The Survival of Marvin Baines

The humour is well-judged and never forced, and overall The Survival of Marvin Baines is a highly recommended tale of mid-life dysfunction." - Indie Book Spot.
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Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. Colleges and universities are to me like sugar water to a hummingbird. I have always had a talent for writing, which was driven by my passion for stringing words together to say something that would make others take notice.

My teachers, all through the school system, told me so. I have written my whole life.

My cupboards are filled with my writing, which spans a forty-five year period. I have bits and pieces of stories, completed short stories, essays, and notes galore. I became fascinated with books at a very young age. At the age of ten, I self-published my first book, a short synopsis of California history. My parents bought the only copy, but I was a published author at an early age.

The writing bug struck me hard. My study at home is filled with manuscripts of one sort or another.

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When I retired from my year career as an English professor, I found that I now had the time to work on the unfinished manuscripts I had started years before. I have now published fours novels on Amazon Kindle, and my fifth book is nearing completion. In retirement I have suddenly found the time I need to devote to one of my lifelong passions: And I also am privileged to have the time to see things through to completion.

The unfinished works in my study are quickly vanishing, to my delight. I love creating characters and plots. Writing to me is like reading. I never know precisely where things will lead. I am in good health, and my doctor told me that writing is a very healthy avocation for someone in my situation: I love his advice. The most difficult part of writing for me is placing the following words on my manuscript: I get very involved with my characters as I write. I laugh and cry with them, and I agonize over their actions and their circumstances. They are like my own children.

I am sad to see them grow up and then go off to live their lives on their own. Saying goodbye is tough, even though I know that they have found a very good home on Amazon Kindle. When I am in the groove, which is the vast majority of the time when I am sitting at my keyboard, working on a manuscript, the characters call out to me, leading me onward, and it is exciting to me, because I never quite know where they will lead me.

I have fun writing. It is pleasurable for me.

The very second though that something seems too tough to handle at the moment, I stop. I will then go off and live my everyday life, waiting until the trigger I need pops into my head.

The Survival of Marvin Baines

That's when I run back upstairs to my study and start working once again. It is a good life. I enjoy writing immensely. Life is too short to do otherwise. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime. A decade birthday is approaching, one with a big "0" in it, and he's losing it. Marvin Baines seemingly has it all: He is about to turn forty, and just like that, the realization hits him--his own mortality is straight up the road. That's not his only problem. Suddenly he is unable to distinguish fantasy from reality, and his often quirky decision-making causes his whole life to begin to unravel.

All he wants is an escape from his humdrum life. What he gets is something quite unexpected. Read more Read less. Print edition purchase must be sold by Amazon. Thousands of books are eligible, including current and former best sellers. Look for the Kindle MatchBook icon on print and Kindle book detail pages of qualifying books. Print edition must be purchased new and sold by Amazon. Gifting of the Kindle edition at the Kindle MatchBook price is not available.

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Marvin Baines is approaching When faced with the idea of his own mortality, he begins to unravel quite a bit. Allowing himself to be influenced by talking grass and songs on the radio, Marvin decides that he is tired of his hum-drum life.


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He wants to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it! What I love about this book is that it is in no way pretentious. It is a real story told through the view of a man that feels real. Anyone with spouses and children who has had to make sacrifices for the sake of the collective "we" can easily understand the frustration of a man who reaches 40 and realizes that he is unhappy with his life. Throughout the story Marvin often reminisces about his past, asking himself over and over again "what if"??? When finally faced with the reality of his "what if", Marvin learns a real lesson about the difference between fantasy and real life.


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    • After watching Marvin flop around crazily, grasping at survival, in the end you will be pleasantly surprised to find that he does. Overall, Myers has written an endearing story that Joe Everyman can relate too.