Tag: historical novel

by CG FEWSTON October 16, 2014
Fiction Non-Fiction Pictures

*** 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 August 15, 2014
Fiction Pictures

The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho & Your Personal Legend

“Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don’t all have the courage to confront our own dream.”

by CG FEWSTON August 6, 2014
Fiction Pictures Poetry

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger

Holden is a grieving young man unable to cope with his brother’s death and much like Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury, we watch a sixteen-year-old Holden as he indirectly contemplates suicide over the course of a few days.

by CG FEWSTON July 28, 2014
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

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.

by CG FEWSTON May 29, 2014
Fiction Pictures

The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer

The Naked and the Dead is concerned with the invasion and taking of the Japanese-controlled island of Anopopei. Most of the 721-page book follows a platoon as they prepare to land on the island until the successful American victory, with some inserts from ”The Time Machine” to give back story to the platoon of foot soldiers the nameless, omniscient narrator follows through the campaign in third person POV.

by CG FEWSTON May 3, 2014
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**125th Post** A Princess of Mars (1917) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“A people without written language, without art, without homes, without love… Owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common.”

by CG FEWSTON April 27, 2014
Fiction Poetry

The Greensboro Review: Fall 2013, Issue 94 (Price $8.00 usd) & the NC-Greensboro Syndrome

The University of North Carolina – Greensboro’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing publishes a poetry and fiction review called The Greensboro Review. I happened to read the Fall 2013, Number 94 issue, having received a copy only because I paid a small fee to have my own fiction submitted to the review.

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
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

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
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**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.