Given the on-going Canada Post strike I have had the #jolabokaflodswap package sent directly via Amazon to my match. Takes away some of the fun, but they are on their way! (And should be in gift bags.) Christmas baking prep picture for interest.
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January 2025 begins a new round of Agatha Christie reading in publication order, as per the Agatha Christie website (link in comments).
The first is the 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Hercule Poirot book.
I‘ll post an official Styles graphic closer to January, but wanted to give a reminder that our reading starts soon!
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pickInteresting experience listening to a Miss Marple mystery, in audio only format. In some ways the bits that are frustrating are more so, when a character is designed to be insufferable, he is now insufferable with an English accent that makes him sound like a person with a blocked nose that needs to sneeze. When the old man is being callous or the elder brother is being smarmy, I feel like it takes an age to get past the moment of unpleasantness.
January 2025 begins a new round of Agatha Christie reading in publication order, as per the Agatha Christie website (link in comments).
The first is the 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Hercule Poirot book.
I‘ll post an official Styles graphic closer to January, but wanted to give a reminder that our reading starts soon!
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pickI loved the ridiculous amount of coincidences in this mystery 😅 Still so good, and great characters that I liked getting to know. Miss Marple as always so clever
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pickA nice collection of four Poirot short stories including the one murder he could not solved, but that solved itself. It was an easy read and I went through it in one go. 💪
It is the first time that am I reading an English text that is accompanied with the German translation. I did not buy it myself, but got it out of a little free library. So, I kept wondering why the lines end in weird places and rather abruptly till I realized it is supposed to match the German translation. I never noticed before that we need a lot more words to express the same thing in German. 🧐
I am thankful for Dame Agatha. She introduced me to mysteries through the tagged book. I still find comfort in her mysteries and have branched out to thriller mysteries, cozy mysteries, historical mysteries…. It is my go-to genre.
#SundayFunday on Monday.
so-soI'm glad for Miss Marple's having a larger and more immediate role in this twisty mystery, because all the other characters were varying shades of irritating and unpleasant, the epilogue doesn't really make up for a good bit of the behaviour seen before hand. Nastyness and pettiness and apathy, and that's before you add in some very old attitudes and prejudices. 1/2
