What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 55

My current job consists also of watching films with teenagers and analyzing it afterwards. The film of February was Room and since I bought the book (if you haven't figure it out, the book is Room by Ema Donoghue) but not read it jet I decided I have to do it before I watch the film. I have a belief that the film will ruin my reading experience. Now I'm not so sure about this anymore.

Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a novel like no other. 

I read the book in one day, it's really hard to put it down. The film is also good, but the book kind of ruined it for me. If I read the book before I watch the movie I always look for differences between the book and the movie, and there will be, because it's impossible to fit everything in the movie. Yes, if you watch the movie first there is also a possibility that you won't enjoy the book as much, but there is so much more in the book so the experience can be still enjoyable (it happened to me with the fifth Harry Potter book. Because of the circumstances I first watched the movie, but that didn't destroy the reading experience). There is also a third option, not watch the movie at all :)

The nail polish is from old Essence line called Hard to resist. It's a dark blue with small blue shimmer, the brush is flat and easy to use. This one is one coater. No problems with the application but I need a new base coats since my current one is becoming goopy and hard to use.

So what do you think, it's a good idea to read the book first before watching the movie? 

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 54

Don't Move (original title Non ti muovere) begins with an accident. Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon, Timoteo, sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo s tale begins, he s driving to the beach house where his beautiful, accomplished wife, Elsa, is waiting. Car trouble forces him to make a detour into a dingy suburb, where he meets Italia unattractive, unpolished, working-class who awakens a part of him he scarcely recognizes. Disenchanted with his stable life, he seizes the chance to act without consequences, and their savage first encounter spirals into an inexplicable obsession. Returning again and again to Italia s dim hovel, he finds himself faced with a choice: a life of passion with Italia, or a life of comfort and predictability with Elsa. As Angela's life hangs in the balance, Timoteo's own life flashes before his eyes. 

I can tell you one thing, I hated Timoteo with a passion and it's difficult to hate a character that is also a narrator. But Timoteo managed it just fine. I had zero compassion for him, but I felt sympathy for the women around him.

Nail polish is from Essence, a discontinued one, and also a magnetic one. I don't use it as such, but as a simple nail polish. The colour is red with tiny silver shimmer. The name is Magic red carpet. 

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 53

There is a special feeling when you read the first book of the trilogy and you like it. Knowing there is more to read, the anticipation for the next book (jet to be written or just to be free at the library).

Here we have the first book in the Century trilogy by Ken Follet. In the first book, Fall of Giants, the story follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, `Fall of Giants` moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.

What I love about this book is that is so historically accurate. We have real persons interacting with the fictional characters and all is so well done, that it actually could have happened.

The nail polish is from an old Essence limited edition called Vampire's Love. I have all the polishes from this collection but sadly I managed to destroy one. This one is True Love and it is beautiful (and so was the one I destroyed, I'm still angry about it). It's shimmery violet, the application is flawless and I have nothing bad to say about it.

Have a great day!