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I missed the theme last week so let me have a go at it this week. I didn’t want to do a list of 13 things about me all starting with the same letter; I suspect you read enough of those last week. So I decided to do a book list based on a letter chosen at random.

Boom went the guns.

My thanks to Jenn at Enjoying the Ride for this weeks header. “Do you ever read any of your books more than once?” someone asked me in a comment not very long ago. Oh yes, I certainly do. And if I really like a book, I read it more often than that.

I have done a few TTs featuring some of the DVDs in my collection, and may well do so again if I run out of ideas. But before DVDs, of course, there were videos. I am so old I can remember the days when you had to watch a TV show when it was broadcast or else you didn’t see it at all (I can also

A few weeks ago, I had a look at some books that, for better or worse, have been made into movies. There certainly are a lot of them. Here is another TT’s worth; some became pretty good films while others, in my view, should have been left on the cutting room floor. Anyway, here are….

I first saw Where Eagles Dare just after I had turned 10. I remembered that I loved the film. But then, 20 years later, I remembered little else. I am sure that it has played very often on television since then. But, I managed to miss it every time. Then, Manoj bought the CD sometime ago, and we finally got down to seeing it last week.