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It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915.

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

June 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I had avoided this book for awhile because the first two times I tried reading it I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I stuck with it this time, and I ended really liking it. The reason the first chapter was, and still is a hang up is that Tommy and Tuppence, two best friends reuniting after the war who decide to start an adventure for hire (sort of underworld factota), speak initially in what I think is Agatha Christie playfully mocking post-war slang. It’s […]

“Death was for-the other people.”

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

June 1, 2020 by Professor FluffyKitten 1 Comment

All I could think about while reading this book was the Amy Cooper of the world. Those “nice” liberal folks, who are willing to destroy (and potentially kill) another human, for something as slight as getting asked to leash their dog in a place that requires it. I kept thinking about the banality of it all. The story, in case you are not familiar with the plot and the numerous adaptation of it, centers around ten individuals who are invited by the mysterious Mr. Ulick […]

It was nine thirty on Christmas Eve.

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase

Time and Tide by Frank Conroy

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow

Inside Stories by Ben H Winters

The Dark Web by Geoff White

Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgard

This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

Dr Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

Texts from Jane Eyre by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain

May 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Here’s a whole bunch of kind of (Sorry) short reviews for short books! Pandemic reading!!! The Woman in Black – 3/5 Stars I still think it remains a little silly that this movie had Daniel Radcliffe in it. He was too fresh off of Harry Potter and hadn’t yet made his real transition into adult movies. I think his show “The Young Doctor’s Notebook” was a more successful vehicle for him as it placed him in a transitional role. Anyway, I mention all […]

Celia knew a bad place when she saw it.

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfield

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints.... by Val McDermid

Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie

April 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sometimes my reading comes in clusters. The cluster here is leftover audiobooks and books around the house before I permanently delete them or donate them! Quarantine house cleaning!! The Butterfly Girl 2/5 Stars – This is the second of the Naomi Cottle series. Naomi is a former abducted child with the uncanny ability to find missing, lost, and abducted children. In the previous book she reconnected with a former friend from childhood and formed a relationship with him. In this book, that partnership is at […]

Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.

They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

April 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

They Do It With Mirrors A 1952 Miss Marple novel which takes Miss Marple out of her comfort zone away from the village of Saint Mary-Mead and into a reformatory for boys. She’s turned onto this mystery by an old friend who has asked her to check in on the reformatory after her sister and brother in law has sort of given themselves over to the place. When Miss Marple shows up, she finds a young man (20s) there to meet her. He helps her […]

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the quintessential cozy mystery

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

March 19, 2020 by pixifer Leave a Comment

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is said to be Agatha Christie’s best novel and one of the best murder mysteries ever written. It’s only my second Christie novel, so I can’t really speak to the first point. But it does seem to be the template for most cozy mysteries. It was charming, funny, easy to read, and had quirky characters. The book is told from the point of view of Dr. Sheppard, a local doctor in the English village of King’s Abbot. Hercule Poirot has […]

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