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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 February 24, 2014
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Videos

Cormac McCarthy’s Never-Ending, Questionary Road (2014) by American Novelist CG FEWSTON

In most of Cormac McCarthy’s books there is usually a male character on some sort of quest.

by CG FEWSTON February 17, 2014
Non-Fiction

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.

by CG FEWSTON November 23, 2013
Non-Fiction

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008) by Robin Wright

”The Constitutional Rebellion of 1905-1911 forced the weak Qajar dynasty to agree to Iran’s first constitution and parliament. Foreshadowing the 1979 revolution, the revolt was launched by the same powerful troika–the clergy, bazaar merchants, and the intelligentsia–that would come together again later in the century. Their goal was to curtail the monarchy’s power.”

by CG FEWSTON October 27, 2013
Fiction

A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway

“On the days of false spring it was very nice, after boxing and taking a shower, to walk along the streets smelling the spring in the air and stop at a cafe to sit and watch people and read the paper and drink vermouth; then go down to the hotel and have lunch with Catherine.”

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”