For each genre (hiking, cycling, mountain climbing, skiing) I’m looking for technically good video coverage.
Great audio. That’s not easy.
But what makes the good ones GREAT is something that gets you emotionally.
Humour. Inspiration. Personal connection to the people in the very short film
I want to fly to Silverton, Colorado just to meet Avra Saslow, Clare Hamilton, and Delilah Cupp.
“Fame might change us.” 😀
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When the Bough Breaks is … the first novel in the Alex Delaware series.
Though published 1985 I found it smart and surprisingly contemporary.
The Psychologist’s sidekick is LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis, a big, shambling Gay man. In 1985. Yet it’s not at all cliche.
Delaware appears in 32 of Kellerman’s books. I might read on.
Kellerman was a practicing psychologist in L.A. when he wrote the first 5 in the series.
Bough Breaks was made into a movie 1986 with Ted Danson as Delaware. You can watch that on YouTube.
It’s no Game of Thrones, but I’m impressed by many things in this new TV show.
Good cast.
It is cheesy. But I will try the books.
Shadow and Bone is an American fantasy … series based on the Grisha trilogy, the first of which is Shadow and Bone, and the Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo.
… orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov discovers she has an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free from the darkness plaguing it …
There are treacherous forces at play, including a charismatic crew of criminals called the Crows, and it will take more than her new powers to survive it. …
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Wow.
I don’t know what to say.
The novel is set in a dystopian future in which some children are genetically-engineered (“lifted”) for enhanced academic ability.
As schooling is provided entirely at home by on-screen tutors, opportunities for socialization are limited and parents who can afford it often buy their children androids as companions.
The book is narrated by one such Artificial Friend (AF) called Klara. Although exceptionally intelligent and observant, Klara’s knowledge of the world is limited. …
This is his 8th novel. But my first Ishiguro.
Very skillful.
Publishers Weekly praised the “rich inner reflections” of Ishiguro’s protagonist, writing, “Klara’s quiet but astute observations of human nature land with profound gravity.” [6]In her review for The New York Times, Radhika Jones notes that Klara and the Sun returns to the theme of The Remains of the Day as “Ishiguro gives voice to: not the human, but the clone; not the lord, but the servant.
In a positive review, Cherwell described Ishiguro’s novel as characterised by “elegance and poise”, praising the narrator Klara as “a memorable first-person narrative voice, simultaneously robotic and infantile, scrupulous yet naïve.” [8]
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Lexie Limitless.
I really need make a trip to Central Asia.
I’d join a guided tour first, to get a feel for the place.
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Not great.
I hate concussion ball. That didn’t help.
Playing for Pizza is a short novel by John Grisham (2007).
… about an itinerant American football player who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy. …
I did like reading about the food and wine. 😀
The Parma Panthers are an actual American Football team. In fact, they won the IFL championship in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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This is the first book to feature Will Robie, a highly skilled U.S. government assassin. (2012)
Non-stop action.
Silly plot.
But I actually enjoyed it.
The Guardian praised the series and called it “a gloriously dark sitcom about depression and rage“.
It’s DARK. Very dark.
With very smart and original dialogue. Funny.
Intense.
Sometimes hard to watch.
Flowers is a British black comedy–drama sitcom …
… the Flowers family, consisting of depressed father and children’s author Maurice (Barratt); music teacher wife Deborah (Colman), their 25-year-old twin children: inventor son Donald (Daniel Rigby) and musician daughter Amy (Sophia Di Martino); Maurice’s senile mother Hattie (Leila Hoffman); and Maurice’s Japanese illustrator Shun (Sharpe). …
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I tried starting on season 2 … but it was a bit too weird for me.
Two wildly different women—one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought together by the scam of a lifetime.
Good book. Fascinating plot.
2020 technologies like Instagram, GPS and digital video cameras critical to the story.
Recommended — though it is too long. Rather than telling the same incident from two different perspectives, more skillful would have been to briefly REACT from the other person’s point of view.
Rick McCharles 