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RainyDayReading
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Ah Hastings. We meet again. This was a reread but I didn‘t remember much of the story before going back into it. Entertaining mystery though Hastings really annoys me. Can‘t wait for the next Poirot! #ChristiesCapers

Librarybelle Yay! 5d
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RainyDayReading
The Secret Adversary | Agatha Christie
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Slowly getting caught up on reviews. Read this back in Feb and never posted 😅 I liked this more than I thought I would. Usually I‘m not one for espionage-esque plots but this one didn‘t bother me so much. The characters were endearing and I‘m looking forward to the other Tommy and Tuppence adventures. #ChristiesCapers

Librarybelle 😁 5d
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kelli7990
BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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Here‘s my #bookspinbingo picks. My #doublespin is the book I‘m reading this month for the #christiescapers buddy read and my #bookspin pick is a book I‘m reading for a book club on Fable. There was a poll up on Fable to vote on the book. I was the only person who voted on April‘s book and my choice won the poll. I‘m excited. I‘ve been wanting to read Sorcery Of Thorns for a while. I feel like I should be able to get both of these books read.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 3w
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kelli7990
BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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Here‘s how I did on my #bookspinbingo board. I didn‘t get a bingo but I got caught up on the #christiescapers buddy read that I joined and I ended up having all 3 books done by the end of the month when we had our discussion. I won‘t have as many Agatha Christie books to read in April. I‘ll only have 1 to read. They‘re so short. They don‘t take any brain power to read.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 3w
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kelli7990
The Murder on the Links | Agatha Christie
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For #weeklyfavorites, I chose The Mysterious Affair At Styles as a favorite for week 3. For the last week of the month, I chose the tagged book. I‘m participating in the #christiescapers buddy read. We‘re reading Agatha Christie books in publication order. I feel like you can‘t go wrong with any of her books. They don‘t take a long time to read so when you read one of her books then you feel like you‘re at least finishing something.

Read4life Great choices!! 💙📚💙 3w
kspenmoll I am enjoying #ChristieCapers! 3w
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Librarybelle
The Man in the Brown Suit | Agatha Christie
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Great discussion so far for The Murder on the Links! Our next #ChristiesCapers introduces Colonel Race, who appears in a few other books later in Christie‘s canon. Discussion on April 27th.

All are welcome to attend. Please let me know if you wish to be added to or removed from the tag list. #AgathaChristieClubR3

Aims42 I‘m planning on reading this one! I started March‘s but I got distracted and never finished it 😂 3w
mrp27 This will be another first for me. 3w
TheAromaofBooks This is one of my very favorite Christie novels!! It's so over-the-top and funny; I love it! 3w
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Librarybelle That‘s so cool, @TheAromaofBooks ! 3w
Librarybelle Hope you enjoy, @Aims42 @mrp27 ! 3w
Teresereading Please add me 3w
Teresereading Please add me 3w
Librarybelle Will do, @Teresereading ! Welcome! 3w
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mrp27
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#christiescapers #serieslove2025

Book two in the Poirot series. I actually enjoyed this one better than the first book. The murder mystery was more intriguing to me and I liked the addition of Giraud.

Librarybelle He was a fun addition! 3w
TheSpineView Fantastic! 3w
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Librarybelle
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It‘s time for the #ChristiesCapers discussion! I have 6 questions posted as spoilers; you can find them on my feed, the book‘s feed, or by searching the group‘s hashtags.

Next up is The Man in the Brown Suit, the first appearance of Colonel Race in the novels. The official post will appear tomorrow!

#AgathaChristieClubR3

Bookwormjillk I just started this morning. I‘ll be back in a few days! 3w
kspenmoll I am reading now, hoping to catch up by tomorrow! 3w
Cuilin I just started yesterday. I‘m so behind in all my reading goals for March. 😑 3w
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MallenNC I‘m excited for the April book. I‘ve never heard of this one. 3w
BarbaraJean I skipped this month since it was a re-read, but I‘m excited to read The Man in the Brown Suit in April! 3w
mrp27 Hope to finish the last few pages today! 3w
kelli7990 I‘m excited to read next month‘s story. 3w
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6. We've discussed Poirot and Giraud and touched on characters during our mystery discussion, but let's think about the characters now. Christie purposely has Hastings ride off to Argentina in the end in order to let Poirot stand on his own for future stories (though Hastings does come back, as we will see). What did you think of the cast of characters? #ChristiesCapers #AgathaChristieClubR3

MariaW I think Hastings is portrayed well as an unstable character. He still has the chance to grow and to evolve compared to Poirot who is already a stable and grown character. Maybe Christie wanted to „kill off“ Hasting to set up a more „good cop - bad cop“ thing with Giraud, but realized in the end it did not work. Poirot seems to be someboy who likes to be teaching things to others and helping them to grow. He needs a sidekick that is open for that.. 3w
MariaW and otherwise she must have had to create another „new“ character in the next Poirot novel. I pretty sure she did not know yet at that time where she was heading or wanted to head with Poirot. 3w
MallenNC I hadn‘t read this one before or many of the Poirot novels we will be reading so I didn‘t realize that Hastings wasn‘t in all the books. He‘s been written into a lot of the TV versions, I think, so this is new to me. I agree that I‘m not sure Christie had a full sense of what she wanted to do with her characters early on. 3w
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kspenmoll I am glad i read this because I had no idea Hastings went off & was not with Poirot in all the books! I have not read her books in any order, nor have I read all of them! I am so glad you are having us read in publication order Jess! (edited) 3w
dabbe In the Poirot novels I have read before #ChristiesCapers, Hastings wasn't in any of them! So, yes, imagine my surprise with the first two. I am now wondering why Christie puts Hastings on the back burner, unlike Watson, who chronicles most of the Holmes stories. The POV is definitely going to have to change if Hastings isn't there. 3w
suvata I have always thought that Christie wrote the most interesting characters. Some of them are exaggerated, but they are always believable prototypes of people you would know or hear about. 3w
Bookwormjillk I really liked the Hastings character. I liked that he was always wondering what Poirot was doing but seemed to trust him. 3w
mrp27 The couple of Christie books I read before didn‘t have Hastings so I was mostly unfamiliar with him. But I liked him as a character because I could relate to him trying to learn to use his gray cells. Will be interesting going forward to see how his absence may or may not change how I feel about the books. 2w
ferskner I'm a Hastings fan! I remember in the first two rounds of Agatha Christie Club that a lot of people didn't like him, but I think he's a perfect foil for Poirot and just entertaining! 2w
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