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Johan Gabrielsen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
511 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

But everyone is having a good time, and everyone is kind of socializing and talking.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

But most of the men feel listened to, and they feel kind of attracted, because there's also this kind of flirtiness that goes on as well.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

But the boob job is also about women, I think, that she's writing about, obsessive about feeling attractive and feeling wanted.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

And there is this kind of harrowing description about, and I had no idea about this, about nipples.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

Like she's very much ashamed of her dark nipples.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

She actually had them bleached.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

So they put on this chemical that take away the outer layer of the nipple to make them black.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

She writes that sometimes I need to go into like a changing room or just to look at my nipples to see how my beautiful pink nipples.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

And I just found that like excruciating how painful that must be to kind of bleach your nipples.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

But it's a lot, the book is a lot about women's beauty.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

bodies it's about the relationship to the bodies and how the bodies in the end kind of lets you down and it's from a different perspective it's this this sister with the boob job she has a daughter that goes through puberty and it's a lot about her thoughts and her feelings about getting periods and about her kind of anger at her mom that she's so vain that she's going to go

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

and get a boob job.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

And it's also classical puberty girl, like they don't speak.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

They only talk through messages or they write.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

She writes to her mum because she can't speak to her.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

She doesn't know how to approach the mother.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

I mean, how more symbolic can it be that you can only, as a pivotal person, you can only communicate with the outside world through messages and paper?

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

And then there is, of course, the main protagonist.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

Her name is Natsu, and it's about her, a bit her body, about how her body is changing, but also what drives her is to have a child.

The Bookshelf
Hello Kitty with unshaved armpits (and other bookish insights)

And that's the only kind of weirdness about this book, I feel, is that she's on the quest.