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  • One Hundred Years of Ermintrude: One Family, Three Lifes, 99 Stanzas (Short and Tall Tales Book 1)

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One Hundred Years of Ermintrude: One Family, Three Lifes, 99 Stanzas (Short and Tall Tales Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Tom Evans (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars (7)
100 Years of Ermintrude is a series of interlocking, poetic life stories.

The stories explore how we might live our lives differently if our relationship with time was not linear.

Find why one man who read it said, “Stunning. I cried. That’s all.”

Ermintrude is an indomitable matriarch and rock. Her two children, Tristan and Lucy, are close but have two completely different, but intertwined, lives. This is what happens to siblings.

This version also includes a short additional verse postulating how the cat in the story came to be.

It is short, poignant and will leave you thinking about life and your life in a whole new way. While it doesn't take long to read, you will want to read it at least twice to unfold the knots in time it explores

Carpe Diem - Seize the Day!
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  1. Print length
    120 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    November 7, 2012
  5. File size
    546 KB
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  7. Word Wise
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A3TCUXS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tmesis Publishing
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 7, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 546 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,210,149 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars (7)

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Tom Evans

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Tom is an ex-BBC television engineer turned author.

In his mid-40s, he wrote a book by accident and, before he knew it, became and author's mentor specialising in clearing writer's blocks and teaching writers how to tap into unlimited creativity.

He has now morphed into an internationally renowned meditation guide on the back of the meditations that accompanied his books.

In this new decade, Töm Evans, the author of fiction is emerging, augmented by ambient music inspired by his books.

His writing is aimed at exploring what makes us creative (and what stops it). As a result, his area of research has taken him down the route of researching the esoteric and other worldly as well as cutting edge scientific thinking and research.

His aim is to take the esoteric (the occult, obscure and hidden), to demystify it and make it exoteric (known and understood). He is an engaging speaker and works both 1-2-1 with authors and in group workshop.

Tom comes with a big caveat - people who read his books find all sorts of magic starting to emerge in their lives.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
7 global ratings

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  • Harmony Kent
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Gem!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2014
    Format: Kindle
    Brilliant! What an absolute little gem! We see Ermintrude's life backwards, in flashes -- a short poetic verse for each year. I loved the bonus material which gave us flashes into the other lives that intersected with Ermintrude's. Well written and insightful. Best little book I've read in a while.
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  • Jim Bennett
    3.0 out of 5 stars Different, and fun; a group of stories told in poetic form; unique.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2012
    Format: Kindle
    First, don't let the three star rating decide for you.
    I consider Robert Service to be a different writer from Robert Frost and from Robert Finch, and I have always enjoyed reading all three. If you want an interesting and fun read, One Hundred Years of Ermintrude is for you.
    While the title recalls "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the content is a bit like Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. What you will read is essentially a large poem that tells more than one story. The first story works backwards in time, and tells of events in one life that are also events in other lives we will meet again later in the work. The second story works forward toward an ending already foreshadowed. Meanwhile the complexity of the previous lives gets revealed in additional incidents. The third story fills in yet more details. If I had to make a tiny carp, it would be that occasionally the rhythm could have been made smoother by removing an unnecessary word. If you are expecting perfect rhymes absolutely every time, you will have to be tolerant.
    The work ends with a view of the universe that implies its purpose was to make it possible for a woman to want to buy a cat. Again, this is a fun read.
    One Hundred Years of Ermintrude is a great bang for the buck. Different, thought-provoking, and fun. Enjoy.

    Jim Bennett (the KBR Review Team)
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  • Jan Marchant
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life's journey with a twist
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2012
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    After a sneak preview I was intrigued to read the rest of '100 years of Ermintrude'. I'm happy to report that it didn't disappoint and I loved the quirkiness of it all. A lovely bonus was the extra tales that followed on from Ermintrude.

    Each year is written as a short poem. But in that verse a whole life flashes before you backwards. Next time I'm going to read from the end to the beginning and see if I get a whole new perspective on '100 years of Ermintrude'.One Hundred Years of Ermintrude
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  • Debbie
    4.0 out of 5 stars One of a kind - and definitely worth reading
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2014
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    With a cute play on the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude", Tom Evans has fun deploying verse in with the sweet chirpiness of greeting card to deliver a prolonged and affecting "carpe diem" message. (To those of my generation, the name Ermintrude immediately conjures up the image of the pink cow in the children's TV programme The Magic Roundabout.)

    The Ermintrude of the title is a 100 year old lady looking back at her life - she does indeed live to be 100. Her touching tale is followed by similar narratives from her two children, Tristan and Lucy. The sombre realisation that the lives of both of these combined (they die at 30 and 65 respectively) do not total their mother's age is slightly softened by a playful postscript, defining evolution as the build-up to a lady's decision to buy a cat.

    A very short read, but with a prolonged pay-off.
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  • Harmony Kent
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Gem!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2014
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Brilliant! What an absolute little gem! We see Ermintrude's life backwards, in flashes -- a short poetic verse for each year. I loved the bonus material which gave us flashes into the other lives that intersected with Ermintrude's. Well written and insightful. Best little book I've read in a while.
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  • Vicki Wusche
    5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing and inspiring
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2015
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    A joy to read - Tom is a master a telling stories of many depths
    his style is not always conventional and so refreshing and inspiring
    thank youu Tom :)
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