My Second Life by Simon Yeats | Spotlight ~ $25 Gift Card | #Memoir @GoddessFish @authoryeats
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Book Details
My Second Life by Simon Yeats Published by Independently on July 8, 2023
Genres: Adult Non-Fiction 18+, Memoir
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 260
We all have two lives. We only get to experience living in the second after we realize we only have just one.
I have my first real scare in life when I get attacked by a kangaroo when I am seven. My first brush with the cliff-face edge of death comes when I am 12. My dad drives the family down the dangerous Skipper’s Canyon dirt road in New Zealand in a rented minivan.
Including the occasion I am almost involved in two different plane flight crashes, in the same night, there have been at least a half dozen more occasions when I have been within a moment’s inattention of being killed.
However, none of those frightening incidents compare to what I experience after my son is abducted.
This memoir is the story of how I used the traumatic experiences of my life to give me strength to forge on during a 13 year fight to be a father to my son.
What did it take for me to get to my second life? It took me to truly understand what fear is.
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Excerpt from My Second Life
How does a second life differ from a first? My story of reaching the second will demonstrate it perfectly for those languishing in the latter. I guarantee the perception of your life will never be the same after reading about it.
What did it take for me to get to a second life?
Was it an occasion of cheating death? Was it multiple occasions of evading the grim reaper? Was it being arrested and thrown in jail for no reason?
Perhaps a better question might be. How much do I love my child? What am I willing to go through to be in my child’s only life?
Until recently, I had never even heard of this saying by Confucius. But, when a person sees something that resonates with a chord in their heart, they feel it.
I felt it like an earthquake.
Before then, I had never given thought to who I might have ever met that I would consider was living a second life.
Yet this would seem to be our very point of being.
While there have been many occasions in my existence when I have felt like the world is against me. The true nature of life often seems a cruel device. Callous. Savagely unforgiving. And the puppeteer of fate in control of all our lives does not seem to care that we do not want it to be this way.
How many people would admit that they are suffering during their first life?
Rhetorical question.
We all are. Some more than others. But we all are.
Not surprisingly then, that humanity thrives on the ever-unfolding tragedies around us. The devastation of the tsunami in Thailand. The OJ Simpson trial. World War Two concentration camps. The collective work of The Cure and The Smiths.
If it bleeds, it leads.
This is what people want to see.
But the hordes in their first life are primarily concerned with the suffering of the mighty.
However, many of us are not mighty.
Most of us are ordinary.
And the suffering in our first life is done in silence.
Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.
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Purchase Links for My Second Life
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Yeats, Simon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 305 Pages - 07/03/2023 (Publication Date)
- Yeats, Simon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 260 Pages - 07/08/2023 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
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About Simon Yeats
Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life.
With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were survived.
No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.
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Giveaway!
Simon Yeats is awarding a randomly drawn winner a $25 Amazon/BN gift card.
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Official Tour Page for My Second Life
Full Tour Schedule:
June 24
1: Kenyan Poet
2: Edgar’s Books
3: It’s Raining Books
4: The Faerie Review
5: Boys’ Mom Reads!
6: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
7: A Wonderful World of Words
June 25
1: Straight from the Library
2: Sandra’s Book Club
3: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’
4: Wendi Zwaduk – Romance to Make Your Heart Race
5: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
June 26
1: Hope. Dreams. Life… Love
2: Long and Short Reviews
3: Fabulous and Brunette
4: The Avid Reader
5: Locks, Hooks and Books
6: Gina Rae Mitchell
June 27
1: Welcome to My World of Dreams
2: Literary Gold
3: Author C.A.Milson
4: Moonlight Compass Books
5: D. S. Dehel
6: Teatime and Books
7: Let me tell you a story
June 28
1: Our Town Book Reviews
2: FUONLYKNEW
3: Westveil Publishing
4: Sea’s Nod
5: Books all things paranormal and romance
6: Girl with Pen
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I enjoy a good nonfiction book and this sounds interesting.
This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.
Simon Yeats is a new author to me, but I look forward to reading this book. All I have read, leads me to believe he has a good sense of humor and is a great storyteller.
This sounds like a fascinating and inspiring story.
Nancy
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I liked the excerpt.
Thank you for featuring MY SECOND LIFE today.