The MSFMB Book club

Do it. It's great.
Oh and I will be pimping my book when it comes out next year... just signed the contract!
(not fiction, a book about positive psychology)

Same.

Thanks Cory.

We have a prospectus and the book is about 75% done. We expect the book to be to press next summer and ready for sale in July/August. Our goal is for the book is the general audience with an interest in psychology/well-being and emotions but we are starting with an academic publishing house. The basic gist of the book is looking at how positive experiences/memories have a longer lasting impact than people believe.

Beni been pimping this thing for a while. It is an awesome book. Just hasn't been bound, or finished yet.

If you are at all interested in storytelling, history and adventure, this is your ticket. 
Click on the link below and move the map to the beginning of the walk. It starts in Ethiopia. Move in close on the map and click on the stories in order. After 10 months, the writer (2 Pulitzer prizes and a book he hasn't finished, and probably never really finish here) is now in Northern Saudi Arabia. What makes it fascinating is some of the people that follow along and comment on his writings. Many are NatGeo groupies and annoying. Many have additional insight that make the whole experience fun to follow. Make sure to listen to the sound cloud pieces and also check out the video, which are great additions a standard book cannot provide. I have begun to track some of what these folks say on the twitter, and what some of them will link to stories he has created. As the story has moved forward, more people have given stories and information and given greater body to the stories. 
Eden Walk

From this page you can select to see his anticipated route to South America. It is not provided on its own. 


This second link is just one of the "tabs" that can be found off of the website which you will see. 

Milestones


One the basic precepts (hope I am using the word correctly McCracken) behind this undertaking is that the writer feels that to best understand what is going on in the world we have to slow down and analyze and appreciate more clearly what others are going through. Today's journalism does not provide that. In my opinion, the idea of following our ancestors is simply a backdrop for writing on people, telling their stories, and giving a clearer picture of what is really going on in peoples minds in different areas of the world. From what I can see, there are going to be a fair number of very interesting stories in the upcoming months. Some human interest, some historical, and some for full perspective. 

If you google his name, he is doing skype interviews with schools and NPR outlets around the world. Some of them (including Columbia College) can be found and you can get unfiltered insight into what he is doing and a sense of why. 

enjoy

I stapled a stack of hunnas together. None of y'all ever read that book.

I liked this trilogy. Probably his best writing since the first shannara book.