mannen van staal

The first book of Elizabeth Gilbert is less interesting than here biography eten bidden en beminnen that I read before. Although it was funny it was talking about the crazy people in a fishermens island and I was visiting small Bozo villages at the shore fo the River Niger in Mali. It showed some resemblance. I left the book at Yvonne's place, as I didn't want to carry it around the rest of the trip.

mali blues

I only liked the book, because I was in Mali at the time I read it. It made me understand Mali a bit better, but furthermore I didn't really like the style of writing of Lieve Joris. The last story about Kar kar is the best.

norwegian wood

An amazingly good book! Beforehand I didn't expect much of it, although Jaap-Henk sad it was a very nice book. But somehow the fact that it was a Japanese writer didn't really attract me. Bu it was a very nice book! It is smoothly written, and it has a sense of fatalism in it, somance, melancholy, philosophy and then he described his life from his 18-21.

lustwandel

Carnaval started in Dusseldorf just on my return to this concrete city. I brought my pink hat from the Jut and Jul act I did together with Fleur, and I could finally wear my strange skirtof IO festival again. A whole bunch of Vodafone people were inthe Lustwandel, so Elisabeth and I also went there. Had to wait very long in a queue, but in the end, had some good dancing.

the kite runner

I missed the start of the movie, but as I had read the book I could still follow the storyline. And as with many movies that are based on a book, the book is better. The time that amir jaan in Pakistan is, seems so short in the movie, and in the book it all seemed so much more intense. Though I have to admit the actor player Amir jaan was very good, nice eyes!

Nights in Rodanthe

This is the movie I saw on my way back from Bamako. And although not a very strond sotryline it touched me somehow. Richard Gere is still the mister for romance and the stranger in the crowd.

Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona

One of the movies I saw on my way to Bamako. Lot of passion in this movie, and also the romance. A feeling I am familiar with. The dreamy chracter of Scarlet Johannson and the passionate one of Penelope Cruz and then the third one, can't remember the name, that thinks she should do something but doens't feel it. All three are characters I can relate to. I guess anyone can.