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  "description": "A sleepy start to the week.",
  "path": "/daynote-mon-16-feb/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T10:26:47.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.davidgoodman.net",
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    "Quick Book Reviews with Catriona Ward",
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    "Here's part 3"
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  "textContent": "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.\n\n**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.\n\n**LISTENING:** I enjoyed this episode of Quick Book Reviews with Catriona Ward, talkling about her new book Nowhere Burning.\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n**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?\n\nOnward!\n\n🔗\n\nSome purchase links on this page are affiliate links, which help support this website and my work.",
  "title": "Daynote - Mon 16 Feb",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-16T10:26:47.000Z"
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