🙄10:58 BS 7.1
🙂 Happy enough with that as it’s more or less in range!
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The Sunny On The Inside feeling didn’t last the WHOLE day yesterday but, I enjoyed it while I had it: rather aptly until the sunshine went grey in the afternoon!
🙄 I don’t know why the sunshine on my face made me wake HAPPY yesterday but, it does show that I CAN still wake up like that; just not in these last two years!
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A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!
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After rewatching the 4 out of 5 Daniel Craig Bond films, hated Quantum of Solace, the last few days, I decided to try reading the Ian Fleming books. After some googling I discovered that Fleming only wrote 14 in total with 2 of them being collections of short stories & there have been other various authors penning them as approved by his estate: some of THEM, non Fleming books, have also been made into films!
Ian Fleming died quite young of heart failure at the age of 56 in 1964 as he was a heavy drinker & smoker for most of his life: his only son, Casper, died even younger at 22 from substance abuse; his estate, with the royalties, went to his brother Peter & his descendants!
Then, on amazon & audible discovered that all 14 of those original Fleming Bond books were all recorded by an all star cast in 2012:- Dan Stevens, Bill Nighy, Hugh Bonneville, David Tennant, Martin Jarvis, Rory Kinnear, Toby Stevens etc. & Rosamund Pike narrated The Spy Who Loved Me which is completely different from the film being told in 1st person by a female, in distress, & Bond only shows up halfway to save the day!
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So, I started with Casino Royale kindle book & audible companion narrated by Dan Stevens to see if I like it?
I LOVED IT!
😛 True the sexist attitudes are not PC today but, it was in the 50’s when it was written & as Dan Stevens said in his interview at the end, a much softer & romantic Bond than the films have portrayed him: there was none of those big action sequences at the start of the film either; I was very bored by the time it got to the airport sequence & the film, as in the book, didn’t start for me until M assigned him to the casino!
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I have just started rather late last night & fell asleep, NOT due to it being boring I hasten to add, the next book Live and Let Die narrated by Rory Kinnear which is actually set in Harlem New York city!
I don’t know if I’ll read all of them but, give it a go: some of them are very different from the films; baccarat was changed to poker for the film & I found the rules, of baccarat, in the book completely unknown to me & confusing; even so in main land China, where only in Macau is gambling legal & only until the SAR status remains, there was an added section in the film where the rules of poker were explained!
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