# lesley (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lesley. Page: Feed: --- ## [GUEST POST | Oppenheimer vs Hollywood: a next-generation perspective](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/guest-post-oppenheimer-vs-hollywood) _2026-08-09 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ Big money, big spectacle & invisible truths in Christopher Nolan’s atomic blockbuster ## [The Bookmarked Q&A... with Tom Mead](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-q-a-with-tom-mead) _2026-08-03 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ Author Tom Mead is the writer behind the compelling series of mystery novels featuring lead character Joseph Spector, a charismatic, highly observant retired magician-turned-amateur detective. Taking inspiration from the Golden Age of crime novels and authors like Agatha Christie, Tom's Spector stories, beginning with Death and the Conjuror, are set in 1930s London, brilliantly evoking the wonder… ## [Please Stand By: A special summer live event for The Film Thread 🎬🪡🖖](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/please-stand-by-a-special-summer) _2026-08-01 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ Join me & Gareth Bradwick on 20th Aug to dive into this month’s autism pick: a female-centred, Trekkie-celebrating, race-against-time road trip from 2017 ## [Following the threads from...'Ben X'](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/following-the-threads-fromben-x) _2026-07-26 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ 5 European films about autism to make you smile ## [Who You Make a Film With Matters](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/who-you-make-a-film-with-matters) _2026-07-19 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ Reflections on finding the right collaborators for my nuclear colonialism short doc ## [‘Ben X’ (2007): truth, lies & reality blur in July’s autism film club pick](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/ben-x-2007-truth-lies-and-reality) _2026-07-01 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ A bullied teen spirals towards the 'endgame' in this dark & dizzying Belgian psychological cyber-thriller ## [From page to Screen Part 2; The 10 Best Film Adaptations](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/from-page-to-screen-part-2-the-10-best-film-adaptations) _2026-06-30 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ I mean, this is harder, right? After posting about my ten favourite book-to-TV adaptations a couple of months ago, I got into a fair few... let's say, discussions... with friends and colleagues about my list. 'What about Normal People?' some asked? 'Bad Monkey on Apple TV was excellent!' others stated. 'I'd have added Morse,' James McShane rightly suggested to me on social media. 'I thought One… ## [Following the threads from... 'Ce gamin, là'](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/following-the-threads-from-ce-gamin) _2026-06-25 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ More cinematic avenues to explore after watching the 1970s French vérité autism doc ## [Comparison (or, am I still a filmmaker?)](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/comparison-or-am-i-still-a-filmmaker) _2026-06-14 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ An update on an old post, plus my current nuclear colonialism reading pile ## ['Ce gamin, là' (1976): the pioneering autism documentary you've never heard of](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/ce-gamin-la-1976-the-film-thread) _2026-06-05 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ Defying late-’60s psychiatric orthodoxy with communal living & wordless wanderings at a radical care community for “incurables” in a remote village in the Cévennes ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BCH5CmSWhkOg) _2026-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [The Bookmarked Interview... with BR Dexter](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-interview-with-br-dexter) _2026-06-01 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ Author BR Dexter has recently released his debut novel, Footsteps of Heroes, a story about friendship, division, tradition and honour, all bound up within an intriguing mystery and set in a fictional South African boarding school for boys. Taking place in the mid-1990s, just as Nelson Mandela is about to win the country's first democratic elections, Footsteps of Heroes is a beautifully written… ## [Autism & Me: Jaime A. Heidel](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/autism-and-me-jaime-a-heidel) _2026-05-29 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ Beyond assumptions: on helping the neurotypical world see the human being in front of them. ## [Making the invisible visible](https://vickilesley.substack.com/p/the-nuclear-history-i-didnt-know) _2026-05-24 · Vicki Lesley · Vicki Lesley is... Documental_ Early thoughts and notes on some of the challenges of tackling Britain's forgotten nuclear colonialism in Nevada in my new documentary film ## [A Love Letter to Flashcards](https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards) _2026-05-05 · Lesley Lai's Blog_ A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive ## [From Page to Screen; The 10 Best TV Adaptations](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/from-page-to-screen-the-10-best-tv-adaptations) _2026-05-03 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ In each of the Bookmarked interviews that I've undertaken, I've asked the various authors which movie or TV show - one adapted from a book - they've most enjoyed. There have been a host of great answers; Fiona Cummins mentioned Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs, Lesley McEvoy chose Wuthering Heights, while Mark Stay stated that Peter Benchley's Jaws was also "Spielberg’s masterpiece". All great… ## [BIRTHDAY GIRLS](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/birthday-girls) _2026-05-01 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ Nineteen years ago today my life changed in the most wonderful ways when these two were let loose in the world. ## [The Bookmarked interview... with DL Fisher](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-interview-with-dl-fisher) _2026-03-30 