So I still can't post what I want to, I tried writing it all in word but then this thing doesn't let you paste? 2/3 of the writing takes up 4 pages of word so hmmmm, effort much to copy that into here manually?
Instead, I thought I'd persue other activities tonight. I still haven't lost baby weight, and I've decided to finally do something about it (well, my son's a toddler now, but still, it's about time) and I got a wii a few weeks ago. It came with wii sports and wii sports resort, and I've got a few games with it. Most of them I can do sitting down, but I got this one recently, called 'Just Dance' and it's brilliant. I'm a little slow with some of the instructions, but I only played it for half hour, including warm up time. Did a little womaniser, hot'n'cold and little less conversation. Oh and fame, you gotta do fame, right?
Anyway, so I'm on a street team, the Drake Bell street team, and they're having a chat tonight. The only thing is, they want as many people as possible there, so they've given a time that the west coast of America can make. Which makes it about 1am here. So I decided to watch a DVD after wii-ing, and put on Confessions Of A Shopaholic. It's good, but it doesn't touch Sophie Kinsella's writing.
She's amazing, Sophie. It's more of an injustice I didn't include her and Kate Brian in my top five than it is Stefenie Meyer (sorry Lizzy!). I love the humour in her books. For me, the shopaholic series is successful not because she names absolutely every designer she can think of, but because of the way Becky tries to reason her way out of sticky situations, or rationalise her impulses. Mainly because it's what most people's internal narration is like, when they want something they shouldn't really have (for her, that scarf she's £20 short of, for me, it's a giant bag of starmix). But I like her other books too, more Can You Keep A Secret and Remember Me? than The Undomestic Goddess and Twenties Girl. She captures something about women that a lot of writers try for and miss. I think I'd be almost as intimidated being in the same room with her as I would Joanne Rowling.
There's another series writer I like too, Kate Brian. She's written a series called 'Private', which is a little bit like 'if Gossip Girl were overrun with murderers'. It's addictive writing, and though the details aren't always there you can picture the scenes clearly. The characters stand out, she's good at making personalities different. My only bugbear is the killing thing. At first, it was one seriously unhinged girl called Ariana, who tried to kill the main character, Reed. Kate's since written a book called 'Last Christmas' where Ariana kills an exchange student and her boyfriend's ex. Reed starts going out with the same guy in the first book. So anyway, after Ariana's sent to a correctional facility, one of her housemates (it's an overnight Private school, they're in this really cliquey house) is killed and then Reed gets a gun aimed at her by ... no, I won't give that one away. So when I read the last one released in the UK, Reed got pushed off a boat. I've accidentally read a spoiler on an amazon review (arsehole who wrote that!) for who pushed her, but I still want to read. Even if the attempts on Reed's life continue racking up. She's had as many death threats as Zoey Redbird's had boyfriends in House Of Night, I swear.
Anyway, back to COAS and my cherry Lambrini (classy bird that I am). I don't think I'm going to quite make it to the DBST chat you know. Knackered!
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