@robwatts88.bsky.social I did it!! Two pages a day as a nightstand book (sometimes more when the mood strikes!) & you're through it in a year! I listened to the @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social episodes prior to starting each new saga as well, which helps with insights to look out for 😁 #BookSky 💙📚🇮🇸

Just watched the video for One Step Closer by Linkin Park for the first time in HD and it looks great! A classic video that I’d only ever seen in piss poor noughties Kerrang channel quality!

Books that I have read in the last few months

Episode 6 of the Penguin Podcast, Ask Penguin has dropped, featuring Alex Rider and Marble Hall Murders author Anthony Horowitz! Plus plenty of great summer reading recommendations. Please have a listen here: pod.fo/e/2e861a

Episode 5 of the Penguin Podcast, Ask Penguin has dropped, featuring Nova Scotia House author Charlie Porter! Plus plenty of great queer book recommendations. Please have a listen here: pod.fo/e/2dfc78

Pour yourself a cup of coffee! ☕ Empire has a brand-new interview special with Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost and star Kyle MacLachlan — all about the show and their incredible friendship and working relationship with David Lynch. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0FOr...

Episode 4 of the Penguin Podcast, Ask Penguin has dropped, featuring @yrsadaleyward.bsky.social! Plus plenty of great book club tips and book recommendations. Please have a listen here: pod.fo/e/2d8dd3

Episode 3 of the Penguin Podcast, Ask Penguin has dropped, featuring 3 debut authors! Plus plenty of great and wide-ranging book recommendations. Please have a listen here: pod.fo/e/2d24bc

We continue the new series of the Penguin Podcast, Ask Penguin with the Queen of Romance, Emily Henry. Plus plenty of love and romance book recommendations. Please have a listen here: pod.fo/e/2cc200

And the new series of the Penguin Podcast, Ask Penguin dropped this week! Children’s books with Greg James and Chris Smith. Plus plenty of book recommendations. Please have a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0Yac...

It’s been a while because of a new job (at Penguin Books!) but here’s what I read over the last two months! #books #booksky #booksiveread #catherineairey #charlieporter #emilyhenry #fizasaeedmclynn #williamrayfethunter #yrsadaleyward #erikaxlsund #gregjames #chrissmith

🚨🚨New Episode Alert 🚨🚨 Rob and Ellie travel across continents and decades for Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Touch’, or ‘Snerting’ from 2024. A gorgeous and gentle long-lost love story, set in modern Iceland and Japan and 1960s London. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k... #iceland #worldcinema #japan #film

Always remember how much my equine vet daughter laughed when I asked 'is he 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 the black horse, or....?' The answer, of course, is 'or....' 🤭 Great #film, and great episode from @robwatts88.bsky.social & Ellie on #Kvikmyndapod 🎬🍿

Underrated Icelandic movie - 2021’s Dýrið / Lamb.

S02E06 - And Breathe Normally (Andið eðlilega) 2018 On the Reykjanes Peninsula two women of different backgrounds learn how to help each other. Ísold Uggadóttir's debut is a beautifully stark look at immigration and the struggle for normalality open.spotify.com/episode/16pO... #iceland #filmsky

S02E05 - A White, White Day (Hvítur, hvítur dagur) 2019 Hlynur Pálmason’s astonishing drama set in the south-east of Iceland follows Ingvar Sigurðsson’s police officer working through his grief while supporting his family. open.spotify.com/episode/0OBS... #iceland #filmsky #worldcinema

S02BONUS - LAMB & Cop Secret (Leynilögga) 2021 A non-spoiler discussion of two Icelandic movies that played at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival! A very Icelandic folk horror and a very Icelandic ‘Hollywood’ buddy action movie! open.spotify.com/episode/0bwD... #iceland #filmsky #lamb #copsecret

My local bookshop has hit on an incredible business strategy: be nice to customers | Joel Snape

If you’re planning on watching any Lynch, my advice is: don’t watch any analysis videos, don’t think about what stuff is “supposed” to mean, just get your own unique experience from it!! I think people have become far too concerned with the “correct” interpretations of media. Just experience it!!!

Strange timing with The Traitors’ backwards speech challenge today

RIP to the dreamer

Something’s coming…

I’m back to banging the rock musician autobiography audiobook drum again! This time it’s Serj Tankian’s memoir and it’s fascinating. I’ve already learnt loads about the Armenian genocide and the fact he set up and ran a successful software business before music. I’ve not even got to Toxicity yet!

