Tag: Creative Mythology

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by CG FEWSTON May 4, 2019
Fiction Non-Fiction Pictures

Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce & the Great Irish Novel

“We may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we’re presurely destined to be odd’s without ends.”

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by CG FEWSTON January 30, 2019
Fiction Pictures

The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann & the Natures of Love & Death

“Death and love—no, I cannot make a poem of them, they don’t go together. Love stands opposed to death.”

by CG FEWSTON September 28, 2016
Fiction

The Dark Forest: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2 (2008/2015) by Cixin Liu & The Future of Humanity

“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).

by CG FEWSTON June 15, 2016
Fiction Pictures

The Three-Body Problem (2006/2014) by Cixin Liu & the Remembrance of Earth’s Past

“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”

by CG FEWSTON November 13, 2015
Non-Fiction Pictures

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.”

by CG FEWSTON October 27, 2015
Non-Fiction Pictures

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.”

by CG FEWSTON October 26, 2015
Fiction

Journey of an American Son (2014) by John Hazen & Ben Albert’s Historical Saga to India

“I want to tell you a story. This story is about the man you’re named after and about the woman who looked after you early in your life and about the man she called her American son.”

by CG FEWSTON September 11, 2015
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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.

by CG FEWSTON August 25, 2015
Fiction Pictures

Go Set a Watchman (2015) by Harper Lee & the Death of a Beloved Hero

“Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

by CG FEWSTON August 12, 2015
Non-Fiction Pictures

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.”