Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is the biggest in history.
… Kanye who? 😀
Business students will study how she built this music empire.
If you are a Republican strategist, your worst nightmare is Taylor Swift campaigning for Biden. Her fans are even more fanatic than Trump’s deplorables.
I’m a fan girl myself, but wouldn’t pay to see the show LIVE. Too expen$ive.
I will see the movie.
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related – How Taylor Swift became the world’s biggest pop star, again
Some call Steve McCurry (born April 23, 1950) the greatest photographer all time.
You might not know the name, but you’ve seen his photos in National Geographic.
For example, Afghan Girl, a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War.
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Not a bad book, actually.
Copenhagen Deputy Detective Superintendent Carl Mørck returns from vacation to discover that his tiny cold case unit, Department Q, has been reshuffled, and a citizen’s complaint has reopened a 20-year-old case on which all the relevant documents have disappeared. …
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Six rich students are suspected of killing Lisbet Jørgeneon and her twin brother two decades ago.
But they were never seriously investigated as a young man admitted he had murdered the two. And is still in prison.
Reluctantly at first, Carl (the jerk) and his likable Syrian assistant, Hafez el-Assad, AND his new secretary, Rose Knudsen start building a case against the students, some of whom are now rich and influential.
A popular Danish film was adapted from the book.
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William Kent Krueger (born November 16, 1950) is an American novelist and crime writer, best known for his series of novels featuring Cork O’Connor, which are set mainly in Minnesota.
I’ve read them all. Excellent.
In addition, he’s written several books of historical fiction. More ambitious and literary than the Cork O’Connor series.
His 2023 book — The River we Remember — is very good. A bit slow for my liking.
Memorial Day (or Decoration Day, as it was still called in 1958) takes on new meaning for the residents of Jewel, Minnesota, when its wealthiest—and least-liked—citizen is murdered and a war veteran is suspected of the crime.
The brutish victim, Jimmy Quinn, is found floating in the Alabaster River, shotgunned and chewed up by catfish.
Suspicion immediately falls on Noah Bluestone, a veteran who is doubly persecuted for being a Dakota Sioux and married to Kyoko, a Japanese survivor of Nagasaki.
The sheriff, Brody Dern, a highly decorated and traumatized war veteran who spent time in a Japanese prison camp, thinks about letting whomever killed Quinn, destroyer of people’s lives, go free. …
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FICTION: The latest from the Minnesota author may be his best work yet.
Since the pandemic, my #1 hobby has been videography.
In 2023 there are two obvious trends:
Increasingly I find TV and movies too slow. Too boring. I like watching short videos with quick cuts. Like this.
This masterpiece in Tunisia uses no AI.
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As cost drops and technology is available to everyone, storytelling will be what separates the best from the rest.
That video is by Erik Hedenfalk, a young guy from Sweden who joined YouTube 2017.
By 2023 Apple is using his video. #respect
He’s done work for Mazda, Marriott, DJI, and more.
For me bikepacking was a logical extension of hiking.
Cycle to the hike.
It’s easier, as well, and I’m not getting any younger.
My favourite cycling vlogger is Ryan Van Duzer. This short video explains better than any other exactly the attraction of multi-day cycling trips.
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Good Girl, Bad Blood (2021) is the second novel in the three-part A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series of young adult crime fiction.
The first book in the series, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2020), became a multimillion-copy New York Times bestseller. …
the novel explores the themes of The Use and Abuse of Social Media, Questions of Identity, and The Pursuit of Truth and Justice. …c
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Not as good as the original, but I still enjoyed this Young Adult novel.
18-year-old high school student Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not nearly so good in this one.
I enjoyed the smart phone driven plot. The podcast clips.
She investigates by crowd sourcing through her true crime podcast entitled A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
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The travel vloggers I follow most closely are Zac and Ine.
Their YouTube channel is called World Wide Hearts.
I really do need to spend more time in Jasper.
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Though I didn’t read the 1st book in the series, Silver Tears is entertaining and stands alone.
Läckberg’s 2nd novel about the brilliant economist — Faye Adelheim.
The plot careens at breakneck speed through steamy sex scenes, startling revelations, and flashbacks to Faye’s very dark childhood riddled with rape and murder.
What the story lacks in believability (there are poorly planned murders, successful executives who spend inordinate amounts of time drinking without any repercussions, and a heroine who fails to learn from her own mistakes), it more than makes up for with soap-opera–level drama and fireworks.
It all begins with Faye having set up house in Italy with her mother and her daughter, Julienne.
Faye had framed her ex-husband, Jack, for killing Julienne, though Julienne is secretly still alive, and now Jack has escaped from jail. …
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