book notes: the cryptonians

Rating: 4 out of 5.

A super fun read and made me feel like I understand more about crypto, but I’m not entirely sure that’s a fair take away.

A lot of characters felt fake and it is hilarious that these are real, not fake people. Sometimes the best fiction is reality. The drama is very very real and the author, Laura Shin, did such a great job in keeping the pace fun and dynamic through a complicated narrative.

Listening to the book with all the 0.0000000000001 read out loud was moderately annoying and amusing at the same time.

book notes: the anomaly

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Oh I deeply loved this.

the ending was dissatisfying in the short term, but a very pleasant aftertaste.

also a multi-POV book that I can easily see becoming a show.

book notes: Anatomy of a scandal

Rating: 3 out of 5.

read for the work book club – speed listened because i forgot about it until like the Friday and book club is tomorrow, Tuesday.

it was… fine. i could see the ending telegraphed from chapter 3, and the characters all seemed very very plain and too basic.

the only thing this made me realize is that if you do want to write a book with a higher probability of making it into a TV show 2 things help:

  1. Writing it from multiple first person POV (think wheel of time, game of thrones). Multiple POVS = easier to convert to a script that narrates events.
  2. Ideally set somewhere where non American accents exist.

things that need (and want) doing around the house

  • fix the faux greenery outside
  • fix the seal on the laundry machine
  • add more hooks in hallway
  • add a hook (or two) in the bedroom closet
  • put art into the 3 blank frames (at this point is almost a conceptual project going on for 2 years)
  • also replace the singular duplicated photo on the black and white wall
  • maybe also change out some of the other ones that i love less in the gallery
  • organize the cables under the desk
  • create the bar in the niche
  • update the guest bathroom
  • replace the Eames
  • donate all the mugs i have in storage (SO MANY MUGS i have a problem)