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Born.A.Reader
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Eggs Great cover 👏🏻👏🏻 11h
all_4_kb I didn‘t love this one …. Was disappointed 8h
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AroundTheBookWorld
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“As regards the medical evidence, I think—er—that I made one or two fantastic suggestions.”
“Then,” said Poirot, “having placed my solution before you, I have the honour to retire from the case. . . .”
#MurderOnTheOrientExpress #AgathaChristie #Poirot #HerculePoirot #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookcase #bookcases #bookcover #bookcovers #bookclub #Mystery #Fiction #Crime #MysteryThriller #Thriller #Audiobook #Detective #Adult #Novels 💖💖

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RamsFan1963
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Pickpick

34/150 As fun as the first book was, I actually like this one even better. Some people might be annoyed by the author breaking the fourth wall to talk to directly to the reader, but I enjoy those moments, it adds a quirky charm to solving the murder mystery. I'm not sure how many books can be written with this MC, but I hope we get another one at least.
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rubyslippersreads I thought the second one was much better. And there is a third one coming; I put it on hold at the library. 3d
DieAReader 🥳Great! 3d
RamsFan1963 @rubyslippersreads Oh boy!! I'm glad there's going to be a 3rd one. I'll have to check the library to see if its available yet 3d
rretzler So glad to hear this! I enjoyed the first and just received my preorder of this one but have been afraid to start it! 🤣 3d
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nitalibrarian
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#bookmail

I enjoyed Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone very much, so I ordered the next book featuring Ern.

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shantireads11
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This week‘s lineup in the #LFL featuring some for the kiddos in the neighbourhood and this week‘s homemade bookmarks. Are we missing anything? #haidagwaii #littlefreelibrary #mixedbag

LeahBergen It looks perfect to me! But you‘ll need more bookmarks, of course. 😄 3w
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AroundTheBookWorld
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker which is now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time.
#WomensHistoryMonth ?????

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Bookwomble
Tokyo Express | Seicho Matsumoto
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Pickpick

I enjoyed this chance find of a detective mystery involving government corruption, shady business dealings, cynical emotional manipulation and malignant jealousy. And who knew that train timetables could be so murderously interesting? (Ok, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, etc, etc. ?)
I paired this with The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1964 Jazz Impressions of Japan, as it has a track, "Toki's Theme", the book having a character of this name. ⬇️

Bookwomble ... Dave's liner notes include his worries about cultural appropriation and stereotyping, which he says were soothed when he heard westernised Japanese pop music playing in the cafés he visited. This is one of my favourite Brubeck albums 😊
#BooksAndMusic
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Bookwomble
Tokyo Express | Seicho Matsumoto
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The charity book table at our local supermarket has some of the most awful titles on it (Jeremy Clarkson! Boris Johnson!!), a sad indictment of the reading habits of my neighbours (though, who am I to judge 🧐), but I still cast an eye over it each time I pass, which has eventually paid off.

mhillis Great find!! 3w
batsy Nice! I haven't read Tokyo Express yet but I really liked this one 3w
Bookwomble @mhillis Turns out it was! I enjoyed this one 😊 3w
Bookwomble @batsy TE is a good mystery, and a quick read. I might see if I can get III from the library - thanks for the recommendation 😊 3w
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BarkingMadRead
Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ch 10.1: I have a brilliant idea. Let‘s have a whole chapter about some kid we don‘t know, and only disclose the tenuous connection in the last line 🤷🏻‍♀️ #whocares #wheresdmitry #whatshappeninginjail #hashegonetocourtyet #ohandalso #TRAIN 🚂 #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

mcctrish The whole time I‘m reading this “who the fuck is this kid?!” Oi with the loofa again 🙅🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 3w
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish just when we thought we were making progress 🙄🙄 3w
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣 @dabbe it made me irrationally angry…. Or maybe rationally angry? 3w
dabbe Perfect pic, btw! 😂😂😂 3w
mcctrish @dabbe 🤣🤣 3w
Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead I think it‘s rational 3w
TheBookHippie Me, “My migraine must be worse than I thought….” 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 WTF did I just read? 3w
CatLass007 Stand By Me! At first I thought it was “that” scene from Fried Green Tomatoes. 3w
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Robotswithpersonality
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Panpan

Travel Asia by train! Enjoy the way a white writer chooses to detail the many flavours of poverty, squalor, bureaucracy, civil unrest and corruption it has to offer! 🤦🏼‍♂️ The author then seems to be dismayed that things are not messy when he gets to Japan. 🤷🏼‍♂️ The part on Russia seems to devolve into a (really cold)fever dream, but I admit I was skimming towards the very end. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? When he's not being dismissive or appalled Theroux has a way with words. There are occasionally lovely descriptions of passing scenery, he can be flattering about nature, architecture and accommodations, but too often falls into generalizations, regularly unflattering when discussing the people of various countries/places, or those locations themselves, with varying degrees of cultural sensitivity. 4w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Always the question in the back of my head: would any of these places or people be as run down and discouraged en masse without a history of colonialism?
To the author's credit, he does ruminate in detail on the negative effects of the American occupation and subsequent abandonment in the context of the Vietnam War.
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? Theroux experiences a wide variety of travel partners bouncing between first and second class: his fellow berth occupants/seat mates/dining companions range from a self-identified junkie, supposed cult leaders to engineers and an attorney general. He also interviews locals and gets into discussions with people he meets associated with his lecture tour. I'm just not sure he liked anyone he talked to. 4w
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Robotswithpersonality 5/? Part of the information related seems to be practical observations...but it's nearly fifty years out of date at this point, so while it may or may not be interesting historical trivia, it's an aspect of the work that's lost its usefulness. 4w
Robotswithpersonality 6/7 I got really tired, really quickly of the 'colourful insights' after recognizing that sexual objectification seems to be the main way women enter these accounts, if at all. The author isn't necessarily the one doing the ogling/telling tales of sexual exploits, but he seems happy enough to recount all instances by those (men) around him who do.

I could say this was published in 1975 and it was a product of its time, but I think that serves more as warning to prospective readers than an absolution.
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Robotswithpersonality 7/7 I'll keep looking for unique travelogues, after a break I might even go looking for another on trains, but I don't think I'll be picking this author back up.

⚠️racism/xenophobia,misogyny, ableism, transphobia (? Managed two different anecdotes joking about sex with women with penises 🙄), black face (in theatre), mention of SA (in erotic art)
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CatMS Paul Theroux is a favorite author of mine but I tend to read his fiction not his travel writing. 4w
dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 4w
Robotswithpersonality @dabbe Slow roasted. 😏 4w
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