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The Murder on the LinksI tried to go out of order with the Poirot books but I just can't do it. My brain won't let me.
Today is also the first day of the all virtual International Agatha Christie Festival! You can find the dedicated YouTube channel here. I am watching while I work!
Christine PNW wrote: "Today is also the first day of the all virtual International Agatha Christie Festival! You can find the dedicated YouTube channel here. I am watching while I work!"
Thanks for that link Christine. I looked at their Zoom events but signing up for them defeated me! Youtube is easier to cope with.
Hahaha. Watching it , too. Some of the links in "Christie Connections" are very tenous indeed. Good fun, tho.
BrokenTune wrote: "Hahaha. Watching it , too. Some of the links in "Christie Connections" are very tenous indeed. Good fun, tho."I'm watching that one, too.
Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "Hahaha. Watching it , too. Some of the links in "Christie Connections" are very tenous indeed. Good fun, tho."I'm watching that one, too."
Have you come across the one with Laura Thompson, yet?
BrokenTune wrote: "Have you come across the one with Laura Thompson, yet?."Not yet - I've been working. Damned work, cutting into my Agatha time! is it good?
"Agatha and Ealing" needs a spoiler warning. Jonathan Oates gives away the solution/murderer to several stories.
Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "Have you come across the one with Laura Thompson, yet?."Not yet - I've been working. Damned work, cutting into my Agatha time! is it good?"
Yes, it really was! I thought there were lots of really good discussion points that might also be great for discussion here.
AND ... Thompson is not a Phelps fan! It made me laugh so hard. One of the interviewers, Kemper(?) made a really good pooint when he said that he thought the Phelps adaptations were a bit like what he imagined Raymond West would write if he tried to adapt a Christie novel.
I know OB wasn't taken with Thompson's biography but I think I want to read it.
BrokenTune wrote: "I know OB wasn't taken with Thompson's biography but I think I want to read it."I own it. Post-HB buddy read? Maybe in January/February?
Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "I know OB wasn't taken with Thompson's biography but I think I want to read it."I own it. Post-HB buddy read? Maybe in January/February?"
February would work for me. :)
Btw, I'm 20 minutes into the Sophie Hannah interview and I'm going to stop here for today. I might listen to the rest tomorrow...or I might just skip the rest. I was not sold on The Monogram Murders (view spoiler) and her explaining some of her choices is not helping.
No fan of Sophie Hannah too, but thanks for the link! Wonder what else will come,
BrokenTune wrote: "Btw, I'm 20 minutes into the Sophie Hannah interview and I'm going to stop here for today. I might listen to the rest tomorrow...or I might just skip the rest. I was not sold on [book:The Monogram ..."I haven't tried any of them - and I don't know anyone who has really liked them, so I probably won't.
I'm watching the Laura Thompson interview right now. It's great.
I love this quote by Thompson "People are of their time and she really is a kind of oblique social historian of the twentieth century, in an unstudied way."This is one of the reasons that I love her - and we've talked about this element of her books before!
So, erm, I ended up watching the interview with Matthew Pritchard also, and ... Christine, if you haven't seen it yet, you're going to laugh so hard. (view spoiler)
Christine PNW wrote: "I love this quote by Thompson "People are of their time and she really is a kind of oblique social historian of the twentieth century, in an unstudied way."This is one of the reasons that I love ..."
Yes, I also loved how they are talking about that the puzzle in her books isn't so much solved by finding the clues as by understanding the characters.
BrokenTune wrote: "So, erm, I ended up watching the interview with Matthew Pritchard also, and ..."Proof that they suck.
I was talking to my daughter about them just now - we agreed that there are two deal breakers: do not change the identity of the murderer OR the victim.
Also, don't make Poirot a former priest who fled the Nazis. No. Just. No.
Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "So, erm, I ended up watching the interview with Matthew Pritchard also, and ..."Proof that they suck.
I was talking to my daughter about them just now - we agreed that there a..."
Amen.
BrokenTune wrote: "Christine PNW wrote: "I love this quote by Thompson "People are of their time and she really is a kind of oblique social historian of the twentieth century, in an unstudied way."This is one of th..."
How much did you love it when Laura Thompson said "The Five Little Pigs Society" in reference to how much they all admire that book. I laughed out loud and then immediately considered changing our group name!
Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "Christine PNW wrote: "I love this quote by Thompson "People are of their time and she really is a kind of oblique social historian of the twentieth century, in an unstudied way."..."I may have actually raised my hand and shouted "I'm a member!"
Christine PNW wrote: "Today is also the first day of the all virtual International Agatha Christie Festival! You can find the dedicated YouTube channel here."Damn, I wish I could watch this right now -- I'd sooo need that sort of distraction. Especially the Phelps-dissing.
Oh, and count me in re: "Five Little Pigs Society" of course.
Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) wrote: "Christine PNW wrote: "Today is also the first day of the all virtual International Agatha Christie Festival! You can find the dedicated YouTube channel here."Damn, I wish I could watch this right..."
It is seriously such a fun interview. Have you read her biography of Christie?
BrokenTune wrote: "It is seriously such a fun interview. Have you read her biography of Christie?.."Because BT & I are considering a buddy read in Jan/Feb!
Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "It is seriously such a fun interview. Have you read her biography of Christie?.."Because BT & I are considering a buddy read in Jan/Feb!"
Well, since you insist ... :D (And as I haven't read it yet ...)
Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) wrote: "Christine PNW wrote: "BrokenTune wrote: "It is seriously such a fun interview. Have you read her biography of Christie?.."Because BT & I are considering a buddy read in Jan/Feb!"
Well, since you..."
Yay!
I looked at The Monogram Murders, realized it wasn't "we found this in the archives" but a continuation from another writer, and now I'm glad I skipped it.Because the 3.33 average (on 17,000+ ratings) gives one pause. (My friends list didn't like it, either.)
Nice cover, though.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "I looked at The Monogram Murders, realized it wasn't "we found this in the archives" but a continuation from another writer, and now I'm glad I skipped it.Because the 3.33 average..."
The Monogram Murders and Jo Nesbo's Macbeth tie the top spot for my worst books of 2020 so far. ;)
Tho, I love to hear what my friends think of either.
Michaela wrote: "I read Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery and didn´t like it either."That's a shame, but really good to know.
Michaela wrote: "I read Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery and didn´t like it either."Also, I just found your review. I shared the feeling of "it's too long" about The Monogram Murders. The book was awful (imo), but more than that it was absolutely endless.
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