Tropic of Cancer
January 10, 2012
Finished reading it, but is there anything left unsaid about it?
http://www.henrymiller.info/
January 10, 2012
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An interesting and rather daunting interview with professor for philosophy Ernst Tugendhat at SignAndSight.com archive.
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To Live or Not to Live, To Die or Not to Die
January 8, 2012
Skimming through the pile of books received as an unexpected and precious gift, and coming across Colette’s books, I didn’t fail to mention that I am not a fervent consumer of stories. It turns out I advanced a false statement. True to my habit of passing hastily through the pages of the books added to my reading list before I decide the order of the attack, I commenced and soon completed both collections of stories authored by Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou.
Interview with Mr. Harry Mavromatis, author of Lost Edens
January 6, 2012
With the permission of Armida Publishing I am posting the interview with Mr. Harry Mavromatis, the author of Lost Edens. The interview was originally posted on Armida’s blog.
How would you describe your book to a new reader and why should somebody read it?
This is a book about Cyprus the decade before it gained its independence from Britain. The perspective is that of an adolescent who comes to the island with his parents from the United States, and consequently experiences a clash of cultures. It is worth reading partly because the author’s family had connections at the very highest levels of Greek Cypriot and Greek society, and hence the author saw and heard things at first hand and describes events that are not common knowledge. Additionally it is worth reading because it describes very candidly and graphically several of the islanders, and how life was like before Cyprus achieved a flawed independence that precipitated the Turkish invasion and occupation of its northern third.