Haha that title caught your interest, right? Well I have two reviews for you today: one for a book and one for a bra. Let’s start with the bra!
I was contacted by a representative from Leonisa, which is an undergarment company that I was unfamiliar with. After looking through their site, I decided to try out their Slimming Strapless Push Up Bra, since I was in need of a new strapless bra. The reason I chose this one was because of the thick band on the sides and back of the bra.
My number one pet peeve with strapless bras is that I always seem to be pulling them up throughout the day, readjusting it and keeping it from slipping down. What I loved about this bra is that I never messed with it! The wider band seemed to really help in keeping it up. It also comes with straps that you can add on if you want to.
The one thing I didn’t like about the bra is that for some reason I’d assumed it was padded. Being someone with a smaller chest, I much prefer padded strapless bras and despite the bra being described as “push up” there wasn’t any padding. Otherwise, I really like this bra and recommend checking out their website. They have a lot of different options and are all really reasonably priced, similar or less than Victoria’s Secret, which is where I’d normally shop.
Now on to the book! I have a pile of books in my apartment that I’ve been meaning to get through, and several were lent to me from Chelsey! I picked one at random and was so glad that I did, I really enjoyed it!
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys follows the story of fifteen year old Lina, a young Lithuanian girl preparing to go away for art school and enjoying her summer. However, one evening the Soviet secret police came to her home and took her, her brother and mother away on a train, separating them from their father and sending them, after months cramped in a train car, to a prison camp in the middle of Siberia (no joke…).
Lina used the little time and resources she had to continue to draw and write, documenting their experience so that one day their story could be told, as well as in hopes of finding their father.
When I first read the book description I almost put it back, thinking I wasn’t in the mood for a historical book. The thing about this novel, however, is that it doesn’t feel like a historical novel. Yes, I was learning about an entire part of history that I had no knowledge of previously, but it felt like I was just reading this girl’s story. I finished the book in just two days because I just couldn’t put it down, staying up fairly late one evening because I just HAD to know what happened!
As much as it is about history, this novel is really about family, love and human compassion. Not something you’d imagine when the story is centered around a prison camp for innocent women, children and elderly, but it shows how some people can become the best version of themselves when put in the most difficult of situations. I definitely recommend picking up this book!
Do you like historical novels?
Where do you shop for undergarments? Anyone else just always go to Victoria’s Secret?
Is the book nonfiction? It sounds interesting but definitely a little heavy.
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It’s fiction! The author based the story off of research She did on several people and families who were arrested from the Baltics in the 1940s.
It sounds really heavy, but for some reason the way the story was written it didn’t feel that way. I was more invested in their family relationships and a love interest that emerged… haha. I really enjoyed it, which I was surprised by!
I usually go to Victoria’s Secret or Aerie. I’m surprised that it didn’t have padding too — when you think of a push-up bra, you usually think of padding.
exactly what I was thinking!
That book sounds interesting… adding it to my goodreads 🙂
Haha you can borrow it!
Intrigued by that bra – I hate wearing strapless for the ‘always-pulling-it-up’ thing…but I agree that the non-padded thing seems a little odd!
Yea, I would have preferred if it were a little padded…
Being British makes me a Marks and Spencers girl for underwear, their bras are pretty well made for the price (you can order online too). That book sounds great, I’m really interested in stories like that, even if they are quite dark.
Definitely read this book then! And for some reason it wasn’t written in a way that was too dark, despite being about such a serious subject.
It’s hard to find a good strapless bra!