...it's still a few weeks until the official first day of spring...but you'd never know that around here...
...I finished the following Agatha Christie books since we last chatted about them...
The Mystery of the Blue Train - 1928
The Seven Dials Mystery - 1929
The Murder at the Vicarage - 1930
Giant's Bread - 1930 - As Mary Westmacott...this is my first time reading Westmacott...it was good...no mystery at all...kind of a love story (an unhappy one)...but really just a book about some people...
The Floating Admiral - 1931 - With members of The Detection Club...this one Christie only wrote one chapter...the writers were Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E. C. Bentley, Henry Wade, Constance Lindsay Taylor and H. C. Bailey. Anthony Berkeley ...and basically each wrote a chapter and then passed the book on...so the new author had to read what had already been written and carry on with the story from there...and it really was a little bit harder to read I think...but that may have just been that the only way I could read it was an Ebook which is just not my favorite way to read...and then each author also provided a sealed "solution" to the mystery as he or she had written it...and that was really interesting...
The Sittaford Mystery - 1931
...and then I read a couple of collections of Short Stories...
Partners in Crime - 1929...this one is Tommy and Tuppence again...
The Mysterious Mr Quin - 1930...and Mr. Quin was the weirdest Christie book I've read yet...so supernatural..you don't know if Quin is a ghost or a real person...and he seems to take people...kind of like the Grim Reaper...
...and right now I'm reading Peril at End House - 1932...I actually remember the David Suchet version of this one rather vividly...it's a really good story with quite the surprise ending...
...what have you been reading lately?...
~Have a lovely day!
Wow that's a lot of reading....I have been doing a good bit of reading as well, all my Kindle which I prefer. The Sleeping Car Porter (historical fiction about a gay black train porter), Lucy by the Sea which is a sequel to My Name is Lucy Barton, Owning Jacob a story about a kidnapped baby after he's in grade school, The Keepers of the House a Pulitzer prize winner from 1965 about racism and family, The Story of Arthur Truluv - a story about some people (wink, wink since you say that) and Sparring Partners - John Grisham's new book of novellas. Love, K
ReplyDeleteOh and forgot - this and last month's book club books - The Memory Keepers of Kyiv by Erin Litteken and The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
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