A Brilliant Light Casts Away the Shadows with Witty Humor

Award-winning novelist, Taryn Simpson, has done it again! This proud and physically-challenged author has written a heartfelt book that shines as a beacon of hope for the underdogs of this world. She writes with passion mixed with lots of healing humor about her life experiences to which many will empathize or sympathize. Either way, you will be touched. I laughed, I got angry, and I felt like crying. Mostly I laughed. In the end, I felt uplifted by her ability to relate a very human life filled with the range of human experiences.


Not being sure of the meaning of the word, I looked up “ellipsis” in the dictionary. The second definition listed spoke to the essence of this deliciously delightful book. Webster's dictionary states that ellipsis is “a leap or sudden passage without logical connectives from one topic to another.” In her musings and essays, Ms. Simpson took me on a rich ride as seen through her own life perspective.

Being a child of the south, she witnessed the atrocities of the Klu Klux Klan and the closed-minded opinions of the Bible thumpers. Dealing with multiple physical challenges such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes, and chronic pain, she relates her experiences with the inadequacies of the health care system including lack of compassion and greed.

As a lesbian who has experienced prejudice and oppression, she looks at such issues with a curiously detached point of view. She lives her life from a sense of wonder even though she has been wounded in so many ways. She is the voice of conscience who will undoubtedly raise human consciousness through her musings.

She meanders from topic to topic in such a fashion that she weaves a beautiful tapestry filled with both joy and pain. Always, she maintains an uncanny sense of humor. She segues between topics both serious and silly. She talks about politics and corporate America. Then she includes delightful essays on “Southernisms,” “I Would Like to Whine with my Cheese,” “Time to Clean Out my Closet,” and “My Beagle Speaks Yiddish.” She ends with topics entitled “Epiphanies that go Bump in the Night” and “I Think This is What is Called Serendipity.”

This book is like a tempting box of chocolates. You can relish each essay and musing one at a time or you can devour the box in one sitting. It's just the right length to be read on a lazy summer afternoon when you want both light amusement as well as some food for thought. I loved the book and I trust that you will too!

Davis Aujourd'hui
author of “The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude” and “Babes in Bucksnort”


rated at five out of five stars  * * * * *

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"I really enjoyed it FOUR times but that may be because my library is full of biographies. People interest me so your novel was written for me. However it is an easy read about the life of someone out there who really is no different than many of us but has the courage to yell from the rooftops 'hey this is me!

A lovely story of a young girl who struggled, a young woman who struggled and a grown adult who said 'enough of the struggle, I AM! Not too many words here, but when your heart is full of admiration for the writer, there are not too many words required."

          Alan Solomon, Co-Author of "The Mango Tree Cafe, Loi Kroh Road" - Beijing, China

ELLIPSIS, A collection of Essays and Short Stories...

It's funny, sometimes when you least expect it, you see a book coming to fruition where there was previously none.  I had been talking about "The Long Road to Extradition" thinking that it would be my next book unveiled.  How wrong I was!  I found myself hurrying though it to get everything down that I wanted to get down and while I know this book is going to require time and patience, it's going to require even more so as once I am complete, instead of editing, I will then really need to "write it". 

ELLIPSIS wrote itself over the last several years (2006 - 2010) and required little else from me.  I'm sure the editors that are reading this post (if there are any) are moaning and groaning.  I don't mean to imply that I write perfectly the first time out of the gate (I can assure you I don't).  But, the important essence is there.  The undertones, the phrasing, the pause that is required to really understand something is there.

As I wrote in the beginning of the book, I decided to name the book, ELLIPSIS because:

When I was having a previous work edited by a friend of mine, she jokingly told me that I had a love affair with the ellipsis. It seems that the dialogue for one of my characters was peppered heavily with the … mark that indicates an unfinished thought or a trailing off into silence. The idea of writing a book of my thoughts and stories seemed very appealing to me.

A collection of essays or stories are peppered throughout everyone’s life which I consider to be connected by an ellipsis. I’ve had a unique vantage point of life and am fascinated by what this life has presented so far. It’s not always happiness, or joy but also grittiness, sadness, anger, stubbornness, missed opportunities, found opportunities, epiphanies and thankfulness which follows the continuum back to happiness. All in all, it’s been a great ride and look forward to more.

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I hope you enjoy my ellipsis… Taryn Simpson – March 2010