Okay. A book recommendation. Please don't stop reading (or else you will become illiterate and heartless. I promise.)
I picked up a book in El Corte Ingles (the mother lode of department stores) while I was in Madrid to read for my 290 hour plane ride back to San Francisco.
Consequentially, I fell into a delicious, scary, spiritual, yet dark world within the pages of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Its these kind of books that remind me that literature still exists in the likes of good old fashion storytelling. God bless Zafon and the likes of him like Stephen King. What are you reading this summer? Not enough people read - its a dying art, and Shadow of the Wind, with its Cemetery of Forgotten Books, salutes our beloved books. Here's a review I wrote for Amazon:
"Trap doors, creaky floors, disfigured faces of strangers appearing in the dark, and all the things that go bump in the night. And this is just the "horror" aspect of this deliciously implausible novel that weaves together the tales of old lovers, family tensions, and Barcelona against the backdrop of 1950's Spanish Civil War. Does it always make sense? Not really. Is it a bit overdramatic filled with grandiose themes that outgrow reality? Yeah, sure. But, just as the characters in the book celebrate the love of a good story, so must every good reader who wants a few hundred pages of escaping into another time, another place, if only for a short while. Woven together with many moments of genuine wisdom, The Shadow of the Wind is an entertaining gem."
It says in the book under his bio that Carlos Ruiz Zafon "currently lives in Los Angeles and works as a scriptwriter." (Porque, señor, porque?!)
Happy Independence Day, by the way. Alot of people have died in order to promote the elements of democracy, and for that, I'll thank my dearly departed Dad for having immigrated us hear and my dear Mum for keeping us here, and God Almighty for giving them the strength. C & I stayed up watching Trinity Broadcasting Station until 2 AM. There was a special on Stonewall Jackson and other "strong christians" who fought in the civil war. What makes a Christian strong and who decides?
You tell me!
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Beautiful picture, and thanks for the book recommendation...sometime after I finish with Moby Dick here I'll look into it. Hope you had a good 4th!
Great book recommendation as for civil war heroes I am going to leave that one alone. I don't really see that many heroic people in a desperate situation. THe only real heroes I see were the black men and women that fought to liberate themselves. The rest I kind of see as opportunistic men and women trying to exploit a given situation.
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