My reading plan for 2019

The year that is coming is going to be different than any other year before, so I guess my reading plan that I have for every year will have to change. My reading plan so far has been to read at least 2 books a month, so 24 books in total in a year, although I always read more, but my minimum is set at 24. 

For the year 2019 I have a plan of one book a month, so 12 books in total. But since I have no idea how my life will change, I won’t' be disappointed if I don't reach this goal. And children’s' books count to, or not? 

In regard of my blog, I don't think I'd have time to update it, but hey, I don't think anyone will miss it, since it was more for me than anyone else, I think, I have a feeling that I’m talking to myself. 

So, the true plan for 2019 is to have a good year and manage the new and exciting things without stress and go with the flow. 

To everyone who reads here I wish a happy new year!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

If I would have to choose just one nail polish that perfectly describes Christmas and Christmas holidays, I would say Ruby Pumps by China Glaze.

 It is also the nail polish that I wear most frequently around Christmas and New Year. It has tiny red glitter in a red base. One coat leans more towards pink side, but with two coats it becomes the perfect sparky red.

 The application is ok, no problems with it whatsoever, here I applied it over the peel off base, because the removal can be a problem with all the glitter. I also put a top coat over for a shinier effect, without the top coat it becomes somehow dull.

 Just look at it, perfect Christmassy nail polish :)

 Have a great day and happy hollidays!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 113

Indignation is a novel by Philip Roth, released on September 16, 2008. Set in America in 1951, the second year of the Korean War, Indignation is narrated by Marcus Messner, a Jewish college student from Newark, New Jersey, who describes his sophomore year at Winesburg College in Ohio. Marcus transfers to Winesburg from Robert Treat College in Newark to escape his father, a kosher butcher, who appears to have become consumed with fear about the dangers of adult life, the world, and the uncertainty that awaits his son. Whilst at college, Marcus must traverse an American world that isn't his own: facing off against ardent Christian, Dean Cauldwell, and falling in love with the beautiful Olivia Hutton. 

Nail polish is from Essence, with the name Midnight Charm. The colour is dark blue with silver shimmer. The polish is quite old, and a bit thick so the application wasn't the best, but still manageable. Oh, and I needed just one coat for full opacity, which is great. 

Have a great day!

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.

Have a great day!

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. 

Have a great day!

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. 

Have a great day!

What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 110

After reading the first book in the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie I was wondering when will the second book be translated in Slovene, since the first was published in 2017, but the book is far from new, being published in 2006, the second in the trilogy was published in 2007, so I was expecting it to be translated quite soon. And I was right, here it is right from the printers. 

What we are dealing whit in the second book Before They Are Hanged? Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. 

In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta. The city is braced for the inevitable defeat and massacre to come, preparations are made to make the Gurkish pay for every inch of land ... but a plot is festering to hand the city to its besiegers without a fight, and the previous Inquisitor of Dagoska vanished without trace. Threatened from within and without the city, Glokta needs answers, and he needs them soon. 

And to the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put a end to war, to the army of Eaters in the South, to the invasion of Shanka from the North - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled. 

Now I can't wait for the final part of the trilogy. Hope it will be translated and published soon. 

The nail polish is from H&M, before they revamped their beauty line. It's called Pink Macaroon and it's a baby pink, application was ok, although some brush strokes are visible. 

Have a great day!