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 […]