Man, this one was hard to read. The describtion goes something like this. After the unsucessful shaving of her intimate parts 18 year old Helen finds herself in the hospital. After reading this I tought this would be a light and funny reading of a story of the teenager who is discovering sexuality and is experimenting with it. Well, I was wrong.
The original title is Feuchtgebiete (German) and Wetlands in English. On bookdepository.com you can read that with her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany. Since its debut in February, the novel has sold more than 680,000 copies, and is the biggest selling book on Amazon anywhere in the world. The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator's body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel. Wetlands opens in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a detailed topography of Helen's hemorrhoids, continues into the subject of anal intercourse and only gains momentum from there. Clearly the novel has struck a nerve, catching a wave of popular interest in renewing the debate over women's roles and image in society.
For me, it was hard to read, but not because of the honest and sometimes crude describtion of sex, but because of the vivid describtion of her health problems and questionable hygiene. I get sick as early as someone is describing to me how they hurt themselves unintentionally, so when reading this I had the permanent feeling of sickness in my stomach and at one point when Helen *spoiler alert* hurts herself to stay in the hospital a little bit longer, couldn't read any longer, so I just scanned through the pages when all this was precisely described.
What to say, not so light reading after all.
The nail polish is beautiful and once again is a part of a limited edition from Catrice. From last year's collection Feathered Fall with a name Golden Plum-e. As always, a base coat, two coats of nail polish and a top coat.
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