Adriano Bulla's Blog, page 6
April 29, 2015
About Three Authors
'WHOEVER SAID LOVE WAS EASY?' Not Becky Jensen! BECKY JENSEN'S FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATE: I hate cancer! I hate my cheating boyfriend! I hate my best friend!
When Becky Jensen's mother died on Christmas Eve a year ago, Becky stopped believing in Christmas.
When Becky’s father remarried four weeks ago, Becky stopped believing in family. An hour ago, when Becky caught her boyfriend kissing her best friend, Becky stopped believing in love.
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April 27, 2015
Is SHE Available?
Pushing the boundaries of comicsIn a world oppressed by the tyranny of boxes, which wants us to believe that differences are unreconcilable, that everything has its place as if the whole of our experience were a supermarket shelf, Art and Literature are being pulled apart, in an attempt to divide and conquer. So, what could be more refreshing, more innovative and more creative than a text that marries words, images, sounds, the spoken and the written word, the yellowing pag...
April 23, 2015
Time Is Out of Joint
Hamlet's words and the New Human Soul
At the dawn of the Seventeenth Century, the national Bard capture the seismic change in the Human mindset, even more, the growth of Human consciousness its Medieval status into a Renaissance being. If there is one element of the new dimension of the Soul of Mankind, at least in Europe, that I believe all studies have failed to identify is its realisation of the duality of our Spirit. If one wishes to insist on comparing our growth to that of a child, of co...
The Refugee Sentinel
A thrilling dystopiaIt’s 2052 and our world is dying – the population has reached 34 billion; the polar caps have melted and Earth has become a single-country planet. Our survival seems to be guaranteed by a draconian new law requiring the expendables to choose someone to die or choose to die in someone else's stead. Only the High-Potentials, those whose contributions are deemed essential to humankind, are exempt. Yana Perkins is eight and...
April 20, 2015
Academic Writing
Why writing an academic essay is like painting a nightscape
Imagine a starry night... How much of its beauty comes from the light of the celestial bodies, and how much from the darkness of their setting? If you think deeply, the two are inseparable. A star loses its beauty in the overpowering light of the sun, but has us all lost in admiration against the backdrop of the night sky. That is, believe it or not, the same beauty of an academic essay, the beauty of gratitude and respect. While writ...
April 19, 2015
She of Thorn
Poems and Rhyme of a Heart UnkindPoems of unrequited love and loneliness. Artist and writer,
Kalynn Campbell
, takes you into the tempestuous and callous world of “She”. Written at the end of a volatile love affair with a married woman, the poems and prose of
She of Thorn
tell the story of a love-in-vain enslavement to a cruel ineffectual heart. The book also reflects the author's personal struggle with AvPD, a form of self isolation. Over 200 works of poetry and prose.A sample from She o...
April 13, 2015
Heart Like Ringo
Love Poetry? Not sure? Why? you like Music, though, I'm sure! You like novels... so? What's the difference? You like following a character, you like the beauty of a story... You like listening to emotions (yes, sounds are emotions). What you don't like is the stuffy way Poetry is taught to you in schools, but trust me, you do love Poetry! This is where A Heart Like Ringo Starr comes in, because it has a storyline, it has rhythm and it's full of surprises, twists and changes! &nbs...
April 11, 2015
The Outmate
Live life out loud.
Chrissie Laursen doesn’t date models. Having barely survived her battle with alcoholism and just out of a ten-year marriage that lasted nine years too long, she’s laser focused on her thriving Miami Beach business: promoting erotic photographers in local galleries. She has no time for the ego driven pretty boys that proliferate in that business. For so long she’s wondered if life and love would ever truly touch her that she decides to go it alone. Then she sees the glacial...
April 5, 2015
The Grass Sweeper God
Being different in AmericaBeing different in America has never been easy; being born different and in the wrong body in Solitude, Virginia in the 1950’s, is brutal. Smiley Hanlon lives day to day trapped in a Coal Miners town, buffeted by the Appalachian’s and generations of hate and mistrust. Any hint of being different, or being a ‘Freak’ is enough to ostracise you, pigeon hole you and make you a target for bullying – or worse. Backed by his best friend and protector, Lee Moore, Smiley made...
April 2, 2015
Books and the Beeb
What is the BBC doing to promote Literature?I apologise for the anachronistic incipit of this post: I wrote it as an article for The Guardian the week before St. George's Day and Shekepeare's birthday last year, yet they could not publish it because they had already commissioned a similar one. Great minds...should include the BBC!
Less than ten days away from the birthday and death anniversary of the nation’s Bard, I so happen to open my television guide, now coming in the guise of a...
