The Silent Partner

And Other Stories Of Truth

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Pub Date 28 Feb 2017 | Archive Date 26 Jun 2017

Description

In this intimate arrangement of emotive short stories, Juliet Castle presents provocative thoughts that challenge the reader’s perspective. Collectively, the stories reveal a deeper understanding of life initially veiled from view. Juliet’s stories portray how the mystery of life is attempting to reach you deep within. 
They compel the reader to wonder. What is it you are incessantly experiencing through your life’s encounters? What are the forces at work? Who is your Silent Partner? Juliet attempts to reveal the answers to these questions by encouraging the reader to step forward and to see the forces acting behind life’s play. The Silent Partner is a creative literary work that contains many short stories with varying content, context, and style, as well as artistically drawn images. Each of the short stories is intended to lead towards a discovery and has the underlying theme of ‘the Silent Partner’ to connect the individual story to the collection as a whole. 
Inspired by Shakespeare, the storybooks of Aesop’s Fables, and the Brother’s Grimm, The Silent Partner and Other Stories of Truth plays on words and uses symbolism with poetic placement and style that lends itself towards an enjoyable, yet provoking read. It could be placed alongside Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Paul Coelho in the category of Spirituality.

In this intimate arrangement of emotive short stories, Juliet Castle presents provocative thoughts that challenge the reader’s perspective. Collectively, the stories reveal a deeper understanding of...


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ISBN 9781785897672
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PAGES 200

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I adored this book from the first paragraph. Her intro really set the tone for the book. I couldn't tell if it was one of the stories or something actually written for her beloved readers. I love the illustrations. As I read on, each story seemed to be dreamlike, musing as well as submerged in one of the deep layers of reality. Prose was amazing. One of my favorite stories was The Prize Fighter. The metaphor for him was lovely. The stories really take me out of myself in a great way.

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This is a collection of moments, stories, and epiphanies of the author. They read partly as catharsis for her and partly as gifts to the reader. Though the delivery is personal, even intimate, a remarkable lack of ego in the writing made for a reading experience I can only describe as clean or pure...without feeling sterile.

I requested this ARC because I'm drawn to spiritual/soulful insights, journeys, and awakenings. I suspect that author Juliet Castle and I are headed for the same destination and for that, the book was enjoyable. However, our starting points and terrain are very different. I'm a like climber taking a different approach to the same summit. The trail map of her journey has little practical meaning to my own - and sometimes didn't even make sense - much as I suspect my own trail map would be for her. Reading, however, with simple camaraderie of spirit, with respect and appreciation of another's path, this is a beautiful collection of moments.

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