de hersenspinsels van Peter Goelen…
Archief voor september 2018
Dokter van der Ploeg
22 sep
En dit is dan ook één van die jeugdherinneringen, waar dan plots, op een vreselijke manier, abrupt een einde aan komt… bruutweg tegen de muur lopen; met de neus koudweg op de feiten gedrukt worden…
Goed dan Sjoukje er op een “leuke” manier zelf mee om ging…
Weer een jeugdherinnering… eentje die wat vager wordt, waar de herinnering wat minder sterk wordt… “Het is kwart over acht… Geweest!” het ga je goed, Dokter!
Why I am reading “Building a family”…
05 sep
And I’ll be writing this in English, where as my blog usually is in my native language, Dutch. I’m doing this as a courtesy to the author of “Building a family“, William Corgan, who uses an email address putting himself with the likes of Ender Wiggin… pretty ironic that he identifies himself with a character created by a – alledgedly – notouriously homophobic writer, Orson Scott Card… yes, I did read “Ender’s game”; liked the movie with Asa Butterfield better though 😉
Seventy Four episodes already; I’m currently reading episode 54… 54 episodes in just 3 days; I’m feeling like Alex and Joey working on their math books… It goes to show how this story captivated me I suppose…
Nifty is a great site, in some twisted way a godsend for a lot of people… I’ve known the site for quite some time and while it is very often a way to “quickly rub one out”, it certainly can be a mesmerising source for more ‘in depth’ reading material… There are certainly a number of stories – or authors – that have given me a certain “buzz”… hard to describe actually what that buzz exactly is… A common thing is the fact that the stories are recognizable… and that is very often geographically, or pertaining to something that happened in my life. In one word: life like. I absolutely liked – and these are just 2 examples – “Double Trouble“, and “Drummer Boy“. An author I really would like to mention here – and I did write a previous entry about him – is Ganymede! He had me reading several chapters into the night at once!
I’ve been to Springfield (I’m a Civil War buff, so a visit to Springfield goes without saying… Lincoln, remember), and although I’ve not visited New Berlin, it’s close enough! The fact that “Building a family” uses real locations (the pizza place among others) makes it all the more interesting.
But actually… You want to know the real reason I’m reading this story? I wish I was Max! Not for being a famous author with 4 bestseller books, but for having a wonderful family like he has! Lovely story!