Litsy

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax | Dorothy Gilman

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This book was a total #BlameItOnPangoBooks purchase; I loved the cover and the summary sounded right up my alley. It was a hoot! I love Mrs Pollifax, she‘s like a feistier version of Jessica Fletcher from ‘Murder, She Wrote‘. I also appreciated this being a quick read, only 233 pages - no lull in the action. I don‘t necessarily need to binge the entire series right now, but I‘ll definitely keep it mind when I need a fun palate cleanser.

Aims42 Themes: Feisty 60+ year old widow in the CIA, Quick Read, Book 1 in a long series 3w

Bookwomble I liked this book and felt I wanted to read them in publication order, but then could only find a later entry, which remains tbr. It's probably not important to read them in order, I guess 😏 Given the premise, I thought Gilman did a good job of making Mrs Pollifax's adventures credible as well as exciting. 3w

Aims42 @Bookwomble I was surprised to see this book originally published in 1966 🤯 I don‘t know what I was expecting, like maybe references to Woodstock or something 😆 Gilman did a terrific job of making the adventures credible and exciting, and timeless too apparently LOL 3w

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Blueberry

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax | Dorothy Gilman

# spy. #CharacterCharm

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Eggs Perfection!! 1mo

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Amie

Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax | Dorothy Gilman

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This was fun! Published in the 1960s. Emily Pollifax, a widow in her 60s, is bored so she decides to become a spy for the CIA. They of course don't hire her as a spy, but through a mix up, they do recruit her to vacation in Mexico & pick up a package. Things didn't go according to plan & she is kidnapped by communists & sent to a prison in Albania. Much of the plot relies on coincidence and dumb luck, but I still enjoyed it

TiredLibrarian I read some of these years ago, and I remember them as being fun. 5mo

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xicanti

Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station | Dorothy Gilman

Tonight‘s book, paired with a lovely raspberry ginger wheat ale that has neither a name nor a head.

I plucked MRS POLLIFAX ON THE CHINA STATION from a Little Free Library because every year I try to read a book from each year I‘ve been alive and I‘m still missing 1983. It seems like it‘s a cozy spy thriller. I‘m also braced for lots of racism, since it‘s from 1983, but I hope it‘ll surprise me.

TieDyeDude 😃 We used to have that glass! The beer sounds tasty. Hope the book is palatable. 12mo

xicanti @TieDyeDude it‘s a pretty fun read so far. Not perfect, but much more balanced than I feared it‘d be! 12mo

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