The Woman with the Story of Cancer

Picture from The Sentinel

The feeling to educate the world invoked her memoir book There’s Something I’ve Been Dying To Tell You. Of course, the title brings you into a state of motivation. You can hardly gaze away without trying to find out what it is all about. Actually, it is the true life story of Lynda Bellingham who was diagnosed with cancer.
Unarguably, there are numerous stories of diagnosed cancer in the world. But the story of Lynda Bellingham is so relevant, motivated, informative, educative and rarely.

In 2013 Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. Sadly enough, she kept the details of her illness private. But the feeling to educate the world and the value of honesty extremely instigated her to write the story of her life since she was diagnosed, her family and how together they came to terms with a future they hadn’t planned. And how did Lynda become an intellectual writer at this time? It is in the fact that she stood up in literary term to spread her infectious warmth and humor bringing light to a very dark time.

According to her publisher, Lynda is described as, ‘Lynda Bellingham is a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this book brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. Lynda’s story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.’
Of course it is a great inspiration to read the story of Lynda. The Daily Telegraph described her as , ‘Her brilliantly titled book, There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You, charts the unravelling of that delusion, and her determination to wrest a meaningful life out of sudden chaos. By turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. Not just listening to the expletives of pain or the dawning of reality, but rooting for her when the treatment appears to be working, sharing her fears as her life expectation dwindles, and rocking with laughter at the absurdities that go with having the “least sexy” cancer of them all. Her description of the mechanics of dealing with a stoma bag in the ladies’ at Buckingham Palace, when she accepted her OBE in March, reads like a comedy scrip.’

Biographical Notes
Lynda has enjoyed a career spanning forty five years. Her roles have covered drama as Helen Herriott in All Creatures Great and Small and comedy in her own series Faith in the Future, which won Best Comedy in 1998. She also managed to give us a twirl in Strictly Come Dancing and plenty of lip as a Loose Woman for six years. She created the role of Chris in the stage version of Calendar Girls and after a successful run in the West End went on to spend four years playing to full houses in a nationwide tour and she is still loved and remembered as the long-suffering mum in the OXO commercials. Lynda has previously written Lost and Found which was a Sunday Times bestseller and she has enjoyed bestselling success with her fiction writing too.Her real life family brings her great joy and she lives in north London with her youngest son, Robert, and her stepson Bradley, while her eldest son Michael lives just round the corner. She finally found true happiness with her husband Michael Pattemore and they were married in 2008 on her sixtieth birthday.

David Isoje

How George Orwell Captured Africa Politics In the 1940s

 

Eric Blair, globally recognized as George Orwell in the globe of literary, was a political literature writer, intellectual scribbler, a humanitarian critic and unprejudiced author. At the time of dire, he wrote the most stimulating and incisive articles in those years of totalitarianism, censuring the abusers in power, of maliciousness between power and the common citizens, opposing inequality and dehumanization. Of course, the world would never forget his sardonic book, Animal Farm.

Literature itself is an imperative subject. It is an art, a history, a religion, a philosophy, a humanity, and even politics. To comprehend the idea of literature, one cannot elude the three genres that comprise literature itself as a theme. These three genres – prose, drama, and poetry – have significant effects on humanity. Prose, which is the foremost aspect of reaching multiple readers, deals with fiction and nonfiction stories. It is written in a narrative technique. Drama, on the other hand, involves the dialogues between actors on stage, dramatizations and presentations. The stage that the actors stand for performance represents the world. While poetry, the third genre in this article, reflects or expresses the feelings of the writer. It is written in stanzas, lyrically, poetically and artistically. All human beings engaged in these three genres of literature.
But within these three genres of literature, there are various classifications with a philosophy that denotes each category. One of them is called a satire. According to Wikipedia, satire is a  genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. Unarguably, satire is the most severe genus for any writer. But this is what George Orwell represented in the 1940s.

The philosophy of George Orwell can indeed spark a painstaking rejoin. According to him, telling the truth in our society is a revolutionary act. As he puts it, ‘in a time of universal truth, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.’ In another context, George was quoted as, “what I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce the work of art.; I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience.’

So we can see – an aesthetic experience, a lie that I want to expose, a sense of injustice – and yes, these are the things that instigate writers of satire. And one way to present this picture is to study the works of George Orwell circumspectly. Therefore, Animal Farm is not just a book of some certain animals rebelling against the farmer, Mr. Jones, and setting up their own farm. It is an allegory, a fable and a satire. It is about humanity as a whole. It is about the dishonest in power in the high places, about the masses in the hands of the crooked masters. It is about the Russian Revolution of 117, and probably, what may happen to people in the terrain of their leaders.

