Day 22

I realized on Monday that I have book club on Wednesday and hadn't started the book yet. The book was The Big Short, which is not in my normal reading comfort zone, and I read thirty percent of it last night mostly feeling like a total moron who could not get there from here. Oddly, though, the more I read it, the more the sheer repetition of the terms started to sink in, and when I watched the movie this afternoon I felt like the book had given me a good introduction, in addition to the very clever techniques the movie had for explaining credit default swaps and subprime mortgage lending. Also, the description in the book of the people involved and some of the snappy one-liners are really entertaining and made me glad to be reading it.

Eve came in after school (I had told her on Monday that I hadn't started reading the book yet) and asked what I was watching. I told her, and she said incredulously "You're watching the movie instead? you've become THAT PERSON? Seriously?" I hastily explained that everyone else had already watched the movie while I was in Barrie, and that I was still planning on finishing the book, or nearly. She gave me serious side-eye, though. 

Comments

StephLove said…
Good thing Eve is keeping you in check.
Hannah said…
I haven't read the book but I loved the movie. I too thought it was very cleverly done.

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