What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 44

The novel by Jan van Mersbergen Zadnji pobeg (original title De laatste ontsnapping) is not translated in English. If I translate the title for you it would be something like The last escape.

"You are my father" the voice on the phone says. It belongs to a ten year old boy Deedee and he is speaking to his father Ivan for the first time. At this moment Ivan’s world begins to change. This is how starts a sensitive story about the relationship between a father and a son, the story about parental love and the price of freedom.

The nail polish is Kiko Quick Dry line, with a fascinating name 858. It has a foil finish, but you have to be careful how you apply it, if you don't want visible brush strokes. The colour in the bottle is silver and pink, but on the nails it leans towards pink. The application is not problematic.

Have a great day :)

What I'm reading + NOTD pt.13

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. This is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. 

The title in English is The Sense of an Ending and the novel is the winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011.

The nail polish is from Kiko, and this was the first Kiko polish that I bought. It is number 244. I don't know why, but I have problems with the application with this one. The colour is a really deep plum, it almost looks black, but it's not. 

As always, two coats, a base coat and a top coat in the pictures.

The photos in the category What I'm reading + NOTD are usually taken with my phone (Samsung Galaxy S4 mini) and look fine on the mobile, but when I transfer them to the computer I can see they are not so great. See below.

For this post I tried to take them also with the camera that my friend so kindly lent me. They are better, but there is a problem. The camera is heavy to hold with one arm, and I can't wink, so I can't see what I'm photographing. See below.

We have quite a prodigious photographer here :D

Have a great day ;)

Remembering the last days of summer with Kiko 343 Verde Primavera

Even though each season is beautiful in different ways and autumn is a splendid mess of colours that everybody seems to love, I sometimes miss hot summer days. Now that weather is gloomy and is raining every day for last couple of days it feels like a good time to post the photos of this beautiful nail polish that has a name after a season. Not summer, but spring. 

Kiko 343 Verde Primavera, 2 coats

This was also the last swim of this season. Sea, see you again next year!

Have a great day ;)