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Posted in Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, Books on Sep 6th, 2010
On 15 September 2010 Agatha Christie would have been 120 years old. Over at the ACRC Blog Carnival we are taking part in world wide celebrations with a blog carnival tour from 1-30 September 2010. My contribution will be on 22 September. The schedule for the blog tour is at the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge site, where you can check [...]
Posted in Books, Challenges, Fiction, RIP Challenge on Sep 4th, 2010
It’s time for Carl’s R.I.P. (Readers Imbibing Peril) Challenge. This challenge runs from 1 September to 31 October. As he describes it, it’s that time of the year where two short months are dedicated to reveling in all things creepy, eerie, mysterious, gothic, horrifying, suspenseful and strange. It is time to celebrate things that go bump [...]
Posted in Books, Challenges, Cozy Mystery Challenge on Jul 26th, 2010
I’ve completed the Cozy Mystery Challenge. A cozy mystery is a mystery that doesn’t normally have any rough language, sex scenes, or gruesome details about the killing, and the main character is normally an amateur detective. The challenge: read at least least 6 cozy mysteries between April 1st, 2010 and September 30, 2010. I read: Faithful Unto Death by Caroline [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cozy Mystery Challenge, Crime Fiction, Fiction on Jul 23rd, 2010
The Body on the Beach is the first in Simon Brett’s Fethering Mysteries. It’s an easy read, a ‘cozy mystery’, set in an fictitious village on the south coast of England. Not a typical village as it has a large residential conurbation, but at its heart is the High Street, with its flint-faced cottages, dating back [...]
Posted in Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, Books, Challenges, Crime Fiction, Fiction on Jul 22nd, 2010
The Agatha Christie Reading Challenge is an open-ended challenge to read all of Agatha Christie’s books and short stories, run by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise. I first read some of Christie’s books when I was a teenager and hadn’t read any for years until I borrowed a copy of The Crooked House from my [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Paris in July on Jul 19th, 2010
I’ve recently finished reading Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky. Set in 1941-2 it is a novel of the personal lives of the ordinary people of France under the German occupation of their country. Némirovsky intended it to be a work in 5 parts. In Appendix I she wrote that her idea was for the whole to ‘unfold [...]
Posted in Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Challenges, Crime Fiction, Fiction on Jul 15th, 2010
Death on the Nile is a pre-Second World War novel, first published in 1937. It shows Agatha Christie’s interest in Egypt and archaeology and also reflects much of the flavour and social nuances of the pre-war period. In it she sets a puzzle to solve – who shot Linnet Doyle, the wealthy American heiress? Although [...]
Posted in Books, Challenges, Fiction, Non-fiction, Paris in July on Jul 3rd, 2010
I’m not actually going to Paris this month, but BookBath and Thyme For Tea are hosting a blogging experience to celebrate all things French and Parisian running from the 1st – 31st July this year called “Paris In July“. The aim of the month is to celebrate our French experiences through reading, watching, listening to, observing, cooking [...]
Posted in Attacking the TBR Tome Challenge, Books on Jun 11th, 2010
I see that Emily and others have written progress updates on her Attacking the TBR Tome challenge. This was my original list – I’ve only read two so far. The Day Gone By, by Richard Adams (autobiography) One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson The Children’s Book by A S Byatt The Country Life by Rachel Cusk [...]
Posted in Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Crime Fiction on Jun 7th, 2010
Agatha Christie didn’t enjoy writing The Mystery of the Blue Train (first published in 1928). In her autobiography she wrote that it had not been easy writing it and that she had always “hated” it: To begin with I had no joy in writing, no élan. I had worked out the plot – a conventional plot, [...]
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