have difficult
situations in their own lives which they have been keeping secret
from the rest of the family. As Ian lives with his mother for a week,
caring for her while his father is in hospital, he learns much more
about her and in moments of lucidity she hints at secrets from the
past that he never knew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The
book is well written as it develops each member of the family as a
rounded character. It deals sensitively and humorously with
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alzheimer's
and the bizarre behaviour and conversations that can take place,
especially the continuous repetition of the same questions. Yet
throughout this the author always treats the sufferer of the
condition with dignity and respect. Ray Kingfisher must have either
direct experience of living with Alzheimer's patients or has studied
his subject carefully because this is one of the most perceptive
fictional accounts that I have read. It accords with my experience of
those with the condition and their carers. He portrays accurately the
difficulties of being a carer of someone with serious memory loss.
Alzheimer's could be a depressing subject matter but this is an
uplifting book.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The
novel has a moral about the importance of being open in family
relationships because of the power of secrets to undermine trust. At
the end of the novel the family members reveal to each other the
hidden parts of their lives. There is a feeling of release of tension
as they each begin to understand the burdens that the others had been
carrying alone. There were so many secrets to emerge that I half
wished for one member of the family who was not hiding a guilty
secret!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">It
is a very enjoyable read with a warm bitter-sweet humour running
through it. I recommend it highly.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007WJ9VAC/ref=jeandebeur-21" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Click here to buy this book on Amazon</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can get your copy of my book "Capcir Spring"by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IUB02M/jeandebeur-21">clicking HERE if you are in the USA</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007IUB02M/jeandebeur-21">here if you are in the UK</a> Thank you</span></div>
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