Not a great start to the week, vibes-wise. It sleeted and rained most of yesterday (after a briefly sunny and glorious morning) so I got a bunch of reading done, then played the incredible climbing game CAIRN until far too late and woke up late this morning as a result. Great game though.
ON DECK: A passable 343 words this morning, which is nowhere near what I'd normally be trying to get on a weekday morning. But I'm also about 8k ahead of my overall pace target for this book, so I won't panic about it.
LISTENING: I enjoyed this episode of Quick Book Reviews with Catriona Ward, talkling about her new book Nowhere Burning.
WATCHING: We watched CASABLANCA over the weekend (for Valentine's Day) and it holds up! We also finished off AMADEUS, which is an excellent adaptation. Paul Bettany's portrayal of Salieri is very different from F. Murray Abraham's depiction (much colder and more scheming) but fascinating in its own right. And Will Sharpe is phenomenal as Mozart.
READING: I've been absolutely roaring through RAT RACE by Callum McSorley (Bookshop, Amazon) and really, really enjoying it. It's an amazing mix of very, very funny and really quite visceral violence and gangland grimness. Extremely compulsive reading.
LINK: Very much enjoying Julian Simpson's ongoing career retrospective. Here's part 3, all about the joys and woes of 'attaching' big name stars to a film project.
UP NEXT: A quiet week (hurrah) with no travel (double hurrah) but a couple of interviews and returning to Napier for another teaching day on Friday. Looking forward to that. And hopefully the rest of the week will be a little more productive on the word count front. But on we go, eh?
Onward!