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Timothy Spearman, a former multidisciplinary professor, has taught for many years in South Korea and Canada. His academic website—ioufoundation.academia.edu/TimothySpearman—offers insightful information as well as his author website, shakesaspear.com. Tim served for five years as a film critic for the Korea Herald and Korea Times in Seoul. He has hosted many radio shows over the years. His best-known work is the co-authored book Gandhi Under Cross-Examination. He has published other books and novels under the pen name Timothy Spearman, including Odds-on Favourite, Must I Remember, Butterfly Dreams, Goodbye Ruby Akhtar and Sailing the Seven C’s. His latest book, The History of the Peace Train, was released in December 2017 by EcoAsylum Publishing House: ecoasylum.com. Timothy’s magnum opus, Shakespeare’s Codex: All the World’s Staged and We Are Merely Played, will be published by Moon Rock Books in 2018. It holds a microscope up to deceptions orchestrated by our governments since Shakespeare’s time. He has written over 30 screenplays (imdb.com/name/nm9454054), including feature films. His film The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet about the mystery surrounding the Shakespeare authorship, currently in production, is scheduled to be completed by the autumn of 2018.
Reviewed by Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite
The fact that this book is based on a true story is a powerful component in my favorable opinion of it. Must I Remember by Timothy Spearman is an emotional story and that emotion is driven home by the fact that it is about real families. It doesn't hurt that the topic of refugees is in the headlines across the globe these days, from Asia to Europe to North America and beyond. It is relevant in some way to all of us. So, I determined to get a little information about who these people are and what their lives are like. Must I Remember is a good place to start. Timothy Spearman shows us the life of a family he befriended and he tells their story very well. I got to like him and I got to understand this family and their stories as I read Must I Remember.
For better or for worse, whenever I see refugees in the headlines I will picture the Rostami family. Timothy Spearman has made them real to me in a way a newspaper story cannot. Rich in detail, well written with realistic characters and easy to read, Must I Remember is compelling and informative. It could easily be rewritten into a good novel, but I think its current form has just as much emotional impact in a different form. The plot flows smoothly. The situation is real. The problems are tragic. You will learn a lot from Must I Remember and the headlines about this topic will never seem so far away again.
