Bøker av Johan Wijngaarden

Mijn 4e(!!!!) boek omvat 50 verhalen over favoriete gebeurtenissen en voorvallen: Mijn eerste gedachten, jeugd, schoolleven, werk en mijn familie. Reizen naar het buitenland, sport (voetbal, hardlopen, honkbal) en (natuurlijk!) Blues en Boogie Woogie!

Looking in the rear-view mirror. No matter how you look at it, I am 73 of age this year. In a human life this definately means to look back over your shoulder or in the rear-view mirror. But still driving, there is a future to look forward to; to enjoy, to take up as a chalance and to make use of the chances! Writing and reading is as a sunrise! It brightens your mind and your day! My 4th(!!!!) book captures 60 stories about favourite events and incidents: My first thoughts, childhood, school life, job(s) and my family. Traveling abroad, sports (football means soccer here!), running, baseball) and (of course!) Blues and Boogie Woogie! All in the best of my English!

I am born and raised in Friesland, in the North of the Netherlands. When the BLUES struck me in 1972, I was 21 years of age. Now I am 65. This paperback is about those over forty years in between. A BLUES LIFE part 1, with 10 stories from a Dutch point of view and A BLUES LIFE part 2, directly from Mississippi in the deep south of the U.S.A. -A Dutchman in the Delta- covers 13 stories. I cannot read a musical note, sing, nor play a piano or a guitar. But I wrote about it: In this book you will find 25 true, short stories about the Blues and Boogie Woogie, that devilish music. English is not my native tongue. I have done my utmost to avoid mistakes.