What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 83

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said `I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?

It this novel the crime investigates Miss. Marple, but while we're on a subject... did you watch the latest Murder on the orient express? I knew I wanted to go see it, although I knew I wouldn't like the actor who plays Hercule Poirot as much as I like David Suchet, because he is for me the perfect Poirot. But if I leave this aside, in my opinion something was off with the character of Poirot. There was the first scene and I thought, omg, Poirot is acting as if he is Sherlock Holmes, and there was a scene where he is running after a suspect and I don't remember Poirot ever running after a suspect. And there is a scene at the end where he is being so dramatic (we all know he likes to feel important and likes to talk but this felt different). I don't want to say too much, so that I don't spoil it for you, but if you saw it, what is your opinion?

The nail polish is from Catrice (discontinued) with a name After Eight. I like the chocolate After Eight and I also like this colour. It's a shimmery dark green nail polish. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 82

The Cement Garden is the first novel by Ian McEwan, written in 1978. In the Slovenia was first published this year. In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family.

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.” 

Does this quote feel familiar to you? That's because you can hear it at the beginning of the Madonna's song, What It Feels Like For A Girl. Of course, the quote in the music video is taken from the film The Cement Garden, where the oldest child is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg.

“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.” 

The nail polish is from Essence, of course discontinued one and it's grey. in the bottle it looks like dark grey, but on my nails, it looks like there is also a hint of blue. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 81

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before.

The second book in the Strike series. You know I like crime novels and I did enjoy this one, although I can’t say that this is the best crime novel I've ever read I think is just ok. And you know that Robert Galbraith is in fact J.K. Rowling? Will see what the third book in the series will bring.

The nail polish is from Essence, from the old line Colour & Go with the name Chic Reloaded. It's a duochrome and it shifts from green to violet, and although the effect is not very visible on the photos, you can at least see it on the bottle.

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 80

So here we are, on the edge of eternity. Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now in the Edge of Eternity, they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. 

In Slovenian translation is the third part of Century trilogy divided into two books, so it took me a while to read them. Now that I've read the whole trilogy I can choose a favourite among them. I'd choose the first one, Fall of Giants. The others aren't bad is just that in the third part is such a wide time span and everything goes by so quickly. And there is also the thing that I mention in my post of the second part, Winter of the World. I know that in every book there is a young generation that is narrating the story, but it would be nice if we could have heard some of our old protagonist narrating the story. And there is also another thing that is bugging me, what happened to Eric, in the third book he isn't mentioned at all. He didn't have a big part anyways, but it would be nice to hear what happened to him, or he is mentioned, and I somehow missed it? Somebody knows what's the story with Eric?

The books are a trilogy, so I thought it would be nice to have a connection also with nail polishes. Here it is the nail polish from Essence's LE Vampire's Love, just like in previous books. This one is maybe the ugliest, but it's also the most special colour. The name is The dawn is broken and it's a light grey with silver glitter and I think that it looks prettier in the bottle that on the nails.

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 79

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes is a story of Arthur and George, who grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. 

If you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes (the books) then you will certainly know who Arthur Conan Doyle was. The story is based on true facts. Arthur Conan Doyle was not just a writer, he was also a fervent advocate of justice, among other things, and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused. 

The nail polish is from Essence, from their line Show your feet which I think doesn't exist anymore. It's a nail polish designed for the nails on the feet, because it claims to be also anti-bacterial, whatever that means, but it's true that it has different smell than other nail polishes I own. But if it's good for the feet, why not for hands, I don't think there is any difference. The name of the polish is In the jungle and it's a green creme. The application and the brush are ok.

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