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ Danielle Fisher, who writes as DL Fisher , is an Amazon and Audible bestselling author of domestic thrillers. Danielle only published her debut novel, My Missing Boy , about a missing teenager and the suspicious nature of his disappearance, in 2023. Since then she has been hugely productive, having written four other novels. Based in North Carolina, before becoming an author, Danielle was a… ## [The Bookmarked Interview... with Fiona Cummins](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-interview-with-fiona-cummins) _2026-03-02 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ Fiona Cummins is an award-winning crime thriller author whose 2017 debut novel Rattle , about a serial killer who targets victims with rare medical conditions, was the subject of a huge international auction. A former journalist for titles including the The Mirror and a graduate of the Faber Academy, Fiona followed up Rattle 's success with a sequel, The Collector , in 2018, and has gone on to… ## [The Bookmarked interview... with Martin Edwards](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-interview-with-martin-edwards) _2026-02-03 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ Martin Edwards is a best-selling crime novelist and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger award for 'sustained excellence in crime fiction writing'. He was described by Richard Osman as "a true master of British crime writing", and is a member of The Detection Club, which was started in the 1930s by a group of leading detective novelists. Martin has written scores of books… ## [The Bookmarked interview... with Andrew Bridgeman](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-interview-with-andrew-bridgeman) _2026-01-04 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ As this interview reveals, Andrew Bridgeman did a lot of things before becoming an author. But, luckily for his many readers, he eventually settled behind a keyboard and took the plunge as a writer. The result of that decision was the release, in 2024, of his debut novel Fortunate Son , a twisty, suspenseful and tightly plotted thriller which features rookie FBI agent Emma Noble who finds herself… ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QNxaqn5eM5KG) _2026-01-04 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [My Top Reads of 2025](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/my-top-reads-of-2025) _2025-12-09 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ I've read a decent amount of books across this year - not as many as I'd like, and probably not as many as some of you - but enough to be able to pick 10 of my favourites. Now, the headline of this post might be somewhat misleading, because not all of these books are from 2025. Some are new, some are old, but all are books which I read at some point in the last 12 months and which - like the good… ## [Fifty Shades of OOP](https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop) _2025-11-24 · Lesley Lai's Blog_ This post talks about the many different aspects under the umbrella term OOP ## [The Bookmarked Interview... with Lesley McEvoy](https://www.maxelwoodauthor.com/post/the-bookmarked-interview-with-lesley-mcevoy) _2025-11-10 · Max Elwood · Dark Waters_ Lesley McEvoy discusses bringing Jack the Ripper back, why being a psychopath isn't always a bad thing, and why Yorkshire's so important to her writing. ## [HAPPY BIRTHDAY!](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/happy-birthday) _2025-05-28 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ I wrote my first book when I was fifty-six years old and I’m about to turn seventy-six. ## [Self hosting comments with Comentario](https://lesleylai.info/en/self-host-comentario) _2025-04-25 · Lesley Lai's Blog_ A walkthrough of how I migrated my blog's comment system from the Commento cloud service to self-hosting with Comentario, Commento's active fork. I share my experience setting up Comentario with Docker, configuring a reverse proxy with Caddy, and customizing its client-side CSS. This post also includes reflections on the learning curve of self-hosting and notes on future plans to move away from… ## [Site Update (April 2025)](https://lesleylai.info/en/site-update-2025) _2025-04-21 · Lesley Lai's Blog_ This post talks about me completely rebuilding this website, moving from Gatsby.js to Astro due to build issues and Gatsby's decline. ## [Resisting the Best Way I Know How](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/resisting-the-best-way-i-know-how) _2025-03-24 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ Lesley’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. ## [Washed Up?](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/washed-up) _2025-02-16 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ Morning! ## [Having a Little Trouble](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/having-a-little-trouble) _2025-02-04 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ I began this newsletter to share my twenty-year journey through publishing and offer any insights that might be helpful. ## [WHAT A BIG DEAL](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/what-a-big-deal) _2024-12-31 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ (More on publishing my first novel during a time when things were very different) ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QGeDtZrqeOZs) _2024-12-31 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [TRUE BELIEVER](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/true-believer) _2024-12-21 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ Good morning!Lesley’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. ## [THE CREATURE](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/the-creature) _2024-10-20 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ Hope you’re having as much Halloween fun as my family and I are! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/150477290/97565f7e6430df85b001241b263afa44.mp3) ## [Some Folks Like Liver and Onions](https://lesleykagen.substack.com/p/some-folks-like-liver-and-onions) _2024-10-13 · Lesley Kagen · Lesley’s Substack_ Dear Lovely Readers,