Category: Non-Fiction
In the Evil Day (2015) by Richard Adams Carey & the Tragedy in Colebrook, America
“It had rained Saturday night, but the rain had dwindled to a stop before dawn, and across the river, above and beyond the belfry and steeple, the green whaleback of Monadnock was wreathed in gossamer wisps of fog.”
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The Good Luck Cat (2014) by Lissa Warren & the Truth Behind One Woman’s Smile
“And then, on Christmas Eve, a miracle occurred: Ting-Pei Warren, the Judeo-Christian Buddhist cat, high on catnip and tuna water, silently scaled the six-foot spruce while her family sat by the fire, making short work of a pecan-encrusted cheese log. The three of us turned just in time to see her, a silver star atop the highest bough. And just in time to see her lose her balance and take the entire tree down with her.”
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Fields of Blood (2014) by Karen Armstrong & Is Religion the Cause of All Major Wars?
A compendium of history, politics and religion since the dawn of the agrarian age in human civilization.
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Oracle Bones (2006) by Peter Hessler & the Tears of Regret for the Poet Chen Mengjia
“Recovery, in all its varied forms, is simply a human instinct.”
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River Town (2001) by Peter Hessler & the Imperialist vs the Poet
“To travel through Sichuan countryside is to feel the history, the years of work that have shaped the land, the sheer weight of humanity on patches of earth that have been worked in the same way for centuries.”
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On the Art of Writing (1916) by Arthur Quiller-Couch & the Dark Age of Lord Coke
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”
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The Power of Myth (1988) by Joseph Campbell & Beyond Greedy America as the New Monster State
“The drudgery of the lives of most of the people who have to support families—well, it’s a life-extinguishing affair.”
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Myths to Live By (1972) by Joseph Campbell & the unMasking of ISIS and the Great Debate: Evolution vs Creationism
“Our laws are enacted and altered by human determination, and within their secular jurisdiction each of us is free to seek his own destiny, his own truth, to quest for this or for that and to find it through his own doing.”
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***160th Post*** Mars and Venus in the Bedroom (1995) by Dr. John Gray and the Rhythms of Romance
Dr. Gray focuses mostly on sexual aspects in the relationship.
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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen (2014) by Philip Ball & the World We Cannot See
From Tolkien’s and Gyge’s magic rings, morals of Glaucon, cloaks of invisibility, invisible children, occult forces and sacred magic, theological thermodynamics, the invisible men of science fiction, natural camouflage, time bandits, the Holy Spirit, X-rays, and to the mythic and magical connotations of invisibility, Ball does wonders as he crosses time and space to bring readers a semi-full spectrum encompassing the historical and contemporary implications involving the “unseen” in our everyday lives.
