started reading White Fragility. should be a light read
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Started Ann Patchettās Dutch House in audio, read by Tom Hanks.
Yesterday: Thirteen at Dinner. Had read it at least once before.
Today: Murder in the Orient Express. Had read a few times before and remembered the ending from very early on.
Today: Why Didnāt They Ask Evans? Have read before.
I finished Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone. The title kind of reflects the style of the book, where in addition to the narrator giving a first-person narrative, the narrator also talks about the ārulesā of mystery writing and how the book adheres to them. That effectively gives foreshadowing of events and results in the narrator telling facts such as that a particular character canāt be the murderer - for example, the murderer canāt be introduced late in the book. At the very start I was worried that would end up being annoying, but I think that worked pretty well and added some humor. However, the plot seemed to be pretty convoluted by the end, which hurt it a bit. Overall I liked it, though.
Iāve been sitting on a couple books that I think Iāll read next. One is Hedyās Folly, about Hedy Lamarrās inventions, which someone suggested here long ago. The second is a collection of Saki stories.
Started this and and did not like how the author felt the need to end every paragraph with a zinger.
Admittedly Iām pretty short on patience for any book.
Yes, I read it. She was a remarkable woman and the book revealed her other side to the world.
I think itās pretty hard to forget the ending to Murder On The Orient Express!!!
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Thatās the problem with re-reading Christie. Too many of her books rely on not knowing the ending in advance. A couple have compelling enough characters to hold up to a re-read, but not all.
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Itās probably been 15-20 years since I last read it.
It might be fun to re-read knowing the ending and how of the clues fit in (and which are red herrings).
I think when I finished Murder On The Orient Express I more or less re-read the whole thing just to piece it all together.
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Thatās true, but I only remember the ending to a handful of her books - the murder of roger ackroyd, the mysterious affair at styles, murder on the orient express, and and then there were none. Those might be the only ones.
Itās been quite a while since I read many of them, and also when you read so many of them, very few stand out.
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Today: Murder in Three Acts. A Poirot, but heās not much in it. Not a big fan of it, hard to get into. Have read before, but did not recall the plot.
I remember that one because Christie makes the Jewish character sympathetic, as opposed to either tangential and mean, or tangential and sketchy (the latter being more usual in her early books before she became a bit more enlightened).
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The Hollow - must have read that one a million times. Well, maybe just 20 or so.
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I re-read Christie all the time (and Sherlock Holmes and other mystery stories) knowing the solutions.
Iām reading for other reasons. Re-reading Pocket Full of Rye as my mealtime book right now
Just finished Godās Architect, on Michelangelo ā didnāt know about that era of his life. Very interesting stuff
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Over the past month, Iāve read Sophoclesā Ajax, Women of Trachis, and Philoctetes (and Seamus Heaneyās The Cure at Troy), Euripedesā Andromache, Hecuba, Rhesus, and Iphigenia at Taurus, Danteās Purgatorio, Sandersonās The Hero of Ages, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Three-Body Problem.
Currently reading Arabian Nights, Tales of the City (should finish tonight or tomorrow), Don Quixote, Orlando Innamorato, Le Morte dāArthur, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (should finish this week), Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente, Moby Dick, Paradiso, and The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu.
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Started Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star.