Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapter 19
I started reading this in February 2022 with the intention of finishing it well before Horowitz's third (and final) Bond novel came out in May 2022 — but here we are in bloomin' April 2023, basically a whole year later than I'd intended to finish. And now there's another Bond novel on the horizon (Charlie Higson's On His Majesty's Secret Service, out in nine days), which set me a new deadline (I want to read that as soon as I get it).
And it's not as if I have a mass of the novel left to go, just 54 pages (now 45). I despair of myself; I really need to devote more time to reading.
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Monday, 24 April 2023
TV
Have I Got News for You
65x02 (21/4/2023 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]
65x02 (21/4/2023 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]
Sunday, 23 April 2023
Saturday, 22 April 2023
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
After a quiet few weeks, hoo boy, did lots drop through my letterbox this week! It's a combination of long-held preorders and caving to a bunch of stuff in sales (including two Arrow titles, two 4K titles, and four Eureka Westerns).
And all of that just in time to be included in the latest monthly running time update, too.
Number of titles in collection: 3,058 [up 10]
Of which DVDs: 1,029 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,029 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 249 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 7,542 [up 18]
Number of films: 3,752 [up 16]
Number of additional cuts: 311 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 9,589 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,045 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
537 days, 8 hours, and 58 minutes.
(Up 2 days and 9 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
After a quiet few weeks, hoo boy, did lots drop through my letterbox this week! It's a combination of long-held preorders and caving to a bunch of stuff in sales (including two Arrow titles, two 4K titles, and four Eureka Westerns).
And all of that just in time to be included in the latest monthly running time update, too.
Number of titles in collection: 3,058 [up 10]
Of which DVDs: 1,029 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,029 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 249 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 7,542 [up 18]
Number of films: 3,752 [up 16]
Number of additional cuts: 311 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 9,589 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,045 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
537 days, 8 hours, and 58 minutes.
(Up 2 days and 9 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 21 April 2023
TV
Have I Got News for You
65x01 (14/4/2023 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]
65x01 (14/4/2023 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Sunday, 16 April 2023
Films
Clerks II (2006)
[#29 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]
+ the five-minute intro by writer-director Kevin Smith and producer Scott Mosier. Like the extras on the first Clerks, they chat to camera in a wide-ranging ramble that's only sometimes about the film or the disc. That's their style; it's fine
[#29 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]
+ the five-minute intro by writer-director Kevin Smith and producer Scott Mosier. Like the extras on the first Clerks, they chat to camera in a wide-ranging ramble that's only sometimes about the film or the disc. That's their style; it's fine
Saturday, 15 April 2023
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
This month's additions include Masters of Cinema's Early Murnau box set — something I've had half an eye on since it came out, but I already owned most of its contents on DVD. But now it's going out of print (it's already sold out on their website), so I finally snapped it up. That results in some shenanigans below, what with it being a single release containing three discs and five films that replaces three titles containing four discs and four films.
Number of titles in collection: 3,048 [down 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,029 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,019 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 246 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,524 [no change]
Number of films: 3,736 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 308 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,589 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,045 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
This month's additions include Masters of Cinema's Early Murnau box set — something I've had half an eye on since it came out, but I already owned most of its contents on DVD. But now it's going out of print (it's already sold out on their website), so I finally snapped it up. That results in some shenanigans below, what with it being a single release containing three discs and five films that replaces three titles containing four discs and four films.
Number of titles in collection: 3,048 [down 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,029 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,019 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 246 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,524 [no change]
Number of films: 3,736 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 308 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,589 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,045 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 14 April 2023
Audio Drama
Hell Cats
1x07 The Lost Lady of New Providence
1x08 The Pirate Code
[Listen to it (again) on Audible.]
1x07 The Lost Lady of New Providence
1x08 The Pirate Code
[Listen to it (again) on Audible.]
Thursday, 13 April 2023
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
6x45 Week 9: Friday
6x46 Week 10: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
6x45 Week 9: Friday
6x46 Week 10: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Comics
2000 AD #2305
Didn't realise it had been almost a month since my last issue. I've had a busy, distracted few weeks!
Didn't realise it had been almost a month since my last issue. I've had a busy, distracted few weeks!
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