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As I drove to Malibu I wondered what a strange world it had become... What was it about movie stars that so touched the imagination of even the most dedicated and intelligent?... Hundreds of millions around the globe sought daily refuge in the cinema to watch beams of light play upon lives that seemed to matter much more than our own. We could be ugly and unloved, broke, boring, and unhappy, unlucky not just in love but in every choice we ever made, but when the houselights dimmed we became, like everyone else in the audience, the same characters living the same story. For a few brief hours we might experience lives more coherent than our own, shaped not by raw chance but by the rules of drama, lived not in obscurity but glorified in shifting light, personified by actors gifted with beauty, charm, and soulfulness we wished for ourselves.
-- "Burning Garbo" by Robert Eversz
That's my Nina!
And this completes my reading of all five books of the series, not one a disappointment - Nina and I are an item.
I'm sorry to see the old NinaZero.com site is no longer up, though. I wonder if this means that there will be no more books in the series. I can respect that. Mr. Eversz would have had a big challenge trying to carry the character forward, and it is better to end leaving us wanting more, rather than with a bittersweet disappoinment. But there is also some disappoinment in this, too, but I guess it is a good kind, this wistfully longing kind.
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As I drove to Malibu I wondered what a strange world it had become... What was it about movie stars that so touched the imagination of even the most dedicated and intelligent?... Hundreds of millions around the globe sought daily refuge in the cinema to watch beams of light play upon lives that seemed to matter much more than our own. We could be ugly and unloved, broke, boring, and unhappy, unlucky not just in love but in every choice we ever made, but when the houselights dimmed we became, like everyone else in the audience, the same characters living the same story. For a few brief hours we might experience lives more coherent than our own, shaped not by raw chance but by the rules of drama, lived not in obscurity but glorified in shifting light, personified by actors gifted with beauty, charm, and soulfulness we wished for ourselves.
-- "Burning Garbo" by Robert Eversz
That's my Nina!
And this completes my reading of all five books of the series, not one a disappointment - Nina and I are an item.
I'm sorry to see the old NinaZero.com site is no longer up, though. I wonder if this means that there will be no more books in the series. I can respect that. Mr. Eversz would have had a big challenge trying to carry the character forward, and it is better to end leaving us wanting more, rather than with a bittersweet disappoinment. But there is also some disappoinment in this, too, but I guess it is a good kind, this wistfully longing kind.
