Seven Years in Tibet

I found “Seven Years in Tibet,” by Heinrich Harrer, a dozen years ago. I knew little about Tibet at the time, and the title piqued my interest. I read it- and I was hooked. This book so intrigued me that I began reading everything I could find on Tibet, which wasn’t an easy task a dozen years ago.

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person.- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The outstanding dominations on F. Scott Fitzgerald were ambition, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 24, 1896.
During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep [...]

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

F.Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

“I used to wonder why they kept princesses in towers,” the romantic and possessive young officer F Scott Fitzgerald wrote to the Alabama belle Zelda Sayre. Zelda was charmed at first, but quickly noticed that he seemed obsessed with the image. “Scott, you’ve been so sweet about writing,” she replied, “but I get so damned [...]

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

Dangerous and Beautiful Women- Patricia Highsmith

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Patricia Highsmith, author of famous Talented Mr.Ripley, was hard drinker, lesbian, defied social taboos in the 1950’s by flaunting her affair with another woman, her own life was full of dark secrets.
“… She was more beautiful than most other female socialites at the London party, and her handbag was larger. When she opened [...]

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

Picoult, Jodi

She was born and raised —happily—on Long Island… something that she believed at first was a detriment to a girl who wanted to be a writer. “I had such an uneventful childhood that when I was taking writing classes at college, I called home and asked my mother if maybe there might have been a [...]

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

Book Review Blog Carnival #38

Many thanks to all the contributors in this edition of the Carnival.
Novel
Clark Bjorke presents The Highest Tide posted at I’ll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book!.
Jim Lynch’s first novel is a magical realist coming of age story with a marine biology theme.
Ranjita Patra presents ‘That’s The Life Baby’ – A Perfect Novel for [...]

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

Grisham, John

Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction [...]

Written by vorsta on November 13, 2009

Vonnegut- Graphic artist

Kurt Vonnegut’s work as a graphic artist began with his illustrations for Slaughterhouse-Five and developed with Breakfast of Champions, which included numerous felt-tip pen illustrations of such subjects as anal sphincters, as well as other less scatological images. Later in his career, he became more interested in artwork, particularly silk-screen prints, which he pursued in [...]

Written by vorsta on May 13, 2009

Kurt Vonnegut

“I do believe evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can’t help thinking that.. and this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why and where evolution is headed and thats why we’ve got Giraffe’s and Hippopotami and the clap.”- Kurt Vonnegut
The last words, that Kurt Vonnegut wrote, [...]

Written by vorsta on May 12, 2009