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Another Author's review--Thank you Richard--gotta read yours

Ten Years After the Future Bill Samos Reviewed by Richard McClain 4 stars My own experience of the 60s was shaped by southern California, that laid-back la-la-land where nothing seemed real and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was easy to relate to staggering around in the sand of Venice Beach. If you can keep up with it, you’ll love Stamos’s phantasmagoric hallucinogenic vision of the 60s. It touches all the bases of the times. From the upper reaches of Oakland on the east side of San Francisco Bay, to Berkeley with scholars and drop-outs, to a strangely normal commune in Oregon, to the fearsome hell of Vietnam. Donna and Sally, opposites though sisters, are the tentpoles of the whirling, spinning, dizzying action. Author Stamos lovingly details the cutesy old-fashioned teen world that was torn asunder by the WAR. And he has no mercy on the characters he invents. As it should be. Problem: it’s difficult to keep the characters straight, and it’s difficult to imagine the
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#TenYearsAfterTheFuture #HistoricalRomance Will Donna find a man who will be devoted and true? Can Sally ever combine her forbidden sexuality with her need to be of service? Can Devon move beyond his self-infatuation to help bring a fractured family together? < You can find it on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079K7YCMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517697036&sr=8-1&keywords=Ten+Years+After+the+future+stamos EXCERPT: Ten Years After the Future The dance hall was more like a storage warehouse, a cavernous shadowy funhouse. Everything swirled colors before the drugs even kicked in. Meandering through the angelic ghost-like dancers, they quickly found their way to the front of the stage The evangelical alchemy of the Grateful Dead—and Jerry Garcia’s nimbus of black hair, belied his un-rock star stature and glory. She was mesmerized from the beginning by his angelic plaintive voice, all teary toned and wise; with a beat that was both an ea

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FEATURED AT  CHRISTINE YOUNG ROMANCE WRITER : TEN YEARS AFTER THE FUTURE: HISTORICAL ROMANCE PLEASE STOP BY AND ENJOY AN EXCERPT: Buy at:  Amazon ,  Barnes and Noble  BLURB Begin a captivating journey into an era that was both a time of overly indulgent forays into hedonism, as well as a unique period in our nation’s history, when young Americans, politicized by the draft and the horrors of the Vietnam War, awakened to their sense of self and took responsibility for building a finer world. By the author of  Border Crossings,  this is an incisive portrayal into the essence of the American Myth as it played out on campuses and communes, in financial districts, and killing fields. It is a bright light on a time of revolutionary change, granting access to the thoughts, feelings and experiences of vividly drawn characters along side some of the cultural and political icons of the era. Sisters, Donna and Sally are bookends of the times trying to carve out their own ideals of p