Ratu Rhino

This is my sketch of Ratu Rhino. I actually drew it from her Facebook profile picture. Yes, even rhinos have Facebook pages these days. According to her facebook profile, the name Ratu means queen, which is fitting, to be sure. She has a royal quality to her, I think. I sketched Ratu while watching a documentary that I got from library called Stone Reader. It is about books and the power of books, or more specifically, one man's quest to find the author of a book that he read and found to be extraordinary. It was a book called The Stones of Summer that got a glowing review in the New York Times in the early 70's. The reviewer was certain this book would have a lasting impact and define its generation, in a sense. Instead, both the book and the writer sunk into oblivion. The documentary questions how this can happen, how a writer with this kind of talent just disappears and never publishes another book. I haven't finished watching this yet, so I don't know how it ends, but I have enjoyed watching (more like listening, since I was drawing) this man following all kinds of threads that are certain to lead to information about this author, but ultimately turn out to be dead ends. Nobody knows who he is or where he is. In the process, as he is talking to book people, we get to hear all of these discussions about books and the power of books by people that are very passionate about books. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone that loves books. I am now off to find out how it ends. Does he find him? I will only let you know, if you want to know the answer.