Memorial Day Weekend -- Labor Day 2018 The Books: Fiction Eric Ambler: The Mask of Dimitrios (new / print) **** Phyllis Bottome: The Lifeline (new / ebook-to-printed-PDF) ***1/2 John le Carré: The Tailor of Panama (revisited on audio, narrated by the author) ****1/2 Agatha Christie: N or M? (revis...
I actually finished this a few days ago, but haven't yet reviewed it because I somehow managed to schedule the buddy read during my trip to Disneyland. I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, I went into this book prepared for a repeat of my Passenger to Frankfurt experience. Imagine my surprise...
I have about 10 books left to read of Dame Agatha's canon of fictional work, and I must admit that this was one of the ones I was not looking forward to. Knowing from previous experience that Christie did not excel totally sucked at writing international espionage thrillers, and still suffering f...
This was a surprise. I'm certainly a long way from having read the entire Christie canon, but I've read enough to expect a certain...atmosphere in her books. They Came to Baghdad certainly defied those expectations. Exuberant is the only word that comes to mind. Unfortunately the plot is ludicr...
This book took me over 2 months to finish (May 13- July 14), but I only spent about 4 of those days actually reading. I just couldn't get into this book. Everything just seemed over done and there were very few surprising moments. I'm glad I've got another book off my tbr but that's the best I can...
In this book, we meet the adventurous Victoria Jones, a young woman with a knack for lying frequently and convincingly, who shortly after being fired from her most recent position as a mediocre shorthand typist, meets a handsome and charming young man in the park. They strike up a conversation, he c...
A delightful romp by Agatha Christie written at the beginning of the Cold War. Victoria Jones falls in love one afternoon with a handsome young man she meets at a park. He is about to leave for Baghdad. Victoria decides to follow him there and, as soon as she lands there, becomes part of a global co...
One of Christie's more successful spy stories. Published not long after World War II, shades of Hitler's ideas hang over the story, and the plot again involves a young woman becoming entangled in espionage. Victoria Jones is a not very good typist, but an excellent liar, and she's definitely an ac...
Ok, the book started and there were a LOT of characters and a bunch of their names started with the same letter* and I was annoyed. But they were likeable and mysterious so I persisted and I am so glad of it because the middle 3/5 of the book was fast-paced adventure in a thin candy shell***. The ...
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