Love's Death
by Oscar Van Den Boogaard

A good short read, if you're into the modern European meditative stuff like I am. I suppose somebody smarter than I am would call this pretentious. But since it was mostly over my head I think I'm unqualified for that.

I saw it on the shelf and read it for two major reasons. 1) It was Dutch and I had never read anything Dutch before. 2) The author's last name is Van Den Boogaard, which is very similar (or identical, depending on whether you count the "Van Den" as prepositions or part of the name itself) to that of Derek Boogaard, left winger / enforcer for the Minnesota Wild hockey team. There probably were Dutch immigrants to Saskatchewan at some point, right?

Unbelievable. I spelled Saskatchewan right the first time. I just looked it up.

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