In the book, the behaviors of people, the power of belief, the kowtow of power by the masses, were all represented in the characterizations of the animals. Of course, after driving Mr. Jones from the farm by the animals, and Napoleon, a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way ascended a leader; the animals were in another world of dictatorship and ideology. One of them was to say that all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than the others. But before the revolution that drove the owner of the farm away, the belief of the animals was that all ‘animals are equal.’ Of course, the weak animals had no options; they had to go along with Napoleon’s policies. This Napoleon was Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

For instance, look at how many stories of betrayal exhibited by political leaders in Africa. They use the masses as their ladder to power, but at the end, they dashed their hopes of the people by leaving them in isolation and deprivation. The people do the solidarity, voting earnestly, but at the end, they are left alone in wailing. This brings the ideology of Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm who first invented the idea of revolution to the animals. ‘Never listen to them when they tell you that Man and animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of animal is the prosperity of others. It is all lies. Man serves the interest of himself.’’

Who is the Man here in the word of Major? The Man here, are the political leaders, the abusers of power who flourished on people’s brain with suitable words to achieve their aim. They used all sorts of orientations to brainwash the masses into believing them, and the masses are left in the hand of gullibility. And the media, which hold the most effective right to censure the government, are in a state of pathetic. Many of them are not independent. The government controls every aspect of the media – the radio, the newspapers, and the TV. What about education, agriculture, law, entertainment, and infrastructures? All are manipulated by the government. As Orwell puts it, ‘he who controls the past controls the future; and he who controls the present controls the past.’

Of course, the government controls everything, including the liberty of the people. You read some books in school because the government approved them. You are permitted to work because you are allowed by the government. You are disbanded and cannot say your opinion because the government of your country never condones it. Look at how many journalists that have been killed in Nigeria by political suspected leaders?
George Orwell, who was not only a novelist but also a columnist, must have studied the downtrodden elements that were unleashed on the masses in the years of totalitarianism. But not alone that, George wrote the literature of all time, about the struggling of the masses in the hands of the masters, about the people’s liberty and freedom of expression, about the eradication of discrimination and dehumanization, prejudiced and deprivation. George Orwell, therefore, wrote the Africa politics, the abusers of power.
One of the predicaments of Africans is that they never learn from literature. Literature is not just an entertainment; it is our life.

By David Isoje

A Poem to a friend

It is now that I begin to feel

 the ache in this worldly amity

like the malevolence women

 that are not necessary to avoid.

My heart has shattered,

 tingling and perilous to assemble

 like a pieces of a glass cup.

I bid you with a perpetual farewell,

wishing you not return anymore.

What I have, you unleashed to the world.

What I trust, you could not keep.

You stood at the threshold

 of my heart, and disseminated hateful message

 between me and the others,

becoming an indelible mark of exasperation.

 I pray for our visages

 not to set at each other again.

And with this nefarious  memo,

I regret ted that I made the best blunder

from our preceding  rogue relationship.

Goodbye forever, I can’t help it anymore!

An Interview with Author Blakely Bennet

Author Blakely Bennett is a writer of erotica literature. She lives in Washington, born in Florida and the author of six intriguing novels. When she is less busy, she loves to lie in the sun, spend time with her family and friends, explore new places and try new restaurants. She is also an avid movie watcher and she typically reads books. She loves to read stories that she would never forget. In this interview with David Isoje, she reveals the impact of erotica literature on America, as well as revealing her six fascinating books.



{1}Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where were you born and what was your childhood like?



Blakely – I was born and raised in southeast Florida and currently live in western Washington with my husband and daughter. We love it out here, but we do miss the sun in the winter. I had a middle class upbringing with parents who were avid readers. I always had a number of books to choose from to read. I preferred listening to music and reading a book than watch TV when I was a child.



{2} What kind of books do you write?



Blakely – I’m interested in writing in many different genres but my published projects currently include The My Body Trilogy, which is dark erotic suspense; The Demarcation of Jack, which I co-authored with my husband Dana Bennett and is contemporary romance; and my latest series Bound by Your Love, which is erotic romance.



{3}Can you tell us why you write erotic literature?



Blakely – I like the ability to explore sex scenes in a real way without having to tone them down. I prefer using words like cock and pussy than “his manhood entered me there.”



{4} How many books have you written?



Blakely – I have six novels currently on the market. Bound by Your Love Series: Stuck in Between and Bittersweet Deceit. I’m currently working on the third in the series: Blue Persuasion. Fractured Fidelities Trilogy: The Demarcation of Jack My Body Trilogy: My Body-His, My Body-His (Marcello), and My Body-Mine



{5}Who is your publisher?



Fanny Press is my publisher for the My Body Trilogy and TandemWriters (self-published) for the rest of the novels.



{6} How long does it take you to write a book?



Blakely – Once I’m really in it, it goes pretty quickly. Somewhere between two to four months. I have been told that I write my novels very fast.



