What I'm reading + NOTD pt.112

All the Light We Cannot See is a story about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. 

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighbourhood, so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. 

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge. 

All the Light We Cannot See, written by American author Anthony Doerr, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. 

The nail polish is from Essence, of course discontinued. Its name is Pink&Proud. The polish looks like a foil one and it's very pretty. I wouldn't say it's pink, its more on the violet side. It has tiny violet and silver shimmer so with the application it looks like foil.

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Jung: Couleur de peau: Miel

The graphic novel Couleur de peau: Miel tells the story of author Jung, who was born in Korea and adopted in Belgium. At the end of the Korean War, thousands of Korean children were adopted to the West, and Jung was one of them. He was a troubled child who could not find the right contact with his surroundings, so he ran into a fantasy world and drawn a lot. Luckily, despite adolescent problems, he managed to keep his life on the right rails. He returned to Seoul a few years later with a wish to find his biological mom or simply to check how much he feels at home in Korea. Adult Jung is so skilful in expressing his own story of the eternal search for identity, full of humour and personal insight. In order to address the sensitive issues of racial diversity, cultural identity, difficult period of growing up and narration in the ambiguous genre of auto-biography, the graphic novel presents an invaluable value for the age group of young adults. 

There is also a film that is a mixture between a documentary film and animation. Jung decides to return, for the first time, in South Korea, in order to breath the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself, shot as a documentary, leads our character to recall in animation. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 111

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts prove undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair. 

Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Jude the Obscure received a harsh reception from some scandalized critics and caused outrage when it was published and, as a result, was the last novel Hardy ever wrote. 

The nail polish is from Essence, an old, old one, with the name Mellow Yellow. The colour is pastel yellow, with a pearl finish. Because it's so old it's not in the best form, it's quite qoopy, but nonetheless, the application wasn't as horrible as I anticipated. 

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