Category: Non-Fiction

by CG FEWSTON November 29, 2014
Non-Fiction

It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be (2003) by Paul Arden & the Attitude of Champions

Taking risks is all about seeking a better life and realizing dreams into reality. Not about failure.

by CG FEWSTON November 14, 2014
Non-Fiction

Rework (2010) by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier & Their Advice for Greatness

“To do great work,” write the authors, “you need to feel that you’re making a difference. That you’re putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you’re part of something important.”

by CG FEWSTON October 16, 2014
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*** 140th Post *** Manuscript Found in Accra (2012) by Paulo Coelho & the Keys to Success

A book you’d like to keep by your bedside to read a chapter each night before sleep or upon waking early in the morning.

by CG FEWSTON July 28, 2014
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Why I Write (1946) by George Orwell & the 4 Questions Every Writer Should Ask

One can sense the sheer joy words must have given Orwell when he describes his history with reading and writing, and it makes this reader all the more glad that such poetry can live in the hearts of men and women.

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by CG FEWSTON May 19, 2014
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The Talent Code (2009) by Daniel Coyle

Inherent talent is a small part of success and that the habits of making mistakes and learning to improve on such mistakes are the true keys to success.

by CG FEWSTON April 19, 2014
Fiction Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. IV: Creative Mythology (1968) by Joseph Campbell & the Quest for the Holy Grail

“The artist lives thus in two worlds — as do we all; but he, in so far as he knows what he is doing, in a special state of consciousness of this micromacrocosmic crucifixion that is life on earth and is perhaps, also, the fire of the sun, stars, and galaxies beyond.”

by CG FEWSTON April 12, 2014
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Beowulf (?) by ? [&] Grendel (1971) by John Gardner

”The name Beowulf itself, ‘bee-wolf,’ apparently meaning bear, suggests affinities with a widely known folktale figure of prodigious strength, the Bear’s Son, the distribution of whose appearances, in North America as well as Eurasia, points to a background in that primordial cult of reverence for the bear discussed in Primitive Mythology, and which is still observed among the Ainus of Japan.”

by CG FEWSTON April 9, 2014
Non-Fiction Pictures

**120th Post** How to Write a Book Proposal, 4th ed. (2011) by Michael Larsen

The book should be called ‘How to Build Your Author Platform’ and then the last 1/3 is actually more details on how to write a proposal for a nonfiction book with much of that being four lengthy proposal samples, which are helpful but reflect more the success of the platform rather than any actual design in the proposal itself–but we can get into that in a minute.

by CG FEWSTON March 31, 2014
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Tree of Smoke (2007) by Denis Johnson

For a National Book Award winner and a finalist for the 2008’s Pulitzer Prize, I expected much much more from Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke.

by CG FEWSTON March 29, 2014
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Lonesome Traveler (1960) by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was a famous writer known for his fictional, but mostly autobiographical, novel On the Road, depicting the Beat Generation and Sal Paradise bumming across the United States.