От: http://slovoyadets.blogspot.com/И пак... Агата Кристи. Тъкмо бях решил, че след "Убийство в Ориент Експрес" ще си подбера нещо съвсем различно, когато получих препоръка за тази книга. В предната нещата си бяха "Поаро - това, Поаро - онова". И повечето хора са си така - "Поаро - това, Поаро - ...
My pathway to this book, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was circuitous. Last Monday, I read Beyond the Looking Glass: Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood by Ana Salzburg and there was a chapter on Gene Tierney. Salzburg notes that nowadays Tierney is mainly remembered for...
Esta crítica puedes encontrarla en: http://www.elblogdeivanrumar.com/2014...No es oro todo lo que reluceUna de mis escritoras favoritas es Agatha Christie, pero me ocurre algo extraño con ella. Le perdono cosas que no les perdonaría a mis otros autores favoritos. John Irving o Andrzej Sapkowski, ...
I must have read this as a teenager in Devon during the 1970s but the fact that it was so obviously set down the road on the edge of Dartmoor completely passed me by at the time. I did see Agatha Christie in her garden at Greenway while on a boat trip down the river Dart from Totnes around that ...
“I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?” I put a spoiler warning on this post not so much because I will discuss the details of the p...
1930, #1 Miss Jane Marple, St. Mary Mead, rural Englandwise elderly spinster lady solves a tricky murder; truly deserves the label "classic cosy". Tame, quiet, and sweet, but there are some interesting edges to it as well. Not to be missed. When Colonel Protheroe, irascible church deacon and Big ...
The people of St. Mary Mead get hold of some juicy gossip when a body of an unknown young blonde woman is found in the library of the respectable Bantrys. As the suspicion falls on Colonel Bantry, Mrs. Bantry calls on Miss Marple to help solve this perplexing case. Investigations performed by Col...
Knowing whodunit, rereading is still pleasure. Christie cleverly complicates and confounds. Christie, at her best, makes stereotypical eccentrics believable, plucks essential clues, weaves questionable motivations and messy realisms to confound the reader before extricating the solution. Hotel gu...
There are some Authors whose books you read and think "How did they think of that?" Their stories are so unique. Agatha Christie is one such author and Sleeping Murder is one such book that keeps you in a constant state of excitement with all its twists and turns all the while wowing you with i...