I’ve hardly unpacked and I’m already getting itchy feet. Not today, nor tomorrow, but sometime soon I’ll want to go somewhere else for a bit. Considering the state of my budget and my health, I best be content with living in Florida (yeah, it’s tough this time of year!) and letting my fingers do the wandering, flipping through [...]
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Posted in Reviews, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, Writing and Reading, tagged armchair travel, Book Lust to Go, Charlotte's Web, Elizabeth Cadell, Hong Kong, John le Carre, Josephine Tey, Nancy Pearl, NPR, One Book One Community, recommended reading, shopping my shelves, Venice on January 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
And then there was Agatha
Posted in Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, Writing and Reading, tagged Agatha Christie, An Expert in Murder, And Then There Were None, Angel with Two Faces, detective fiction, Joan Acocella, Josephine Tey, Miss Marple, mystery, Nicola Upson, The New Yorker on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During my recent malaise, I happened on Joan Acocella’s excellent story in the August 16th edition of The New Yorker, “Queen of Crime,” about how Agatha Christie created the modern murder mystery. It reminded me how I went straight from Nancy Drew and The Dana Girls to Christie’s whodunits and never looked back. She ushered [...]
Glacier girl
Posted in Fiction, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, tagged Athabasca Glacier, Canada, David Nicholls, Josephine Tey, One Day, The Franchiser Affair on July 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m home in hot, sunny Florida. Did you miss me? It’s ok to say no because I wasn’t thinking about books much while on vacation in western Canada. Too much gorgeous scenery to look at. And while the weather felt blessedly cool to us Southerners, it was warm for residents. I had to resist the [...]
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