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The title gives it away, but I definitely didn't have it all figured out- which I guess is the point.

In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.
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My favorite mystery… this was tough, but from the Queen of mysteries, probably her best, in my opinion, And Then There Were None. It has everything, secluded setting, multiple suspects, many secrets. It‘s missing my favorite Christie character, H. Poirot, but Poirot would have figured things out too quickly 😉

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From my #14Books14Weeks stack - an entertaining mystery and somehow my first Christie. There is a fair amount of problematic language in here (and apparently some of it had been taken out of this edition 😳) so I don‘t know if I‘d read another book of hers, but the storyline was very clever and I can see where she gets her reputation for mystery writing!

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The queen of crime takes the closed door murder mystery to a whole new level when all nine people trapped on an island are found dead, all from different methods and at different times.

Even with the explanation, I‘m still not 100% sure I know what happened. Absolutely masterful.

I picked up 4 new Christies with 1970s covers (my favorites) through #pango.

We won't be getting to any of these anytime soon for #AgathaChristieClubR3 #ChristiesCapers.
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📚And Then There Were None
📚LOTR - I read the trilogy & The Hobbit in 8 days for honors English bc: procrastination
📚Their Eyes Were Watching God
📚The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - enjoyed this more than I expected.

📘The Handmaid's Tale - it was better when it was dystopian fiction & less instruction manual
📘Harry Potter - author is problematic, but I really enjoyed the series, especially Goblet of Fire

@dabbe #threelistthursday #TLT

And Then There Were None Retelling 🔪

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Masterful.

Up there with Roger Ackroyd.

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= 16 points

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Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs 😀

🌹 I love a good space opera, so I‘ve been meaning to read Lois McMaster Bujold. Other authors who I have yet to read include Grady Hendrix, Riley Sager, and Samantha Shannon.

🌼 “The Black Echo” by Michael Connelly. I know people who swear by this series, but I found myself bored and thinking about other books I could be reading instead.

🌺 Tagged! The book that made me a bibliophile for life!

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My March Audiobook #WrapUp 🎧
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A local Michigan university is putting on this play. I‘m debating whether to go or not. It may not work out with my schedule.

“In that case—“
He sighed. He shook his head. He leaned forward.
“But in that case,” he said, “who killed them?”
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JuJuB had a f/u appointment for his eye surgery about 2 hours' drive from my home, so ... I could start and finish this one today.

Wow, I didn't guess the ending. I enjoyed all the twists and turns! I need to pick up more of Agatha's works!

#BlameItOnLitsy @Morr_Books you were right about this narrator!
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(JuJu's eye surgery is healing well. his next f/u is 3-6 months --- my baby boy is doing really well).

While chatting on Zoom, @Morr_Books recommended this narrator. I had Audible credits to spare, and I've been meaning to read more Agatha Christie, so it felt like fate!

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Aweee.. not book related but so awesome to be spotlighted. 🥰💛

This has been on my fall tbr for forever and I finally got around to reading it this year. Let me just say, not worth it. It was downright BORING and I didn‘t even care enough to keep the characters straight. I also thought the ending kinda sucked

This is up there among the true Christie masterpieces. It‘s one of her trickiest mysteries, and one of her scariest stories. I just loved visiting this island! I can‘t think of a better #bookspin for #scarathlon #skeletoncrew @Emilymdxn @TheAromaofBooks

This was a low pick for me, against popular opinion. I don‘t know if it‘s because life is so chaotic & I don‘t have a lot of focus. Or if it‘s the unkind words that have remained (if you‘re going to change the name of the book, think about changing some of the words, I‘m sure there are plenty of synonyms that would still get Christie‘s point across). This was my first Christie novel too. Anyhow, I liked it but didn‘t love it. #bookspin #scarathon

Next up! My $1 used bookstore find. 🤍

This week on my book pod, my guests and I take a sweeping look at the mystery genre and Agatha Christie, paying special attention to the book that‘s widely considered to be the best mystery of all time, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Authors Kathleen Glasgow + Liz Lawson — whose recent works THE AGATHAS + THE NIGHT IN QUESTION were inspired by Christie — join me for a conversation about reading *and* writing in the genre. Listen at the link in my bio!

