Entering the Unknown

When I was nineteen, I hopped a Yugoslavian freighter, and jumped ship in Casa Blanca for no other reason than it sounded like a romantic and adventurous way to get across the Atlantic. I didn’t have any idea about where the journey would end up taking me. Months later while I was travelling in Europe, my older sister was back in the States studying with Joseph Campbell at Sarah Lawrence College. I wrote to her telling her that I was becoming interested in Indian philosophy. She was excited about her professor’s work, and on a hunch she sent me a copy of Campbell’s book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. When I began reading the book, I remember feeling that I …

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Olivia Rosestone: Most Influential Books and Authors

SOTRB co-writer, Olivia Rosestone, shares some of the most influential books and authors she has read: The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies by Jan Werner & Garth Williams Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume, and other books by her The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Elfland by Freda Warrington The Alphabet vs. the Goddess and Art and Science by Leonard Shlain I like fantasy, science fiction, historical novels, self-help/personal growth, cutting edge books about science and human nature, …

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