What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 107

In this post we have a book that is not translated into English, although its author is very well known in Slovenia and also in other East European cities. I'm talking about Michal Viewegh. Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans. 

In the book Případ nevěrné Kláry (in Slovene Primer nezveste Klare) or The Case of Unfaithful Clara in English we have a detective who was hired by a novelist/writer to find out if his much younger girlfriend is cheating on him. And so things start to get complicated. 

On my nails I have O.P.I. in the shade A Grape Fit! It seems that it's not available any more, at least I can't find it on O.P.I official site. This is a strange colour, not my favourite. The application was ok, but I see that it already started chipping, although my nails are in better shape, but it was still in great condition after one day, which is a big achievement for me. 

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 76

Sharp object is first novel by Gillian Flyn, for which she won the 2007 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller.

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

A novel that I've read in a day. It was so gripping that I wanted to stay in the house and neglect my exercising, but I gave in ant went exercising and had to finish it in the evening.

On my nails is nail polish from O.P.I with the name Coca-Cola Red and it's my sister's. The colour is, as the name suggests, a coca cola red and the application was easy. I noticed that the nail polish is thinner in comparison with those from Essence or Catrice, so the application is somehow easier, you just need to be careful a bit that you don't flood your cuticles. In terms of staying power, nothing new with me in this department, one day of full manicure and the second day, there is already chipped nail polish.

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt.43

Five month after I made a reservation in the library I got the book. But I don't mind the waiting, especially if it is a good book. I wouldn't say that (original title La verite sur l'affaire Harry Quebert) is the best book I ever read, not even in the crime genre, but it is a nice book nonetheless. In my opinion it has a little bit too much of everything, I wouldn't explain it further what I exactly mean, so that I don't tell you some spoilers.

In the summer of 1975 fifteen year old Nola disappeared. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from Harry Quebert, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

The nail polish is from O.P.I and I think is from a limited edition. The name of the polish is Thanks a Windmillion. And I had no problems with it. Easy application, great brush, two coats for full opacity. The colour is not as vibrant as the previous three; it's just like the weather these days, a little bit muted.

Have a nice day :)

What I'm reading + NOTD pt.6

Philip Roth wrote quite a lot of novels and although the name is familliar to me, this is the first one I read. The original title is The Dying Animal and it was published in 2001. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.

Surprise, surprise, the nail polish I'm wearing is not from Essence, nor Catrice :) This one is O.P.I. with the name German-i-cure by OPI. 

Have a great day!