Blakely on writing {7} Where do you get your information or ideas for your books?



Blakely – Mostly from my imagination and everything I take in from life, however the internet is a wonderful resource for research.



{8} When did you write your first book and how old were you?



Blakely – I started a few novels in my teens that I never finished and wrote poetry and short stories as well. My first full-length novel I wrote with my husband when I was 32 years old. I wrote My Body-His and My Body-His (Marcello) when I was 41.



{9} What do you like to do when you’re not writing?



Blakely – Exercise, lie in the sun, spend time with family and friends, explore new places and try new restaurants. I’m also an avid movie watcher and I typically consume books but I have a hard time reading when I’m working on a story.



{10}What is the title of your latest book?



Blakely – My most recent publication wasBittersweet Deceit (erotic romance). I’m currently working on two novels: Blue Persuasion, the follow-up to Bittersweet Deceit and The Second First Chance, which is a steamy romance.



{11} As an erotic writer, what kind of response do you get from your readers?



Blakely – People are amazed at how much they feel when reading my novels. I felt it when I wrote and am extremely happy that it seems to translate to the reader.



{12} Have you ever been rejected by a publisher or an agent before?



Blakely – I sure have and many times. Perseverance is the name of the game.



{13} What made you decide to work with Fanny Press and why self-publishing now?



Blakely – Catherine Treadgold loved my story, wanted a trilogy and the publishing house was local to me. I self-publish now because I like having all the control and making a lot more money per book sale.



{14}What makes a good story?



Blakely – I like to get sucked into a book that stays with me until I’m finish with it and even has me thinking about it after I’m done. I love when characters grow and evolve and I can feel their journey.



{15}What can you tell readers about your novels?



Blakely – All of my novels are fast paced, emotional, sexy reads. The My Body Trilogy follows Jane’s decent into a lifestyle that’s completely foreign to her. Her dark journey takes her away from the person she has always believed herself to be, almost to the point of fracturing, but manages to survive and ultimately finds stronger and healthier self and a love for the long-term. The Bound by Your Love Series focuses on a group of friends and their love lives. So far we have Jacqs story that has her caught between two men, Red and Bond. There will be more of their story in subsequent novels. We have also found out about Lainie’s journey to love and happiness. There will be seven or eight books once the series is done. The Demarcation of Jack is about Jack and Jenna who go on a vacation to Jamaica, hoping to rekindle their romance. Flirtations ignite with another couple, leading to unintended consequences.



{16} The titles of your books sound interesting, how can I buy them and read?



Blakely – My books are available on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Smashwords, iTunes, and most online book retailers. They are also available in some book stores.Signed paperbacks are available via me and you can find all the links and information on my website: http://www.blakelybennett.com/



(17}Why did you choose to write erotic literature?



Blakely – The first couple of books my husband, Dana Bennett, and I wrote together weren’t erotic novels but romance. My first published novel of the My Body Trilogy, My Body-His and the subsequent books, My Body-His (Marcello) and My Body-Mine are about Jane who falls into a dysfunctional relationship with a very dominant Luke. Sex is definitely a part of the storyline and necessary for this type of story. I believe sex is a very important part of life and romance and should be included. Not every story needs to be graphically explicit, but I have found I have a knack for writing hot, steamy sex.



{18} What inspire you to write?



Blakely – Reading really. I loved being swept up in a story as a kid and that love never left me. After reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse in 10th grade, I first thought about being an author.



{19} Who is your role model in erotica literature?



Blakely – I don’t really have a role model in erotic fiction. I have erotic authors that I enjoy like Lauren Dane, but my role models are from other genres: Stephen King, Anne Rice, Hermann Hesse, Audrey Niffenegger, Lisa Kleypas, and many more.



{20} If you were not a writer, what would you have become?



My last job before writing full-time was marketing and sales support for an IT company. I did think about becoming a couple’s therapist or a sex therapist.



{21} Do you believe in God?



Blakely – If I’ve learned anything in life, it’s that people don’t fit neatly into categories and we are all a wide mix of beliefs and values. I consider myself agnostic. I don’t believe in religion, especially when people use it to separate, annihilate, and condemn other people.



{22} Is your husband comfortable with your career?



Blakely – Very. He is incredibly supportive and an author himself. Our goal is for him to be able to write full-time as well.



{23} What is the impact of erotic literature on our society?



I honestly believe the impact has been great. America is still very stuffy when communication about sex and sexuality and I think erotica opens that door wider than before. I wrote a blog called, Is Reading Erotica Good for You?and several people told me after posting that erotica revived the sex life in their marriages. Yay for erotic novels!



{24} At this stage, what can you tell upcoming writers who want to become successful authors like you in the erotic literature?



Work hard at your craft, be persistent, be patient (I’m never good at that part), and make your stories compelling and interesting. I think readers are starved for something new and different.