Watching Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, really good. Now they probably should do another episode re Afghanistan plus the soon to be declassified 9/11 documents.
Watching Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, really good. Now they probably should do another episode re Afghanistan plus the soon to be declassified 9/11 documents.
The Current War, decent, but not excellent, for the subject, it could have been better.
Enola Holmes
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Light entertainment, suitable to watch in the summer heat.
I watched an excellent documentary My Octopus Teacher on Netflix, one man's unlikely friendship with an octopus in the sea through out her life. It is fascinating in the meantime very moving.
There are plenty of much worse hokums. I give Dan Brown credit on his subjects and plotting, not literary merit. I've read his first 3 books plus The lost Symbol which I hope will be adapted to a movie. I like his intriguing themes, if I have to read a thriller, I would be more interested in...
Started reading The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. However good it is, I wouldn't say 'book is always better' in this case because I simply love the TV series too much.
Watched 2015's film The Danish Girl, an excellently biopic with outstanding acting and cinematography. Now watching Spanish mystery thriller movie The Invisible Guest (2016), looks very promising.
It turned out that The Queen's Gambit has made an unexpected winner - a Spanish chessboards maker: Queen’s Gambit: Why the Netflix series was a hit for one Spanish firm
Rechapados Ferrer is a family business with 14 workers, run off its feet trying to meet the huge demand of recent months...
My last TV series had been Sherlock a few years back. Just started watching Lupin, the French crime series. "Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family." (IMDB) There are some really good...
I LOVED that book, may get it out to reread sometime soon. I haven't heard much about her later books if there are any. In my opinion, if you only write one book in a lifetime, write one like that. :)
https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/17/hundreds-of-animal-footprints-found-on-florence-s-medieval-cathedral-roof
I can imagine the workers of 600 hundreds years ago, with a big grin on the face, putting those terracotta tiles into furnaces then on the rooftop. :)
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