Luckily as I sat around contemplating the meaning of Michelin and Goodyear, I had with me David Tennant's recorded voice, reading James Goss's excellent Doctor Who novel, Dead Air, which took me from that Belgian industrial suburb to a pirate radio ship off the southern coast of England in 1966, where the Doctor is dealing with a mysterious entity called the Hush, which exists as an organism based on sound alone; it absorbs its victims and turns them into sound patterns - if they are lucky. It is tremendously creepy and enjoyable, and Dark Hints are dropped which one can interpret as tying into the Tenth Doctor's final story; also Tennant is an excellent reader - the whole thing is done in character as a first-person narrative from the Doctor's point of view, but he conveys the other characters very convincingly too. This is very strongly recommended.
March Books 23) Dead Air, by James Goss
Luckily as I sat around contemplating the meaning of Michelin and Goodyear, I had with me David Tennant's recorded voice, reading James Goss's excellent Doctor Who novel, Dead Air, which took me from that Belgian industrial suburb to a pirate radio ship off the southern coast of England in 1966, where the Doctor is dealing with a mysterious entity called the Hush, which exists as an organism based on sound alone; it absorbs its victims and turns them into sound patterns - if they are lucky. It is tremendously creepy and enjoyable, and Dark Hints are dropped which one can interpret as tying into the Tenth Doctor's final story; also Tennant is an excellent reader - the whole thing is done in character as a first-person narrative from the Doctor's point of view, but he conveys the other characters very convincingly too. This is very strongly recommended.
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Scherven, by Erik de Graaf
NB: With Russia's unprovoked murderous assault on Ukraine, I am actively looking at alternative hosts for this journal, preferably those which…
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Reflected, ed. Peter de Rijcke
Second paragraph of third section (a quotation from the artist Winnifred J. Bastian) and one of her paintings (of the New Church in The Hague):…
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A weekend up north: Volkenkunde Museum, Mauritshuis, Haags Historisch Museum
Anne and I went up north for the weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary (28 years ago, yesterday). Great fun. Got a great AirBnB right beside…
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