Category: literature
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Part 2 of Reivew Essay on “The Angel’s Game” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Author Carlose Ruiz Zafon (photo by Isolde Olhbaum) For part one of this review please click here Trapped inside the angst of his existence, David attracts leech-like figures with no intentions other than that of exploiting him, and genuine admirers who love him deeply and try to give him whatever…
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Review Essay on “The Angel’s Game” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Anyone first introduced to the impassioned prose of Carlos Ruiz Zafón through his international bestseller, The Shadow of the Wind, will find it difficult to avoid comparing it to any follow-up to the novel. Where Zafón’s latest release in English, The Angel’s Game…
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Birthday 2009: My Cosmic-Poet Beard in this Fifty-Second Year
Bearded Aberjhani chilling in a stress-free zone party environment. Several years ago I began to compose biopoems to mark my birthday because this genre seemed to lend itself best to capturing the different layers and nuances of a creative individual’s life. For me, those layers are comprised of objective factual…
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They Came from Cyberspace: Five Twitter Tweets
Birds kinda of a feather all twitter tweeting together. (image courtesy of Freefoto) I was very much relieved recently when both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Johnny Depp admitted to hearing something go “Twitter-Twitter Tweet-Tweet,” like some Vulcan canary singing for its supper out in the depths of…