Incredible. Bravo to Agatha. Just wow. So well planned and executed. The ending was perfect with her signature amount of cleverness.

How have I not read this sooner!!

Also, who knew there was a video game?! I can very much understand why people are obsessed with this book and the murder mystery theme.

5 stars 🌟

A good book and a bubble bath 🛀 📖

Does anyone else annotate books while in the tub? Haha.

70 pages left loving this so far!! ☠️ I have a guess at what's happening...... but I know I can't be right. No way.
Can't wait to finish it!

I love taking notes and trying to solve a classic mystery book.

Do you think there's any chance I'll solve it? Hahaha little to none is my bet.

Not after how much work Agatha put into just writing this!! Incredible feat.

Reading this for the FIRST time. How?

Just a mystery thriller classic. Whos read this?

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Great book for a quick plane ride. I let my fellow passengers know I would not be chatting on the flight.

This is a second read-through for me and she STILL got me! This is such a fantastic example and upgrade of the locked room mystery. You think you know? You think you‘ve solved it? No you haven‘t. Ten people are lured to an isolated island where they are absolutely alone. Not one of them leaves the island alive…so who did it? My insomnia was acting up, so I decided to do the audio. Didn‘t cure the insomnia but it did help me relax. ☺️😂🧡📚

This one is a bit different from most Agatha Christie works - more a psichological thriller than a straightforward mistery - but is still one of her best.

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

Agatha Christie was quoted: I had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me. Then people had to die without it becoming ridiculous or the murderer being obvious. I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning, and I was pleased with what I had of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had an epilogue in order to explain it.

True to her word, this is an absolute gem!

Sooooo, the author/publisher decided to change the references to a heinously racist song, including the book's title, for modern audiences, but leaving in other racist/anti-Semitic descriptions and remarks was deemed palatable?! Hypocritical to say the least. Other than that MAJOR problem, and some vague classism and sexism, prose was tightly plotted, well paced, good characterization of large cast, with a clever reveal I didn't see coming. 1/2

First time I read this one. I really liked it. So well how characters were described, the plot and that ending😱I didn‘t expect it. So good. Fast pace. 4⭐️

November 2022 #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.
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Been awhile since I‘ve done one of these!

1. They‘re both gone unfortunately, but I‘d love to be friends with Terry Pratchett & Douglas Adams. My sense of humour to a T. Author that‘s alive? Probably Stephen King.
2. Mostly online now whether through online bookstores or sites like Litsy, GR, Storygraph, IG etc.
3. The tagged book is one of Dame Agatha‘s most mind bending stories.

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Thanks for the tag, @Eggs !

1. I‘d love to be friends with Jane Austen! Historian Lucy Worsley is a very close second.

2. NetGalley, as well as Litsy and the variety of librarian ads I receive from publishers.

3. I have to say my favorite Agatha Christie novel. I love this book…and I am overdue for a reread

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Why is this book on some banned school lists? Because of the original titles, which I won't type here. And even when the 3rd “acceptable“ title came out, the poem inside the book can still be construed as showing prejudice. Still. One of the best locked-room murder mysteries you'll ever read. My students LOVED it, and I enjoyed cracking open the case every year I taught it.

It was difficult not to picture the actors from Clue while listening to this one. I know that I read it in 7th grade (as Ten Little Indians), but I retained very little from that reading and what I do remember is mixed up with a farcical radio play we wrote as a reading project. This might be the darkest Christie I've read so far. Despite mixed feelings about the epilogues and cringey feelings about the title's history, I quite like this mystery.

Random but I was first drawn to this book because ATTWN is my favorite Spring Awakening song of the same title. Second #trappedonanisland book for September. I didn‘t realize it took place on an island when I put it on my list for this challenge 😆 I was following along with the Kindle version and was like nooo when that “before you go” screen popped up before the epilogue. Then I was like ok good we get an explanation. I was about to be mad 😂

Continuing my Christie reread with an absolute classic. This is a well constructed psychological thriller, worthy of the hype. 🤩

Happy birthday ❤️ Agatha Christie in Paris c1906/7
What‘s your favourite Christie book?