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Exploring Change in ‘Neighbors’ by Rodney Nelsestuen
Reviewed by Maalin Ogaja for Readers’ Favorite May 11, 2025 “Neighbors by Rodney Nelsestuen is a story about the inevitability of change, especially in middle-age, when the physical, emotional, and social landscapes shift. For Peter, Leroy, and Jerry, neighbors in Eagles Pond, the most visible change is the evolving makeup of their community, with more…
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Update to Why Belize? Available June 10
My novel Why Belize? is available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and online through Apple books. June 10 delivery. Besides the positive review by Kirkus part of which is on the book’s cover, a review by Readers’ Favorite says in part: Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers’ Favorite “In Rodney Nelsestuen’s Why Belize?…
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Some Links
Here are some links to my books, reviews, and to a couple of literary accounts. You can also download from Apple Books to the app on your Apple device: https://bookfinity.com/reader-type-results-share/Bookworm/Time%20Traveler/Lifelong%20Learner/ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/rodney%20nelsestuen/_/N-8q8 Rodney Nelsestuen on Amazon Too Many Stones, A Novel Neighbors, A Novel Quiet Desperation, A Novella Why Belize? A Novel Kirkus Books – Reviews…
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Bucket List Check Mark: War and Peace
Over the past year I have been ‘chewing’ on Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I finished it on April 4, 2025, a major accomplishment and a long term goal to conquer this more than 500,000 word work. Much to say about it, but for now, I found interesting what Tolstoy himself had to say about the…
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
I recently read The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that predates Homer by 1500 years or more (Intro by NK Sandars in the Penguin Classics edition copyrighted 1972). The story was most likely a composite of decades, if not centuries, of oral storytelling which was finally written down (probably) first in Sumerian Cuneiform. Tablets were…
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Why Belize: A Novel of New Beginnings
My novel Why Belize will be available within the next couple of months. Kirkus Reviews gives it a “Buy it” recommendation. “Nelsestuen has a musical sense of language., his sentences capturing the rhythms of both the landscape and the people who move through it…” Kirkus Reviews. Here’s some insight to the novel: Forty-seven-year-old “Eileen Sologoski…
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Update to Pre-Order for Neighbors, A Novel
Taken from the Amazon pre-sale commentary regarding Neighbors: Global integration and increasing universal diversity have reached Eagles Pond. “Neighbors” is a story of contemporary America and the continuous and often unseen changes occurring in the everyday makeup of society, both social and economic, and their impact on a once comfortable and trusted way of life.…
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Neighbors: Now Available for Preorder
My novel Neighbors is now available for preorder in Kindle format, and will be in hard copy soon. The launch date for both is February 10, 2025. See Amazon: Neighbors, a novel preorder Neighbors, like my other novels has been a work of many years with the finished novel completed in 2008. Since then there…
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With Caution, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
Over the past year and a half, I have been reading, and finally finished, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. This is a book I do not take lightly. Nor do I take writing about it lightly. Originally published in Paris in 1934, the book was banned in the US. The life of the narrator (presumably…
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James, a novel by Percival Everett
In James, acclaimed author Percival Everett (previous novels have been finalists for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer) reimagines Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of Jim, the slave runaway who traveled with Huck. With an interesting twist (and maybe a spoiler alert here) Jim is an educated man who can read and write and…
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