The book group that I’m in at work picks books that either have already been made into a movie or soon will be made into a movie. It’s made for an interesting mix. And like most book clubs, it also means there are titles you’d never pick up on your own. Murder on the Orient Express is one of these. Mysteries and thrillers are not my genre. I’m not interested in looking for clues or remembering what someone said that one time that contradicts what they […]
Three tales of Agatha Christie
I had a browse in a used bookstore the other day and came away with three very cheap, old paperbacks of Agatha Christie, ones I either hadn’t read in ages and had forgotten or had somehow missed.They have been perfect reading just before bed; usually I read on my phone/kindle app but have been enjoying not staring into a screen just before I sleep. I will organize them in order of reading, as the first two were about the same in ranking–fairly solid Christie contributions without being […]
Jones, Victoria Jones
They Came to Baghdad Starting off the 2017 Cannonball with a book I have never read by one of my favorite authors. They Came to Baghdad is an Agatha Christie book but there are no delightful British spinsters or fussy Belgians on the case. Instead this is the story of a young British woman who is failing spectacularly at being a career gal in London shortly after World War II. She’s indifferent to typing and a confident spinner of half-truths and white lies. I don’t […]
No Spoilers except: meh.
I’m a HUGE Agatha Christie fan. HUGE. I’ve been reading her mystery novels for over 30 years; they were among the first Grown Up novels I read as a kid and are the basis for my love of mystery novels and tv procedurals. I have read and watched every Poirot and Miss Marple book, movie, episode. So imagine my shock and glee when I discovered that there was an upcoming movie, starring my beloved Gillian Anderson, of a Christie novel that I could not remember […]
Masquerades as a True Christie Book, It is Not
This book sucked which is why I kicked it to the proverbial curb when I got to 40 pages in. I often say that a good DNF review can steer potential readers away from a book that the reviewer articulates why it would be a waste of time. Honestly, all you have to know is that Agatha Christie did not write this novel. Instead, Christie wrote a play called “Black Coffee.” However it was not turned into a novel. Decades later, Charles Osborne would take […]
Not All Stories Are Created Equal, Enjoyed The Collection Though
Many long time Christie fans know that Hercule would go on and on about retiring (at least it felt like it) well in this collection we have Hercule talking about going into retirement and growing the perfect vegetable marrow. This makes me think that the events in this collection all occur before the events in “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” Poirot’s conversation with his friend, Dr. Burton leads into the Greek hero named Hercules and his 12 labors that he undertook. What did make me […]
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