I’ve done well this Christmas. What book should I read first from this stack?! 📚

Really enjoying BBC Two’s Quizmas as always! Especially tonight’s Books special of Only Connect 📚

S02E04 - Grandma Lo-Fi (Amma lo-fi) 2011 A delightful documentary about 70-year old music-making maestro Sigríður Nielsdóttir! With quirky animation and great interviews and music from popular Icelandic musicians including Hildur Guðnadóttir. open.spotify.com/episode/0rPA... #iceland #filmsky

S02E03- Noi The Albino (Nói albínói) 2003 Set in a cold and bleak Westfjords, this dark quirky comedy stars Tómas Lemarquis as a teenager bored with school and life in an isolated town. Written, directed and with a great soundtrack by Dagur Kári open.spotify.com/episode/0AM7... #iceland #filmsky

S02E02- I Remember You (Ég man þig) 2017 Yrsa Sigurðardottir’s Scandi noir ghost story novel is adapted by Óskar Thór Axelsson into an excellent film starring Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as a father looking for answers to his son’s disappearance open.spotify.com/episode/5iiM... #iceland #filmsky

Really enjoyed listening to the audiobook of Deryck Whibley’s autobiography, Walking Disaster. l’ve always liked Sum 41 but they aren’t one of my favourite bands. However, the book is incredibly frank and honest with proper rock anecdotes and talk about physical and mental illness. #punkrock

This month why not buy 'books that give'? It's a partnership between @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social and 17 publishers. 10% of the sale of the books will be donated to Bookbanks - a charity that takes books, and book professionals, into food banks. uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...

Episode 5 - Under The Tree (Undir trénu) 2017 In the Reykjavík suburbs, tension mounts between two neighbouring families as a garden tree prevents some sunbathing. A deliciously dark comedy from director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson open.spotify.com/episode/150p... #iceland #filmsky

Episode 5 - Echo (Bergmál) 2019 One to add to the Christmas film watchlist! A kaleidoscope of vignettes charting Christmas and New Year in Reykjavík, Rúnar Rúnarsson blurs fiction and reality in this beautiful portrait of the city. open.spotify.com/episode/7jGT... #iceland #filmsky #ljósbrot

Episode 4 - Jar City (Mýrin) 2006 The first great modern Icelandic noir film, based on Arnaldur Indriðason’s fascinating novel. Starring legend Ingvar Sigurðsson as Detective Erlendur. Director: Baltasar Kormákur open.spotify.com/episode/5YR0... #iceland #crime #noir #worldcinema #filmsky

Episode 3 - Let Me Fall (Lof mér áð falla) 2018 The youth drug taking epidemic in contemporary Iceland is explored in this stunning but hard-hitting drama about young love and bad decisions. Director: Baldvin Z Starring: Elín Hall open.spotify.com/episode/6t92... #iceland #worldcinema #filmsky

Episode 2 - 101 Reykjavík, 2000 In Baltasar Kormákur’s hedonistic directorial debut, 30 year old Hlynur still lives with his mum in the city, but things change radically when Spanish flamenco teacher Lola arrives. open.spotify.com/episode/6pvA... #iceland #worldcinema #filmsky m

VAR does make it a little embarrassing to celebrate goals that aren’t given offside on the pitch #jhonduran #astonvilla

Rewatching season one of the best looking TV show. Severance is also incredibly well written, acted and scored. It’s mind-bending, beautiful, exciting and I love it! Bring on season two! Such respect to the whole team including the brilliant DoP Jessica Lee Gagné! #tvsky

Starting from the beginning: Episode 1 - Rams (Hrútar) 2015 Long-estranged farming brothers Kiddi and Gummi come together to save their sheep from disease and the authorities in this dark comedy from Grímur Hákonarson open.spotify.com/episode/36FW... #iceland #worldcinema #filmsky

All we want for Christmas is a three storey secret library with a rolling ladder is that really too much to ask?

I typically have two books on the go - one hardback at home and one paperback to take anywhere. I took a break on this for a while, but I’m now back to Knausgaard to finish off My Struggle. I love the books but this one has been more of a struggle…

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity

It also looks like RÚV has its English liveblog going now: www.ruv.is/english/2024... In addition to the Icelandic one here: www.ruv.is/frettir/innl... 🧪⚒️🌋

Noson wych. Diolch i bawb a ddaeth i The Home Game heno Terrific evening. Thanks to everyone who came to watch #TheHomeGame tonight

On set for an upcoming literary adaptation (as an extra) and started my next book, a gift from a few years ago; The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie

I know I bang on about this album but it is brilliant. Incredible scene setting and storytelling, and so sad. I’ve had it on repeat for 18 months and I’m still discovering new amazing things all the time. Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter #ethelcain

I finally caught a certain film on its final day at cinemas in Bristol yesterday and now I’m thinking that maybe this is correct: Top Body Horror Movies 1. The Fly 2. The Substance 3. Society #bodyhorror #davidcronenberg #coraliefargeat #brianyuzna

Starting afresh on Bluesky I’ll attempt to update my #currentlyreading. Starting with Quentin Bates’ Cold Malice (one of a series of crime thrillers set in Iceland) published by Constable

What’s everyone’s #Letterboxd top 4? It’s only really fourth place that changes!

If you like Icelandic film, Rob's the guy to follow - his Kvikmyndapod podcast is brilliant! He's also into horror and music 🤩🇮🇸