The best thing of my current adobe is it is very close to a kids school and every morning while waiting in the bus stop I feel life is wonderful just by watching the children s activities in the park adjacent to the bus stop....those kids are around 6/10 years old and during recess they come out to play in the school park..watching them reminds me not only about the best part of my life...my and my two brothers school life but also a lot of people from the past whom I might not ever get a chance to meet again....
Kids, no matter how little they are, have very distinct personality of their own...this is something I always find quite invigorating ....the personality does not change much as we grow old....even after a few decades if we meet our school mates we mostly can identify them by their distinct persona, style of talking, body language or simply by their voice..nothing changes much ..except some coats of sophistication and constant effort of controlling our emotions...
that actually means we adults lack spontaneity....our movies,books, activities are less spontaneous....neither do we try to make sky rockets in our garage room with cousins nor we try to leave the country on a fine summer day due to excessive pressure to submit home work at school...but a kids life is always dynamic and spontaneous... .thats why as a children s book writer all the great of the greatest ones are known for their spontaneity...for their ability to understand a kids imagination and limitations and to make it funny...among many many of them..one that i recently revisited is some of the works of Vosevolod Nestaiko.
His first book that came into my hand was the Vayukovka bullfighetrs...the book actually belonged to one of my class mates from school and before i could return it to her she left the school for some unknown reasons and since then for almost a decade the Vayukovka bullfighters and the life of toreadors (both stories together in a blue white hardbound cover) stayed in my study desk, visited my bed very often and from there shifted to both my brothers life for a while....being out of home now i wonder do we still have it there back home....its something which you will never want to loose....
Both the stories were based on two teenage protagonists Java and Pavel and their school life, some little infatuations with not so pretty girls..some big fights, aspirations (which changed on a daily basis) to become a toreador to astronaut to kiev police and their respective unique families with associated pressure which happens more or less to every teenagers life....
Honestly, when I brought the book I had no idea about Vosevolod Neataikos writing skills....neither did I know that from that time onwards I will search forever in libraries for his books....the most interesting thing about his writing style is his dialogues throughout the story...you feel like someone very close to you is actually narrating those events...that person sometimes seems you grandpa...sometimes father and sometimes just a friend....
the main stories are made up numerous short stories from these two teenagers life and none of them were boring or repetitious....even as a grown up adult if someone tries to read them again they will find them equally humorous ... wonderful and interesting.....
Although as a teenager we mostly have homework to do and a few infatuations to take care of :)...sometimes there are thing such as the challenges of coping up with increasingly growing body and mind and the fear of rejection and future....all these different aspects are very well pictured in his novels ....no matter which age group you belong to ....your happiness index increases thousand fold while reading and even while recalling reading the book ...not only because it reduces your pain of getting a bad grade in one of your favourite subjects after finding out this happens to almost everyone religiously but also it creates a nostalgia for those long gone days....and being a teenager you feel like someone spy ed on you and wrote it for the public!!!
I searched quite a bit to give a glimpse of my one of the favourite authors work but did not find any except this short story.....(dont worry I will be attaching that here ) ...if you guys like it ..search for his other novels and short stories in your libraries.....and enjoy revisiting childhood ....
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utoronto.ca%2Felul%2FEnglish%2FBilenko%2FNestaiko-Lying.pdf&ei=a7eyUYKuM6PMiQLY4YAg&usg=AFQjCNGtRJmIffrHjVU_2fov5twDNSMbpA&sig2=WDMqAr38ryaJliXAHyOHhw&bvm=bv.47534661,d.cGE
Kids, no matter how little they are, have very distinct personality of their own...this is something I always find quite invigorating ....the personality does not change much as we grow old....even after a few decades if we meet our school mates we mostly can identify them by their distinct persona, style of talking, body language or simply by their voice..nothing changes much ..except some coats of sophistication and constant effort of controlling our emotions...
that actually means we adults lack spontaneity....our movies,books, activities are less spontaneous....neither do we try to make sky rockets in our garage room with cousins nor we try to leave the country on a fine summer day due to excessive pressure to submit home work at school...but a kids life is always dynamic and spontaneous... .thats why as a children s book writer all the great of the greatest ones are known for their spontaneity...for their ability to understand a kids imagination and limitations and to make it funny...among many many of them..one that i recently revisited is some of the works of Vosevolod Nestaiko.
His first book that came into my hand was the Vayukovka bullfighetrs...the book actually belonged to one of my class mates from school and before i could return it to her she left the school for some unknown reasons and since then for almost a decade the Vayukovka bullfighters and the life of toreadors (both stories together in a blue white hardbound cover) stayed in my study desk, visited my bed very often and from there shifted to both my brothers life for a while....being out of home now i wonder do we still have it there back home....its something which you will never want to loose....
Both the stories were based on two teenage protagonists Java and Pavel and their school life, some little infatuations with not so pretty girls..some big fights, aspirations (which changed on a daily basis) to become a toreador to astronaut to kiev police and their respective unique families with associated pressure which happens more or less to every teenagers life....
Honestly, when I brought the book I had no idea about Vosevolod Neataikos writing skills....neither did I know that from that time onwards I will search forever in libraries for his books....the most interesting thing about his writing style is his dialogues throughout the story...you feel like someone very close to you is actually narrating those events...that person sometimes seems you grandpa...sometimes father and sometimes just a friend....
the main stories are made up numerous short stories from these two teenagers life and none of them were boring or repetitious....even as a grown up adult if someone tries to read them again they will find them equally humorous ... wonderful and interesting.....
Although as a teenager we mostly have homework to do and a few infatuations to take care of :)...sometimes there are thing such as the challenges of coping up with increasingly growing body and mind and the fear of rejection and future....all these different aspects are very well pictured in his novels ....no matter which age group you belong to ....your happiness index increases thousand fold while reading and even while recalling reading the book ...not only because it reduces your pain of getting a bad grade in one of your favourite subjects after finding out this happens to almost everyone religiously but also it creates a nostalgia for those long gone days....and being a teenager you feel like someone spy ed on you and wrote it for the public!!!
I searched quite a bit to give a glimpse of my one of the favourite authors work but did not find any except this short story.....(dont worry I will be attaching that here ) ...if you guys like it ..search for his other novels and short stories in your libraries.....and enjoy revisiting childhood ....
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.utoronto.ca%2Felul%2FEnglish%2FBilenko%2FNestaiko-Lying.pdf&ei=a7eyUYKuM6PMiQLY4YAg&usg=AFQjCNGtRJmIffrHjVU_2fov5twDNSMbpA&sig2=WDMqAr38ryaJliXAHyOHhw&bvm=bv.47534661,d.cGE
