No better way to start the #NewYear than with a #ComfortBookClub reading: this month being “Dear Mrs Bird”, with the bonus that it is set (or at least starts) during #winter, fulfilling January’s #SeasonalRead .
#January’s #readchristie2024 is her first ever novel, and the first #Poirot: “The Mysterious Affair of Styles”.
Let’s go!
Piracy Is Liberation: a story that started being told in 2001 and still going strong.
On this picture, the cover of “book 12”, published in January last year. Close to the beginning of the book, a two pages scenario that, taken out of context, you could read standalone and assume it refers to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
Before that, in the “editorial”, the author mentions the invasion in Ukraine, and ends up with the words “And I never intended for this story to be a documentary.”
Piracy Is Liberation: https://www.elftorp.com/freeinformation/
The first #fridayreads of #February is #readchristie2024 ’s prompt for the month: “The Secret Adversary”. The first Christie novel with #Tommy and #Tuppence, it also fulfills this month’s #seasonalread prompt: #love .
#RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub is the (lengthy hashtag for the) year long celebration of LM Montgomery’s 150th birthday. #February’s book for it is “Anne Of Avonlea”, and this anniversary a good excuse to make me read the full #Anne series 😇
A new month? On a #Friday?
It’s time for #fridayreads, and since we’re now in #March, it is also time to start the #MarchMysteryMadness!
And of course, I am still doing #readchristie2024, this month’s #book being “The Blue Train”, which not only is a #mystery (duh!), but also fit for MMM’s first prompt, “dressed to the nines”.
The #RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub book for #March is “Anne of the Island”, the third book of the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ series, and one that was written in less of a rush than the second.
So far, it is being better than the second but still less good than the first. While the second is forgettable, this one develops significantly Anne’s life, and was the basis for many adaptations (which tended to skip all that comes from the second book). Let’s see if my opinion of it doesn’t change before I reach the end of if 😉
Oh, and as it happens, being a ‘middle grade’ book makes it eligible for #MiddleGradeMarch!
I decided to change my reading plans, and started reading Anne of Windy Poplars, fourth in the series.
After a second book with an annoying use of ellipsis, the third had none. But this! On Windy Poplars the ellipsis return, with vengeance: you need to read up to page 24 to find the first page without ellipsis! …
Not in my initial plans, but today I started to read an adaptation of Christie’s “Murder On The Links”, from 2019, fulfilling the “Any 9” prompt to this year’s #MarchMysteryMadness .
“Murder at the Vicarage” is the #readchristie2024 #book for #April and #Marple’s first novel.