The 4th and last book (2009) in the Lincoln Perry series is somewhat like the rest.
Great plot. Lincoln unlikeable as ever.
Alexandra Cantrell, daughter of a notorious Mafia don, and her husband, Joshua, set up a house for paroled murderers.
Only Koryta dreams up things like this.
Parker Harrison served fifteen years for murder but claims Alexandra’s intervention saved his life. Now he wants to find her–and he’s not the only one.
Lincoln Perry takes the job.
Of many competing services offering online digital assets, Story Blocks is most famous. And advertises the most.
But I was convinced to join instead less expensive Envato Elements US $198 / year. Both work with Final Cut Pro, my software.
They provide licensed images, audio, videos, graphics, plugins, fonts, logos, tutorials, 3D, graphic & video templates, presentation templates, infographics and much more. I’ll be including those in my videos, websites and presentations.
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One of the main things I like about using their digital resources is the simplicity of licensing. I’m much less worried that YouTube — sometime in future — might take down my YouTube due to copyright complaint.
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I’ve now read all 5 of St. John Mandel’s books. All excellent.
As usual, Lola jumps forward and backward in time. No author does this more skillfully.
“Emily St. John Mandel nails it with The Lola Quartet.
She had me from page one, when Anna, a 17 year old with a new baby and $120,000 in cash which clearly does not belong to her goes on the run.
I loved this tale about what not to do after high school.
It’s the story of four flawed members of a high school jazz band after they graduate, lose contact and disperse to follow their dreams,dreams which one by one melt away as they each struggle and falter in a world where doing the right thing is never as clear as it sounds.
Each is connected to Anna’s colossally bad decision whether they realize it or not, and it eventually forces them back together ten years later, to the story’s dramatic climax. …”
–Kris Kleindienst, Left Bank Books, MO
We love YouTube. My first upload was Mar 28, 2006.
Google bought the startup November 2006 for US$1.65 billion.
I spun off a hiking YouTube channel Jan 17, 2018.
Finally got it looking good October 2020. I’m studying how to post better videos in future. #CovidGoals
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The best YouTube uploads have dedicated thumbnails like this. The rest show a somewhat random frame of the video.
YouTube thumbnail
The Inevitable is a 2016 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly that forecasts the twelve technological forces that will shape the next thirty years:
Though it might sound scary, the book is surprisingly upbeat and optimistic about the future.
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review.
After you finish the 1.2km Willingdon Creek Trail in Powell River, continue walking towards the Pulp Mill — staying as close to the water as you can — and you’ll get some distant views of the largest floating Hulk breakwater in the world.
Very cool.
The breakwater is used to protect the Mill’s log storage pond.
While nine of these ten ships were built during the Second World War, the tenth ship, the S. S. Peralta, is the last remaining WWI concrete ship afloat.
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TEST – iPhone X photos in low light
Phone cameras are great. But typically not great in low light — unless you adjust settings.
I’m often impressed.
As a test I took some hand held shots from the Sea Walk Trail in Powell River B.C.
Standard 4K settings.
It had rained most of the day. This is the Liquid Sunshine Coast.
The 3rd book in his Lincoln Perry series.
Koryta certainly improved as a writer once he finished the LP series.
Lincoln Perry is a thoroughly unlikable character.
I did enjoy the plot. But not much else.
…a rising star on the Cleveland police force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city’s prominent attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country club—retribution for his affair with Perry’s fiancée.
Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder, and his widow has called upon Perry for a favor he knows he shouldn’t accept but can’t turn down …
Hannibal (2013) is … is based on characters and elements appearing in Thomas Harris‘ novels Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal (1999), and Hannibal Rising (2006) with focus on the relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham’s most cunning enemy and, at the same time, the only person who can understand him.
Whew. That’s a long, packed sentence.
I’ve never like horror. And this series is very gory.
Yet I loved Silence of the Lambs.
This version has a different feel.
Laurence Fishburne and Mads Mikkelsen provide plenty of gravitas. This is serious drama. Well written. Well acted.
Gillian Anderson as Bedelia Du Maurier, Lecter’s psychotherapist is excellent, of course.
I always like Scott Thompson who plays Jimmy Price, one of the crime scene investigators. That group lighten the shows with their dark humour.
Not sure yet whether I could stomach season 2.
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Dangerous Minds is the sequel to Curious Minds, introducing Emerson Knight and Riley Moon.
Emerson Knight is a rich, eccentric introvert with little-to-no sense of social etiquette. He is also brilliant and handsome. Riley Moon is a recent Harvard Law and Harvard Business graduate. …
I liked the first book, especially Knight who’s a weird Sherlock Holmes type eccentric.
Both are light weight, easy reads. Young adult.
The plot of Dangerous Minds looked promising: a monk mentor, a missing island, plenty of travel.
But ultimately I found it disappointing. I’ll read no more Janet Evanovich.
Rick McCharles 