Thomas Stroemquist > Recent Status Updates

Hm, Banks on idle this far I’d say

Just might be one too many investigators in this one.

Very nice, love the pictures & the layout. And I’m only at ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ yet!

TBH this was one of the kind of boring ones...

By pure chance, jumping 7-8 books in the Poirot series (due to not finding the one that was up immediately), I randomly managed to jump into a story that was very much related to my last (even the detective himself relates back to ‘Five Little Pigs’ more than once)

I have been trying to read the Poirot’s somewhat in order. I looked around my book shops for specific ones and otherwise now and again bought an ebook. I suddenly found myself out of unread stock though, and when I found this one I thought I’d skip ahead a bit. ‘Everyone’ tells me there’s not a strict order to the books. Also I love elephants!

Just as cool as I remember it

Still enjoying this

Just as good as the first one

Like this new style Brookmyre (I know it’s a decade old, but I’m old, so I reserve the right to call anything from this millennia ‘new’)

Just made it to ‘Book I”. The prologue floored me...

Still amazed in the 1600’s

Mesmerising

Poirot is on a “cold case”!

Good characters and location, best one in a while

Had to pause after “Dead Souls”. This is breathtaking as I knew it would be.

This is a good one :)

Fifteen, Sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen (!?)

A strange experience for me. Like it a lot!

“When Poirot returned to his flat he was surprised to find an unexpected visitor waiting for him.” - This is why the Belgian detective is a notch above the rest of us. I can bet the house you all wouldn’t be surprised of an unexpected visitor. You may even be unsurprised of expected visitors. Amateurs!

Shapes up to a lovely and relaxed family Christmas...

“‘Did you find Sir Gervase difficult to work for?’

‘Oh, not really. One had to humour him a little, of course. But then I always find one has to do that with men’

With an uneasy feeling that Miss Lingard was probably humouring him at this moment, Major Riddle went on:...”

“James [I], one of the oddest occupants of the English throne - a crowded field - was widely mocked by his English subjects but rarely hated”

Pausing under protest

Out of the frying pan into the fire

I pretty much only put this book down when I have to. Which is far too often if you ask me.

Waited just long enough

Reformation

No body likes me
Every body hates me
Guess i'll go eat worms