The curious indicent of the dog in the night-time

YES, I will try and start updating some more. Especially outfits, because I'm pretty satisfied with my dressing as of late. But my batteries keep running out, or I forget to take pictures. You know the excuses.

ANYWAYS.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon is the latest book I've read. I can describe my opinions on this book in one word: WOW. I am in LOVE with this book, and Marks writing.

I'll give you a quick explanation of the story. It's about a teenage autistic boy who discovers a murdered dog in the front lawn of his neighbours from across the street. He decides to start investigating it, but that is quite a challange since he has never been further than the end of his street on his own, and he doesn't like people very much. He quickly discovers a WHOLE LOT.

The whole book is just wonderful, the way Haddon discribes the thoughts of an autistic boy is outstanding. So simple and logical, yet so smart and funny. It's just all perfect. He nails it, I'd say.

The book also made me think about 'Extremely loud and incredibly close' by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's similar in the way that it's about two young boys, with similar funny habits and thoughts, who go on to investigate something. I know I can't even quite capture why they remind me of each other, but they are defenitely the best two books I've ever read.

I just love, love, love it. If anyone has any recommendations along the lines of those two books, I need to hear it ASAP!

XOXO

I am...

... becoming an auntie this October! My boyfriends brother and his girlfriend are expecting their first baby :)

I'm so happy for them. I love babies, and already can't wait to meet the little one. It makes me wonder too.. no more christmas without baby... there will forever be a little cousin! (If me and Joris were to be together forever, which I am hoping and assuming)

The kid would grow up, and I would be one of his aunts! So weird, but so great. Can't wait to spoil the little one already :-)

XOXO

We LOVED Paris...

...obviously. What's not to love?

XOXO

Wie is de mol?

This is my favorite gameshow in the whole wide world. It's a Dutch show, and I just cannot understand it's not being broadcasted in another country.

I think the translation is simply 'who is the mole?'

The idea behind the show is that ten famous people go to a country far away (this year it was El Salvador). The group of contestants have to carry out difficult tasks in order to make as much money as possible. For every succesful game/task they get a certain amount of money. But there's a catch: one of the contestants is 'de mol', and he tries to sabotage the tasks, so that it fails and the group won't earn money. At the end of every episode the contestants have to answer twenty questions about who they think is 'de mol'. If they have the most faulty answers, they are send home. So it is important for 'de mol' to be undercover and sneaky, if people know who's the mole, he can't win.

For the viewers it's unknown who the mole is, and it stays that way untill the very last episode, when the mole is finally coming clean. There is always a winning finalist, a losing finalist and the mole him or herself.

It's such an amazing concept, it's so fascinating to discuss all of the theories about who the mole could be. The editing is done in a way that it's unclear who the mole is. Many contestants try to make themself look like the mole, because people will think they are the mole while they aren't, and those people will be send home.

It's ridiciously exciting. The shots and music are amazing as well, it's beautifully made, and I'm always sad that there's only 2,5 months of the show every year.

I already cannot wait untill next year. I was wrong about who was the mole this year, btw.

XOXO

Disneyland!

Isn't that a lovely sight?

We watched the parades (not even on purpose ha!)

A belated happy birthday-gift to my love :)

We got obsessed with the beautifull details in Disneyland..

And I got myself a new boyfriend.. Aren't we adorable?

Proof that we were there!

Pictures of Paris coming up. Disney was amazing, we had the best weather. It was a little chilly, but during the afternoon we finally felt the suns power (for the first time this year!). So we unzipped our jackets and did Space Mountain, Peter Pan, nearly everything! It was lovely.

XOXO

Not to brag or anything...

But connect the photo's...

1. A picture of an Eiffel Tower

2. A picture of a PINK castle

3. A picture of croissants and coffee

What does that make?

Milou and Joris going to Paris for three days! Tomorrow we'll visit Disneyland Paris, and then two days of the capital of love!

I'm such a lucky girl!

XOXO

Movies: The King's Speech

I saw The King's Speech last night. I had high hopes, because of the Oscars and the trailer I saw and then...

It was even better. I have always adored Colin Firth. His style just suits the movie so well. The acting in it is brilliant, by everyone, and the story about a King who's so insecure because of his stuttering problem is very touching. I loved everything about the movie, and the fact that's is not just a pure drama made it even better. I defenitely recommend this movie to anyone, it's worth your money!

xoxo