I often think of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. One of his best.
Of course there are many more films where characters have to relive the same day over-and-over.
I did enjoy a teen romance called The Map of Tiny Perfect Things.
Even better was Palm Springs.
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Yvonne and Rob hosted a big turkey dinner.
Our entire 8-person COVID bubble were there to celebrate.
The Expanse on TV is better than the books.
For some reason I just can’t get hooked on the story telling of of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who publish as S. A. Corey.
Too long. Too many characters. Too much talk. Not enough action.
Also — why the weird book titles?
I was happy to see James Holden and crew back together again. With Bobbie Draper.
It’s now a combined fleet of ships from Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance fighting the Free Navy, run by BAD GUY Marco Inaros.
I’m looking forward to sixth and supposedly final season of The Expanse on Prime which should be based on this book.
Cas Anvar as Alex Kamal will be gone. Charged with multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
My old pal Mike Sissons forwarded photos.
Mike’s now teaching in Madrid, Spain. I last visited in 2015.
I can vividly remember the kind of nonsense, drinking and debauchery went on in Vatos, Greece. That was the nude beach of the day. (I’m still burned where the sun doesn’t shine.)
Sweterlitsch says The Gone World was inspired partly by chatting with his brother-in-law, an NCIS agent.
His brother-in-law said that it would be interesting to investigate crimes by jumping forward in time to question witnesses after the heat of the moment has passed, then jumping back and applying their testimony to the investigation.
Moss hops between 1997 and 2015 a handful of times, encountering wildly different futures as her immediate investigation progresses.
She quickly discovers that there’s more to this murder than meets the eye. The suspected killers are connected to some serious anti-government movements, including several terrorist attacks — and they seem to be the crew of the vanished Libra.
The Gone World is a brilliant, complicated novel about the consequences of time travel
If you want to position your iPhone for a photo and then take the photo from a distance, you can use your Apple Watch to view the iPhone camera image and take the photo. You can also use your Apple Watch to set a shutter timer—this gives you time to lower your wrist and raise your eyes when you’re in the shot.
To function as a camera remote, your Apple Watch needs to be within normal Bluetooth range of your iPhone (about 33 feet or 10 meters).
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I added a QUICK LINK to my Watch Home Screen.
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I love the McKinty books, but this is my least favourite, so far.
For some reason it just didn’t work for me.
Nudist sun worshipping cult in German New Guinea?
It sounded intriguing.
Synopsis:
Based on real events, a story of murder set in the South Pacific before the First World War.
It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation.
He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War, but a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, as Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative.
So it is that Kessler approaches Will one hot afternoon, with a request for his help with a problem on a neighbouring island, inhabited by a reclusive, cultish group of European’cocovores’, who believe that sun worship and eating only coconuts will bring them eternal life.
Unfortunately, one of their number has died in suspicious circumstances, and Kessler has been tasked with uncovering the real reason for his demise. So along with a’lady traveller’, Bessie Pullen-Burry, who is foisted on them by the archipelago’s eccentric owner, they travel to the island of Kabakon, to find out what is really going on.
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I read the translation by Ken Follett titled Under the Streets of Nice.
Based on the true story of the break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France 1976.
At the time it was the biggest heist in history.
In the book the leader of the ragtag band was Albert Spaggiari. A larger than life character.
For example, Spaggiari contacted the CIA bragging that he was the brains behind the bank robbery. Offering to work for the Americans in their future clandestine break-ins.
After finally getting caught, the ringleader escaped to Argentina becoming something of a folk hero in popular culture.
He died of lung cancer on 8 June 1989.
In truth stranger than fiction, the incompetence of the French police was unbelievable.
Red Rock is an Irish crime drama set in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock near Dublin …
Very good.
I’ve watched the first 28 episodes of 176.
Boyko Krastanov as Garda Adrijan Kosos is my favourite character.
But the entire ensemble cast is great.
If I had to AWARD anyone, however, it would be the BAD GUY — Sean Mahon as Garda Sergeant Brian McGonigle.
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Another hit book from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.
Highly recommended if you like psychological thrillers.
Witnessing a suicide proves almost fatal for the witness herself.
Shay Miller would not have been on that subway platform had she not taken the 22 seconds required to tie up her ponytail.
Because she did, she is the sole witness to a suicide that changes her life.
But is she stalking the friends of the dead girl, or are they stalking her?
It seems to be both, as Hendricks and Pekkanen (An Anonymous Girl, 2019) unfold another one of their intricately plotted, female-focused thrillers. …
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The two authors seem incompatible. But they certainly work well together.
Rick McCharles 