Sheehan Quirke is expert in art, architecture, history, love, poetry, and literature.
He posted just one video on YouTube — and it’s already had over 4 million views.
It points out that modern architecture and urban design is much uglier & boring than in the past.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Hillier Smith named this his favourite YouTube video of 2025.
An AJ Docker and Banshee Thriller.
Faulty Bloodline (2024) is 2nd in the series of books where former police dog, Banshee, is our favourite character.
Author Gary Gerlacher was a pediatric emergency physician. The emergency room situations in these books are based on real life
AJ Docker (Doc) and his guard dog, Banshee, move to a small town in the mountains for a slower-paced lifestyle.
Doc settles into the idyllic setting with a rewarding job and enriching colleagues, as well as with a romantic interest who leads him to contemplate marriage.
His new life seems perfect until he begins to uncover the town’s dirty secrets. A serial killer hunts in the woods, and dirty money flows throughout the town.
Read the AJ Docker and Banshee Thrillers in any order, or follow the series from the beginning:
I’ve been following travel vloggers Zac and Ine since 2021.
This year they decided to move slower. And mostly visit islands around the world.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The second V. I. Warshawski book I’ve read bySara Paretsky.
Again, weird. Original.
First-person narrative from V.I.’s perspective, giving readers direct access to her thoughts and observations. Right or wrong.
I was interested enough to Google and come up with:
A Conversation With Sara Paretsky on the Writing Process (Killer Writers)
like a dog wrestling with a sprinkler, and the sprinkler is always winning
I was lucky to be friends with P.D. James, who told me she outlined in so much detail that she would write the chapter she wanted to work on a given day. I wish I could do that. I would write so much faster and have so many more books out. I’d be like the Stephen King of private eye novels. …
I have an idea for a crime and characters who can set the story in motion. Then, the story ends up going down a dead-end alley, so I have to back up. Sometimes, the characters change roles. They become more or less prominent or even change whether they’re good or bad …
That makes sense now.
Overboard (2022) has no conventional plot that I could discern.
V.I. is — as usual — protecting Chicago’s weak and vulnerable without getting paid.
There are astonishingly well organized bad guys chasing V.I. — as usual — for reasons unclear.
I do like how they push issues of social and political justice. Paretsky makes clear that she hates Trump.
The Chicago setting is excellent. I love that city.
It’s unapologetically set during the pandemic lockdown.
I might keep reading these books. They are strangely compelling, even without a clear storyline.
I loved the 2020 book Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
The Thursday Murder Club is a 2025 American crime comedy based on the book.
Its plot follows a group of elderly amateur sleuths who attempt to solve a murder.
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie. Big names.
For me the movie started too slowly. I was disappointed.
BUT the second half got increasingly entertaining. I’m looking forward to the proposed sequel.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
WAY too long. It would have been excellent at half the length.
Intriguing plot.
Some good twists.
Ruth Ware has written many popular novels. Often often compared to that of Agatha Christie.
The Woman in Suite 11 (2025) is a direct sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10 which I haven’t read.
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer.
Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.
The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus.
Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests.
When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save this woman…and if she can even trust her?
Fool Me Once is a British television series … adapted from the 2016 Harlan Coben novel of the same name.
… As of 12 March 2024 it is the eighth most viewed English language Netflix series of all time …
Michelle Keegan as Maya Stern carries the show.
Adeel Akhtar as DS Sami Kierce is excellent. A memorable performance.
All of the cast is good, actually.
A newly single mom is grieving her husband when, just two weeks after his funeral, she sees him appearing alive and well — on her nanny cam.
Was he actually murdered?
Or are there darker powers at play?
Reviews are mixed. But my only major complaint is too frequent use of flashbacks.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I read the book, as well. Not nearly as good as the TV adaptation.
An entertaining novel with a lot of humour. Easy read.
Emergency physician AJ “Doc” Docker works in busiest hospital in Houston.
AJ Docker is no stranger of violence, but the brutal torture of murder of an innocent, young patient demands a response.
Together with his policeman friend and Banshee, a loyal police dog, he sets out on a quest for justice for his lost patient.
Doc’s investigation leads him into the dark world of organized crime, and when the killers come after him, it becomes a fight for survival.
Will he survive to find justice for his patient or will he be the next victim of the Dyyavola, the Devil?
Not the most popular. But who’s BEST at storytelling using the platform of YouTube.
I’d say a young Mexican artist known as Gawx is best right now. And I’m not particularly interested in art.
Click PLAY or watch his recent masterpiece on YouTube.
Gawx is somewhat similar to Van Neistat, whom his brother calls the best on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The majority of YouTubers would likely name the Vlog Father, Casey Neistat, as best of all time.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Casey’s video that inspired ME most was Make It Count (2012). Brilliant.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’ve mixed feelings about Freida McFadden books.
But this one (2022) kept me going.
A woman wakes up every morning starting over again — something like a Groundhog Day experience.
She’s a practicing physician specializing in brain injury so knows what of she speaks.
Tess who suffers from a traumatic brain injury and severe short-term memory loss, not recognizing her own home or the man who claims to be her husband.
After receiving a cryptic text message warning her not to trust the man calling himself her husband, the unreliable narrator, Tess, must piece together the truth of her life amidst a web of confusion and manipulation.
Rick McCharles 