Boy Meets Boy, and they didn’t think twice.
I recently finished reading David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy, so I thought I’d quickly share my thought on it, you know, as kind of a little review 
First and foremost, it’s a good book. It’s not an earth shattering experience, but it’s a good book. If you like a light read.
You see, the book is not as light a read as your classic train station travel romance book, but it’s no Looking For Alaska either. It’s somewhere in between…
The plot lines are pretty obvious, and yes it’s a gay story *woohoo, burn down the house people* but when it all comes down to it, it’s a pretty traditional story line.
Boy meets boy, ex boyfriend shows up, friends don’t approve, friendship under pressure, all ends well. I’m pretty sure you’ve read a story like this before… If you can read of course. And no, that’s not offensive because people who actually can’t read don’t know I made this snarky remark just now.
It might seem now that I didn’t really like the book, but I actually really do… Although it might be such a ‘traditional’ book, it manages to capture you and take you along the journey of Paul (the main character), something that’s not all that easy when it comes to traditional story lines.
The book is written in a very active manner, which engages you as the reader to keep on turning them pages, and hey, isn’t that what books are made for? Ebooks aside of course.
When it comes to characters, Paul is in my opinion not the most notable one – although he’s the main character – but Kyle is. This might seem a bit weird, since Kyle is a side character – the ex boyfriend – but it’s his emotional process that glues the different parts of the story together. Which is good, because sometimes the story tends to get a bit too mushy-mushy and that’s when Kyle comes in. I guess going a bit more in depth with the side characters would have been a good thing, as it is sometimes a bit unclear why certain people do certain things (e.g. Amber calling Tony for Paul, even though they don’t know each other at all) and it’s times like that that the reason ‘but Paul is popular and everyone kinda likes him’ falls a bit short… Same goes for the school scenes where Paul seems to run the school, even though he’s just a sophomore. It just doesn’t make sense at times… if you try to read between the lines.
So in conclusion, should you read this book?
Yes, you should, if you like an easy-to-read book that’s engaging without going too literary on you, and you don’t mind the gay-themed storyline.
No, if you expect more from a book than a simple storyline where you don’t need to think things through twice.
Would I recommend it? I actually would, because we can all use that easy-read from time to time, be it during lunch break, or while lying in the sun.
Not Myself Tonight
Christina is back this summer with another awesome single and I’m totally in love with it. It’s so going to be my summer-anthem
Can’t wait for her new album ‘Bionic’ to come out
I know it might not be one of her best songs ever, but it’s such an uplifting great happy song It really brings a smile to my face :p And can bring out some extra energy when needed ^^ Summer jam it is! 
Opinions on this?
Oh and let me know if the youtube clip doesn’t work anymore, you know with copyright and all… :p
Blast From The Past: VOTW Podcasts
For those who don’t know, a little over two years ago I joined the VloggersOfTheWeek, a collaboration channel that focused on 7 different people from all over the world getting to know each other. The channel itself is hardly being used lately, since by now we have gotten to know each other…
For this Blast From The Past, I thought it would be fun to look back at the three podcasts we released… And I must say, it was so much fun listening to them again Good times!
Take a listen, because boy did we have fun making those… :p
Podcast 001: July 31st, 2008
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Podcast 002: January 16th, 2009
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Podcast 003: March 5th, 2009
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I fail at staring contests.
#SundayDoodle – Dead Cow.
Let’s try something new, in an attempt to blog some more, and in the meantime keep my creative juices flowing…
I’ll try and have a #SundayDoodle up every Sunday from now on… until I get bored of it :p But let’s stay positive
So, as a first SundayDoodle, I doodled you a fierce rollerskating-unibody-womancreature that kills a cow while shouting ‘Sunday doodle!’. Random, I know, but isn’t that what doodling is all about?
Just randomly drawing lines and ending up with some kind of graphic thingie in the end?
To me it is.
So there you go, first random doodle, succesful haha
Let me know what you think, and of course, feel free to use the share-buttons underneath the post to tweet, facebook, or whatever you want to do with this post 
