Modern Proverbs for the 21st Century

ISBN: 1468175173

Author: Ashton, Glenn

Condition: New

Product DescriptionModern Proverbs is dedicated to all who love proverbs, sayings and idioms tripping off their tongues, or off the tongues of others. If the old proverbs sometimes seem a little bit too old, then perhaps what you need is a modern proverb, designed for our age, the 21st century. This book contains over 500 new proverbs I decided to write during the down times of many a business trip. It's amazing how inspiring it can be to stare out the window of a jet at 30,000 feet and watch huge cloud banks drift across the landscape far below. I fell in love with proverbs and idioms around the age of ten, when I was gifted a book of proverbs by my grandmother. I dived into it, and finished it in a day or so. Those first proverbs gave me an essential weapon to fight adversity (not to mention the angst of a normal adolescence): a comeback ability second to none in my rather limited circle. So it was fun to start with a blank page, a pen, and my memories of days gone by. If you know someone who enjoys reading or proverbs, it could make a good gift, just as my grandmother's did to me when I was young. I hope that Modern Proverbs inspires others to create new proverbs! We could do with a few thousand more. Glenn Ashton BA, LLB, MBAAbout the AuthorGlenn Ashton, who used to be a banker and a lawyer, had more fun going on magnificently mysterious journeys into the land of fantasy with his two children. Now he hopes to pass some of that wonderful fantasy on to the kids who read the LittleTown series of books. Glenn Ashton is the pen name of Glenn van Schalkwyk. Glenn dabbled with writing novels for many years, with one shared success a long time ago when he and two friends co-authored a political thriller. He has written children's books (the LittteTown series, now Kindle eBooks), a play (The Theft of Souls, the trial of Lawrence of Arabia, also a Kindle eBook), a thriller about obelisks and global warming (Obelisk Seven, co-authored with his wife Loraine Lundquist, and described in their website www.obeliskseven.com ), a collection of modern proverbs for the 21st century (Modern Proverbs, also a Kindle eBook), and Silent Lips (a thriller about New York under siege from a bioengineered virus, available as an Amazon print book and as a Kindle eBook). Glenn Ashton's author blog is to be found at http://glennashton.blogspot.com, and you can read his tweets at his Twitter account GlennAshton1.