A retro, melancholy vibe.
This was put together by a fan as the official Girl in Red track has no official video, as yet.
Girl in Red is the indie pop music project of Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer Marie Ulven who rose to prominence online with her homemade bedroom pop songs about queer romance and mental health.
She’s not yet gotten popular in the USA or Canada.
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GREAT book published 2020.
I can’t compare it to anything else. Absurd comedy.
A poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
New Year’s Eve in a small Swedish town.
In a robbery / hostage taking gone wrong, it’s all “Stockholm Syndrome” by the end.
A heartwarming read.
Related – Review: Kindness and compassion win the day in Fredrik Backman’s ‘Anxious People’
There are 8 books in the Inspector Kurt Wallander series, starting with Faceless Killers.
Set in Sweden.
Man Who Smiled is #4 — easily the best so far.
After killing a man in the line of duty (in The White Lioness), Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression.
He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend, Sten Torstensson, asks him to secretly investigate the recent death of his father in a car accident.
At first Kurt dismisses his friend’s suspicions as unlikely, but then Sten is found murdered in exactly the same manner as a Norwegian businessman shortly before.
Against his previous judgement, Kurt returns to work to investigate what he is convinced is a case of double murder.
Wikipedia
Seems this is the 51st book in the series. ✍️
HOW is Nora Roberts able to write so much?
She works 8 hours a day. Every day. Day after day. Sometimes writing 3 books in a series simultaneously.
Lt. Eve Dallas is a tough NY cop sometime in the future.
This book STARTS WITH A MURDER. Very quickly we learn Lorcan Cobbe was the hit man.
Eve’s husband knew Cobbe when they were hoodlum kids. And the killer seems to want to hang around to kill them both.
Book’s not bad.
Lists of BEST NATIONS typically include Denmark close to the top.
But their government seems as chaotic as any.
Borgen is a Danish political drama television series.
In Danish: Borgen, lit. ’The Castle’, is the informal name of Christiansborg Palace where all three branches of Danish government reside: the Parliament, the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Supreme Court, and is often used as a figure of speech for the Danish government. …
… against all the odds, Birgitte Nyborg Christensen (Sidse Babett Knudsen)—a minor centrist politician—becomes the first female prime minister of Denmark. …
On Netflix the English voice over and captions are hilariously bad. BUT I did enjoy the characters and story lines. It gets great reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Newsweek called Borgen “the best TV show you have never seen”.
NY Times: “bleaker, Nordic version of The West Wing“
A U.S. remake of the series is planned.
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If you REALLY want to do something, you must practice.
A lot.
Possibly 10,000 hours to become excellent.
As a sports coach, I’ve learned that already.
It’s the reason I try to STUDY or PRACTICE video creation every day.
Click PLAY or watch this video by Daniel Sax on Vimeo.
Clive Cussler died last year. Age-88.
Fast Ice was published March 2021. Co-author Graham Brown.
18th book in the NUMA (the National Underwater and Marine Agency) series.
This is the first Cussler book I’ve read and can’t claim it’s good.
BUT I did find the plot fascinating.
In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous…and will have implications far into the future.
In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world after a former NUMA colleague disappears in Antarctica. While there, they discover a photo of the Luftwaffe expedition of 1939 and are drawn into a decades-old conspiracy. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon – a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age.
Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel the Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all.
Audible
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.
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