Purple Orchid in Climatron--Monday, 5/7/18
Another day, another
*Grey and purple floral T (JCP), $4.99
Outfit cost per wear (OCPW): $15.00
"The number of orchid species nearly equals the number of bony fishes and is more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species." Damn.
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| Missouri Botanical Garden |
Diana Monkey--Tuesday, 5/8/18
The neckline on this blouse is a little baffling--I like the keyhole detail, but it is not always obvious what kind of necklace to wear it it, so I went with "none" as the answer here.
OCPW: $11.09
I'm not sure I'd heard of a Diana monkey before seeing them at the zoo in Omaha. This guy was having a good time investigating the balls o' veggie.
Their common name is inspired by the white "crescent-shaped browband" that you can hardly see in this photo; apparently somebody thought that browband resembled the crescent on the brow of the goddess Diana. Huh. Diana has a crescent? Oh, I guess so!
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| Henry Doorly Zoo |
In other news...What is going on with John Grisham? I found The Rooster Bar to be an unsuccessful effort, but had higher hopes for Camino Island...which was justified for like 90% of the book. It's the story of a heist, and a recipient of stolen goods, and a writer who is (ludicrously, but I didn't even care) hired by an insurance company to go undercover to find out more about this guy that they (rightly) suspect of keeping the stolen goods at his store, setting up some potential sting.
Sure, it's all kind of loose and silly, but entertaining enough. The first chapters set up a promising plot-line (marred by the old "somebody does something implausibly stupid to advance the plot" problem, but at least Grisham gets it out of the way up front, I guess) and it gets thinner as things go but still, you look forward to the plot twist, you anticipate being surprised, you wait with increasing desperation for something interesting to occur. Nothing does. And then the ending happens, and it's like, Whaaaaa? I'm not sure when I last so wanted to punch a fictional character in the face for apologizing to an asshole criminal about something.
A non-legal novel by John Grisham sounds weird, but I actually enjoyed Playing for Pizza, about a mediocre US pro football player who makes a major mistake in an important game, is cut from the team, and moves to Italy to play in their (ostensibly) professional league.
Grisham the writer is on track to get cut from my team if he keeps this up.
2 comments:
I read this book also. It is not one of his better books.
Yeah, I've not had great luck with him lately...which is too bad because his earlier books were so great.
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