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Difficult work week has once again come to a close. Gray, drippy, and chilly tonight. I'm tired.
You don't want to hear about my work week, do you? Didn't think so.
Currently flitting between re-reading A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville and continuing to plod through Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (yes, still, you'd think I'd have given up on it by now but nooo) - which I can tell was written by a journalist. Lacks emotion, quite dry, and matter-of-fact tone. Not that all journalists write that way, but financial journalists, business journalists, and news journalists often do. Anyhow, while it is an intriguing novel, it's not really hitting my craving. So flitting between that and a book I read ages ago, and got the sudden desire to re-read - A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville - who creates cartoonish characters with bizarre names and puts them in twisty adventure plots. This one is about a high-ranking female bank executive who plots the ultimate corporate revenge after her boss axes her latest proposal and a lucrative job offer all in one fell blow. Her revenge? To break through automated security and hide some money in a place no one will find it, then point out to senior management how easy a theft really is. But there's a wrinkle in her plan - top financial wizard and brainiac extraordinare, Dr. Zoltan Tor (who I didn't realize until I started re-reading matches the physical description of my own brother - a bit of a damper that - very hard to be turned on by a romantic love interest that looks like one's own brother. Tall - about five to six inches above six foot (check), copper penny hair (check), as lean as he is tall (check), pale skin (check), angular roman nose (check) and soft voice. Only difference my brother isn't that bright and isn't precise in how he talks. And has the same dry sense of humor that I do - having inherited from my Dad.) Her former mentor ups the ante - why not steal a billion dollars, invest it to earn thirty million in three months - and put the original billion back before anyone notices? And to heighten the challenge, Tor and Verity will compete against each other though Tor gives Verity an edge: she can use a computer for her theft but he cannot...(See? Twisty plots and I adore twisty plots. Simple plots with lots of world building and vague characters who pun about all day tend to bore me. But twisty convoluted plots that I need to keep track of - thrill me. This has been a problem with my own writing, actually - I get bored with simple plots and have a tendency to go off on tangents, hmmm sort of like I'm doing here.)
Watched Grey's Anatomy this week - or the Grey's musical. Sigh. Serious hospital dramas that verge on the melodramatic, really should not attempt to do musicals. So much fail. Where to begin?
Although, will state, it did make me appreciate what Whedon managed to pull off in the Buffy musical Once More With Feeling. Proving once again that writing and putting on a musical for a tv show is not something you should try at home - it's not as easy as it looks, kids.
( Grey's Anatomy Musical Review - with spoilers )
You don't want to hear about my work week, do you? Didn't think so.
Currently flitting between re-reading A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville and continuing to plod through Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (yes, still, you'd think I'd have given up on it by now but nooo) - which I can tell was written by a journalist. Lacks emotion, quite dry, and matter-of-fact tone. Not that all journalists write that way, but financial journalists, business journalists, and news journalists often do. Anyhow, while it is an intriguing novel, it's not really hitting my craving. So flitting between that and a book I read ages ago, and got the sudden desire to re-read - A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville - who creates cartoonish characters with bizarre names and puts them in twisty adventure plots. This one is about a high-ranking female bank executive who plots the ultimate corporate revenge after her boss axes her latest proposal and a lucrative job offer all in one fell blow. Her revenge? To break through automated security and hide some money in a place no one will find it, then point out to senior management how easy a theft really is. But there's a wrinkle in her plan - top financial wizard and brainiac extraordinare, Dr. Zoltan Tor (who I didn't realize until I started re-reading matches the physical description of my own brother - a bit of a damper that - very hard to be turned on by a romantic love interest that looks like one's own brother. Tall - about five to six inches above six foot (check), copper penny hair (check), as lean as he is tall (check), pale skin (check), angular roman nose (check) and soft voice. Only difference my brother isn't that bright and isn't precise in how he talks. And has the same dry sense of humor that I do - having inherited from my Dad.) Her former mentor ups the ante - why not steal a billion dollars, invest it to earn thirty million in three months - and put the original billion back before anyone notices? And to heighten the challenge, Tor and Verity will compete against each other though Tor gives Verity an edge: she can use a computer for her theft but he cannot...(See? Twisty plots and I adore twisty plots. Simple plots with lots of world building and vague characters who pun about all day tend to bore me. But twisty convoluted plots that I need to keep track of - thrill me. This has been a problem with my own writing, actually - I get bored with simple plots and have a tendency to go off on tangents, hmmm sort of like I'm doing here.)
Watched Grey's Anatomy this week - or the Grey's musical. Sigh. Serious hospital dramas that verge on the melodramatic, really should not attempt to do musicals. So much fail. Where to begin?
Although, will state, it did make me appreciate what Whedon managed to pull off in the Buffy musical Once More With Feeling. Proving once again that writing and putting on a musical for a tv show is not something you should try at home - it's not as easy as it looks, kids.
( Grey's Anatomy Musical Review - with spoilers )